Ulyssus S Grant may have seen the writing on the wall although he wouldnt want to call him prescient
Grant was responsible for the magnanimous
terms of surrender that prevented treason trials that Robert E Lee signed 9
April 1865 at Appomattox Court House –
every prominent Confederate warmaker and political leader of the eleven
Confederate States should have been tried and if found guilty executed
on 10 March 1861 the Confederacys
Vice-President Alexander H Stephens made no bones why the South would fight the
Civil War in his Cornerstone Speech
“Our
new government(’s) . . foundation are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the
great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery –
subordination to the superior race – is his natural and normal condition. This,
our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great
physical, philosophical, and moral threat.”
anyone who says the
Civil War was not about slavery is lying
on 29 September
1875 President Grant gave a speech at the Annual Reunion of the Army of Tennessee
in Des Moines Iowa
“The free school
is the promoter of . . intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation.
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence,
I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between
patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition, and
ignorance on the other.
1640, Monday,
29 11. 21
1104, Twosday,
30 11. 21
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