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Originally posted by onewhippedpuppy
Learn something new every day. Further reason why you shouldn't believe everything you read online. Google informs me that the Pledge also wasn't introduced until 1892.

The pledge was an anti-South diatribe written by a socialist minister.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo54.html
http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm
http://www.crf-usa.org/Foundation_docs/Foundation_lesson_pledge
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16480