The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes … - Ulysses S. Grant

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Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

Ulysses S. Grant

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.

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