The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-01-10

and prosperity TO NStatcs
Our veterans will not he adding new
names 10 the long list oftheir fields ofglory,
but they will be winning victories over
physical nature and transforming the fruits
Of the soil and the minerals of the earth
into that wealth which shall spread comfort
and happiness everywhere. We, who nave
been called to guide the movement OF our
State Governments will connect our names
with no such brilliant acts rs have given
widespread reputation for high statesman
ship 10 the succession Of state officers who
have preceded us during these trouDled
times: but In the humber duties which VIII
fall To- us we may rejoice that these quiet
days are In some sense, our best days, be-
cause they arc. as we hope, the beginning
of an era of purcr and more rapid advance
mpnt In everything which tCndS 10 thc|
highest civilization.
The habit of grasping great thoughts and
of daring % do great deeds has apparently
begotten i'm our people disposition which
makes all business enterprise take Wider
scope than heretofore, and the keen insight
with which our resources are scanneu' ana
the adventurous energy with which their
deVClopcmcut Is pushed, leave nothing TO
be desired in II business point of view, nm
less il be an increase of that sagacious eau
tion which may save us from the danger of
those commercial revulsions which have,
with considerable regularity, followed great
expansions of the currency. The late
change in the banking system of the
country has transferred the control or
tho circulating medium TO Congress, and
comparatively little can be done by us di-
rcctly To provide against the threatened
evils to which have alluded, except to cX-
hort our fellow citizens to prepare in sea-
son for every contingency.
The large tracts Of valuable lands within
the State which are still uncultiyated re-
4 I'm ,s
immigration. and Of the evident policy of
seeking 10 attract the most thrifty and val
liable Classcs ofimmigrants within our bor-
dCrs. Wise foresight and prompt action
may unquestionably do much to induce the
hest cluss OF the Foreigners who are flock
ing to our shores te' settle among MS,
where they will find in the highest degree
the advantages which have allured them to
this country, with many of those pleasures
of society and of AN older civilization
which they must foreyo in the sparscly set
tied regions of the far west, TO which the
great current of migration is tending. 1t
will also he our duty to promote the most
rapid assimilation of the foreign lcmcnt
with our native population. The events
, through which we ,havc just passed have
proven how rapidly the foreign settler has
become American in interest, in thought
and in patriotism; but the good results we
have seen should only encourage us to
more systematic use of the meaus which
tend to so desirable a result
a nation is strong in proportion 10 the
hOmogcneity of its people. To be country
men should IN itself be pledge Of brother
hood wherever we meet and brotherhood
implies community of language and SINH
larity of habit and thought. To encourage
and stimulate our naturalized felow-clti-
Zcns. and the new -comers who purpose be-
coming such, TO adopt our language, to ed
ucate their children with ours and to iden-
tiiy themselves with us as rapidly as pos
sible, Is the dictate of true patriotism In us,
and, at the same time, is the best welcome
we can give to them, since there can be no
question that they will thus become most
quickly acquainted with their rights rs citi-
zeuS, will be least likely to be overrcachcd
and made dupes ofin business or IN politics
and will find the road to pecuniary profit
aud personal advancement most rapidly
open before them.
Our common school system is to he
tOstcred and improved, and there is nothing
in which our people have q deeper interest
than this, II there be any one thing Ia
which, under Providence, more than to an
other we owe our safe passage through our
recent perils, believe il is the intelligence
which our common schools have uuiVerS-
ally diiluscd 1t has not been simply the
power TO read, but that larger and wider
culture which has made the American pco-
pie capable of weighing and deciding upon
grave arguments of right and of policy In
the midst of greatest excitement. The
Government appealed to them as 10 men
able 10 comprehend any arguments of State
policy, and the steady loyalty of the pco-
pie aud their persevcring support of the
national cause was IN direct proportion Ia
to the intelligence aud education of differ
cut states or communities. | will even gO
further and declare my belief that, outside
of the Immediate theater Of hostile opera
tiOus, the cause of the Government never
lost any thing by the most untrammeled
freedom of public discussion aud printing
because the people were always able to de-
tcct the sOphisms of disloyalty, and theii
patriotic purposes We're strengthened rather
than weakened by seeing the whole force
of the enemy they had tn meet
Among the safeguards of our liberties
and guarantees OF the peT1nanence of ouI
institutions, ! reckon our school system thJ
very chief Blind and devoted love o
country may exist under despotism, II
ignorance he the mother of q superstitiOu,
or childish attachment; but liberty and
republicanism can be built ON no Other
solid foundation than intelligence in thu
whole mass of the people. A wise selt-in.
tcrest Is made the basis of all scientific DO
litieal economy, and when a whole people
have learned TO estimate that interest truly
besides loving their country dearly, yol
have ground for faith In the stability 81
their government, such as can be got In M
other way. IL is because of the genera
conviction that onr common schools may
be made to secure this result, that there {,
an equally general belief that no money
used for public purposes is so well invested
as that which supports our school system
No statement of our condition and ON
duties would be complete which did mo-
speak of the debt we owe to the sad array
(almost an army in itseli) of the MANNED
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