were studying about the presidents of the United States and how they affected America and the world from the time that they were presidents even until this very day. Romans, the 13th chapter, tells us, let every person be in subjection to the government authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are established by God. Therefore, he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. Well, rulers do not want to cause the fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear, lawlessness, and the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For it is the minister of God to you for good, But if you do what is evil, be afraid. It does not bear the sword for nothing, for it is the minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath upon those who practice evil. Now that is the righteous foundation of government. Government was founded here in the time of Noah. Government is supposed to protect the bad people will protect the good people from the bad people, and to protect the people from the government. Now I have a lot of notes. I have written notes by the tons. I've studied about two months on this message here tonight. It's about Ulysses Grant. Ulysses S. Grant, or actually his name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He was He was born on April the 27th, 1822, and he lived to July the 23rd, 1885. He was president from March the 4th, 1869, to March the 3rd, 1877. Now, we're going to look at the life of Ulysses Grant. I'm going to say this right from the beginning. I believe Ulysses Grant was a very honest man. He was raised in the North, so he was a Northern sympathizer. He was taught to hate slavery from his very birth. He was born in Ohio and raised in Ohio. He was the son of an Irish immigrant, basically. I've got a ton of notes here, so please bear with me. I have to read from my notes because there is so much information. He was born in Ohio, as I've told you before. in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. His father was Jesse Root Grant, a tanner and a merchant, and his mother was Hannah Simpson Grant. His father was kind of an entrepreneur also. Now, his ancestors, Matthew and Priscilla Grant, arrived aboard the ship Mary and John at Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Grant's great-grandfather fought in the French and Indian War, and his grandfather Noah served in the American Revolution at Bunker Hill. Noah settled in Pennsylvania and married Rachel Kelly, the daughter of an Irish pioneer. Their son Jesse Ulysses Grant, Jesse Ulysses' father, was a Whig supporter and a fervent abolitionist. A Whig supporter Our supporter was big business, big government, okay? Big business and big government. Jesse Grant moved to Point Pleasant in 1820 and found a work as a foreman in a tannery. He soon met his future wife, Hannah, and the two were married on June 24, 1821. Hannah descended from Presbyterian immigrants from Bellicoe in the County Tyrone of Ireland. Ten months after she was married, Hannah gave birth to Ulysses, her and Jesse's first child. The boy's name, Ulysses, was drawn from ballots placed in a hat to honor his father-in-law, Jesse, declared the boy named Hiram Ulysses, though he would always refer to him as Ulysses Grant. Ulysses, you know, was a Greek Hebrew god. In 1823, the family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, where five more children were born, Simpson, Clara, Orville. Now Orville, later on, will be in trouble during the Grant administration for corruption. Janie and Mary. At age five, Ulysses began his formal education, starting at a subscription school and later in two private schools. In the winter of 1836 and 1837, Grant was a student at Maysville Seminary. And in the autumn of 1838, he attended John Rankin Academy. In his youth, Grant developed an unusual ability to ride and understand horses and manage them. He was like a gift. He knew horses. He even decided to buy a horse. He hated the tannery. And he hated the smell. He said that he'd go home at night and no matter how much he bathed, he could not get the smell of the tannery out of his body. He hated it. As a matter of fact, later in life, he could never stand bloodshed, and boy was he going to see a lot of it. And he could never eat rare meat. It always had to be well done. His father put him to work driving wagon loads of supplies and transporting people instead of working in the tannery. He never officially joined any church, but he prayed privately and he never officially joined any denomination even though he was what we might call affiliated with the Methodist Church. Hannah, his mother, was a very religious person, a very quiet person, and a wonderful mother and a wonderful wife. Grant didn't care much about politics before he got into politics, basically. His father wrote to an acquaintance and told him that he wanted to, if he could get a sponsor to enlist his son, Ulysses, in West Point. And he got the appointment when he was 17 years old. Ulysses Grant wanted to run away. He did not want to go to the academy. He didn't like it. He didn't like the rules of it. He didn't like anything about West Point at all. He got over 250 demerits while he was there. He got demerits for everything under the sun. He was late. He wouldn't go to church. He was cooking in his room one time, which you weren't supposed to do. He was standing up when he should have been sitting down, sitting down when he should have been standing up. He just was rebellious in a lot of ways. He didn't want to be there. He finally admitted later on, he said, well, if he had to be there, I may as well do something. They made a mistake about his name when he joined this, joined West Point, and he liked it. His first name was Hiram and he hated that name. So they enlisted him as U.S. Grant. And so he made absolutely no objection to that at all and just latched on to it. That wasn't his name. His name was not U.S. Grant, but he liked it really well. Later on he used the initials his friend did, U.S. Grant, for Unconditional Surrender Grant. His nickname at West Point became Sam. And his U.S. meant for Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam Grant. He was indifferent to military life. And he later wrote on one of his little quotes is, on the whole, I like this place very much. Even though he did not get along with the rules. I guess the worst cadet that ever went to West Point was later on the hero. of the Indian Wars, so to speak. Custer, George Armstrong Custer, he had more demerits than anyone ever. Now Grant did not like Custer and later on at the Battle of the Little Bighorn said that Custer should have been court-martialed for murdering his own men. He said what he did was against orders and it risked the lives of all his men and cost the lives of all his men. He said that was unforgivable. His greatest interest at West Point was horses again, equestrian ability, and he was good. He was a proficient, excellent, magnificent horseman. He went to West Point at 5'2", at 17 years old, and he graduated when he was 5'7". So he grew a little bit there. He was the most proficient horseman there at the time. During their graduation ceremony while riding York, a large and powerful horse that only Grant could handle. He set a high jump record that stood for 25 years. He did not study his work. He didn't like the textbooks. So he would go to the library and read the library books. Quite an unusual man. He liked many, many books and on Sundays would slip away and not go to church and read instead. He had a few intimate friends there at West Point, Frederick Tracy Dent and James Longstreet. James Longstreet would become a very famous Confederate general later on. He was acquainted with Charles F. Smith and General Winfield Scott, who visited the academy and reviewed the cadets. He finally started saying, he said, in this academy there's a lot to dislike, but a little more to like. He graduated in June the 30th, 1843 with over 250 demerits. And he ranked 21st out of only 39 people, so he was in the bottom half of his class. But he did what he wanted to do. He liked horses. And he knew generalship, but he just wasn't adept at it at the academy. Now, while he was going to the academy, Frederick Tracy Dent had a sister. Now, if you look in pictures, this woman was not beautiful. Ulysses fell in love with her and he never fell out. He fell in love with this woman even though she was not a beautiful woman, she was not even a pretty woman. But she was a faithful woman and she loved him and he loved her. And she had to put up with a lot with Ulysses because he was never good at business at all. He graduated and became a second lieutenant. He decided to resign from his commission after his four year term of duty. He was supposed to be in duty for at least four years. He said two of the happiest days of his life, he wrote later in life, was when he left that and when he left the presidency. And despite his ability with horsemanship, he was not assigned to the cavalry, but to the infantry regiment. It took him to Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis, Missouri, and the Lieutenant Robert C. Buchanan Feingrant wine bottles for Grant's late return from the Whitehaven. He was commanded by Colonel Stephen W. Kearney, and the barracks was the nation's largest military base in the West. Grant was happy with his new commander, but looked forward to the end of his military service and possible teaching. He wanted to be a teacher. He liked books and he wanted to teach. In Missouri, Grant visited his friend Dent's family and became engaged to his sister Julia in 1844. Four years later, on August 22, 1848, they were married at Julia's home in St. Louis. Grant's father was an abolitionist. He was a radical abolitionist. Julia's father was a slave owner. Now, Grant's father hated slavery and many of the abolitionists did not want to leave the South alone. The northern states were, one by one, outlawing slavery. But slavery wasn't outlawed in Washington, D.C. until much later. The problem with the Civil War, the Civil War, I'm going to tell you this right now, the Civil War was not over slavery. And many people say it was, it was not. It was not over slavery. It was over states' rights. Now, we're jumping a little bit ahead, but when John C. Fremont ran for president, Grant had never voted for president. in his life thus far. But when John C. Fremont ran for president, he voted for the opposing man, Buchanan. Because he said that he knew that John C. Fremont would bring on the Civil War immediately. Now why he supported Lincoln, because Lincoln, even before he was president, when he was making speeches all over, they realized that if Lincoln was elected president that he would absolutely trample the Constitution and states' rights. During the Civil War, as a war measure only, Abraham Lincoln wrote the document, the Emancipation Proclamation. Not that it did any good at all. It didn't free any slaves in the northern states and the north had slaves. It didn't free any slaves anywhere at all. It was just a piece of propaganda machine. We went back to Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson was a former slave. an indentured servant, a slave. He was a Democrat, the only Democrat that stayed with the Union. Now going back to my notes again, Grant served under Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln. He was the Secretary of War of the United States for a short time when Andrew Johnson got rid of Stanton. His rank, of course, was the second lieutenant and then first lieutenant. His years of service were 1839 to 1854. And then again from 1861 to 1869. His commands were Company F, 4th Infantry and Illinois Infantry Regiment, District of Southern Missouri, District of Cairo, Army of the Tennessee, Division of the Mississippi, United States Army, Mexican-American War, he went there and fought, And he knew Lee there. Lee was a tremendous general. By the way, there's a whole lot of difference between Lee and Ulysses Grant. Lee was always top in his class. And the only cadet that ever went to West Point that had not one single solitary demerit. And all the time he was the most model student or cadet at West Point that West Point ever had. And later on he was appointed superintendent of West Point. That is, you listen, that is Robert E. Lee. Now his battles that Grant had fought in were the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. His commands in the Civil War were Belmont in 1861, Fort Henry and Donaldson in 1862, Shiloh in 1863, and the aftermath of the Vicksburg Campaign in 1862 and 63, Chattanooga in 1863, and promotion, Oberlin Campaign in 1864, the Siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 65, And the Appomattox campaign in 1865 and the victory. And then Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and he served under Andrew Johnson. He was probably the greatest advocate and friend to the American Negro. that has ever been in the White House. And I mean that. He was probably the greatest friend to the American Negro that was ever in the White House. He was not a friend to the American Indian. A lot of people say, well, he really helped the American Indian. No, he did not help the American Indian. Zero helped the American Indian. Canada just apologized for the Indian schools they had up there where so many of the Indians died. In America, we had Indian schools, and Grant basically turned denominations on the Indians. The Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Catholics, etc., etc., etc. Especially the Catholics. In the Indian schools, children were beaten. They were humiliated. Ulysses Grant said that no Indian should speak the Indian language, but he should assimilate white culture by absolute force. He should not be allowed to practice his culture or religion whatsoever. during Grant's administration, the American Indians were rounded up and put on reservations. Those that wouldn't go on reservations were basically enemies of the state. Indian in schools, many times they would neuter the females. The less Indians you have, the more problems you got. He turned Sherman on the Indians. And Sherman said the only good Indian was a dead Indian. Grant declared war on the Sioux Nation because they wouldn't go on to the reservations that he had planted them there before America had made a treaty with the Sioux Indians and that the Black Hills would be theirs forever. After, we're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves to a certain extent, but after gold was discovered in the Black Hills, Grant turned, Grant turned the white population on the Indian population. And it caused a war. But the Indians weren't the victims, according to him. The Indians were the cause of the war because they wouldn't go on to the reservation. He was going to give them more land. He was going to give them money for the Black Hills. Uranium in the Black Hills now and the gold in the Black Hills was worth billions of dollars. and they were starving to death, the Indians were. We'd had Red Clouds War before, we had the Teton Lakota, or the Sioux, if you want to call them that. Sioux means cutthroat. That's an Ojibwe French term for cutthroat. When you call a Sioux Indian a Sioux, you're calling him a cutthroat, that's neat. The name is Lakota Dakota or Nokota. I am Santee Dakota and Brule Lakota in my ancestry. Back to my notes. Grant turned Sherman on the Indians and several other generals also. Crook, which was probably more benevolent than some, They went into the Black Hills and they were going to round up all the Indians and put them on the reservations and George Armstrong Custer went in there under Crook. If George Armstrong Custer had survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which shouldn't have ever taken place to begin with, he would have been court-martialed by Crook and by Grant. Grant believed in military discipline. Even though he wasn't a good student at West Point, he saw the necessity for discipline. And the worst student, I said, that ever came out of West Point was George Armstrong Custer. And he showed it all his life. His soldiers hated him. He would leave them in a terrible position and take off and go someplace else. He'd take off and go buffalo hunting or something, and they'd have to go find him. You read a book called Bloody Sunday, and you'll understand a little bit about him. He was not a good soldier. He was a hero, so-called, in the Civil War. But if you find out about all the battles that he was supposed to want a hero of, somebody else would want him and he'd go in there with his sword in the air. Yes, he had a lot of horses shot out from underneath him, so did a lot of the other leaders. Almost all the generals in the Civil War were trained in the Mexican-American War, which was a terrible thing, Grant said. He said it was a great travesty, and America someday would pay for what they did to Mexico. President John Tyler instituted a war with Mexico so they could gain basically all of the western states. During his time, they gained everything from Texas to Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California. This was all Mexican territory at one time. New Mexico, you know. Now, Grant kind of became a hero in the Mexican-American War. He followed orders. Robert E. Lee was in all the major battles, pretty much. They all knew each other there. All of the cadets from the time that Robert E. Lee had become superintendent of West Point, West Point just, the history of West Point was Robert E. Lee. cadet that ever graduated from there. Robert E. Lee had seven children. His daughters loved their father so much that some of them didn't even get married. They said they could never find anybody like their father. A good father, a daughter, ought to want to find a husband like their father. That's right. A good mother, a son, ought to try to find a wife like his mother. That doesn't happen so many times. Getting back to Grant's early military career, he did what he needed to do until they sent him to California. And when they sent him to California, he did everything he could do to try to investigate his wife. to come out to California. He was one of the leaders there. The gold was discovered in California. They had to go out there and protect the American interest in California, so to speak. Had to go out there and keep the Indians under their thumb. Grant said the Indians there weren't too bad at all. They were almost human beings. He became captain on August 5th, 1853, and he was assigned to Fort Humboldt in California. He was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Buchanan. He knew Grant earlier, but Grant became so depressed because he couldn't be with his wife and child, that he began to drink. And he was drunk a lot of the time. And finally Buchanan went to him and told him, you know, if you can't quit drinking when on duty, I'm going to relieve you of duty. And remember now, Grant didn't want to stay in the Army anyway. He wanted to go back and become a gentleman farmer and live with his wife and children and be around his family. He was separated from his wife and children and his family. So he said, if I can't quit drinking, if I get drunk, if you find me drunk again, I will willfully resign my post. And he got drunk again, and he had to willfully resign his post. And he exited the army. Then he went back and he began farming. And with his wife, his father had given him an acreage there. And Grant, with his own hands, built his first home. He called it Hardscrabble. Because it was. He didn't do well as a businessman. He kept getting in business with other men. like his father was an entrepreneur, and he wanted to be an entrepreneur also, but didn't have his father's business sense at all. And he kept on losing all of his money. He finally hocked his watch and went on back to his father. And his father, by now, had forgiven him for marrying into the slave-owning people because he had grandchildren. and maybe they could indoctrinate the grandchildren in the right way. So he went there and became a clerk in his father's tannery. And then, Civil War breaks out. Why did the Civil War break out? If John C. Fremont had been elected president, Ulysses Grant said that America would immediately go into civil war. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, his inaugural speech was, you can go read it, but in that inaugural speech, he threatens the South. If they succeed, they can't succeed. Now up until this time, the Union was a voluntary situation. It was a voluntary union. But Abraham Lincoln began to rewrite the Constitution. He was a corporate lawyer for big business and he knew how to twist words. And he began to rewrite and reinterpret the Constitution. He told the South, now first of all, big business, the Republican Party was not the Republican Party of today. The Republican and the Radical Republican Party of that day would be like the Radical Democrats today. They all believe the same thing. Big business. Big business. And big government. Big business and big government. Now that which is governing America today and governing everything you hear and everything and all the news that you have today is from big business. the software companies of the world, so to speak. When the war started, and the war started when, basically when Abraham Lincoln declared war on the South in his inaugural speech, he said, if you pay your taxes, and I'm going to raise tariffs, which would kill the South, And he said, because the South was paying 70% of all the taxes in America. Big business in the North was being padded. There was as much slavery in the North as there was in the South. White slavery. White slavery. Abraham Lincoln imported military leaders from mercenaries, so to speak. from Russia and Germany and different countries where they had these revolutions. One of Abraham Lincoln's close pen pals was Karl Marx. Abraham Lincoln arrested every man, every editor that spoke against him in the North. Now, we're talking about the North. Lots of South. He confiscated their businesses and he imprisoned them and set aside habeas corpus. In other words, they had no rights. They could be arrested without charges. The editors that would support him, Abraham Lincoln, padded their pocketbooks. The ministers that spoke against the war that Abraham Lincoln was bringing upon the nation Before the war and after the war, the churches were shut down. If you would preach for him, you got a bonus. This is historical facts, people. These are historical facts. Now, I don't know how much Grant knew about all this stuff. The nation was being changed. It was changed from a democracy and a loosely knitted union of states into an oligarchy, where the states had very little freedom. Again, the states today are beginning to rise up against the present administration. They're thinking about ceding from the union again. That happened once, you know. And the only way that Grant and Sherman and Abraham Lincoln won the Civil War is to raise all-out war on all of the Southern's civilians. They went to whole towns and burned them down. They burned businesses down. They burned railroads down. They just did everything. They completely destroyed, they burned all of the court records and courthouses in the South. Maryland's family. All of the records only go back so far to the Civil War and it's over because everything from there on was burned. All that war, there were two famous generals in the South. William Quantrell and Bloody Bill Anderson. I want you to compare what those two men did with Sherman, what Sherman did and what Grant did. Sherman's men would go through towns and rape the women, kill every animal on a farm, burn the farmhouses and the plantations down, burn up all the crops in the field, burn up all the silos, kill the dogs, the cattle, and everything. They killed the dogs because they said that the dogs might attack the soldiers. And if a man tried to stop or put out the fire that they started in his home, they shot him down too. And the women were raped because, let's see now, many of the soldiers were very bloodthirsty men. Not like Bloody Bill Anderson and William Contrail. Because wherever they went, they devastated, they burned, and they pillaged, and they raped. And they killed, and they stole. There were no supplies coming out of the South because the South was completely destroyed. Robert E. Lee never declared war on the civilians. A few instances with William Contrail and Bill Anderson, the one in Burntown down, in reprisal for what Sherman was doing. You know in America, early America, the Spanish came here and they scalped the Indians. Then the Indians began to scalp the Spanish and then later on the other settlers that came in. Grant contracted malaria. And how he fought in the war and with malaria, which is the Thracian fever, it goes and then you have this infection. The mosquito, all malaria came from Africa because the slaves were brought to Africa and when the mosquitoes bit the slaves here, then the mosquitoes bit somebody else and everybody had malaria. The American Indians, there were more American Indian slaves than there ever were black slaves. And they were a lot of white slaves. American Indians were still sold in 1865 and 1869 in Los Angeles on the slave auction block. That's after the Civil War, by the way. Abraham Lincoln, when he got into the war and when he did all the horrible things that he was doing, when Grant and Sherman murdered and killed all the people, then he started trying to push this Emancipation Proclamation. The only man that ever really tried to free the slaves in the South was Grant. I want you to understand, he was the Negro's friend, but in California, they tore down his statues. Because he owned slaves one time. He turned his slaves free. He inherited slaves from his father-in-law. And he didn't want to sell them. Even when he needed money, he set them free. And he couldn't force them to do labor. He couldn't force a man to do labor. He could force a soldier to go out and give his life. Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers and the Civil War was going to be over in a flash, but it didn't happen. He kept trying to send his men. Now you have to realize, Robert E. Lee was superintendent of West Point. He had been a lifelong soldier. And in the American government, states' rights were preeminent over union rights. Robert E. Lee went out and stopped John Brown. He did not want to have a civil war. He loved his country. But he loved his state, Virginia. Because that's where he lived. You loved your state first, and then the Union second. When the Union declared war on the South, and they said, oh well, the South fired on Fort Sumter. told Lincoln that we will pay you for all military property in our nation, in the Confederacy. We will pay you for all of it. Abraham Lincoln said, keep your money, give it to me as taxes only. Pay the tariffs and pay your taxes. If you don't pay your taxes, I will invade you. Not over slavery now. It's over states' rights. The war was not started over slavery. It was started over states' rights. Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln said, was a war. It was a wartime policy. And he didn't set one slave free in the North. And there were slaves in the North. But he said to the South that all your slaves are free. That you can't hold any slaves. He was castigating the South, not the North. And yet, anybody that stood up against him in the North, would be imprisoned. Now after several tries, Grant was finally accepted back in the Army. He had a bad reputation in the Army, of course, you know, even though he was a West Point graduate. Grant was a, he was a brilliant strategist, but not near as brilliant as Lee. Nor is Stonewall Jackson or many of the others in the South. The South kept whipping the North in every battle with inferior numbers. I was listening to a program the other day and it said that Grant and Lee were both butchers. bloodthirsty men. Grant was a butcher. Lee respected the lives of his men. In many of the battles that were fought, Grant would push his men in and just lay their lives down by the tens of thousands. It would absolutely devastate this man was just throwing away the lives of his men, but the thousands. In some of the battlefields you couldn't walk on the ground, you walked on dead bodies. The North might lose 5,000 men and the South 15,000 men in a battle. Because Grant was just pushing his men in there. He had a lot of men, he had a lot of soldiers. Lee tried to conserve his soldiers' lives. He lost a lot of men too. He was probably the most religious man in the Army. And he prayed and he prayed and he prayed. The Battle of Gettysburg. Lee had a heart attack. One of his most faithful and brilliant generals, Stonewall Jackson. And don't get Stonewall Jackson and old Hickory Jackson mixed up. Stonewall Jackson was shot by one of his own men and died from the wounds. He lost his left arm originally. And Lee wrote him a letter and he said, you may have lost your left arm but I lost my right arm when they took you out of battle. Stonewall Jackson was like a stonewall. You couldn't go past it. Shiloh. There is a series out called, When Georgia Howled, when Sherman had a burnt path through all of Georgia. War was declared on the civilian population. And the excuse was that they had to completely cut off all supplies to the South because they could never whip them. They could have never whipped them with the rules of war. Mary Todd Lincoln called Grant an absolute butcher. And Sherman, they shouldn't, they were inhuman. Because of the men that they were losing. They were just sacrificing thousands of the men. Just pushing and pushing and pushing. The South, the Confederacy sat there and just shot man after man after man after man. And they just kept pushing them. More and more men. Men, men, men. The battles still were littered. I'm not going to go into every campaign, but you got Shiloh, you got Vicksburg in 1862 and 63. And during that time we had the Emancipation Proclamation, which was nothing but a war measure. It didn't free any black slave at all. Nowhere. During the Civil War, England supported the South, not the North. England supported the South, not the North. Because the South grew cotton and that was an export. And the North wanted to put high tariffs on anything that left America. 70% tariffs sometimes, 50% tariffs. That took 50% of the profit from the South, from the farmers. Now, little by little, the slave owners were turning their slaves loose. Even the President of the Confederacy was very kind to his slaves. They loved him like he was their father. After the Civil War, he gave them farms to support themselves. Now a lot of Jewish people are money makers, you know that, that's history. I'll bless those that bless you and I'll curse those that curse you. And Grant, in December 17, 1862, issued a general order number 11, anti-Jewish. order that evacuated the Jews out of some of these areas so they couldn't make money on the cotton and gold, etc. etc. Lincoln was a little bit disappointed with that and they rescinded their order later. Grant became basically a hero because nobody could whip Lee until Grant came along. McClellan just absolutely folded every time any battle took place. McClellan wanted to run for president even in the second term against Lincoln. If he had run for, and if he had won the presidency, the South The Civil War would have been over. The second half of Lincoln's war with the South, Lincoln's war with the South, the South, the Confederacy, kept trying to sue for peace. Said, let's settle this. Why are we at war? Why are we at war? Why? Can't we settle this? Can't we exist as states? in the Union. He would not speak to anybody. He even sent Grant one time and he said, no, unconditional surrender is the only thing we're going to accept. You do what we say. The states would have no rights. Finally at Appomattox, and there were some horrible battles, Cold Harbor was won. where Grant absolutely littered the battlefield with his own men, dead and wounded. Dead and wounded. The killing fields. The Siege of Petersburg, 1864 and 1865. The Shenandoah Valley was laid waste. The Shenandoah Valley Sherman went through there and the soldiers, they raped, they pillaged, and they burned. There was not one farm left, not one fence, not one dog, one cow, not one sheep, nor one silo left in all of Shenandoah Valley. They burned it all. They had a battle. And they, in the South, they got into the, they had bulwarks and they had great tunnels, like they did in Vietnam. They had tunnels, underground tunnels, where the soldiers would go in there. And Grant had all of those tunnels mined with gunpowder, shrapnel, and he blew them up and the whole battlefield just blew into the sky. There was a crater there, 170 feet across and 30 foot deep, killing an entire Confederate regiment in an instant. The Union went in there by hordes And the rest of the Confederates that weren't affected shot them down and slaughtered them, so to speak. It was a total mistake, Grant said. It was a mistake. Cold Harbor was a mistake, and so was this. All these men that they just murdered by mass explosion, like dropping an atomic bomb on them, and yet they lost the fight anyway. The Shenandoah Valley, Mobile Bay, Atlanta, Savannah, Sherman cut a 60-mile-wide path of destruction until he reached the Atlantic Ocean. By March 1865, Lee was finally trapped. His men were starving to death, they were eating rats, they were eating their mules, they were eating their horses. They were starving to death. Some of the generals wrote letters to Lee, either feed us or let us surrender. April 9th, Grant and Lee met at the Appomattox Courthouse. Lee asked for leniency against his men and himself. I don't know how much Grant knew about politics, but the South was forced into this war. And the South was totally devastated. Grant basically told Lee that the men could keep their horses. But if you look at the movie, The Outlaw Josie Wales, you'll see what happened in many areas there. The battles of the Civil War were not over yet. It took a long time for people, the news of it, to reach people and there were still more battles. A few days later, after the surrender of Appomattox, Lincoln was killed, assassinated, and Andrew Johnson became president. Andrew Johnson, in some ways, was very severe on the South. Now, he was a Southerner. He was a Democrat. And now the whole Congress and the Senate is controlled by Republicans. Everything that Andrew Johnson tried to do, the Republicans voted down. He wanted to let the people go back to work. He wanted to, as long as they signed an agreement, that they would never bear arms against the Union again, they could go back and they could vote. And they could own their farms again. But the carpetbaggers went in the South. Andrew Johnson tried to fight the Reconstruction that they had. He tried to, he said, what are we going to do with all these blacks? Well, all, ever since James Monroe, Monroeville, Liberia was started because they were going to ship all the black, the Negroes out of America into another colony and it would be an American colony and they could rule themselves. Grant tried to do this down in Central and South America. He tried to annex islands down there and they would take, and his idea was, Grant is a friend to the Negro. Shame on those people in California that took his statue down because he owned the slaves. He never forced his slaves to work, and he gave them their freedom. He didn't sell them, he gave them their freedom. A lot of times in the North, when they outlawed slavery in a state, they would sell their slaves to others. People were standing up in Congress and saying, we don't have to have the Civil War. Let's pay reparations to the South. and let their Negroes go free. And they didn't want any Negroes in the land that they had won over the Mexican conquest in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah, etc. because they didn't want slaves to compete with free white labor. The North didn't want the blacks up there because the blacks would compete with free white labor. You go into California right now and there's so many illegal aliens there, you can't get a job. Why should we have illegal aliens here? Why should we have even workers come in and all? Reality when we can't have enough jobs with the people we have. Something wrong there somewhere. Unless the political advantage only. After Andrew Johnson became president, he wanted Grant to go with him and have a tour of the South. And while on the tour of the South, they were going to go in there and see what they could do to make reparations and to have reconstruction in the South. You know, when we destroyed Germany over there in World War II, we reconstructed Germany. The same thing with Japan and etc. And they should have done that in the South, but instead of going down in the South, and by the way, the Negroes had a right to vote in the South. The Negroes had the right to vote in the South. Did you know that? But the former Confederates did not. Grant became president, the South was taken over by Republicans, and the Republicans were like the Radical Democrats today, and they wanted complete control of the South. They took the lands, they confiscated the lands, and of course Jesse James and Frank James were going, and they were going through areas, they were robbing banks, they were robbing railroads, and they were taking the money because The carpetbaggers had gone in there, the bankers had gone in there. Lincoln was for big business. The steel industry, the banking industry and everything else, and he was padding them. It's what we call corporate welfare. Today it's called the bottom feeders and the top feeders. I think you get that. Johnson finally broke with with Grant because Johnson wanted to be lenient on the South. They had not created a colony to send the Negroes to. So what are you going to do with the Negroes? They put Negroes on the Indian roads and gave them Indian land. That's what they did with them. They had 40 acres and a mule, so to speak. Johnson had been a slave, an indentured servant, from the time he was 10 to 21. 11 years of his life he was actually an indentured servant. He escaped when he was 15 and ran off, but he went back and tried to pay his owner off because he was a wonderful tailor. And it seems he was a great tailor. And he had tailor business and everything, but he wanted to buy his freedom. Now, he had been indentured, sold as a slave for 11 years, and many times they didn't ever live out that time. They died before they ever were free. And this is white people. Okay? Johnson's family were all slaves. All indentured servants. And his mother sold him into slavery when he was 10 years old. Well, he went down in the South and he said, well, the Negroes are still here and what are we going to do with them? I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll put them on the same status as the white slaves. We won't let them go back into slavery, but we will let them be indentured to a farmer for one year at a time and grant and the rest of it. Boom! The Radical Republicans said, no! Well, he was a indentured servant, a slave, he was white man. Why couldn't the blacks be indentured servants for one year at a time on the farm? And yet they were free. They weren't going to ride horses and with black snakes or anything like that beating them up. Now they were free people. The blacks had more rights in the South than the former Confederates. And so because of this, the Ku Klux Klan arises to protect the rights of the white citizens in the South. That's why the Ku Klux Klan rules. To protect the whites. The blacks could hold office in the South and I don't, because of the Civil Rights Union movement in the 60s and 70s, etc., we looked like the blacks never had any rights in the South. Yes they did. They had more rights than the whites in the South. And there was more Indian slaves than there were black slaves in the history of America. In 1868, the Republican Party ran Grant as president. Grant and Colfax. They won easily because of the black vote in the South. The Democrats didn't want it, but see the Democrats didn't have any say so at all. The Southern Democrats were the conservative pillars of America that championed states' rights and freedom. Carpetbaggers took over the farms and the ranches. The railroads were given wide paths of land all across America. Corporate welfare and big business and big banking all was, they were running America. And they ran America until Teddy Roosevelt. And he changed it. Later on, Grant apologized for his General Order Number 11, said that he really didn't, he said, I have no prejudice against any sector or race, but want each individual to be judged on his own merits. Grant really meant that. He really meant it. He wanted the blacks in the South to have rights to vote. But in his administration, it was so corrupt, it was unbelievable. His administration caused the Ku Klux Klan and it came down on the Ku Klux Klan. Most of the white citizens of the southern states had no right to vote nor hold office. Grant began concentration camps. All over America, concentration camps. The concentration camps and the slave farms. In the early part of California there were missions all from one end of California all the way up to the Oregon border. They were all slave plantations. They called them missions. But they were slave plantations, but they captured these wild Indians and they made slaves out of them and of course the priests could impregnate them and raise a superior race. because now they would be half Spanish or whatever. There's hardly any full-blood American Indians from what we call the Mission Indians. All across they had these Indian schools which were concentration camps, and they had reservations which were concentration camps. Grant confiscated the Black Hills. where the treaty was not valid. We're still fighting over the Black Hills today, the Lakota people are. George Bush said, let them starve. If they'll sign away that treaty to the Black Hills, we'll give them money. Otherwise, let them starve. And I mean talk about third world countries. Those reservations are third world countries. Devastated with drugs and alcohol. Words of the state. That's exactly what they were supposed to be. On March 4, 1869, Grant was sworn in to the 18th President of the United States by Chief Justice Salvin P. Chase. Grant urged the ratification of the 15th Amendment while large numbers of African Americans attended his inauguration. He also urged that bombs issued during the Civil War should be paid in gold. This is good. He had a real good idea of money, but he didn't know anything about it. They issued greenbacks during the Civil War that weren't worth ten cents. The Confederate money was originally worth more than Union money, but then the South fell apart and then the Confederate money was worth nothing. The greenbacks issued by the Union were worth nothing either. It was only a promissory note of nothing. Grant wanted to go back to gold and silver, especially gold. He said, gold is solid. And he wanted to issue bonds that would cover the money for, it was a dollar, it was a dollar. Not 30 cents. And then he just became this beautiful, proper treatment of American Indians. He cultivated their civilization and ultimate citizenship. You will not live like you live. You will not live in your own country and each reservation is a nation within itself. We will tell you what to do. You know that if you were on a Lakota reservation that you had to go borrow a butcher knife. You had to sign it because you couldn't have any weapons at all. You couldn't have a butcher knife to butcher a cow or a goat or a buffalo. And the buffalo, this is another thing. The Compromise of 1850 and there on back. When it come up to Grant, what are we going to do with American buffalo? Shall we protect American buffalo? The buffalo are coming extinct. And Grant says, kill them all. The American Indians depend upon that buffalo for their food source. We want to cut off their food source like we did with the civilians in the South. We'll whip them if we can starve them to death. Many of his men were just corrupt to the very bottom. Grant knew how to choose generals, but when it come to business and choosing cabinet members, he was a great flop. Grant himself was honest. I want to emphasize this. The man was an honest man. But he chose very poor partners. And he said that later on in life. He said that I had very poor choices for my leadership. To make up for his infamous Order No. 11 against the Jewish people, Grant appointed more than 50 Jewish people to federal office. Councils, district attorneys, deputy postmasters, he appointed Edward S. Solomon, territory governor of Washington. The first time an American Jewish man occupied a governor's seat. He sympathized with the plight of the persecuted Jewish people all over the world, especially in Russia. He supported the Jewish-American B'nai Barith petition against the Tsar in 1869. Grant appointed a Jewish journalist as consul to Romania to protect Jewish people from severe oppression there. Grant proposed a constitutional amendment that limited religious indoctrination in public schools. I'm going to read this to you one more time. Grant proposed a constitutional amendment that limited religious indoctrination in public schools. Instruction of religious, atheistic, or pagan tenants would be banned. while funding for the benefit of aid directly and indirectly, any religious sect or denomination would be prohibited. But he turned the Catholics, the Presbyterians, and the Methodists loose on the Indians to indoctrinate or kill them. Kill the Indian, but save the man. My family went through this, people. Grant hated Indian culture. He despised it. First of all, it was a, what we call a, they lived in a communist society or a socialist society. They had no private ownership of land at all. They believed it was God's land. Shook up Wakan Tanka's land, his property, and how could a man own what God owned? He wanted religious freedom and everything else for people and against religious tyrants except for the American Indians. He went after Brigham Young and began to prosecute them. He, of course, you know, he called them immoral and indecent. He hated abortionists, people that aborted children. He said that was murder. He put a moral leader and reformer over all of these officers, Anthony Comstock. He was probably the most effective civil rights advocate and president of his day up until the 20th century. Reconstruction under the Republicans was a a reconstruction of total theft and robbery and graft. We had a Republican-controlled Congress, Northern money, and Southern military occupation. The 15th Amendment said states could not disenfranchise or stop African Americans from voting. Remember Many of the Civil Confederates were not allowed to vote, but the blacks were. Grant won the election because of this black vote. Grant put military pressure on Georgia to reinstate its black legislators and adopt a new amendment. developed and began the Department of Justice. He established civil service rules. His administration was so corrupt, when he found out about it, he did everything he could do to try to stop it, stop the corruption. He fired the people, but many of them, some of them were his family. He again suspended habeas corpus in the South. During Trent's second term, the North retreated from Reconstruction, while Southern conservative whites called Redeemers formed armed groups, the Red Shirts and the White League. And they began to openly use violence and intimidation against the black people. And why did all this happen? Because of all the corruption and the reconstruction of the town. The reconstruction and the theft and the robbery and the abuse of the white citizens, confederate citizens of the south, brought into power the Ku Klux Klan. And I want to tell you something. Grant didn't stop the Ku Klux Klan, though he arrested many of them and took away their rights to vote and lead. When Grant took office in 1869, the nation's policy towards Americans was in chaos. Native Americans was. There were over 250,000 Native Americans and 370 trees and he was going to go about and he was going to turn these people into white people. Kill the Indian, save the man. Kill the Indian, save the man. He put Eli Samuel Parker as the first Native American Commissioner of Indian Affairs. He later resigned because, you know, what Grant was doing to the American Indian was not kind. There were denominational infighting in Grant's denominational religious sect that he was putting over the American Indians. We want this one, we want this one, we want this one. The Methodists would fight with the Presbyterians, the Presbyterians were fighting with the Catholics, and the Baptists just sat back and looked because they had no part of it. The Baptists sent missionaries to convert the Indians, but not to rule over them. On April 1873, Major General Edward Canby was killed in Northern California south of Thule Lake by MODOC leader Ken Pooler. And the MODOC War began. Grant wanted to move all these Indians into Indian Territory, but I'm going to tell you something, Oklahoma basically became, in 1907, Oklahoma became a state. And they had divided all of the Indian land up in Oklahoma into private ownership except after the Civil War, the North confiscated one half of the Choctaw Nation or Indian territory because some of the Indians had fought on the side of the Confederacy. So they stole half of that land and it had a lot of black gold on it. Sherman He said, I can take care of the Indian problem all together. The only good Indian is a dead one. He declared war on the Sioux Nation and took away and disannulled the treaty with the Lakota Sioux Nation. The Black Hills. He turned the miners loose on the Black Hills. And all during this period of time, you know, we have Custer. The Battle of the Little Bighorn. The Sioux refused to recloacate. So then they sent Sherman, Crook, and all of them in there to kill or recloacate the Indians. Except the Indians were having a great revival up there in the greasy grass, that's what it's called in my native country. They were having a revival, and one of the great leaders was Sitting Bull, and another great religious leader was Crazy Horse, which I'm directly related to. They were up there having a religious revival, and saying, what are we going to do with the white problem? They keep making treaties with us, and they keep breaking them. They want everything we have, and they don't want us to have anything left at all. What are we going to do with them? So they saw it and they had a sun dance. And Sitting Bull said that he saw all these soldiers falling in and they were all dying. Falling out of the sky and they were all dying. And he said, this will be a great battle today. We will completely annihilate these people. Now Crook told George Armstrong, Schlusser, you go up there and you wait for me. George Armstrong Custer wanted to run for President of the United States and he was going to go in there and he was going to kill all these Sioux. And his Crow warriors kept saying to Yalahare, son of the Morning Star as they called him, he had a Cheyenne wife by the way, he had children. Custer may have hated Indians but he loved Indian women. Literally. and he had Indian children. There's a book written, which I could show you here, by one of his descendants. When they killed Custer on the battlefield, they went out there and they cleaned his ears out with awls, because they didn't think that he could hear well. Maybe he could hear better in the background, and they washed him. His wife did. You will never hear this." They said, he didn't listen very well. They said, if you keep coming after us, we're going to kill you. This is your family now. You're a part of us. Leave us be. Let us alone. But he wanted to go in there and he wanted to all, as he went in behind Crook and these other people in the Civil War, read the book by General Crook, George Crook, about George Armstrong Custer and what he did. He was a snake. He took other people's victories and made it his own. But he wanted to come in here and he wanted to kill all these Indians. Crook said if he'd have lived they'd have court-martialed him and probably shot him or hung him. He cost, Grant said he cost his whole, all of his men. He sacrificed their lives for nothing. except his own glory. And then Custer's wife began to make him a hero and go and speak all over the United States about how wonderful a hero her husband was until the day she died. Now, England had supported the South and had built a battleship for them. During Grant's administration, he tried to not have wars with foreign countries. There was a Cuba problem and all kinds of problems during this time, Spain and England and Cuba and all this, and he circumvented war. The Civil War could have been completely circumvented. That was caused by Lincoln. Lincoln calls the war as John C. Fremont would have, and why Grant couldn't see that Lincoln was worth than John Fried Fremont, I don't know. England had to, Great Britain had to pay $15,500,000 of Alabama claims because of what they had done in the South, supporting the South. island in the Caribbean is what Grant wanted to occupy and to make part of the United States so that he could ship off all the black people there, all the Negro slaves, and let them have their own government and they would be part of the United States. And he tried to push this really, really hard. He said, in the north and in the south we have problems with Negro slaves. We don't want white labor to compete with slave Negroes. So we're going to put them down there, and then any Negro that stays here, some white plantation owner in the South will appreciate them, because they need workers. That was his whole idea. It didn't work. The Cuba deal, a ship was captured by the Spain, and all the American soldiers on that ship were executed and their heads decapitated. They were all decapitated, including their Captain Fry. On November 27th, Fish reached a diplomatic resolution in which Spain's President Emilio Castilla y Ripoll, expressed his regret and surrendered the Virginias and their surviving captives. A year later, Spain paid cash indemnity of $80,000 to the families of those executed Americans. Grant stayed out of the four wars. Let's put it that way. Everybody that he tried to to get that, and it would probably have been a good idea to have the Dominican Republic in to do that. Maybe it would have worked, huh? The blacks could have governed themselves down there, and they could have had their own government, and they'd still been part of the United States. They would have taken care of their own Negro slave problems, but instead they took American Negroes and put them on American Indian roles. The Chickasaws were one of the only Indian nations that would not allow their land to be given to the Negroes. They said, you got that problem, you take care of it. Don't put them on our land and put them on Indian rolls to gain Indian money and they're still getting Indian money to this day. Some of the black slaves that were called freedmen. While Grant was the president, there were several depressions. Monetary depressions. There was a problem with money, a problem with bank. Rat would listen to bankers, but some of these crooked bankers would steal money and they were inside trading. And I mean, it was crashing. Finally, he, during his 7th term in 1873, Jay Cook and company, and the New York brokerage house collapsed after it failed to sell all of the bonds issued by Cook's Northern Pacific Railway. Railways were going broke. We had too many of them. It was a glut on railroads. I don't know how California, they're planting so many almond trees out there. I don't know how we're not going to have a glut on almonds. Where almonds prices will go down. The Panic of 1870, Grant believed that, as with the collapse of the gold ring in 1869, they were monopolizing on gold. They were buying and selling it and controlling the price of it. And the farmers and the workmen were absolutely going broke. The common man was just dying in this country. after the Civil War economy brought on a massive industrial wealth and government expansion, speculation, lifestyle extravagance by the victors, and absolute corruption and poverty by those that were the losers. Grant was an honest man, but he made poor choices. And he also defended culprits. He defended the bad boys. Like I said, there were all kinds of corruption. I cannot name them all. I'll never get through with this message. If we named all the corruption and all the people that were involved. Tax evasion, everything you can think of. People that he put in office. The whiskey ring. The gold ring. The whiskey ring that involved collusion between distillers and treasury officials to evade paying the treasury millions in tax revenues. Much of the money was being pocketed while some of it went into Republican coffers. In mid-April, Bristol informed Grant of the ring, the whiskey ring. On May 10th, Bristol stuck hard and broke the ring. Federal marshals raided 32 installations nationwide and arrested 350 men. 176 indictments were obtained, leading to 110 convictions and $3,150,000 in fines that returned to the Treasury. Grant apologized to the American people for his poor choices. He said, I'll try to do everything to make amends for it. He was going to run for a third term, but he didn't do it. After he left office, for several years Grant had entertained the idea of taking a long deserved vacation to Europe. And he did. After liquidating some of his financial ventures, Grant set out on a world tour that approximately lasted two and a half years. And during this period of time, He met many of the heads of state and he was what we call a foreign diplomat. He even got paid for it. He got free shipping from one ship to the other all over the Europe and the then president decided that he would be a good adversary. Queen Victoria said he was the most handsome man that she'd ever seen. He visited Pope Leo the The 8th, Audubon Bismarck, Emperor Millet, and Grant was the first United States President to visit Jerusalem and the Holy Land. He tried to run for a third term, but it didn't work. He had many business failures. Grant finally ended up with throat cancer probably from his smoking cigars for all the years and the whiskey that he drank. He was dying, he didn't tell his wife at first, but he was writing his memoirs. And he had a very wonderful friend, Samuel Clemens or Mark Twain. Mark Twain told him and helped him and they sent people with him to help him write his memoirs. in the history of Grant, his memoirs. And usually you get 20% from publishers, maybe 10%, 15%, 30% at the very highest. But Mark Twain gave him 70% of his publishings. And his family, he was broke. Bad ventures, bad investments, bad partners, everything. that you can think of. Grant did it. He was not a businessman at all. But when Mark Twain stepped in and published his memoirs, he got thousands of dollars of royalties from that book. They finally gave him the military pension because he was broke. He that wasn't part of the gold ring or the whiskey ring, he got no money from that. He was an honest man. Sometimes the people in his administration that were crooks, he actually defended them and got some of them off when they were actually guilty. got $450,000 in royalties from that book. It depicted his battles and everything that he did. When he died, the attendance at New York funeral topped one and a half million people. People love Graham. They said he saved the Union. I don't know about that. I think the Civil War should have been stopped early on, and let the South do what the South do, and the North do what the North, and slavery would have been done away with. People stood up in Congress said, pay annuities to the South for turning their slaves loose. And the Emancipation Proclamation, which was a war measure and none of effect at all, they said let it become effective. And of course, always Grant stood up for the rights of the American Negro. His historical reputation has gone up and down and up and down over the years. It's probably at one of the highest points right now because he was an honest man. He made mistakes. But he was a killer man. He would have never won the war. if he'd have kept to the rules of war and did not declare war on civilians in the South and burned down every town, every farm, devastated the whole South. And the Reconstruction was not Reconstruction. It didn't help the South. Jesse James and Frank James helped the South. They went from Baptist church to Baptist church, robbing trains, and the trains were part of the corporate welfare. And they thought they were Robin Hoods. And I told you the story about Ben Bogart, one of the greatest American Baptist preachers, one of the greatest preachers in America that slept in the bed with Jesse Jayne because he would go from house to house and pay off farms that the carpetbaggers were stealing. And those railroads and those banks were one of them deaths. Many, many memorials throughout America. The $50 bill in 1922, they had a $1 gold piece with a Grant Memorial coinage. Of course, Grant's tomb and all of these other places, they had in 1890, they had a stamp honoring Grant. To this day, the $50 bill says Grant's face on it. From July 1st, 1839 to 1866, he was in military service. And I think he did his best in service. He may have been a poor cadet. But as a general and as a soldier, he did his best. Even though he cost the lives of many of his people. The South wanted to join the Union again. They wanted to go back together. Not many years later, after the Civil War, the North and the South would have reunions. And the Northern soldiers and the Southern soldiers would hug each other. They talk about the hard times they had during the war that was forced upon them. The South always said that Grant killed too many, sacrificed too many men's lives. And that's the truth. He did. His, Sherman, and Grant's war on the civilians of the South won the war. It wasn't the war on the Army. They starved them to death. and that's wrong, if they did this today, there would be war crimes brought against them. And Lincoln also. If you watch the movie Lincoln, you'll see that Sal tried to sue for peace so many times, he wouldn't have it. It all made the whole big deal okay because he freed the slaves. He never thought the Negroes in America were equal to the white culture. He never said they put them on equal basis. Grant said, they are men, we are men, we look eye to eye. Grant was the real emancipator, not Lincoln. Father, we send this message out to educate your people. and those that listen to what really happened in this country during this period of time, the good and the bad and the ugly. That's facts. Father, use the message to glorify yourself and your son. You have ordained governments. Some of them are good and some of them are bad. In Jesus' name we send this out, and please forgive me for I fail you.