Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-07-09

der the ample folds of that banner
which Washington bore, to part with
it lightly. You are as ready as your
fathers were to pledge your lives,
your fortunes, and your sacred honors, ?
until, the winds that blow shall bow
and kiss the good old flag floating in
triumph, in every rebellious State.
Next to Slave-holding treason do you
hold the conduct of those men who,
placed in responsible positions, do not
make use of every means for crushing
the rebellion. -. - -. =.
But, Mr.. President, | need not talk
longer upon this subject. Why, sir, il
you had but one eye, and that eye
were shaded 10y eternal darkness, you
could not help seeing that the spirit OF
our people is for the maintenance, Of
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8. Our Common .Schools--Caslcts contain
ing the Jewels Of our country: we expect the
teachers will see that they are rightly. set.
j. Cheston Whitney, County Super.
intendent of Common Schools, was cal
led to respond, and said /:
am proud to represent the Com.
mon Schools Of our Common country
When we consider what they have
done and are yet doing in elevating,
cnnobling and refining mankind, our
hearts are filled with admiration and
with pride. To. our free Schools arc
we indebted in great degree for the
civil and religious liberty which we
enjoy.l A people who have been nur
tured in the school-room, and trained
to habits of industry, of thought and
of self-reliance, people educated, in
telligent and enlightened-such a PEG.
pie never can be made to yield to the
rule of despotic power--such people
will be Free: 80 .,,;.y, ~, -.
:. To our Common Schools and the in
fiuences extending from them are we
indebted for that patriotic zeal which
now fires the Northern heart. Love
of country, deeply implanted in youth
ful hearts by faithful teachers. has
exhibited itself in that cheerful re-
Spouse which our pupils have given to
our country's call. Our Schools are
nobly represented in the army. Our
teachers, too, have left the qniet,
peaceful employments Of the school
room, and gone forth in battle against
oppression and i'm favor of the Right,
Of Liberty and of God Teachers
from our own county have nantes
ted their devotion to the star-spangled
banner, that glorious ensign of the
free, by yielding up their lives in its
defense, and to-day their bones lie
whitening upon the plains OF the
South. a
Whenever you find community
where Common Schools are pprecia-
ted and we'll sustained, there you viii
find community loyal to the govern
ment while in community where
there are no Common Schools, and
where parents allow their children to
grow up in ignorance and vice,
there you will find nest of secession
lists, and sympathizers with the South
in the rebellion.
What has been accomplished through
the agency of our Common Schools, is
but faint prophecy of what will be
done when our School system is more
fully appreciated, and when parents,
teachers. and pupils shall all be in
terested in it and yield it q hearty sup
port.
In behalf OF the Teachers | will say
that your expectations shall not be
disappointed. We accept the trust
reposed in US, aud we, shall cndeavor
faithfully to train, polish and beautify
the precious jewels committed to our
charge, only asking in return your
hearty corporation. Give us this,
and with increased zeal we will go
forward in the discharge of our duties,
feeling assured that bright and glo-
rious future awaits our Common
School system. na 'An .aui n.a.
Martial Music by the Band.
o. The Gro,eing, Glo,einq, Mighty Wea-The
Granary of the world We discover in the
magnificence of her products, and in the spir-
it of her people, the promise Of glorious and
ever frightening future. sa s.ii ~
Geo. c. Dean, Esq, responded as
follows: af
Ny friends of the Union
friends of Constitutional Liberty
friends of freedom in its highest and
broadcast sense--I greet you all. !
greet you we'll, ] am happy TO meet
you on this festive day on this ami
versary of. american Freedom. Let
me occupy your attention for mo-
ment, while 4 speak Of the growing
West. Is not her increase in popula-
ton, in wealth, in the largeness Of her
boundaries, in the number, Of her thri-
wing villages and cities most astonish-
ing ! Such rapidity of increase has
never been equalled in the history Of
the world Did crer mankind witness
such magical enlargement, such won
derful development? Never, no,
never! 18s.k ,aasss
The Glowing West! Glowing in
her beautiful prairies, .spangled with
beautiful flowers glowing in silvery
idhcS, oil Hiieu WIFI SilNeTy HsHeS .
glowing in charming forests, musical
with natures songsters; glowing with
lovely ladies', whose hearts are truly
inspired with all that ennoblcs the soul
fires the heart of the patriot and lights
up the eye of the philanthropist!
The Mighty West! Mighty in her
onward, resistless development. At
the commencement of the Revolution
airy War our population amounted to
merely three millions-now it is over
thirty millions Then, we had thir-
teen States snow, we have thirty-five |!
Mighty is the Government in her po-
litical power; mighty in the contribu-
ton OF soldiers to her national armies /;
mighty in her moral power; mighty
in her commercial wealth.
The Granary of the World Who
of MS but may feel proud when he ex-
amines the statistics of the West, and
learns the astonishing quantity of
Wheat, oats, corn, rye, beans, beef,
pork, butter and cheese that the mex
haustible, broad acres Of the home of
o,tr aaaptiou coa 2 $ . itfft9l Z r