“That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made him a citizen.”

— Frederick Douglass

As quoted in Grant https://books.google.com/books?id=1eZvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA858&lpg=PA858&dq=%22THE+RULE+SHOULD+WORK+BOTH+WAYS%22+GRANT&source=bl&ots=zuVqkSgKVz&sig=ACfU3U1qXW6cQbreK-HPuqH9cJQgtGq4Gw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwie5aSrgaziAhXIm-AKHbBaCb0Q6AEwCXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22THE%20RULE%20SHOULD%20WORK%20BOTH%20WAYS%22%20GRANT&f=false, by Ron Chernow, p. 858

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