This quality in General Grant was and is made all the more conspicuous and striking in contrast with his West Point education and his former political associations; for neither West Point nor the Democratic party have been good schools in which to learn justice and fair play to the negro.
Douglass contrasts General Grant's character with the institutional failures of West Point and the Democratic party to teach justice and fair play towards Black people.
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