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In giving the south negro suffrage, we have given the old…

Quote byUlysses S. Grant · 1822–1885

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Around the World with General Grant (1879), In China, p. 362.

English (original)

In giving the south negro suffrage, we have given the old slave-holders forty votes in the electoral college. They keep those votes, but disfranchise the negroes

— Ulysses S. Grant

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