Robert E Lee

Robert E. Lee only inherited slaves from a distant relative and then freed them before the civil war. While Grant still owned his slave.

“I consider the constitutional power of the General Government as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.” Robert E. Lee