Did Grant regret the 15th Amendment?

Bruce Vail

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Is it true that Grant came to regret the 15th Amendment?

It was reported in the memoirs of Hamilton Fish that Grant privately called the Amendment a bad idea and a failure. He did so at the end of his presidential administration and, to my knowledge, not in any public way.
 

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