Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-02-16

l purposes. With regard to the other, we have no law to alter beqnest made expressly to found Univer sty, and for that only And why, we impure, should the rich subscribe out of their own funds or be ex peeted to exhibit greater degree of interest be- rality in this particular any than the poor, ing that regards the future they can have no ex elusive benefit. Grant that the rich even rere to found and endow University, who would be its students some 25 or 30 years hence In all proba- biy the descendants of those very persa who now exhibit the most jealousy against such institutions We are really compelled to say that the poor shew total want of foresight; they look further than the surface of the matter and seem Gas far at least as regards Tennessee) to have unnatural feeling towards the improvement of the state, and the ad- vancement oftheir own descendants. It is evident to us that Colleges and Academies, in this country, are institutions that will bestow their blessings OH the whole community or body polite, during success sion otages; anda the youth for the time being who have the means may be educated at them, whether they be the descendants of the present rich or of the present poor So far, opinion from the poor of 1851, either in Tennessee elsewhere, entertan
 ing suspicion orJeaousy towards the institutions in question: the current of popular feeling ought to the other way We think that the poor now ought to patronize them even more than the wealthy, nas- much that, although they may not be able to send their there like their richer neighbours, their grand children and great grand children will most
 likely, be educated at them and as far as we are ac- quaned with the human mind men appear more so- socitously attached to their descendants one or two removes then they are to their more immediate sons
 When we reflect that our seminafies of lea%ning are founded now, to benefit those who are to succeed us for hundreds of ages after we are gone,--when we take into consideration the fluctuations and the changes that are to occur through future years-the constant undulations ofsociety-the prosperity and the misfortune tlat is to happen along the vista of time, and reflect how small prospectthe rich have off their wealth continuing to their names and lam-
 es we come to the conclusion that the poor of the present year have no cause to complain, for future good is thei.s. Our fancy pictures to us q white headed urchin, born in a cabin of the piney woods, growing up to mans estate rearing family of sons, and these becoming the rich of the land in time, the offspring of the original patriarch degenerate, and once more, they sink into their first obscurity anon their descendants are the layorites of fortune wealth again is theirs and they become the patrons ofliterature and the Statesmen of their country This is no exaggerated picture of the continual chan ging ofhuman society. If the poor then, would re- fleet upon all this, and above a ifthey would open their eyes to the knowledge that the friends of edu- cation are advocating the of future genera tions, when they uphold and defend literary nstit- lions, they would view them with very different sen timents from those of jealousy and suspcion; nei- ther would they persuade themselves that the rich have any advantages over them It may seem, from the foregoing observations that exhibit lean ing towards the rich and are one of their number; but 1t is not so: we scion of aristocracy,- none of fortunes lavores-and if curiosity or idle ness has ever led us to inquire into the economy of naons and the laws of society, we obtained by that means sole knowledge of the influence Colleges and Academies have in promoting the grandeur of countries, and the elevation and happiness of the people,
 This subject has, perhaps, taken up more of oIr attention than some will think il merited We cer- tanly have but little fear that the accusations a. gainst Colleges and Academies, this doctrine, we would call t of the Spanish Inquiston, can ever now, make much progress in Alabama, for we see
 strict regard paid the future institution of common schools, and an ample fund appropriated to that pur- pose We sec Academies either building or alrea- dy built in every county, by private contribution, and we have no less than two Universities in the State, both of which are of the highest order With such an interest taken in education and with on- dowments so ample it requires no stretch of enthu- siasm, sanguine feeling ofours, to be able to say, that this commonwealth will become in the South, as regards education what New-England is in the North of our Confectionery. ALABAMA