. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . educationor the selfishness of affluence, and still it is the institution ofslavery that causes it. Slaveholders constituted invariably a largemajority of their legislative bodies. Having the means to edu-cate their own children, they failed to feel for others, and wereunwilling to vote for a measure appropriating the peoples moneyto the education of the poorer classes of society, and the conse-quence is that in the rural regions of the South the people arefrequently fou
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . educationor the selfishness of affluence, and still it is the institution ofslavery that causes it. Slaveholders constituted invariably a largemajority of their legislative bodies. Having the means to edu-cate their own children, they failed to feel for others, and wereunwilling to vote for a measure appropriating the peoples moneyto the education of the poorer classes of society, and the conse-quence is that in the rural regions of the South the people arefrequently found in whole communities totally destitute of thesimplest rudiments of an English education.******* Why is it that, despite all of these immense advantages, theNorth has so miraculously outstripped the South in prosperity ?Why has New York outstripped Virginia? Ohio, Kentucky,Illinois, Tennessee? and any of the Western States all of theSouthern States ? The answer is to be found in the simple factthat whenever and wherever you find slavery you find an insur-mountable obstacle to national prosperity, J, ,^,,|.,,^ ^^ji». THE PERIOD OF RECONSTRUCTION. 529 Slavery having once ceased to exist all over the South, herportals thrown open to immigration, and Northern energy infusedinto the people, it is easy to look into the future and behold adestiny looming up for this bright land that shall make it atleast what it must have been designed to be from the first—^thegarden of the universe. After services on the stump in the campaign of 1865, he?was appointed and confirmed Minister to Mexico, but declinedthe honor. In 1866 he was ofiered the mission to Japan, but againdeclined to enter the diplomatic service, preferring to remainat home. The same year he was nominated by acclamationby the Kepublican State Convention of Illinois, as Congress-man-at-large, and although he had not sought the honor, heaccepted the place and made the canvass, being elected by amajority of nearly 60,000 votes
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