President Grant, except as a soldier summoned by the terrible accident of war, never did anything against Slavery, nor has he at any time shown any sympathy with the colored race, but rather indifference, if not aversion.
Sumner argues that President Grant showed indifference towards the plight of the colored race.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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