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Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

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Ulysses S. Grant

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

Man, Men, Officer, Soldier, War, White Man
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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

Fighting, God, Let, Liberty, Lincoln

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist. " All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

Attributed, Exist, Saying, Views, War, Years

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.

Bulk, Children, Country, Reading

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

Bobby, History, Quit, Start, Thinking, War

I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

Errors, History, Instance, Intent, Law, People
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