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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 13 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 5 1 Browse Search
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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 34: America at school. (search)
aker in the United States. Republics can only stand on the education and enlightenment of the people, says President Grant. The stability and welfare of our institutions must necessarily depend for their perpetuity on education, says Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior. The existence of a republic, unless all its citizens are educated, is an admitted impossibility, says General Eaton, Commissioner of Education. Congress passed a bill, establishing a Bureau of Education at ersities, as in Iowa and Michigan. In all these sections, there is close and constant effort on the part of some, weakened by indifference on the part of many, to give the people that aliment, without which, according to President Grant and Secretary Delano, the republic cannot live. Yet, after all, the main interest in this intellectual struggle lies in the South, so long neglected by the ruling race; and in the Southern States, the chief scene of conflict is Virginia. The new race of Vi