On the record
That the States shall be required to afford the opportunity of a good common-school education to every child within their limits.
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Grant insists that states must provide every child with the opportunity for a good common-school education.
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I do not present these views now as a recommendation for a renewal of the subject of annexation, but I do refer to it to vindicate my previous action in regard to it.
Being a part of the United States, commerce between the island and mainland would be free.
The compulsory support of the free school and the disfranchisement of all who can not read and write the English language, after a fixed probation, would meet my hearty approval.
It is not probable that public affairs will ever again receive attention from me further than as a citizen of the Republic, always taking a deep interest in the honor, integrity, and prosperity of the whole land.
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