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Prospectors flocked to Dakota Territory, and many slipped past military patrols ordered to stop them. In September, after violence flared again in Mississippi, he hesitated to intervene, noting that ''the great majority are ready now to condemn any interference on the part of the government.'' Rumors of gold in the Black Hills signaled a new threat to Grant's Indian policy. Grant did recognize the limits of northern patience. Sheridan, accused of interfering on behalf of the Republican legislature, described armed Democrats as ''banditti,'' a remark that became a rallying cry for southerners and those northerners opposed to federal intervention. In Louisiana, supporters of rival legislatures clashed on the streets of New Orleans. Grant faced further tribulation in the south.

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The idea soon fizzled, and by year's end Babcock faced trial in St. Warned in July, Grant brusquely ordered prosecutors to ''Let no guilty man escape,'' even those ''who insinuate that they have high influence to protect, or to protect them.'' But in December, when Babcock made a questionable demand for a military court of inquiry to clear his name, Grant backed him up. Evidence soon connected the scandal to the capital, and ultimately to Grant's longtime aide and secretary, Orville E. Louis included some of Grant's own friends. Indictments were handed down in May, notably in Milwaukee, Chicago, and St. Investigations uncovered several well-established ''rings'' of distillers and officials conspiring to skim tax revenues.

The first signs of the Whiskey Ring scandal emerged early in 1875. As he pondered a third term, Grant's second term came under increased scrutiny. Grant disavowed any desire to continue as president but expressed gratitude at being chosen twice already.

In May, he pronounced the idea of a third term both constitutional and potentially expedient, and defended the right of the people to choose their own leaders. Grant found it equally difficult to decide what he wanted and to explain himself to the nation. Pressured in 1875 to declare himself for or against a third term as president, Ulysses S.