Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-28

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little additional legislation, to rende,
it sufficiently comprehensive to NEE,
the demands Of our educational inter
ests for many years to come. 1t is
now thought the period has arrived
when this Board is no longer requir
ed and, that it can be abolished
without detriment to the public ser
vice. The trainers of the Constitution
evidently contemplated, that after its
labor, in maturing a permanent and
satisfactory system of schools, should
be completed, its utility, as separate
department, would terminate. In
view of this contingency, the 18th
Section of said Article, confers upon
the General Assembly the power, af.
ter the year 1868, to abolish or re-or.
ganize the Board, and to provide for
the educational interests of the State
in any other manner that to them
shall seem best and proper. Should
you concur in the expediency of this
measure, it will become necessary 10
create the office of Superintendent ol
Public instruction, 10 order that the
important duties now devolving upon
the Secretary of the Board, may be
transferred to and performed by an
appropriate officer. m...
desire to invoke the earnest at
tention of the General Assembly, to
the necessity of providing additional
means for supporting the families of
the deserving men who are absent,
in the public service. Many of these
men, in limited circumstances when
they volunteered, have no means of
supporting their families, except the
scanty wages received from the Gov
ernment obviously inadequate, un-
der the present high rates of living,
to properly maintain a soldier, aud
meet the Legitimate wants of his fami-
ly. ... .s .......
am aware that, at the Special
Session of the General Assembly, in
1861, an Act was passed empowering
the Boards of Supervisors to appro-
pirate money out Of the County Treas
uries, for the support of soldiers fami-
lies within their respective counties
But, | regret the necessity which CON-
pells me to say, that this highly COM
mendable and patriotic enactment
has signally failed to accomplish the
object intended. In counties where
a majority Of the Supervisors are
friendly to the Union, and the prose-
cution of the war, this relief has has
been furnished to liberal extent ;
but in many others, where that majori-
ty is with the opposite party, they
have persistently refused to appro-
pirate single dollar to this humane
and Christian purpose.
In considering the question, we
should not confine ourselves to the
theory adopted by some, that this is
a mere county matter, and, therefore,
not the appropriate subject of State
action. From whatever county the
man enters the service. he becomes
soldier of the State, fighting for one
county as well as another, and has an
equal claim upon the generosity and
gratitude of all our people. In the alb
sence of an adequate law, providing
a relief for these meritorious families,
out of the public revenue, these bur
thens necessarily, fall upon a few lib
eral and patriotic individuals in each
community. This is clearly wrong,
and should not be- permitted. None
should be allowed to escape the i'm
perative public and patriotic duty.
Every individual i'm the State should
be required to contribute, for this pur-
pose, his full share, in proportion to
the amount Of his taxable property.
|, therefore, recommend that liber-
al appropriation be made for this pur-
pose, out of the State revenue to be
disbursed through the agencies of the
State Sanitary Commission, in such
manner as you may deem it wise to
direct. This Commission, recently or
ganized, and incorporated. has acquir-
ed responsible character, and en-
joys, as it should, full degree Of
public confidence. n
BY such an Act, we shall seal, in
perpetual memory, the gratitude SO
eminently due to exalted patriotism,
and unrivaled valor. a#d
The soldiers of Iowa need no eulo-
gy now, to secure for their deeds the
admiration of history. Their unselfsh
devotion to the cause of the country !;
their patient endurance Of the untold
hardships incident to, service in dis
tant and strange climate and the
sturdy heroism they have illustrated
on so many fields, have given to our
young State u record Of valor as i'm
perishable as the bloody annals of the
war and aided, in securing for our
common country, a fame co-extensive
with the civilized world. On every
battle ground from Wilson's Creek,
where, amid the deadly hail of an un-
equal contest, they rallied round the
heroic Lyon, and freely mingled their
blood with his, to the CORY mountain
heights and passes in front of Chatta-
nooga, and mow glorious field Of Chicka-
mauga, the flag Of Iowa has been borne
by brave hands to triumphant vic
tory. Where all have done 80 well to
Iparticularize would be invidious and
I could not name all who are entitled
to honorable mention for noble and
\ valorous deeds. without calling the
entire muster rolls Of Regiments, Bat.
tallions and Batteries. Impartial his.
tory will attest the significant fact,
that no great battle has yet been lost
in which Iowa troops were engaged
and none gained, on western fields, in
which they have not borne conspicu.
Gus part. Among the first in the field
and ever to the front, their number
less graves are scattered from the
plains of Texas to the banks of the
Cumberland, and from the shores o.
Lake Michigan to the waters Of the
Gulf-sad, yet truthful witnesses O
how bravely they fought and nobly
died. -':# ~
Fathers and sons, husbands, broth
, ers and friends, sleep in those narrow
: tenements, ia: from their beloved
, Towa hnt oushrinnd in Tho hearts a