The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-13
PRESIDENT HAYEs To UNION
SOLDIERS
CORcludsd from seooad page.


Liberty and the exercise Of the right
Of citizenship are excellent educators in
many respects, and we are glad to be-
lieye that encouraging progress has
been made at the south. The labor sys-
tenn has been reOrganized, material
prosperity Is increasing, race prejudiees
and antagonisms have diminished, the
partisans and animosities Of war are
subsiding, and the ancient harmony and
concord and patriotic national senti-
ments are returning. But after all, we
cannot fail to observe that immigration,
which SO infallibly finds out the true
conditions of countries, does not 90
largely into the late slayeholding region
Of the United States. A great deal Of
cheap and productive land can there be
found where the population is not rap
idly increasing. When our revolution
AIRY fathers adopted the ordinance Of
1887 for the government Of the north
west territory, out Of which Ohio and
four other great states have been cary-
ed, they established as the corner stone
OF the free institutions they wished to
build, this article: Religion, morality
and knowledge being necessary to good
government and the happiness OF man.
kind, schools and the means of ednca-
tion shall DO forever encouraged. ~
Unfortunately for the complete success
of reconstruction in the south, this
stone was rejected by its builders. slay-
cry had been destroyed by the war, but
its evils live after it and deprive many
parts OF the south Of intelligent self
government, without which, in Amer
lea, at least, great and permanent pros
perity is impossible. To perpetuate the
union and abolish slavery was the work
Of the war; TO educate the uneducated
is the appropriate work of peace. 1t is
plain that at the end Of the war the tre-
mendous change in the labor and social
systems Of the southern states left them
in no condition to provide for universal
popular education. In recent memo
rial TO congress on this subject in be-
half of the Peabody educational fund,
Hon. A. ii. ii. Stuart, of Virginia,
shows that two millions OF children In
the southern states are without means
of instruction, and adds, with great
force, that where millions OF citizens
are growing up in the greatest ignor-
ance, 1t is obvious that neither individ-
ual charity nor the resources of the i'm
poverished states will be sufficient to
meet the emergency; nothing short of
the wealth and power Of the federal
government will suffice TO overcome the
evil.
The president then said he would deal
with the question Of education by the
aid Of the national government, In the
same way that the general government
undertakes public improvements where
they are of national Importance, but
where local and private enterprise is
Inadequate to their prosecution. wher-
ever in the United States the local
systems of education are inadequate,
they should be supplemented by the
general government by devoting TO that
purpose by suitable legislation, with
proper safeguards, public lands, or, II
necessary, appropriations from the ma
tional treasury.
In conclusion, he said: The soldier
Of the union has done his work, and
has done 1t well. The work OF the
schoolmaster is now in order. Wher-
ever his work shall be well done in all
our borders, 1t will be found that there
also the principles of the declaration of
Independence will DO cherished, the
sentiment Of nationality will prevail.
equal rights and the amendments will
be cheerfully obeyed, and there will be
the homo of freedom and the refuge of
the oppressed of every race AMI Of every
cline.