Ulysses S. Grant Quotes About Slaves

• Tan pronto como la esclavitud se disparó sobre la bandera se sintió, todos sentimos, incluso aquellos que no se oponían a los esclavos, que la esclavitud debe ser destruida. Sentíamos que era una mancha para la Unión que los hombres fueran comprados y vendidos como ganado.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Hombres, Banderas, Esclavitud

  Dicho a Otto von Bismarck en junio de 1878. "La vuelta al mundo con el General Grant". Libro de John Russell Young. Volumen 7, p. 416, www.granthomepage.com. 1879.

• The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, Children, Reading

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

• The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Guerra, Opiniones, Años

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). "The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.", p.510, Simon and Schuster.

• En 1856... prefería el éxito de un candidato cuya elección impidiera o pospusiera la secesión, a ver al país sumido en una guerra cuyo final nadie podía predecir. Con un Demócrata elegido por el voto unánime de los Estados Esclavistas, no podría haber pretexto para la secesión durante cuatro años.... Por lo tanto, voté por James Buchanan como Presidente.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  País, Guerra, Hombres

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