The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-13

The press and the people of the South be-
gin to manifest an interest in matters outside
ofpolitics. The spirit of improvement and
of business is gradually taking hold of the
public mind, and the people are turning their
attention to intellectual and social advance
ment and money making. And as this spirit
spreads and strengthens the prospects of
peace and harmony, and the restoration of
the Union on the basis of freedom and the
supremacy of the national Government will
improve. The factious politicians who seek
to stir up strife and create trouble, will find
little countenance amongst population that
is prospering in business and seeking to inn
prave thsir condition. -..
The Mobile Ne,cs is advocating popular
education and insist that 1t is the great duty
Of the South.
il says:
fThe schools of the South have been disor-
ganized since the recent war began. There is
everywhere Q struggle to restore them to USE
fuIness. The schools were adjourned
and education, in great measure, for time,
suspended These children, like their faith
ers, are becoming resigned to their fate; and
now the schools may be resumed, and now,
also, is the time for the parents to consider
whether they can manage their children so as
to bring them back to their studies which the
war interrupted. There is no fortune so good
as fair educstion-the inclucatioa of Bthirst
for knowledge"
Tee Nasville Press and Times also urges
education
''There are in Tennessee II ,o1 I native white
adults who cannot read or write while in the
State of New York, which has more than
three times our white population, there are
only %, ,241 native adults who can not read or
write. The deplorable ignorance of mahy of
our brethren and sisters in this State should
inhame the souls of her philanthropic sonsto
work with zeal in the cause of universal edn-
cation
We feel ueeply anxious for the enlightenment
of our unfortunate fellow citizens. whose early
education has been neglected, and we ardent
ly desire that ample provision be made to pre-
vent the curse of hereditary ignorance from
descending on our posterity. Here is a field
in which the ablest statesman in Tennessee
may justly be proud to labor No honor, save
apeople's heartfelt gratitude, would be ample
enough for the man who burning with the no.
ly ardor rofphilanthropy, should shun the beat
en- path OF vulgar ambition and the intrigues
of office hunters, and give his days and nights
to the work of providing school system for
Tennessee which would build school house
in every neighborhood where the poorest
child should be welcome; who should plant
the banner of universal education and free
schools everywhere in Tennessee. TODAY
over seventy.seven thousand grown white men
and women in this State ask us to take com
passion upon the poor children in our borders
and furnish means for their instruction. We
talk Of free labor, but let US remember that
Tree education i quite as essential to the
strength and glory Of people. We talk of
reconstruction, let us remember that educa-
ton is no less deserving our attention The
foulest, basest crime ever committed by our
rebel governor was done when he laid his sac
yileeiDus hands on the cAildfen's School Fund
Let his name be accursedI"
The papers of Richmond and Norfolk are
enthusiastic in their commendatiou of the
mania for Improvement, and the number Of
buildings going up. And many Southern
newspapers are very earnestin their invitations
and exortations to Northern emigrants TO Some
and buy cheap lands and make fortanee for
themselves while aiding in developinx The
resources Of the South. sNw1siH&