Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . which should receive the hearty sup-port of the American people. Agitation upon thissubject is to be apprehended, until by constitutionalamendment the schools are placed beyond all dangerof sectarian control or interference. The Republicanparty is pledged to secure such an amendment. The resolution of the convention on the subjectof the permanent pacification of the country, and thecomplete protection of all its citizens in the free en-joyment of all their constitutional rights, is timelyand of great importance. The
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . which should receive the hearty sup-port of the American people. Agitation upon thissubject is to be apprehended, until by constitutionalamendment the schools are placed beyond all dangerof sectarian control or interference. The Republicanparty is pledged to secure such an amendment. The resolution of the convention on the subjectof the permanent pacification of the country, and thecomplete protection of all its citizens in the free en-joyment of all their constitutional rights, is timelyand of great importance. The condition of the South-ern States attracts the attention and commands thesympathy of the people of the whole Union. Intheir progressive recovery from the effects of thewar, their first necessity is an intelligent and honestadministration of government, which shall protectall classes of citizens in all their political and privaterights. What the South most needs is peace; andpeace depends upon the supremacy of law. Therecan be no enduring peace if the constitutional rights. THE CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D. C. of any portion of the people are habitually disre-garded. A division of political parties resting merelyupon the distinctions of race, or upon sectional lines,is always unfortunate, and may be disastrous. Thewelfare of the South, alike with that of every otherpart of the country, depends upon the attractions itcan off-r to labor, to immigration, and to laborers will not go, and capital will not be vent-ured, where the Constitution and the laws are setat defiance, and distraction, apprehension, and alarmtake the place of peace-loving and law-abiding sociallife. All parts of the Constitution are sacred, andmust be sacredly observed, the parts that are newno less than the parts that are old. The moral andmaterial prosperity of the Southern States can bemost effectually advanced by a hearty and generousrecognition of the rights of all by all—a recognitionwithout rese
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