Litchfield enquirer., 1832-11-15
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DR. BsEcHER's ADDREss.

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 The Address of the Rev. Dr. BeecheI
 before the American Institute on Thurs day evening, was received with Onmixed appropriation by very large and respect able audience. 1t was characterized by comprehensive views, vigOr of language, and felicity of illustration. Some passa- ges seemed to electrify the auditory, who gave vent to their feeling in the usual to- kens of applause, halfsuppressed in defer ence to propriety. The subject might be said to be the ansaas cf clsOating the 'chOle mass ef society. constituting our sation. to competence and vitue; and the means
 which he pointed out as sufficient to this great end were, first, tke fHll etopense.it Of 0N ossr national resources. There are writers, said the orator, who think that na- lions had better depend on other nations than on. themselves for. some means of competence. But those opinions were de- rived from artificial circumstances. These writers theorise upon things around them. not understanding tlse true state of this na- ton. The theory might be correct as to the nations of Europe for there one na- ton was restricted in territory, another was burdened with an oppressive aristocfacy, and all were palsied by monopoly and bad government. But here there was perfect symmetry in the wh0le body. Every part was strong. Nonation was ever let loose upon territory of such extent, with cli- mate 90 diversified. and witiIa soil SO exu- berant as Ours and no nation was ever stimulated to industry as ours; by free in- stitations. To apply 10 our condition the policy of Europe, were as absurd as to pre- scribe the physic of a hospital as the daily fare of family in hcalth. To be sure fla man had but one leg, or one eye, it would be very convenient and expedient to bor- row tte use ofa leg or an eye from anoth- CT. But when man is possessed of eyes and legs Ii he prefers to use those of o.h- CTS, his taste and judgment border on the marvellous. s.. ,s-...... ;. .-@
 The second means of attaining tho Ob- ject in view, was ahe education 0f tAe pco- pie; and upon this point the learned Doc tor dwelt Ut length, and with great energy. This education should, he coutended, be raised above the level of what was call
 cd good education, and 1t should be ex- tended to the whole population. He did not mean the universal education of the A. theists. which threw every thing into com mon stock, and severed tics between pa- rents and children, nine-tenths of which childteu, disg0stcd with their reception from society, would turn tlseir backs upon it, and return to their God, ,-he meant the establishment Ofinstitutions for the instruc- ton of every child in the community .-- Laws and Liberty wonld not be appreciat- ed, nor maintained, by an uninstructed population. ~
 To .ie enyious cyes of ignorance. prop- erty was an unrighfeOiis monopoly, and law was despotisa,. ln arbitrary Europe, revolution was always productive of good, bv breaking up tho foundation of arbitrary power bnt. in republics, it was not so.---. In them, revolutions were fatal to liberty, for the proyocation to revolution was the law: which was their safeguard. The love of liberty in the mind of an uneducat- cd man was the love of doing as ae pieased. That our institutions will ultimately be ex. posed to real danger, in the absence .. oI general edncation, tho learned Doctor IL lustratcd in variety of ways. The re-, publican principle of universal suffrage which we had adopted, would become un- safe unIess education was made co-exten- size with the franchise. Education, more than the elective franchise. invests the cst- ixcn with the responsibility of character 1; and he must have character to lose. or ne cannot be good citizen. Manufactures were destined to flourish in this country, to an immense extent, occupying q large portion of the population. If this poPnla- ton is 10 De depressed to the same level ot
 vice, povarty and ignorance. with that oi
 EnglisI. operatives, who arc trained to a single mechanical operation, they cannot be fit population for a republic. To ed. ucaie them is the only way from which theif degradation can be prevented. An experienced ship-mastsr, said she Doctor, once told me that the difference between an English and an American sailor was this :--lhe English could do thing but in one way. whilc the American could do the 1 same ihing in ten ways. A deficiency oi intelligence in our citizens, must be coun- seracied by strong police. and this police, wo,,ld in time become toO strong for iiber- tv or too weak for the law. The DoctoI nursued this sopic with much eloqaence, and closed it by advertiag io the letters ol Governeur Morris to Gen'l Washington from Paris, written during the revelation a volume, he said. which was fsaught wisl
 wise remarks on this subject. . | I'm the third place. the speaker urged ai