Posted on 12/06/2018 5:00:57 AM PST by Bull Snipe
Not every biography of Grant is titled “Grant”. The last bio I read of him was about 20 years ago.
The Republican party was formed as the anti-slavery party. That was their nearly-exclusive issue. Up until after the time of the Civil War, most people had no problem with slavery, including many slaves. If you had lived back then, the odds are that you would have felt the same way about that ancient practice. The Northern industrialists preferred wage slaves, which were less trouble, responsibility and expense for them.
The Republican Party was all about the tariff too. Until the GloBULLists took over the party post WWII.
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