Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-06-08

might be educated IN literature and religious
and moral principals. The UnVeriity in the
lneighbo.hood is an evidence of this. Soon af-
ter thelettlement Of the country. they provided
for the establishment Of fchools for the children
Of the poor as well as The rich; aid il parents
neglected 10 teach their children to read, and
TO bring them Up n fome honslt employment
che Selsfmen, with lie aEifance Of two Ma
gilrates, were authorized TO take iuth children
from them, and place them with matters to be
Rridly attended 10. The whole influence Of
education is neceGarY in Republican Govern.
ments; they depeod, for their iuPport, upon
the enlightened and afe6fonate attachme1t of
the people; and there is no ground to expect
they will be preierved, unleis the youth. are
trained TO knowledge and virtue, and taught,
by example and education, to fubmit their own
10 the public will. Our Contributions have lib.
erty for their vital principle but this liberty is
realonable, and fubordinate to the laws, and
whenever it fhall become hyperion TO law, it will
degenerate 10 licentioufneis, and be LOFT.
The care which is now employed in the in
-aruaicn Of youth, mutt give plsafore 70 every
friend If the State; and if the failures in edo.
cation are owing, not 10 the want of legal pro
viGon, but to inattention in the people, The in
fluence OF The individual members of the he
giaature may gofar torernedy the defects.
As part of this fubjea, permit ne 10 fug-
gef, that the in1itutioos of the fbbath, and of
public worfhip. we're regarded by our ancefers
with peculiar devotionJ and that our Stat
Contribution recommends The fupport Of hem,
while at the came time It carefully guards
gainG violation ofthe rights Of con(cienee.
Il will be acknowledged by every one, that
public vorihip is uleful, as fhool of good
manners, and Of decent and orderly deport
ment. But as religion i the ouly fure fonda
lion Of human virtue. the PROPERTY Of the
Safe NUT be e1entiaily promoted, BY due
obiervarce # The Sabba'h, and By the meeting
together of the tirizen5 70 learn the duties of
moral oblig ii n, and contemplate the vifdom
and goodn,ls with which theAlmightY governs
the word In fpch aGemblies they can hardly
tail to receive ufeful information in the conduit
Of lie, and iupr slions Of reverence for the Del
~ which Will never be totally eff iced Even
the inaruaons thar produce no apparent eta
at the time may = far gain PLACE II The me-
mory, as readily TO revive in il, when occdiion
calls for them. II IS the nature of vice 10 dif
folve fooiety but thefe inGitutions tend to up
UFlG IL ~ COE0itOn favorable 10 ORDER and
virtue by Preicrving them therefore, We ihall
preieive the virtue, and iecure the happiness Of
the people.
Ifauy Of the towns r. plantations which have
been lately fettled il the Commonwealth are
unable 70 provide the means Of inirueioh and
education at their own erpenle, will Il NOT Be
exPedsnt for the public To afford them afiRance,
that no children may grow up in the fate with
our inltrr6tion
win detain you no longer, Gentlemen,
than to oblerve, thar know of nothing, except
the dfsal bufnels cf the Genera Ccurt, which
now calls for -four attention; and that lllsll
readily agree to any mesfnrss conducive to the
public good, which you may think proper to
prcPofe. HoIeb Sfro1o
oouneiI-charabsr, June 4 1901.
Toe Speech was committed 70 Mefrs Pick
man, B;gelow, Morton, Blake and Mitchell Of
d. to prepare an anfwcr. n Ia the Senate the
Speech was committed 20 Hon. Meiirs. Dwight,
Brigham and Bidwell