The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1875-10-23
Full Text of Grants Address.

The following is the full text of
President Grants address before
the Society of the Army of the
Tennessee, on the 30th Of Septem-
Der, at Des Moines, with those
passages which were omitted by
the report Of the Western Union
Telegraph, in italics:
Comrades; it always affords me
much qualification to meet my
old comrades in arms Of ten and
fourteen years ago, and to live
over again in memory the trials
and hardships of those days
hardShips imposed for the preser-
walton and perpetuatiOn of our
free institutions. We 6eLiered then
and believe nOao that a0e had q good
Government, worth fighting for,
and, if need be, dying for. HO,o
naGhy Of our comrades Ofth0Se days
paid the latter price for oar preSerU-
ed Union? Let their herOiSna and
sacrifices be ever green IN our men,
org. Let not the result Of their sac
rifces be destroyed. Tine Union
and the free institution, for aChich
they fell, shOWl@ be he'd more dear
for their. sacrifices. We will not
deny to any of those who fought
against us any privileges under
| the Government which we claim
for ourselves; on the contrary, We
welcome all such who come for
ward in good faith to help to build
up. the waste places and to per-
petuate our institutions against
all enemies as brothers in full in
tereSt with us in a common heri-
tage; but we are not prepared to
apologize for the part a0e took IN
tie a0Ctr. 1t is to be hoped that like
trials aOjU aeuer again 6etdlL our
country. In this sentiment no class
ofpe0ple can more heartily join than
the soldier WhO submitted to the
dangers, trials and h0rdShipS of the
camp and battlefield. On aOhich
eUer side he may haze fought, no
class of people are more interested
in guarding against q recurrence Of
those days.
"Let as, then, begin by guarding
against every enemy threatening the
pe,petuity of free Republican inSti-
tutiOas. | do not bring into this
aoSemblage politics, certainly not
partisan politics, but it is fair
subject for soldiers in their DELHI
eraCions to consider what may be
necessary to secure the prize for
which they battled IN u Republic
like ours. Where the citizen Is the
s00erig1a and the official the servant,
a0here no pO'0er is exercised, except
by the a0iU OF the people, 1t IS i'm
pOrt01at that the SOUerigB-the peO-
pLe-shOMd possess intelligence.
'Ihe free school as the promoter
Of that Intelligence a0Itich is to pre-
se1Ue us as q nation. If we are to
have another contest in the neal
future of our national existence,
| predict that the dividing line
will not be Mason and DiXon's,
but between patriotism and intelli-
gence on the one side and super
stition, ambition and ignorance
on the other. Now, in this GEN.
tennial year of our national eX-
iStence, | believe it d good time
to begin the work of strengthen
ing the foundation of the house
commenced by our patriotic fore
fathers one hundred years ago at
Concord and Lexington. Let us
all labor to add 0U needfN gU0r0,a-
tees for the mare perfect security
of free speech and free press, pure
morals, unfettered religious senti-
ments, and of equal rights and
privileges to all men, irrespective
of nationality, color or religion.
Encourage free schools, and re-
solve that not one dollar of n1Oney
appropriated to their support, no
matter hOW raised, shall be apprO-
priated to the support of any sec.
tartan school. Resolve that Meth
er the State nor nation, or both
combined, shall support institutions
of learning other than those suf-
ticient to afford to every child
growing up in the land; the OPP
portunity of a good common school
education, unmiXed with sectar-
ian, pagan or atheistical tenets.
Leave the matter of religion to
the family altar, the church and
tie private school supported entire
'ty by 0riUate contributions. Keep
the Church and State forever Sc
parate. With these safeguards [
believe the battles which created
the army of the Tennessee will
not have been fought in vain"
The Fish Breeding Interest.