Give Senator Tillis credit for finally saying and doing the right things

By: Rob Schofield

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: February 3, 2026

Words: 835

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 2 days ago

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At the outset of the American Civil War, a young and at the time relatively undistinguished U.S. Army officer from Illinois who would later rise swiftly through the ranks, offered a simple and straightforward assessment of the political situation in his divided and troubled country in a letter to his father.

“There are but two parties now, traitors and patriots,” said Ulysses S. Grant, “and I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter, and …

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