John Sherman: “Let them light their fires at this modern Athens upon the mountain top…”

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Let them light their fires at this modern Athens upon the mountain top and they will shine forth all over our land.

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Ohio

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Sherman uses a metaphor to encourage the South to embrace education as a means to illuminate the nation.

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John Sherman: “Let them light their fires at this modern Athens upon the mountain top and they will shine forth all over our land.”