Kammala wannan jumla: Ya yi matukar goyon bayan afuwa ga wadanda suka goyi bayan kungiyar Confederacy a yakin basasa. Shi ne dan takarar "dan da aka fi so" wanda masu zaɓe na New Jersey suka goyi bayan shi a Babban Taron Demokradiyya a 1868, 1876, da kuma
Shekara ta 1880. A shekara ta 1868, wakilan New Jersey sun jefa kuri'arsu gaba daya a gare shi a kowane kuri'a don zaben shugaban kasa.