The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-08-12
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
SOLDIERS, REUNION.
BE. HaYes Makes a aneeeh.

which set in at 1 O'Clock cleared Of
during the afternoon. 1t is estimated
that over 60. 600 strangers were in the
camp grounds and in the city during
the day. The presidential party ar
rived at the fair grounds at pm,
and were greeted with q ealute OF
twenty guns. Gen. Ward statement,
in his address. that we were.sure of
soldier for next president. wss received
with continued cheers. When be
had concluded President Hayes was
Introduced, and, being received with
loud cheers, said /:
The citizens CT Ohio who were sol
diers in tie Union army, assembled
here, rejoice that We had the glorious
privilege of enlissing and serving on
the right side of the great conflict ior
union and equal rights. We rejoice
also that We have been permitted to
live long enough to see and enjoy the
results of the victory We gained, and
| measure the vast benefits which it
conferred on our country. One fact
will illustrate immeasursbly the bles-
sing conferred upon the United States
by the success of the Union arms.
immigration into country is evil
dence Of that country's prosperity.
During our civil war and the dis
turbed and troubled years which i'm
mediately preceded and followed it,
immigration fell of and became of
comparatively small importance, but
now our country's prosperity, the
stability of our government and per
manent prevalence OF peace at home
and with foreign nations, blessings
which could net have been enjoyed
by this country if the Union
arms had failed. have given to
the world confidence in the future
welfare and greatness of the United
States which is pouring upon our
shores such streams of immigration
as were never known before. If We
take survey OF the globe We shall
ind everywhere many people looking
forward to the time when they can
emigrsts to some more favored land.
Only one of the great raii0ns is in
no danger OF losing its capital OF
labor by emigration. All are losing
by this cause, except the United
States. The United States alone is
gaining. There is one flag, and in
all the world only one, whose protec.
ton good men and women born
under1t will never willingly leave.
Fhsre is one flag, and only one in the
world, whose protecting folds good
men and women born under every
other flag are freely and gladly seek
ing. That flag, go loved at home
and so lcnged for by millions abroad,
ia the old flag under which we
marched to save what in our soldier
days We were fond OF calling Goods
country" 1t is easily seen what
chiefly attracts this immigration. 1t
goes where good land is cheap, where
labor and capital find prof. |
table employment, where peace
and social order prevail, and |
where civil and religious liberty |
are secure. Ask where in our
country does this immigration msinly
go? The recent cen5us-shows US parts |
of our country where land ia cheap
and where capital and labor are
needed, that are not rapid. increas-
ing in population. In these states il
will be found that two things ere
Wanting-means for popular educs-
ton are not sufficiently provided and |
good order of society is disturbed by
practical popular refusal to accept
the results of the war for the Union.
The two detects. wherever they pre-.
vail in our American society, are
hostile to increase of population and
toprosperity. They are found generally
to exist together. Where popular
education prevails the capital rights,
and amendments to the Constitu-
ton of the United States embodying
the results OF the war are invisible.
1t must perhaps, be conceded that
there was one great error in the
measures by which it was sought to
secure the results OF our Union victory.
The system OF slavery in the south OF
necessity kept in ignorance 100000
of slaves. 1t also left unprovided with
education a large number OF non
slave holding white people. With the
end OF the war, slaves became citizens;
uneducated whites remained as they
had been. also citizens; thus
the duties and responsibility Of citi-
Zenship were devolyed largely in
states lately in rebellion upon unedu-
Gated people. white and colored, with {
what resultsH Liberty and the exer.
else of the rights of citizenship are
excellent educators in many respects. {
We are glad to believe that encoursg- 9
ing progress has been made at the 1
south. The labor system has been
material prosperity ia
increasing, race prejudice and sntsg-
Onism are diminished, the passions
and animosities OF the war are subsid.
ing, and ancient harmony and con- .
cord and patriotic national sentiments u
are returning. But after ell, we can .
not fail to observe that the iGamigra- y
ion which 30 infallibly finds out the Z
rue condition of countries, does not v
yrow largely in the late slaveholding u
'egieu OF the United Statts. A great y
leal of cheap and productive land "
vii there be found, where population y
8 not rapidly increasing. When our .
evolutionary fathers adopted the or o
finance OF 1857 for the government of d
he northwest territory. out of which
)hio and four other great states have
zen carved, they established, as the
orners.one OF the free instita- p
ions they wished to build, this :,
rticle, "Religion, morality and AZ
being necessary to ~
cod government and the happiness
I mankind, schools and the means -
education shall be forever encour- ar
ged." Unfortunately for the COM go
lete success Of reconstruction in the n
'uth, this stone was rejected by the ~
1ilders. Slavery has been destroyed a.
: the war, but its evils live after il, -
I'D deprive many parts OF the south
intelligent self-government, without
hich, in America, at least, great
I'D permanent pEosperityiis impos- to
bic. To perpetuate the Union and tH
1elish slavery were the work of the pa
ar; to educate the uneduoated is pc
Ie appropriate work of peace. Il ie jul
ain that at the end of the war the
change in labor and the in
cial systems of the southern states an
# them In no,condition to provide
r universal popular education. In
recent memorial t6Oongress on this
beet, in behalf of the Peabody y
l1naftcn Fnnd Hon A. n II Ioi