Ulysses S. Grant Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, Flags, Slavery

  Said to Otto von Bismarck in June 1878. " Around the World with General Grant". Book by John Russell Young. Volume 7, p. 416, www.granthomepage.com. 1879.

• I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Peace, Judging, Mind

• The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Slavery, Causes

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

• I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Slavery, Ends

• 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

  War, Views, Years

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

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