re: #154 SanFranciscoZionist

In 1900, only six percent of appropriately-aged young people in the US graduated from high school. Bogus stat.

Letter to Abraham Lincoln from a German immigrant.

Your Excellency will observe in this my writing that I am not very well versed in the English language, and if there should be found a word which is not right, pardon it, and never such a word shall be construed so as if I would offend your Excellency or the people; for I love my country, the Constitution, and the Union, and I try to be always a loyal citizen.