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The elevation and purification of the civil service of the Government will be hailed with approval by the whole people of the United States.
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gutenberg.orgUlysses S. Grant: “The elevation and purification of the civil service of the Government will be hailed with approval by the whole people…”
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Grant expresses his belief that improving the civil service will be positively received by the American public.
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Foreigners coming to this country to become citizens, who are educated in their own language, should acquire the requisite knowledge of ours during the necessary residence to obtain naturalization.
The delicate and complicated questions continually occurring with reference to naturalization, expatriation, and the status of such persons as I have above referred to induce me to earnestly direct your attention again to these subjects.
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.
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