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By Ulysses S. Grant
I would also call your attention to the importance of correcting an evil that, if permitted to continue, will probably lead to great trouble in our land before the close of the nineteenth century. It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.
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- Seventh Annual Message, December 7, 1875 · Church property passage
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From President Grant's Seventh Annual Message to Congress, December 7, 1875, in the part where he urges a constitutional amendment on public schools and the separation of church and state. He warns that untaxed church property had grown from about $83,000,000 in 1850 to about $1,000,000,000 in 1875.