Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-11-09

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IN The southeastern parts OF Africa, ma
geographically described, the Journals
says ;-@HereI found The whole nation, Ii v
ing as you might cali as in state of ma
ture for they. had neither,a King, Pre-
sitisi,s, sii,y ai'i &C &c Chef
nor Legislature or Judges OF any sort
nor. pensioned Priesthood, or Nobility;
nor military power lodged any where.
Our doctrine of equality seemed Periect-
ly vnderstood aud acknowledged here
and notwithstanding the assertion OF mo-
parchica, and srissccraiicai writer's, that
without.a, energetic government, and an
alliance between church and state, and
rank and subordiraton. mankind will be
unrniy and anafchica, and will live in riot
and wickedness, saw in no monarchy or
aristocracy such decorum and harmony,
& such display Of virtue, Us amongst these
peorle, and that not partially, but univer-
sally.
l saw here no gallows or other engine.
OF punishment, nor any place of correcli-
OF or confinement; but / found in every
city and town, and in the country many
c. aiity schools as we Should call them, and
colIegrs and universities, and aims houses
and hospitals, Ahappy system of educa-
ton, said I, 10 q venerable and well in.
formed old man, With whom lodged,
whilst was in,he metropolis Of this hap
py county, has rendered, what We cali in
Europe, government and all its expensive
oppendagcs unnecessary in your county.
No my friend, replied he, with smile,
the same systcsn of education which you
row admite, was established and cherish
ed, perhaps with more ardor, when we
were subject TO despotic monarch; and
al or The severe struggles 10 break che
yokes which they had imposed on our
nrcEs, under mildsr government OF an
arisiocracy, composed of the virtuous and
patriotic asserters OF our rights, this sys-
tenn was unioeohsd--and even wheu the
degenerate so.is of those mobiles, with
whom We had entrusted the preservation
OF our rights and liberties, had violated
the sacred trust, and by the same arts
which our irst single ,yrants had held us
down IN slavery, for many years completes
iy enslsved our country, they too, cherish
ed this system Of education and in The
course ot.another revolution attended with
2 great expense Of blood and treasure. by
which limited and yell balanced .nonar
CRY, mean as far as ms nafchy can be
balanced, by repress natives of the rich
and mobiles, IN one body, and of the poor
in another, vas established by hero,
whose services in overturning the de,es-
table aris,ocracy. were rewarded by hrs
grateful country, with The crown ard scep.
ire settled on hirn aud his heirs forever,
he and his successors encouraged with a
royal rnua:ticence al! our schools. And
: since 1t has been found, that even well
baiancedrcprtsentatige dem -cracy. which
arose out OF an absolute democracy, in
which anarchy was iptolera5lc, degenera,.
ed insef's,5ly, into kind OF mixed rnonar-
vnsy and ii was, therefore, almost una
nimousiy agreed, that we would abolish
government utterly, and live without tbs
expense and perplsxities of any form oil
II, that csn be devised, we haze not inter
fered with the schools colleges and uniyer
sites. Reading, writing, arithmetic, ac
counts, book keeping, Sec. the principle.
OF geometry and surveying are, and have
always been taught IN the schools. IN the
colleges, in each of which, there are
schools whSre the ancient Languages of L
gyp;, ph@nicia, Syria, Persia, India, Az
raoia ard Etiiopia, were always taught
and since the reign of the Ploiomies il
Egypt, The Greek language; and from the
conquest Of Egypt by the Romans, the
Latin has been regularly taught in those
schools. The higbes branches ofthe ma.
tbematics, and particularly astronomy has
been Taught By the able professors, the
writings or doctrines Of Confucius and H.
rcater, Of Aristotle and Of Moses, since
the time Of Pto'omy Philadelphus, have
been rendered familiar to the, students in
ihe colleges and III lie universities, lee
lures arc given, ON every branch of sci
ence witch has been taught in the collie
ges, and on natural ard experimental phi
losophy * en- logic and rhetoric. And in.
s'esd OF any particular system of ethics
lectures have constantly been delivered
in SUPPORT Of the prevailing religion and
morals Of the day. The Idolafry Of The
Egyp,iaps & Assyr:ans at one time, then
the mythology of India, Persia, Greece
and Rome, have been reconciled to The T.
gypiiaD, then under the influence of,thc