The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-09-27
The President at Nashville.

The reception of the President at Nash
vile, Tenn, on the 10Th, was very enthusi-
astic. In response to the addresses of a white
and colored delegation, the following patri-
otto speech was delivered by the President !:
II will respond TO both these addresses.
In one sense all men are equal before the
law and have equal rights. No need of
making two addresses, one to white and an
other to colored men. Therefore I propose
to speak to the colored men just as l speak
to the white men, and to the white men just
as to the colored men. [Applause.]
81 speak to the colored people of Tenne-
see just as spoke to the people OF Vermont.
Ny thought has been that the interest OF this
country and the prosperity of this country
require that every just cause of dissent in
any body or any class of people ought to be
removed, if it can be.
s'Wc had large part of the country not
content with the condition of things; it was
believed, Or it was claimed, that the colored
people Of .the country would not be safe in
their interests and their rights if the FEEDER
al troops were withdrawn from the South
ern States. believe that the time has come
when the colored people of the South would
be safe with no troops anywhere in the
South undertaking to protect them. Jap
plause.I
II believed then. as now, after six months
trial, that the majority of the people of the
Seuth-thc white people of the South-have
no desire to invade the rights of the colored
people as to make it at all necessary to have
federal bayoncts in their midst. [Applausel
think the colored people are safer tonight
with their rights in Tennessee with no Fed
eral bayonets undertaken to protect them
than when there were armies here trying to
protect them. [Applause.l
"The Southern people were in that condi-
ton of dissatisfaction that all could see that
their attention was withdrawn from agricul-
ture, from commerce, from manufactures
and business by political discussion.
SHY friends, there is time for political
discussion; but it is not all the time; at least
an important part OF the time of every COM
munity should be given up to business and
its industry, and if by any measure of the
government content can be restored, peace
and satisfaction will be restored.
II believe that it is the wise policy to pur.
sue, and think this is the key to the whole
matter. What has been done, as I said at
Cincinnati, what has been done was not
merely because of any need Of our doing it.
but we did it because of our oaths registered
| in Heaven. We believed it was just right tc
do it. (Applause.l
| ''All that wish to say to you is that
wish to be able to carry to the Northern
people the information that every right Sc
cured by the amendments to the colored PEG.
pie will be cheerfully accorded them. Lee
us understand that peace reigns supreme
and unbroken throughout the whole country
[Applause.l
''With that ere of prosperity dawns upor
the Southern country such as we have never
seen since the recent agitation began. i
the industry Of any part of the country il
neglected the whole country has TO suffer
The prosperity of the whole country is thu
prosperity of all its parts, of all sections, o
all States. This seems to me is the large
and liberal view.
sNow you have, as I said to-day, a goot
basis, a comparatively thinly peopled coun
try. You have minerals, building material
lumber and salubrious climate, fertile soil
Z and all that is wanted to be added is more
people, the intelligent people, the virtuou
people of the world. You want in Tennes
see. in Alabama, in Mississippi, to come t.
your States the power. the strength, the
wealth and population that can support you
You want the population here as they hav
in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and even in Tex
as. Let labor and capital come, and pros
perity spreads. Let it be known that peac
reigns here-that there is no quarrel-tha
men are free to come and 90, and the a
fractions of this glorious southern countr
will bring you the very best immigration tn
world produces, the best from the North. til
best from Europe. With these your pro
perity is assured.''
sAbout education it is simply this, let tt
Scotch, the Swede, the German, or an
other of the best foreign people that come
this country, understand their children ca
be freely educated in the public schools, an
it is better advertisement in your Sta
than any you can get for the amount
money it will COST
, 'sThis believe is the idea Of Tenenesse
Hence it is that in Nashville you have his
: schools and such institutions of learning.
. say education brings immigration OF t
: best kind. Let it have your support, al
with these and peace prosperity is yours