American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1825-10-11
FOR THE wATcHMAN.

knowledge is Power: which axiom, in the pre-
sent day, forms the ruling principle by which both
despotic and free governments govern themselves in
guiding the vessel of State. The members OF the
Holy Alliance, though they sedulously employ
ed in discriminating the seeds Of knowledge from
the minds of the great body Of the People, by sup
pressing seminarles of education are yet quite will
ling that the privileged classes of the nobility and
clergy should possess sufficient Information to join
them in forging and rivetting the chains ol the
other classes of men by which their influence may
be perpetuated, and their darling maxim of iure
dtuino, be spread throughout their dominions; (;
while in free representative governments, such as
England and the United States, seminares Of educa
ton daily rising up, and fostered with peculiar
care-because, with such governments, the more
enlightened the People, the better they enabled
to Judge Of the measures of government, and to
support them by public opinion: and hence their
adage, that roc popuH est roc del; or, that know
ledge is power.
!, may therefore be Justly observed, that colleges
and schools in the United Staes are, and must be,
the sources by which our republican institutions will
be perpeuated and the blessings of liberty and self
government handed down unimpaired to posteriiy
In Delaware, we have been hitherto greatly deficient
in public schools; as, with the exception of the
Latin School at Newark, which has always main.
tanned high character for the liberal requirements
OF its instr and which at the present time is
ably and fully supported by the principal, the Rev.
Mr.. Russell, who is alike equally active and en-
lightened as teacher, and amiabe and respectable
as man-there is not another liberal seminary of
education in the State. But this blot in charac-
ter, is about to be removed, by the erection of
public college at Newark-where our youth will
have the means afforded them of acquiring classi-
cal education without travelling to Princeton or the
New England States, for that purpose.
Newark has long been proverbal for health, the
first of all human blessings. The surrounding
country affords all the diversity of scenes and situa
tions which render it delightfully."- pleasant; while
the site talked Of, in the rear of Mr.. William Bo.
yer's dwelling, is peculiarly adapted fer public
seminary. There will be ample room and space
for large open area, which will render the college
more private, while it will afford ample means for
exercise and recreation-and the scenery in its rear,
ia of the most beautiful description. The village is
now fast rising, and the improvements lately added
to it are both handsome and ornamental. Board
and Tuition will be both reasonable and good-and
with these advantages, we may safely calculate,
that as the grammar School has turned out some OF
the first scholars in the Union, the college, when it
goes into operation, will acquire equal celebrity for
its classical attainments, and deserve and receive the
universal support of the community, and of every
liberal man in the State, who may wish that his
children should become enlightened and firm re-
publicans and an ornament and honor to his country
VIATOR.