Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
Grant, Ulysses S. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 5: April 1-August 31, 1862. Edited by John Y. Simon, Southern Illinois University Press, 1973, p. 325.
In 1993 Mooshood Abiola was the apparent victor in the Nigerian presidential election, but the election was `nullified' by the previous President and military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida. Abiola announced he would attempt to form a government anyway.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein
The sedition to which Senator Davis objected was proposal of Senator John P. Hale's proposal to outlaw pro-slavery mobs in the District of Columbia who attacked abolitionists and their newspapers.
Italy was in the midst of civil war with the rebels in Emila wanting its independence from the civil authority of the Pope who then controlled virtually all of Italy. The French emperor, Napoleon BonaparteII, advised that the only way to produce peace was to allow Emila to have its independence. He was the last Pope to hold temporal power. While it should not be surprising, the Pope’s statement is essentially the same position that every autocratic authority has taken when there has been some local success of the rebels.
With martial law came the authority to seize ALL guns in the colony for the emergency. This was not to disarm the general populace. It reflected the fact that there were relatively few colonists who owned guns as they were very expensive. The Governor could take those that existed and use them to defend against the rebels or whatever. There were more gun owners in the Revolution but still a minority. Even after the War of 1812 only 30% of Americans were armed, and that shortly decreased to 10% as there was no real culture of gun ownership in early America. This would come around the Civil War.
Vladimir Lenin. This galvanized the October Revolution which put the Bolsheviks in power ousting the Kerensky government.
This quotation shows that the dissent leading to the American Revolution did not emerge suddenly in 1776 after the Battle of Bunker Hill. Dissent, sedition and even violence was documented here in 1774. Salem at the time was the second largest port in the colony and the customs tax collectors—Loyalist Americans—were run out of Salem.
He had secretly asked the United States to send American troops back to Cuba to help keep law and order as the Cubans could not nor could they govern the polarized society that had been festering under incompetent Spanish rule. President Roosevelt was furious that the Cubans could not govern the country. See {640520}.
Ulysses S. Grant was an American military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as Secretary of War.
