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Signups: World in Revolution: 1900

1. United States of America
2. France
3. Germany

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Void

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My counteroffer:



Fuck you, France.

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The Seward-La Valette Treaty Revised

Article I. All ports in the United States territory of Columbia will be open to French merchant shipping with lowered import tariffs. Overland trade routes shall be opened for French importers carrying goods across Columbia to the rest of Canada. In exchange the United States has been given the rights for all of its ships, military or civilian, to travel through the Suez Canal.

Article II. The treaty shall remain intact for a period of ten years, upon which all nations involved shall renegotiate the terms for renewal of the treaty.

[X] - Emperor Napoleon III of the Second French Empire.
[X] - President Ulysses S. Grant of the United States of America
[X] - Sir John Alexander Macdonald, Prime minister of The Canadian Confederation.

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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. I am at the center of one such tale. This yarn, known as the story of Butcher Grant, paints myself as a drunken lout that sent wave after wave of men to their deaths. The war was a very bloody affair, but we stuck to the principal of initiative. The Union Army never gave up ground and always pressed forward on the battlefield. That is my stance in wartime and that is also my stance peacetime. Press on, despite the cost. We emerge from civil war stronger than ever, sworn to the principal of initiative. We press forward in all things, be they business or territory or education. To outgoing President Colfax I give my thanks for his support in the election, and I solemnly vow that I will do all I can to see his goal of an American Colossus come to pass.

-- Excerpt from President Ulysses S. Grant's Inaugural Address

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Outcast said
Anyway, updated the treaties page. Y'all gotta stop making treaties.

War and treaties, war and treaties, war and treaties. It's all we know.

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The U.S.-German Pact

Article I. The United States of America hereby recognizes the unified German Empire as the successor to the Kingdom of Prussia, and affords the Empire all diplomatic courtesy and freedom the former Prussian Kingdom had with the United States.

Article II. The Empire of Germany and the United States of America grant each other Most Favored Nation Status for the purpose of creating thriving economic trade between both countries.

Article III. Both nations agree to begin an officer exchange program. Every other year one hundred (100) U.S. Army officers at the ranks of First Lieutenant or higher will spend a year in Germany taking part in drills and training with members of the German Imperial Army while one hundred (100) German Imperial Army offices with the rank of Oberleutnant or higher will spend a year in the United States taking part in drills and training with members of the United States Army.

[X] Kaiser Wilhelm I, German Emperor
[X] Schuyler Colfax, US President

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This past year has seen our Grand Republic make strides in the healing process. I can now proudly look out at the House, the very same House where I sat as Speaker, and look at a full bench with each state in our Union represented. It also warms my heart to see, for the first time in the history of our country, negro representatives and negro Senators. The power to make democratic change, one of the most basic and God given rights to all free citizens, has been bestowed upon the negroes of this country. Suffrage, representatives, and now the truest form of freedom in economic freedom: the Negro Homestead Act can turn those who had to toil as slaves, masters of their own plots of land beholden to no one.

We are united as one, and now the next step is expansion. We must manifest our destiny, this Republic stretched out across the continent with liberty for all. I foresee President Lincoln's prophecy of the sleeping giant coming to pass. Our vast territories in the west will in due time will be filled with citizens and industry, railroad tracks will crisscross this land like veins, ships will carry people to our shores and our goods to the rest of the globe. Our nation shall stride the globe like a colossus. An American Colossus, one that shall go down in history as one of the all time greatest nations this world has ever seen. Our Founders predicted it, as did Lincoln. Bold words that require even bolder action. This transformation shall not occur in our lifetimes, but is our duty to start this change. This is why I will use the last remaining year of this term as president to see that this nation looks to the west, where our future and destiny lie.

-- Schuyler Colfax, US President addressing Congress

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Republican National Convention Meet in Chicago
Pres. Colfax, Gen. Grant Front Runners for Nomination
Washington Post Headline

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I was among General Grant's most fervent supports during the war, his style and tactics were not without their detractors, but he was the man we needed to put down the rebels. He was a great leader in war, but war is over. We need a man for peace, a man who will ruthlessly enforce that peace. General Grant, in peacetime, has shown to be lax and given to backsliding into less than desirable habits. President Colfax has shown he is more than capable of serving as chief executive, a fact that should prove more appealing to voters than military laurels. I would rather vote for a known quantity like President Colfax than an enigma like Grant. To endorse General Grant for President is to endorse the fickle nature of politics. Think of the hard work of the last few years, the amendments and hard work that we have done for the negro. We need a Radical Republican president or all that hard work shall be for nothing. I would sooner die than see those acts repealed by an uncaring and disinterested chief executive!

Republican Representative Thaddeus Stevens on the Convention Floor

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Grant Receives Republican Nomination
General Elected on Third Ballot, Adams Nominated VP
New York Herald Headline

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Stevens Dies
Penn. Congressman Was Seventy-Six
New York Times Headline

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I repose in this quiet and secluded spot
Not from any natural preference for solitude
But, finding other Cemeteries limited as to Race
by Charter Rules
I have chosen this that I might illustrate
in my death
The Principles which I advocated
through a long life;
EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR

-- Thaddeus Stevens Epitaph

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See what you've done? Pax Germanica now, and nothing can stop it.

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Giant said
Fellas, I MIGHT have to drop out, at least temporarily. And I'm not sure yet.I'm just really, REALLY swamped with work to do right now so... yeah.

Damn you! Who will run the Pan-American Conference now?!