Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1836-01-21
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them, you'd have been hut the mere
worms that much of the European popu-
lation is. was about to say that in the
affair Of society, many of our country
men have two faces, one for this good
society that they love IA much as any
persons can, and the other for the multi
tude with whom they think il popular to
decry it--there, before them, associa-
ting il with arislocracy and with all other
hard names, as if it were a disgrace for
a man TO wear clean clothes, or to know
as much, or more than the great body of
the people have time to know. Now,
when the people of the United States
cease to love to be lied fo-and it is re-
ally melancholy that SO many d" love
man who will ever fatter and cajoIe
them more than him who tells them ugly
truths, then they will throw overheard
these two faced people, and the sensible
portion Of the good society will aid them
in the clearance. The people will learn,
too, when this time arrives, and | trust
some day or other it will, when the young
men Of America learn that the office is
not worth having at best, and never
worth having unless it is won with hon
or, and that there are other fields IN
which an honorable ambition can be
gratifed than that Of the lowest polite
ians, rising as our literature rapidly is,
and increasing as our book-re aiding popu-
lation is, so immensely in the great west
tho people will learn, ! say, some day
or other, that to be an educated man is
no dshonor, that to speak English well
is no disgrace, and that acquisitions and
severe labor, or a great intellect, or a
remarkable taste, or the service Of ones
country, may constitute society into
which it would be an honor to be ad-
mitted, and in which it is no disgrace TO
be. Then they will learn that the man
who decries such acquisitions, is no
istering to their bad passions, seeks to
unman them, and make them his ma
chimes Tor some servile purpose. They
will also learn that most important fact,
\ that avistocracy is not always in manners,
nor dress, nor situation in life-but in
the heart, and that he who has the soft
est words for the people on his tongue,
may be as black as midnight darkness.
The view one has even here, in this the
harpiest of all the European world, of
the sufferings to which men have reduc-
ed themselves by not thinking for them
selves, and Of the difficulty of even es-
Gaping from this Fictitious state Of socie-
ty, makes one feel more anxious than g.
ven for the destiny Of the millions who
are soon to people America. The feel
ing, the heart is sound yet in America
with the great mass of the people of all
parties. Will it continue so? Will it not
be misled- fattered away-acted upon
and sportcd WITH Talk not Of corruption
out of tho United States? There is no
more here that deserves the name than
there is there. There is tyranny, wrong,
and outrage here added to corruptioD,-
but there is as much corruption now with
us in proportion 10 our population, as
with any people-Of all kinds, moral and
political. Will not this corruption be too
much for the yet sound hearts of the peO-
pie? Will not the inundaiion Of the edu-
cated-to- be c-servile, the rank and d-power-
hunting mass Of the old world now pour
ed upon us, be too much for us? press
these facts upon the people. ! see one
salvation, but there are some others-and
that is the education of the whole people
the whole-educatiOn, not the haDf-of
the uhole people, not in the free schools
alone, which are often now but the mock
cries Of schools-but free education in
the High Schools, the Academies, and
what is as important, in the Colleges, to
r. h., oh IN oaef
there, paving their board and clothes bill
alone. To support a government Of G.
quality, there must be something like an
equality Of knowledge, and as we can
not retrogade, we must go onward.
think l see that the greatest mischiefs
under which We now suffer, arise from
this inequality Of educaiion,-and it is a
shame that a people who will tolerate no
inc equality should not make more efforts
to do away with this most crying inequal-
ty Of ac cquisi'ion-for do they not know,
that knowledge is power, that the man
who has two ideas, has more power than
the man who has but one! True we can
not change the intellect God has given
us, but we can cultivate it-set It IN mo-
ton, and thereby approach an equality
Of acquisition.
If Property will not do this duty to So
ciety Of educating the whole people,
mus, bo made TO do il. King Numbers
must insist upon his rights, Property has
an undoubied right to what i can legally
and honestly amass, but il Property asks
defence from enemies and support OF the
Inv r,cn King Numbers, King Num-
Lers has right 10 claim Education from
- p,n,er,y not an educ ation to be grudg-