 | Stephen MACEDO, Stephen Macedo - 2009 - 368 lehte
...voters for the upcoming elections. Grant found his rallying cry when he warned in 1875, "If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing-line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side,... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 2001 - 785 lehte
...extended to the veterans in gray. In effect, he was marshaling his forces for a new battle. "If we are to have another contest in the near future of our...superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." In heartfelt words, Grant asked his countrymen to defend the guarantees of "free thought, free speech,... | |
 | Robert F. Engs, Randall M. Miller - 2002 - 226 lehte
...at a veterans' reunion in Des Moines in September 1875, he predicted that the next contest would be "between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other."18 In his annual message at the end of the year, he remained silent about Reconstruction, preferring... | |
 | James Hitchcock - 2009 - 273 lehte
...basis of a political consensus in danger of eroding. 141 In his 1875 speech, Grant drew a contrast between "patriotism and intelligence on the one side,...superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other," 142 which to his hearers must have been an obvious reference to immigrant Catholics. The strategy backfired... | |
 | Edward J. Blum, W. Scott Poole - 2005 - 286 lehte
...President Grant struck the keynote in September 1875 when he declared that the coming fight was one between "patriotism and intelligence on the one side,...superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." No sects needed to be named; listeners knew them as clearly as did Thomas Nast, who drew a cartoon... | |
 | Morton Keller Professor of History Brandeis University - 2007 - 350 lehte
...Civil WarReconstruction era. President Grant warned that the next great struggle in America would pit "patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and...superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." He called for a constitutional amendment prohibiting public aid to church-related schools. Congressman... | |
 | Martha Craven Nussbaum - 2008 - 418 lehte
...does not.149 Grant kept pushing on the issue, holding in one public speech in 1875 that "if we are to have another contest in the near future of our...side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other."150 Nobody was in the dark about what he really meant. The issue of religious observance in... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1924 - 360 lehte
...intelligence. The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our...superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other. Encourage free schools. Resolve that either the state or the nation, or both combined, shall support... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1876 - 986 lehte
...its length and for the stress laid upon the question of sectarian schools, lie said : " If w« are to have another contest In the near future of our...I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason aud Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1876 - 662 lehte
...following paragraph, which is timely and of the highest significance. His words are : — " If we are to have another contest in the near future of our...existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason's and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition,... | |
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, 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. 
