An Appeal to Cæsar

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Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1884 - 422 sider
"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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Side 262 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Side 262 - 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.
Side 301 - For the North and South alike there is but one remedy. All the constitutional power of the nation and of the States, and all the volunteer forces of the people should be summoned to meet this danger by the saving influence of universal education.
Side 262 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Side 263 - Let us, by all wise and constitutional measures, promote intelligence among the People, as the best means of preserving our liberties.
Side 262 - 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?
Side 413 - The intelligence of the nation is but the aggregate of the intelligence of the several States; and the destiny of the nation must be guided, not by the genius of any one State, but by the average genius of all.
Side 265 - It covers a field far wider than that of negro suffrage and the present condition of the 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.
Side 279 - ... 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...
Side 413 - The work of popular education is one left to the care of the several states, but it is the duty of the national government to aid that work to the extent of its constitutional ability.

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