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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. COMMON SCHOOLS. Lev. 34:22. Te Bhall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God. It is my very uncommon privilege and pleasure to speak to you, for once, from a text already fulfilled, and more than fulfilled, in the observance. For we, as a people or nation, have .not only abstained from passing laws that are unequal, or hard upon strangers, which is what the rule of the text, forbids, but we have invited them to become fellow-citizens with us in our privileges, and bestowed upon them all the rights and immunities of citizens. We have said to the strangers from Germany, France, Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, and indeed of every land: Come and be Americans with us, you and your children; and whatsoever right or benefit we have, in our free institutions and our vast and fertile domain, shall be yours. Thus invited, thus admitted to an equal footing Delivered in the North Church, Hartford, as a Fast Day Discourse, March 35, 1853. with us, they are not content, but are just now returning our generosity by insisting that we must excuse them and their children from being wholly and properly American. They will not have one law for us and for themselves, but they demand immunities that are peculiar to themselves, and before unheard of by us; or else that we wholly give up institutions for their sake that are the dearest privileges of our birthright. They accept the common rights of the law, the common powers of voting, the common terms of property, a common privilege in the new lands and the mines of gold, but when they come to the matter of common schools, they will not be common with us there; they require of us, instead, either to give up our common schools, or else, which in fact amounts to t...
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