Presidential immunity and the second Revolutionary War

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – There are times when leaders from the past can be very prophetic in their words, and we should take heed of their warnings. Ulysses S. Grant is most known as the commanding general who led the Union Army to victory over the confederates during the Civil War. As a war hero driven by a sense of patriotic duty, he broke ranks with then-President Andrew Johnson over Reconstruction policies and ran for president. Grant, who became president in 1869, was a progressive Republican in line with Abraham Lincoln. As the 18th president, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy; supported the 15th Amendment, which protects voting rights; vigorously enforced civil and voting rights for Blacks; and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. He was an effective civil rights executive who appointed Black Americans and Jewish Americans to prominent positions in the federal government while signing the bill creating the Justice Department. He effectively worked with other radical Republicans in protecting Black Americans during Reconstruction. During a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Grant stated that “if we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon...