Public Fatigue Quotes
In the fall session when the legislatures reconvened, there were in many Southern States aggressive attacks on Blacks to suppress their various attempts at equality. Often violence was paramount and Blacks would turn to the President to enforce their equal protection rights of the 14th Amendment which the white Southerners then (and some now) resented. Grant stood up for the principle of enforcement of the 14th Amendment but had little resources to enforce the constitution.
