| Tyler Anbinder - Antislavery movements - 1992 - 357 pages
...situation by devoting a portion of its funds to the formation of parochial schools, in which immigrants "may be instructed by teachers speaking the same language with themselves and professing the same faith." When New York City officials balked, the governor suggested that the legislature pass a law mandating... | |
| Peter Moore, Tyler - Poetry - 1999 - 638 pages
...Governor Seward said in his annual message to the legislature in 1840: The children of foreigners ... are too often deprived of the advantages of our system...language with themselves and professing the same faith. 20 As Seward's biographer, Frederic Bancroft, says, this proposition was a firebrand. Every anti-Catholic... | |
| Philip Perlmutter - History - 1999 - 356 pages
...German. Similar percentages were found across the country.30 Catholics The children of foreigners ... are too often deprived of the advantages of our system...same language with themselves and professing the same faith.31 Underlying Catholic-Protestant differences were profound psychosocial hostilities. The average... | |
| Jerome Loving - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 642 pages
...arguing in the state legislature for "the establishment of schools in which [the children of New York] may be instructed by teachers speaking the same language with themselves and professing the same faith."32 He thought that many of the children of foreigners were being denied equal education because... | |
| Diane Ravitch - Education - 2000 - 492 pages
...advantages of our system of public education, in consequence of prejudice arising from differences of language or religion. It ought never to be forgotten...same language with themselves and professing the same faith.7 When Catholic leaders, both clergy and laymen, read Seward's address, they realized that his... | |
| James Trager - Reference - 2010 - 4679 pages
...state legislature at Albany in January recommending the "establishment of schools in which [immigrants] may be instructed by teachers speaking the same language with themselves and professing the same faith" (see Hughes, i838). About 5,000 children attend eight Catholic schools in New York City, but at least... | |
| J.J. Lee, Marion R. Casey, Marion Casey - History - 2006 - 752 pages
...the Whig Governor William H. Seward to make this proposal to the legislature in his message for 1840: The children of foreigners, found in great numbers...same language with themselves and professing the same faith.43 Instead of waiting for the rural, upstate legislature to ponder and act upon this proposal... | |
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