Major Jonathan Bratton

It's another to keep it from absolutely collapsing, which all signs was pointing to in 1860s to 61.

Grant is the guy who pulls this out.

The Civil War is often called the second founding.

Of course, Lincoln articulates that.

Grant is the one who enables that.

It's his also continuing to fall in line with the idea of this

following his civil leadership.

You know, Grant's not asking, hey, is abolition constitutional?

Is any of this, you know, I don't know.

Did you take my feelings into account about slavery when you did?

No, he's just saying, OK, this is the law.

I'm going to prosecute the law.

He also does some stuff under when he's the general of the army, when President Johnson is in power that we don't talk enough about in regards to

preserving a lot of Lincoln's legacies, where Johnson had wanted him to use the military to do some not great stuff in setting Johnson up politically and helping out some of his political buddies in the post-war era and then in Reconstruction.

As president, Grant destroys the KKK.

We forget about that one.

He dismantles Southern terrorist organizations while he's in power that are going to really, you know, the KKK doesn't show up again until the early 1900s in a totally new form.

So all that to say, I'm putting Grant up here because he enables a new birth of freedom that is the redefinition of the Declaration of Independence that I think is for most of us closer

our idea of the Declaration's ideals than the Declaration itself in Washington's day.

That's my argument, and I stand on that hill.