The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-10

great ProfusiOn. The scene was one Of
great beauty as the party entered. Elec-
trio lights, which had been concealed in
the leaves of the palms and plants, now
burst forth in blaze OF light, ana the ia
BILE was radiant with color and
light. The feast which followed was
elaborate for a breakfast, and was thor
oughly enjoyed by all present.
When the breakfast was nearly over the
Presidents health was drank by all,
standing. Shortly after half-past three
O'Clock the President and party started
for the City Hall, escorted by the vet
Grams of the Seventh and Twenty second
regiments.
On the steps of the City Hall two hun
cred girls from the grammar schools and
thirteen from the Normal school well
coined the President. The two hundred
grammar school pupils met him at the
foot Of the steps and strewed flowers in
his path. The thirteen from the Normal
school awaited him at the entrance to the
City Hall, and there one Of them, Miss
Anna A. Abrahams, a beautiful girl OF
sixteen, stepped from her place in the
line of girls and addressed the President
as follows:
Mr. Observation-Disclosures US, their repre-
sentatives, one hundred and eighty thousand
scholars OF the com mon schools OF the City or
New York, sixteen hundred and fifty students
OF the Normal College and one thousand stu
dents Of the College OF the City OF New York
extend to you their cordial welcome. 1t is, we
think, appropriate that the great common
school system, which to large extent the
outgrOwth OF Washiugton's repeated recon-
meudations to the newly-bOrn Republic, should
be represented in the public celebration Of his
Inauguration as first President OF the United
States. Washington was too far-seeing, as q
statesman, not to perceive that true liberty
must rest on the basis Of popular education.
He keenly felt that upon the intelligence OF the
people depended the fate of the young Nation,
and repeatedly urged, not only education in the
elementary branches, but the establishment Of
higher institutions OF learning-even going so
far as to recommend the endowment of q Ma
tonal university. His attitude toward the
higher education Is clearly expressed in his let
ter to the president ana faculty of the Univer-
stty Of Pennsylvania, in which he SAID: Il am
fully apprized OF the influence which sound
learning has on religion and manners, on gov
erDment liberty and laws. 1 con-
cetve hopes, however, that we are at the eve Of
very enlightened area The same unremit-
Ting exertions which under all the blasting
storms OF war caused the arts and sciences TO
flourish in America, will. doubtless. bring them
nearer to mat urity when they shall have been
sufficiently invigorated by the milder ways of
peace"
This great Nation has followed Washington's
advice; il has established common schools; it
has founded colleges and universities; and to
these above all il owes its progress in arts and
sciences and its success in peace and war.
Long ago Aristotle taught that no state is
secure whose children are not reared IN perfect
sympathy with her Institutions. This is just
what the vast popular American education has
accomplished. Approaching the equity and
Justice OF our Constitution, how can we fail to
honor and obey its wise provisions? Thus
thoroughly imbued with love Of country, the
American teacher as well an the American
mother, following in the footsteps OF Mary and
Martha Washington, creates and fosters in the
hearts OF all committed to her care that same
noble patriotism that swells her own heart.
Lowell says that the Purtans were the first
law-g.vers who saw clearly, and enforced
practically the simple, moral and political
truth that knowledge was not an aims to be de-
pendent-on the chance charity OF private men
on the precariOus pittance of a trust fund.
but a sacred debt which the commonwealth
owed to every one OF her children.
Admirably, then, has this commonwealth full
filled her duty, for to-day the highest education
is within the reach of the humblest of our little
ones, for which the men OF a former age had to
struggle al their lives This day one hundred
years ago beheld the rising OF the sun of one re-
public, the very beginning Of n Nation, which,
though poor weak and divided, entered with
faith, hope and courage upon the fulhllment OF
it's high dcstiny-the demonstration OF mans