The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18

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graphy, Etc,
To tie Seacse 'saa House Of Representatives.
Irf submitting my seventh enr,.ai message
to Congress, in this Centennial year of our
national cxistenee as free and independen.
people, K affords me great pleasure to recuf
to the advancement that has been made frsn,
the time of the Colonies, one hundred wears
| ago We were then people numbering only
| 10000 now we number more than 10.
| 100000. Their industries were confined NJ
| most exclusively to hllage Of the sci; now
manufactures absorb niurh 81 the labor of the
country. Our liberties remain unimpaired.
| The bonasfnen have been freed from slavery.
| We have become possessed of the respect ii
not friendship, of all civilized nations. Our
| progress has been great in all the arts and
sciences, commerce, navigation, mining, me-
chanics, law, medicine, etc, and in genera,
education. The progress is likewise e,,eeuf.
aging, our thirteen States have beeome thirty
eight, including Colorado, which has taken
the steps to become State, and eight Terri
tories, Including the Indian Territory and
Alaska, and excluding Colorado, rrs;f.s ,lc ter
ritnry exteudin from the Al a,.tie 10 the
Pacific. { n the south We have extended 10
the Gull OF Mesito, AMI in lie We tfrom
the Mississippi to til C L: Ell C. One hundred
4 =
railroad, the telegraph, the reaping, sewing,
and modern printing machines, and nuIner.
Gus other inventions of scarcely less value to
our business and apriness, We're entirely
unknown.
In 1875 manufacturers scarcely existed,
even in name. Ia all this vast territory, il,
1870 moro than 2, 00o,Oo of persons were en-
ployed in manufactures, producing more
than 81, 100 900, 600 of produce, in amount an
nually nearly equal TO our national debt
1 -tr- 1-s-Ia.
1776 being engaged in the one occupation of
agriculture, in 1870 so numerous and iisersi-
fed had become the occupations of our peo-
pie, that less than e,GG9, 900 out of more than
40, e00, 900 were so engaged. The extraordi-
nary effect produced in our country by re-
sort to such occupations has built a marke.
for the products of fertile lands distant from
the seaboard and the r.,arSels uf the world
The American systari cf working the various
and extensive manufactures, next to the
pillow and pasture, and adding connecting
railroad and steamboat lines has produced
in cur distant country res,.lts hot equaled by
| the intelligent parts oI other nations. The
| ingenuity and skill of American mechanics
has been demonstrated ut home and abroad,
in a manner most fattering to their pride.
But for the extraordinary genius and ability
of our mechanics, the achievements of our
agriculturists, manufacturers and transport
| ers throughout the country would have been
| impossible of attainment. The progress of
| the miner has also been greatly promoted.
| OF coal our production was small; now MANY
| millions of tons are mined annually. So with
| iron, which formed SCARCELY ain appreeiable
part of orr product half Il century ago. We
now produce mere than the world consumed
at the beginning OF cur national existence.
Lead, zinc and copper, from being articles OF
import, we may expect 10 be large exporters
of in the near future. The development of
gold and silver mines throughout The States
and Terrio rics has not only been remarkable,
but has had large influence upon the bust.
ness of all commercial nations,
PLE.i FOR PoPITIaE EDUC ALTON.
Our merchants, in the last hundred years,
| have had Il success and have established a
reputation for enterprise, sigacity, progress
and integrity urpasscd by people of older
nationalities. This good name is not con-
fined to their homes but goes out on every
sea and into every port where commerce
enters. With equal pride can point to
our progress in all of the learned professions
as we are now about To enter upon the sec
ond centennial. Commencing our manhood
nation, il Is well to look back upon the
past and study what win be best to preserve
and advance our future greatness. From the
! fall OF Adam for BIS trdnsgrcssions, to the
| present d;,y, no nation has ever been free
| from threatened danger to lis prosperity and
| happiness. We should look to the dangers
| threatened and remedy then, so far lies
! in our power. We ere republic where one
man is good rs another, before the law.
| Under such form Of government it is OF the
| greatest importance that all should be pos
sessed of education and intelligence enough
| to east a vote with q right understanding OF
| its meaning. \ large association of ignorant
! men cannot, for any considerable power, OPP
/ pose successful Il resistance to tyranny as
| oppression from the educated few inevitably
| sink acquieseencc to the will of intelligence,
whether directed by the demasogue or by
prIestcraft- Hence the education OF the mass
becomes the first necessity for the prescrva-
| ton Of our institutions. They are worth
preserving, because they have secured the
greatest good Ia the greatest proportion of
population OF any form OF government vet
devised. All other forms of government APP
preach it just ia proportion to the general
diffusion OF education and Independence of
thought and action. As the primary step
therefore to our advancement in all that has
marked our progress in the past century, |
suggest for your earnest consideration, and
most earnestly recommend it as constitu-
tional amendment, and that it be submitted
TO the Legislatures of the several States for
ratification, making il thsdiIt s5.,,-n of the
several States to establish and forever main
| tain free public schools adequate to the edll-
cation OF all the children in the rudimentary
branches within their respective limits, irres-
pective Of sex, color, birthplace or religion ;
! forbiddine the teachings in said schools OF
1 religions, Atheistic or Pagan, taxing and pro-
! hibiting the granting Of any school funds or
| legislative, municipal or others for the ben
| eft If any other object of any nature or Kind
| Whatever, in connection with this important
question.
4 TANNING CTICECH PROPERTY RECOMMENDED.
| would also call your attention to the i'm
portance Of correcting evil that If per
mitted 10 continue, viii probably lead To
great trouble in our land before the close al
the nineteenth century. Ii is the accuinu-
lafiou OF a vast amount of untaxcd church
! In I hf.fff
property Of the United States which paid no
lax municipal nor State amounted to about
$50. COG, 900; in 1860 the amount bad doubled
in 1873 IL is about 81 900, 100000; by 1900,
without check, II is safe TO say this property
will reach a sum exceeding - 900 600 ,0tm. So
vast sum. receiving all the protection and
| benefit Of the government, without bearing its
proportion OF the burdens and expenses Of
the same, will not he looked upon acqui-
escenfly hy those who have paid taxes la a
growing country where real estate enhances
so rapidly with time, rs in the United States,
there is scarcely = limit to the wealth that may
be acquired by corporations religious or other
( wise, u allowed to retain real estate without
taxation. The contemplation of 50 vast II
property a. here alluded to- without taxation,
may lead 10 seqUestrltiou without constitu-
/ tional authority, and through blood. would
suggest the taxation OF all property equally
| whether church corporation exct,ptiti.s
only the last resting place OF the dead and
possibly, with proper restrictions, churcl,
| edifices.
Our relations with most Of the foreign
I powers continue un satisfactory aud friendly
4 footing. Increased intercourse, the extension
! of commerce. and cultivation Of mutual in
/ tcTests have irnPTov@d our relations with Il
lnr.g majority Of a." powers Of the wnrl,i.
rendering practicable The peaceful solution
/ Of questions which from time 10 time. arise.
leaving fcw which demand extended or f.;lr-
! tictslar notice turrcsp "ndcuce of the he
I partu"nt Of state with our diplomatic repre-
/ scntation abroad is transmitted herewith.