ULYSSES S. GRANT: ON SLAVERY

TAKEN FROM GRANT'S MEMOIRS WRITTEN BY FORMER PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT, THIS EXCERPT DEFINES GRANT'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY, AND HOW DETRIMENTAL IT WAS TO THE WHOLE SOCIETY.

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[handjrs]

Grant sure didn't mind keeping his wife's slaves until AFTER the 13th amendment was ratified. His excuse coined the phrase:"Good help is hard to find"

[LEDPENNY]

Hay, ther' Hand Junior, don't lose that interest in American history, but let's hear the source of your information... mine was from Grant's own mind, wherein he called slavery an abomination to civilized people...and his one slave I explain in another video, a hypothetical narrative based on historically known facts.

[LEDPENNY]

Historical fact: Missouri had banned slavery before the amendment passed... and before the Great Conquest in January of 1861,,,the 13th passed in December of '61... Oh, the Dents were in Missouri at the time.

[LEDPENNY]

Say, how'd you like my video?

[SgtZellmer]

Sadly nothing was done to Sherman as with most generals on the victorious side despite mounting evidence that this order of utter brutality was by no means an isolated incident.

[SgtZellmer]

That is most certainly not true about "the notion of being able to punish the non-guilty" Please explain in detail why General Grenville M. Dodge of the United States Army and head of Shermans Intelligence and Covert operations (A title General Grant gave him) backed up not one, two or three but 5 of his 100 or so men that said the opposite of Sherman? In late 1864 several of Dodge's men brought an utterly disturbing telegraph sent by Sherman to his attention-

[guitargold77]

Grants was a idiot, speeches are for the arrogant and the windbags, actions speak louder then words, if I were born a few hundred years ago id have gone from owner to owner slashing their throats, any slave owner is a aberration

[patteel]

Grant was a drunk

[JohnnyCBCS]

@JohnieReb7 very true

[VictorLepanto]

@JohnieReb7: I understand perfectly well the motives behind such fatuous moral equivolency. The Founding Fathers did not institute slavery. Slavery had existed in all the world from time immemorial. The Constitution of the U.S. provided for the end of the slave trade. The 1st constitution in the world to do so. The Founders thought that by ending the supply of slaves the institution itself would end. Politician saw to tht it didn't. The ones who engineered the Civil War to perpetuate slavery.

[JohnieReb7]

@longfootbuddy Grant got lucky....... He didn't have to face Lee until the Confederacy was very depleted of men and supplies after G'burg and the fall of Vicksburg. As to your post, the NORTH and it's government and leaders fought to destroy the South. We did not want war..... but lincoln forced us into that. He got what he wanted since the South was paying the governments debts he could not let it go. The truth is the truth!

[JohnieReb7]

@VictorLepanto Discuss what you would like. I have never said there was anything good about slavery. You keep in mind that the slavery was legal under the american flag and slaves were brought to this country under that flag by northern slave ships! History is history and you cannot change that. IMO, slavery was the worst possible thing that could have ever happened in the South..... JMO..... However at the time it existed it was a legal enterprise!

[VictorLepanto]

@JohnieReb7: Let us discuss the compromise of civil liberties that is slavery. In specific cases, we have the slave code where by all movements in the South were constantly monitored by enforces of the slave system. We can discuss the restrictions on free speech which were enforced across the South re: abolition of slavery. Even is a person wanted to read an abolitionist newpaper, Southern post masters were forbidden to even deliver them to private homes. Slavery was tyrannical to its bone.

[JohnieReb7]

@longfootbuddy Yep, Grant, Lincoln, Sherman, Turchin, Sheridan....... while you're at it include all of lincoln's cabinet and the suspension on the "writ" and war crimes committed by all the above. Deo Vindice!

[JohnieReb7]

@vaibanez17 In Grant's time, whatever his wife, Julia Dent Grant owned, Grant owned. That was the way the law read on that! He did not free those slaves until he absolutely had to. Grant's father in law hand nothing to do with the matter so forget that argument. Don't take my word for it..... go read up on the laws of property ownership of that time.

[longfootbuddy]

grant fought to enslave the south, and he succeeded...and most of you have been successfully brainwashed by a tyrant, lying government...until brave men with freedom in their hearts, once again rise up to fight tyranny, ill have to smell you filthy pigs