The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-17 00:00:00

ectrosponbrna.

TBZ EDUCATION OONTROVESSY.
To th Zdaor.

I regret to trouble you again, but I bare just learnt
that the Rte. T. Beate hes morn titan Oiled one ofzetr.
columns in reply to my letter, and I feel that an ackno.r
men' at least is due to hun, the more so m I have derived
considerable amusement from ha ciliation. I trust Met the
hon. wagtail of the Burcheeter heculirista dose not object to
your readers blending amusement with instractiou. I make
this remark became he Ls evidently inclined io be severe both
spun you and myself no I shall prematly .110.. I have Wore
me three nowt numbers of your paper, nod lad la the.
marls no columns of what may be called, for wont oil • better
nerne“Nrreisen." (Neese take note,str,l do net complain ;I have
too much respect for Um editorial disk). Now for some year. I
have r.çuloily looked through your columns, and at last TM-
twoi to request the Insiertino of • letter that oocupled hidf •
color= whenupon Mr. heave with a coolness that Mmott
=write to impertinenos complains limo" I have monopolized
awful spiteein the pam,which he cannot but feel might have
bean much better oceupied." But • political &water Ma al-
ways the right of feeling agifrieved and of lecturing thous from
whom be hits received &yours, sad so leaving Mr. Neam AIM
ttotToWly to his own unable Unpertineece, I will madder
hr. Nears wow..
_

The itsis—ought to rempect the consciences at ell its nth-
Seta, minorities es well se majorities, for the former have
rights as well ea the latter." go .11%11. this mach injured
meat I reply," then the Slate ought to do no
and it so,lbe mow we ere without a !bath the better.- For
example =soy good men omissientiotudy object to war. The
monetary of the Dorchester heronries m7a abeolutaly that
this scruple ought to be rethected ;thereto,, the State o=
to eacrifice to times oosuctentiotte no uplee the netiossal e
ewe which It Is inaltuted to preserre. Again there are some
Infidels who not only 000soientiously object,.. Mr. Neese &leo
dem, to.. the Whig la the ethool-rocso, but feel jolt as
strongly that it ought Onflf to beat owed to pees the threeleold
at a prima mit. Yr. N 411,11 tells us that this inedel 'Ad pee
tuned conscience ought to be respected by the State, ea well
ea the coneciseass of the millions who believe that to deprive
the criminal of God'. Word would be es wicked se it would be
Owlish .

Now isearly ofNri Nearsb remoning rota upon the 1011006-
1/011 of wluch 1 hays down Use absurdity; but It Is the
cheracterletic of the party with whom Kr. Neese " happen. to
immolate " to um his own expreseiv• words, that it tab, up
principle, blindly pushes It to the extre of mity no
and then winems at the Incanimency of those whose good
NOM preserves than trent the masa fully.
The lad le, the coneciemose of the minority can only be
respected as far so the great intenela of the mejority will
Emit. 11 the majority of the 1361100 conecientlotely believe@
tters good hope It dote) that religion and Its own wad.
require It to maks use of every lair opportunity, Mort of
abeclute compubion, of instructing Its poorer children In the
114 PilddPids of random sod Piety. thee, loud se the deco-
larien may lament, they hers no reason to sealskin If to.
majority aces on its own nosviction and not an Yeas. I/
illemastion• more than I have fl• 011 are reqaired, 1b..!
miler to the treatment of the "peculiar people," and of the
" anti•vbccinsters."

Wean'. neTuning is flabby and broiceo-backed. Re I
—y try to Web It up, but even then I Will not put on an
blond it. and complan of" waste of spun which An, is"
h,lsow & glance it Mr. /Imre numerics. Re writes
neither ' LL' nor his perty can claim any monopoly in
this wit. for Uwe who argus for Voluntary Religious
Education C" AL" end the party of WS* he 1.. tneenbar do
this also) an prepared to pet oar principl.. to tle. MA sad to
Sow thee the Wag can be due, without doing any violence
So the conduce of thy party in to. State." This is oc. Skein.
announcement of • wont inedicine, warsoted to nit every-
body, that one can hardly help crying out " qua*" bet I
elbreele Mr. Weave in his ow Mee' true word& " Mere pro-
lodations, however Wes they be, In them degewate days go
lee nothing, unison they be backed up by sound and molter.
tog arlnntents." I have shown to. of W. Reeve'.
women:As. aod, taking bla own declaration sor my guide, mud
decline mod decidedly to takto any Stored whtissur (mound
to. Seculaeist truism never IT loudly). in either Ms promote-
Wm or his preparsUons.
For • Sart Wu I must &Dee at Mr. Nese.. cereCIIIITICAL.
Bet bow can I onset • wing of eight queetwas, ewes el
thew so hightlellr alenpie. so Mr. heave truly mya, that no
0.4 who w_ not hlamoU Juet as Anwie, wail like to It
them Kr. Weave enquire. with all the appearthoo of Injured
Anoevity. for exaniple, " Will • LK. tellua, what injustice le
done to. private body of ncbool-managers, when they aro
irked to support their peculiar dogmss it WS own expense,
and not at the expanse of the "towers t' Certainly to uk
them to do to would be no ' Injury" at all, Wile their
ooneciences were as artacially eon and tinder as that of their
quationiet ; yet the question would be as foolish a. sow of the
quarim proposed to in.: for mice again I call It Reeves
adantacn to the tact that government makes no grant cel
eeeount of robgious teaching, and eno if the child pays its
school fee with money "Sneed front the rats, yet Ws weekly
two-p.oce or throe-psice will not cover half the expo.. of
Its or ulm instruntou, leaving altogether out of t, U..
religious education, which it may or may not receive IT Ito
parents chose.
Having given woodsman of Mr. Nene in his editorial,
prophotis4 and catedietical veins, I pam to Mr
NOM, 4111CDOTAL. The Inevitable little joke only conjures up
a Welshman sod the Apocrypha, and to I Wye them and pans
on to the vein wourraawo Mr. Nun very gravely declares
It la Use that Churchmen gave op this sent of PollUoal
Dhee.te.. a the reminds we that there are " Pobtleal
Ohnichmes' Of num there an, but why doe, W. ono
berm ming tomuch more than the other? Mr. Mars may
eall me a" Political Churchman"... often as ho Ilk.. and I
prudes not to wince nee to whine about "this asat." Bat I
will tell Mr. Nun when I shall wince said whine at thio tarm
me. It will be, when, In public *Wok
rig anicoir g to
unman" memo,,. who trade, upon hie
woopines, makes capital out of hi. simple. • one who by
=ZakUl-tamper, and nanowtau belittle; qusellae,
poot, that he take. up, me who bows of what he I.
Si, sad ea. upon tbs, who are dolog the work to
etaoj woe ; ono who only believes in Wendell, who keep Wu-
oopy women Wore the public, and make, unblushingly selonkoh-
of ignorance and bad 'wooing ; one
ho wows his fain nod fabricates his Sinn. 000
ono woo upon Lis lAA fried. when they Mule to
Is dooro to the line he he. drawn for thes
Ose who widantly appeals to " Wtistics," end yo,
',mealy Ariake about the rights of conedens who, o
he proposed : one who fills column titer column
Mildew Moe.
Of the prem, and then arrogontly complains of " waw of
wine an adverse °Whim Iwwwitwi throughthe
wanW , tee who cannot bear to be touched n00n,,,u.
Yat Wright. in posing
arehassa down hst.pc
" Olt " thou, or emu •
inatiority of theme pasallortties, them I pork, to winos
when ailed by that arm
Nem 4111611Gek biphreet
to what be coils my .
ploee
thr.4l, nos sally neer so tart