The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-12-08
Vast Accumulation Of NOn.Taxa-
bic Church Properly In the
Country,
Many Interesting aud Important
Suggestions.

70 The Senate and House Of Representatives :
In submitting my seventh message to
Congress, In this centennial year Of our
national existence US free and independ-
ent people, it affords me great pleasure to
recur to the advancement that has been
made from the time Of the colonies, one
hundred years ago. We were then peO-
pie numbering only three millions; now
we number more than forty millions.
Then industries were confined almost e&.
clusiveIy to the tillagc Of the soil; now
manufactures absorb much of the labor
OF the country. Our liberties remain
unimpaired the bondsmen have been
freed from slavery; we have become pos
sessed Of the respect, II not tho friend
ship, Of all civilized nations, Our
progress has been great in all the arts
In science, agriculture, commerce, navi-
CATION, mining, mechanics, law, medicine,
ETC., and In general education the progress
il likewise encouraging. Our thirteen
States have become thirty.eight, includ.
ing Colorado, which has taken the inilia-
tory steps to become State; and eight
Territories, including the Indian Terri
tory and Alaska and excluding Colorado,
making n territory extending from the
Atlantic to the Pacific On tho south we
have extended to the Gulf Of Mexico, and
In the west from the Mississippi 10 the
Pacific One hundred years ago the cot
ton.gin, the railroad, the telegraph, the
reaping, sewing and modern printing
machines, and numerous other inventions
OF scarcely less value 10 our business
and happiness, were entirely unknown.
WHAT HAS nEEN DONE IN A HUNDRED
YEARS.
In 1910 manufactures scarcely existed
even IN name in all this vast territory.
In 1870 more than two millions Of per-
sons were employed in manufacturing,
producing more than 81, l0O,0OO,OOO
worth Of produce annually-nn amount
nearly equal to our National debt. From
nearly tho whole Of the popuacc in l77G
being engaged In the one occupation Of
agriculture, in 1870 80 numerous aud di.
veFsified had become the occupations OF
our people that less than six millions out
OF more than forty millions were no en-.
gagged. The extraordinary effect pro.
duCed in our country by resort to such
occupations has built up market for
the products OF fertile lands distant from
the seabOard and the markets Of the
world. The American system Of work.
Ing various and extensive manufactures
next to the pillow and the pasture, and
adding connecting railroad und steam.
boat, has produced In our distant cOun-
try result not equaled by the intelligent
portions OF other nations. The ingenuity
and skill OF American mechanics have
been demonstrated Mt home and abroad
III a manner most ilattering to their pride.
hut for the extraordinary grade aud
ability Of our mechanics and.the achieve
ments Of our agriGulturists, manufacture
ing aud transportation throughout the
country would have been impossible OF
attainment. The progress Of the miner
has also been great. OF coal our pro-
ductiOns were small. Now many mil
lions Of tons are mined annually. So
also with iron, which formed scarcely an
appreciablc part Of our products half
century ago. We now produce more
than the world CONSUMED at the begin.
ming OF our national existence. Lead,
zinc and copper, from being articles OF
import, We may expect to be large Cx.
poFters Of in the near future. The de.
velnpment Of gold and silver mines
throughout the States and Territories
has not only been remarkable, but has
had n large influence upon the business
Of all commercial nations.
Our merchants In the last one hundred
yearS have had success and have estab.
liShed q reputation for enterprise sagaCi-
~, progress and integrity unsurpassed by
people Of older natiOnHltie5. This good
name Is not confined to their homes, but
goes out on every sea and into every part
where commerce extends. With equal
pride we can point 10 our progress In all
Of the learned professions. AS we are
now about To enter upon our second Cen
tennial, commencing our manhood as II
nation, is well to look back upon the
past and study what will he best to pre-
serve and advance our future greatness.
From the fall OF Adam for histransgres.
sion to the present day, no nation has ever
been free from threatened dangers to
It's prosperity and happiness. We should
look TO the dangers that threaten ia and
remedy them 40 far az lies In orr power.
We are q Republic whereof one man isas
good as another before the law. Under
such form OF government Il Is Of the
greatest importance that all should I've
pru@esscd Of education and intelligence
enough to cast vote with right UNDER
standing Of its meaning. A large assuui-
alton OF ignorant men cannot for any
considerable period oppose successful
resistance to tyranny, ~ oppression from
the educated few will inevitably command
acduiescenCe to the will ,oi Intelligence,
whether directed by the pricstcrait or
otherwise Hence the education Of the
mass becomes OF the first necessity for
the preservation Of our institutions.
They are worth preserving, because they
have secured the greatest good to the
greatest proportion OF people Of any
form Of government yet devised. All
other forms Of government approach 1t
Just In proportion to the general influence
ofeducalion and independence Of thought
aud action. As the primary step therefore
toOuF advancement in all that has marked
our progress in the past century, sug.
geSt for your earnest ConsitlerG.
ton, and most earnestly recommend
II, that a constitutional amendment
be submitted to the Legislatures Of the
several States for ratification, making 1t
the duty Of each OF the several States to
establish and forever maintain free pub.
lie schools adequate 10 the education Of
all children in the rndimentary branches
within their respective limits, irrespec.
tive Of sex, color, birthplace or religion;
forbidding the teaching In said schools Of
religious, ALheistic or pagan dOgmaG pro-
hlbitlng the granting Of any school funds
OF school taxes, or any part thereof, either
BY legislation, municipal or otherwise, for
the benefit Of any other object Of any ma
tnfe or kind whatever.
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