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I have given the subject of arming the negro my hearty support. This,…

Quote byUlysses S. Grant · 1822–1885

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Abraham Lincoln (1863).

English (original)

I have given the subject of arming the negro my hearty support. This, with the emancipation of the negro, is the heavyest blow yet given the Confederacy. The South rave a greatdeel about it and profess to be very angry.

— Ulysses S. Grant

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