The time was approaching for the National Convention at Chicago, and General Grant's friends had prevailed upon him to permit the use of his name as a candidate for a third term.
But Logan stood strongly for General Grant, no only during his two terms, where he had little or no opposition, but he was one of the leaders in the unsuccessful attempt to nominate him for a third term.
The New York State Republican Convention, under control of Roscoe Conkling and his forces, instructed delegates to support the General as a candidate for the nomination and endeavored to forestall opposition to a third term.
Anything to beat Grant" and "No third term" were their war-cries.
While it was altogether probable that the feeling among the people against a third term would be stimulated by other aspirants to the Presidency, it was altogether impossible that they could cause the feeling.
During the latter years of General Grant's Presidency there had been some suggestion of his election for a third term.
With all the respect and affection for the illustrious commander of the Union armies, there was a deep and earnest feeling against a third term.
I have no objection to a third term on principle, but so many men want the presidency that it seems almost cruel to give a third term to anyone.
Then, if there is no objection to a third term, what about a fourth?
Although I had been a thief all my life, and had done some strong arm work, by nature I was not quarrelsome, and I have never been so quick to fight as on my third term.
During the seven months which elapsed between the end of my second, and the beginning of my third term, I was not a very energetic grafter, as I have said.
Five months of my third term I spent at Sing Sing, and then, as on my first bit, I was drafted to Auburn.
I met the ex-pickpocket and burglar whose autobiography follows soon after his release from a third term in the penitentiary.
I do not believe General Grant ever seriously entertained the thought of a third term, but even if he did, the established usage against it would make his nomination an act of suicide.
Above all, it has positively closed the question of a third term.
The canon of the second figure is known as the Dictum de Diverse-- If one term is contained in, and another excluded from a third term, they are mutually excluded.
If two terms disagree with the same third term, they may or may not agree with one another.
If two terms agree with the same third term, they agree with one another.
We say 'direct comparison,' because the syllogism also may be described as a comparison between two terms: but in the syllogism the two terms are compared indirectly, or by means of a third term.
The advocates of the Old Commander for a third term were in heavy force, and knew exactly what they wanted; and whenever the convention met, as Senator Conkling usually walked in late, he had a tumultuous reception.
It had been thought for a time that the combination of important men for a third term of General Grant would succeed, as the glory of the General was very great and those who wanted him for President again were able and resolute.
The scheme of a third term in the presidency for General Grant seemed to me a conspiracy though with many of its leaders I was on terms of affectionate intimacy.
I fought and helped to kill in 1896 the unborn scheme to give Mr. Cleveland a third term.
In 1796, Washington having refused to be a candidate for a third term, party managers in Congress agreed informally on Adams and Jefferson as the candidates of the Federalist and the Republican parties respectively.
President Jefferson was also urged to stand for a third term, but he, too, preferred to retire to private life as Washington had done.
This custom was inaugurated by the refusal of President Washington to accept a third term.
In response to those who criticised him for seeking a third term when he had previously announced that he would not accept another nomination, he explained that he had meant three consecutive terms.
Previously, in a public address, he had made the statement that he would not be a candidate for a third term.
The campaign of 1880 was opened by the meeting of the Republican national convention at Chicago, where a long and desperate effort was made to nominate General Grant for a third term.
As Jefferson would not accept a third term, a caucus of Republican members of Congress met one evening at the Capitol in Washington and nominated James Madison and George Clinton.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "third term" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
