Ex-President Grant by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 11, 1879

Ex-President Grant.

By Editor

A good deal has lately been said by newspapers about General Grant’s Des Moines speech. There is nothing in the speech but what every true American citizen can heartily subscribe to. We give it below:—

“Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiment, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion; encourage free schools; resolve that not one dollar appropriated to them shall go to the support of any sectarian schools; resolve that neither State nor nation shall support any institution, save those where every child may get a common-school education, unmixed with any atheistic, pagan, or sectarian teaching; leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, and keep Church and State forever separate.”