The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-08-05
From the Boston Itarsller.

tneir most ardent friends. Every day adds
proof. that spirit for the rational and prac-
teal improvement which they contemplate.
has taken fast hold of the enlightened part
OF the community in every section of the
country. In nearly every State, from Maine
to Georgia, an interest is manifested, and
efforts are making, to improve, elevate, and
systematlze common education, and to difase
universally useful knowledge among the peo-
pie The decided, warm, and general in
terest, and the numerous and vigorous eff
forts, every day witnessed, in behalf of pop
ittGr education, suggest the Importance of
some general plan Of operations, which shall
at once be simple, uniform, feasible, and
efficient, to induce, concentrate, and COM
bine interest and efforts, upon this great,
and good, and common cause.
Statesmen and patriots have uniformly
and strongly felt, and frequently recon-
mended, since the days of Washington, the
importance of a national institution, to give
system, uniformity, and efficiency, to all the
operations designed to advance the interests
of POPULAR education. The Importance of
such In institution upon the political and
peculiarly, no less than the intellectual and
moralprosperity of our country, is too EVIL
NNht - 10 NNAiCA VI uOuDtSQ ny any OACs
Besidss simple, uniform, and efficient sys-
TEN Corporations which such an institution
might Establish Sor the general diffusion OF
knowledge, it might exert favorable in
fiuencepn a national education, by means
to promote uniformity of pronunciation, pu-
rity of language, enlightened, correct, and
similar views upon political economy, and
by various methods enabling the great mass
of lhe community to understand, maintain,
and enjoy their privileges, their rights, and
Their duties.
What particular form, or system of opera
tioIB, is expedient for national institute to
assume, is a question worthy mature DELHI
Grafton, and on which may be entertained
different opinions. AL viii agree, however,
thatthe more simple its organization, the
more uniform and efficient its operations,
and tie mole general its effects, the more
fully its great purpose will be answered.
Patriotism, benevolence, love,-nay, pity,
for oIr race, speak with voice which must
reach the ears and the heart of every
statesman and philanthropist, and utter to
them a command which they cannot DISC
hey, to make one great, united, and contln-
ued tfort, to extend the blessings of educa-
ton, and of seLf-educdtion, to every man,
woman, and child, in our nation. The doc
trine urged with great force, and distln-
gulslIva .-.-eass hy the immortal Brougham,
upon his suffering countrymen, that the an
tuStrI0us classes can and must entsghte7l and
DEBATE themselves, applies, if possible, with
still greater force, TO the citizens Of the
United States, and ought to be written in
letters of gold upon the door Of every me-
chdnic, merchant, and farmer Educate
yourself is a lesson which ought to be IN
culcated, and reiterated, upon every ration
al being. at their uprising and downsitting,
when they go out, and when they come in.
And parents, schools, academies, lyceums,
colleges, and seminaries of every descrip-
ton, which fail TO inculcate the great prin-
ciple, that every being possessed Of a mind
and heart, has the power, and is urged by
the duty, privilege, and pleasure, to culti-
vate that mind and heart, by his own per-
sonal attention and efforts, fail of the great
pdrpose of education.
How the American Lyceum is designed
70 afford facilities and inducements to all
sections and classes of our republic, to edu-
cate themselves, will be the subject of future
occasions. FRANKLIN.
IMPROVING THE BREED OF CATTLE. Mr..
Featherstonhaugh, a distinguished farmer
in the State of New York. after journey
of fifteen hundred miles in the different
States, for the purpose o. viewing the i'm
ported cattle, and TO examine the method
after which their owners keep them, as
well as the condition of our own native cat
tie, remarks, that in order to keep up the
great qualities of the imported breeds, we
must remember that in their native country
it is considered indispensable to keep them
extremely well, and in very different man
ner from the general custom prevailing
here which is, IN summer to leave cattle
to help themselves to what they can find,
even in the most severe drought; and in
winter, to give them u moderate quantity of
hay and straw. That in England, where
they are less troubled with dry weather
than we are, they give them green crops
and roots in abundance, and that, if all this
provident attention be necessary in that
moist climate, il is certain the breed will
degenerate with us if it is not kept in high
condition. lie observed that he was con
yinced that negligence was the universal
cause of disease, and that they ordinarily
arise from too high feeding or too low. 10
one case, the digestive powers are embar-
raised, in the other they ale not sufficient
y exercised, and in both the animal suffers
that animals, regularly yet plentifully fed,
and well housed in winter, are generally
healthy.-.Ne,o York Farmer.
APOLOGIES. A lady invited Dean Swift
to most sumptuous dinner she said
" Dear Dean, this fish is not as good as
could wish though sent for it half across
the kingdom, and it cost me so much," nam
ing an Incredible price. " And this thing
is not such as ought to have had for such
guest though it came from such place
and cost me such sum-" Thus she went
on decrying and undertaking every article
Of her ostentatious and expensive dinner
and teasing her distinguished guest with
apologies, only to find Il chance to display
her vanity, in bringing the trouble and ex
nenaa Ia her entertainment IN view unti