They will be protected in the worship of God according to the dictates of their consciences, but they will not be permitted to violate the laws under the cloak of religion.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Ohio and became a prominent Union general during the American Civil War, leading the Union Army to victory. His leadership was instrumental in the defeat of the Confederacy, and he is often remembered for his military strategies and determination.
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It is not with the religion of the self-styled Saints that we are now dealing, but with their practices.
Neither polygamy nor any other violation of existing statutes will be permitted within the territory of the United States.
In Utah there still remains a remnant of barbarism, repugnant to civilization, to decency, and to the laws of the United States.
Education, the groundwork of republican institutions, is encouraged by increasing the facilities to gather speedy news from all parts of the country.
Commerce, trade, and, above all, the efforts to bring a people widely separated into a community of interest are always benefited by a rapid intercommunication.
It would secure the further advantage of extending the telegraph through portions of the country where private enterprise will not construct it.
It is the index of the growth of education and of the prosperity of the people, two elements highly conducive to the vigor and stability of republics.
If the question can be met as to how to get a fixed value to our currency, that value constantly and uniformly approaching par with specie, a very desirable object will be gained.
It fosters a spirit of gambling, prejudicial alike to national morals and the national finances.
It holds out an inducement to dishonest men, should such get possession of those offices, to be lax in their scrutiny of goods entered, to enable them finally to make large seizures.
I recommend to Congress to provide by stringent legislation a suitable remedy against the holding, owning or dealing in slaves, or being interested in slave property, in foreign lands, either as owners, hirers, or mortgagors, by citizens…
The true prosperity and greatness of a nation is to be found in the elevation and education of its laborers.
It is not too much to hope that the Government of Brazil may hereafter find it for its interest, as well as intrinsically right, to advance toward entire emancipation more rapidly than the present act contemplates.
It is a subject for congratulation that the great Empire of Brazil has taken the initiatory step toward the abolition of slavery.
Prompted by a desire to put an end to the barbarous treatment of our shipwrecked sailors on the Korean coast, I instructed our minister at Peking to endeavor to conclude a convention with Korea for securing the safety and humane treatment…
It is our desire to continue to maintain this disinterested and just policy with China as well as Japan.
An example has thus been set which, if successful in its final issue, may be followed by other civilized nations, and finally be the means of returning to productive industry millions of men now maintained to settle the disputes of nations…
The year has been an eventful one in witnessing two great nations, speaking one language and having one lineage, settling by peaceful arbitration disputes of long standing and liable at any time to bring those nations into bloody and…
The benevolent, who have so generously shared their means with the victims of these misfortunes, will reap their reward in the consciousness of having performed a noble act and in receiving the grateful thanks of men, women, and children…
These disasters have served to call forth the best elements of human nature in our country and to develop a friendship for us on the part of foreign nations which goes far toward alleviating the distresses occasioned by these calamities.
The policy has been not to inquire into the wisdom of laws already enacted, but to learn their spirit and intent and to enforce them accordingly.
I believe great general good is to flow from the operations of both these Bureaus if properly fostered.
The subjects of education and agriculture are of great interest to the success of our republican institutions, happiness, and grandeur as a nation.
It will, I doubt not, attest the growing prosperity of the country, although during the decade which has just closed it was so severely tried by the great war waged to maintain its integrity and to secure and perpetuate our free…
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