In all this I can see but the doom of slavery. The North do not want, nor will they want, to interfere with the institution. But they will refuse for all time to give it protection unless the South shall return soon to their allegiance.

Author: Ulysses S. Grant
Year: 1861
Year evidence: Letter to his father-in-law, Frederick Dent (19 April 1861)
Source: Quotes / 1860s — Letter to his father-in-law, Frederick Dent (19 April 1861)
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