The Arkansas advocate., 1835-11-27
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sacred to be abused, us 1t Is too nreeiope to
 be lost. Freedom, mans great endow- ment and his glory,--shall it be made his
 disgrace and ruin r such inquire, when any s:ep IS proposed that would turn it into "a cioah oi rnaiciousness : and the question need eny arise +; lssrf lssirf isiiied fer them to determine what course they should adopt. 1 Intelligence and moral purity,--these arc l the only securities of the social state, and these only so far as they are difiused. Let these become universal, and the country is sate. Peace and prosperity wait on their
 extension. Where they prevail, Misrule
 hldes It's head, and Disorder is starved 10
 death. Let them be confined to a portion
 oi the people, and all the salegnards which this class can provide against the effects of ignorance and immortality in the multitude
 may be insufficient for their end. UN1- 3 vERsAL lNTELMGENcE,-t should be the object which every statesman and every good citizen should keep in view. Shame
 on tho man who would make the passions of hls felow-men the tools of his ambition. carving out for himself place of honor with the instruments which they blndly put into his hands Let Me people Js
 tdaghf,-not the rudiments of knowledoe merely,--just how to read enough 10 suck i III the poison of | corrupt press, Or 10 i15,- derstand the use of figures SO far, that they can calculate tho pecuniary value of their tine,--but hno,rledge itself--fhe meaning and relations of things. Let them be taught to thinh,-to Hink! How few have ever learned what 1t is 10 Hiakf Their minds move like the horse that turns the wheel on which he stands,-ever doing the same thing, but never advancing a sin- gle step. In both cases there is weariness but Tn neither is there progress. Give tho people knowledge, without delay and with out stunt! Give them as much as they can bear. They can bear more than you will be hold or wise enough to give them. Of all fears, the most idle is the fear of spread Ing too thorough an education through the land. Welcome the time,--would that 1t might arrive before the autumn leaves have stre'TTi tic ground !-when the whole people shall be able 10 reason on every practical question. with sound principles for thelr premises, and pertinent facts for their illustrations. It IS the want of such ability, which produces disquiet and violence. It IS little knowledge' that is a dangerous thlng.' Teach men as much as they ought 10 know, and a5 every one might know, at an incredibly small expense of time and money, fl proper methods were adopted,-- and they would as soon cut off their right arms, us join or endure tumultuary outrage. Improve our systems of education, then. They are still miserabiy defective. We speak adylsodly on this subject, and we re- peat, that the popular education, even of tho best portions of the land. is niserably de- iectve. What Then it must be in other parts of the Union, where less care has been bestowed, or where time has not been given for the institutions that have beon planted to prove their character, any one can judge, without leaving home.
 Yet intelligence alone Is but partial se- curity for the preservation of order, when such passions as we are all conscious of possessing, lie hidden in human hearts. Let the people,-and all the people from the least to the greatest, ,-be taught to be- ieve m that of which their senses can per- celve only the shadows that fall on material esjecss he great cv;! s;s .hss .hss tines ;, that men look on the outside, and their de- sires ceave 10 the visible. They do not entertain persuasions of the unseen and tho infinite. lmpart to them such principles as they need, ye 10 whom they look for in- strnctlon,--ye who have influence, and to whom therefore are committed the destinies of the land. Wealth and Power!--devote your resources to this end. We charge you, by every interest of the present, and every hope of the future,-by love and by fear, r,--by mans necessity and by InaIl's capacity, ,--by selfish apprehensions and by generous regards,--we charge you to ac- count no office more sacred or urgent than ths,-of planting correct principles in every bosom. Let the lowest feel It's encourage ment, while the highest shall acknowledge it's authority, that all may bow 10 it's re- straints.
 intelligence and moral principle form tine guarantee of free institutions, and suro defence against the aggressions of tumuI- tuary violence. Where these prevail there can be no disorder. Not more certainly will the great principle of grayitation keep the material worlds in their orbits, so that stars, planets, and comets may move along their paths n endless intersection, yet in unbroken harmony, than this moral princi- pie will keep the members of the commu- niiy within their several courses, perpetual
 y crossing, but never intefrupting one an- other. Two effects of such principle are most important in this connexion--that the people will outwardly obey. and that they will inwardly reverence, THE LAW.
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