An Appeal to CæsarFords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1884 - 422 σελίδες "Tourgée's book An Appeal to Caesar (1884) grew out of a White House conversation between the author and his boyhood friend, the newly elected president James A. Garfield. The conversation concerned the failure of Reconstruction-era legislation and the primary available remedy, which, in Tourgée's opinion, centered on federally supported education for the victims (white as well as black) of slavery. Tourgée had promised the president he would produce a book of analysis and advice on the subject. With this book he made good on his promise, but because Garfield was assassinated only four months into his presidency, Tourgée was forced to readdress the appeal alluded to in the title--no longer "to the dear, dead Caesar. . . but to that other and greater Caesar. . . the American People""--Peter C. Meyers, TeachingAmericanHistory.org. |
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Σελίδα 218 - Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential.
Σελίδα 218 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Σελίδα 219 - Let us, by all wise and constitutional measures, promote intelligence among the People, as the best means of preserving our liberties.
Σελίδα 218 - Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults? Shall the revenue be reduced? or shall it not rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education and other great foundations of prosperity and union under the powers which congress may already possess, or such amendment of the constitution as may be approved by the states?
Σελίδα 233 - ... against this Act, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, and imprisoned not more than six months ; or if a free person of color, shall be whipped, not exceeding fifty lashes...
Σελίδα 220 - We have no standard by which to measure the disaster that may be brought upon us by ignorance and vice in the citizens when joined to corruption and fraud in the suffrage. The voters of the Union, who make and unmake constitutions, and upon whose will...
Σελίδα 220 - The census has already sounded the alarm in the appalling figures •which mark how dangerously high the tide of illiteracy has risen among our voters and their children. To the South this question is of supreme importance. But the responsibility for the existence of slavery did not rest upon the South alone. The nation itself is responsible for the extension of the suffrage, and is under special obligations to aid in removing the illiteracy which it has added to the voting population. For the North...
Σελίδα 219 - It covers a field far wider than that of negro suffrage and the present condition of that race. It is a danger that lurks and hides in the sources and fountains of power in every State. We have no standard by which to measure the disaster that may be brought upon us by ignorance and vice in the citizens when joined to corruption and fraud in the suffrage.
Σελίδα 233 - If any person shall hereafter teach any slave to read or write, or shall aid or assist in teaching any slave to read or write, or cause or procure any slave to be taught to read or write; such person, if a free white person, upon conviction thereof, shall, for each and every offence against this act, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars...
Σελίδα 232 - ... under instruction, and will annually send out between 30 and 40 of them well instructed in religion and capable of reading their Bibles, who may carry home and diffuse the same knowledge which they shall have been taught among their poor relations .and fellow-slaves. And in time schools will be spread in other places and in other colonies to teach them to believe in the Son of God, who shall make them free indeed.
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