Gen. US Grant's prediction ca. 1875...
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Civil War hero & eventual President Ulysses S Grant said in an address in 1875 (at the Annual Reunion of the Army of the Tennessee in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 29, 1875):
"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence (e.g.: another Civil War), I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." Citation Here
Ummm.... was the "Drunken President" also prescient?
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To be clear: Grant wasn't so much warning about another Civil War as professing the need for public, non-sectarian, non-religious schools...
To further quote:
"Encourage free schools, and resolve that not one dollar of money appropriated to their support, no matter how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school. Resolve that the State or Nation, or both combined, shall furnish to every child growing up in the land, the means of acquiring a good common-school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistic tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. With these safeguards, I believe the battles which created the Army of the Tennessee will not have been fought in vain."
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@bi4smooth
I believe that he was referring to any outside influence that would keep citizens from learning about the basics without a bias one way or the other.Our school system has progressed to the point that it's what his warning was. I fear the only way it's going to be fixed is a revolution. Let the state money follow the student and bankrupt all these public, union controlled districts.
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@geobear40 said in Gen. US Grant's prediction ca. 1875...:
@bi4smooth
I believe that he was referring to any outside influence that would keep citizens from learning about the basics without a bias one way or the other.Our school system has progressed to the point that it's what his warning was. I fear the only way it's going to be fixed is a revolution. Let the state money follow the student and bankrupt all these public, union controlled districts.
You certainly are a "throw the baby out with the bath water" kind of person, aren't you?
I have to wonder - within the constraints of Grant's admonition, are you a "patriot with intelligence" or "superstitious, ambitious, and/or ignorant"?
I'll leave the "gentle reader" to decide....
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@bi4smooth said in Gen. US Grant's prediction ca. 1875...:
You certainly are a "throw the baby out with the bath water" kind of person, aren't you?
No but I know when to quit and start over. I am not the kind of person who keeps doing the same thing over and over again hoping for a different out come.
I have to wonder - within the constraints of Grant's admonition, are you a "patriot with intelligence" or "superstitious, ambitious, and/or ignorant"?
I'll leave the "gentle reader" to decide...You have been around Liberals to long, When you have no response you stoop to personal attacks.
