The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1839-04-04
From the Common School Almanac.

WHAT HAVE | To DO WITH COMMON
SCHOOLS.
In presenting The claim Of common
schools to individuals, II is not unfrequentIy
the case that language like the following
Will assall your cars -" ina, have | to
do with common schools : | have been to
school all | shall go. have no culldren;
why should | be interested in the common
schools 7" To such | would say, though
you may not have children, yet COMMON
philanthropy should make YOU interested in
their support. What are not interested in
your couniry's freedom and prosperity -
Care you not whether knowledge and in-
leliigence, virtue or vice, spread through
these United States! Or, instead Of these,
tho, iguorNuee and vice. and superstition pre-.
val ! Say not, then, that you feel 10 lnte-
rest IN the common school, They are your
counirys safe guard, your ueighbors only
barrier 10 ignorance and crime. Come our.
then, like a genuine patriot, and give TO
these schools your hearty, generous support.
Upon them depends the nations prosperity.
Without them, the people must suffer all
the Ills that general ignorance is heir to-
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the virtue and intelligence Of those around
you.
These humble institutions, standing upoa
almost every acre Of our land, and scatter.
nv light 10 every direction, are the guar.
dams Of our freedom, and the strength of
cur country. From every one OF our eieh.
" thousand school houses IN this republic,
ba N g "a
upon, cheers, and improves every farm,
workshop, and family hearth in the country.
The school house Is the former and nouF.
Usher OF the mind IN the district. 1t is the
pace where the farmer, the mechanic. and
the mothers receive their education. The
school houses of this State New York;
have given our prosperity, our enterprise,
and our controlling station among the states.
They have made II the " Empire State :"
for what are natural facilities unless there is
mind to take hold on them Blow out the
light Of these institutions. let darkness rest
upon. these buildings, and we would sson
grope our way to the savage state. Shut
the door of the school house, and arricul-
ture is forgotten, manufactures cease, and
commerce stops. Strike from existence
those intellectual fountains, which are dai.
~ pouring light and liberty over the land,
and all Is night-the darkness Of midnight
and harbarsm.
Friends of education, 10 neglect these
schools is as criminal, and shows the same
want Of patriotism and philanthropy, as to
destroy them. Have YOU thought Of thlsl
Important Decision for Publishers Of
NewspdperS.-Judge Tompson, OF Indiana,
at late setting of the Circuit Court, at
which he presided, gave the following decls.
ION 10 a case where q subscriber to newspa-
per refused to take the paper out of the post
office without complying with the terms of
the publisher:
Tint If a subscriber to periodical
failed TO notify the editor to discontinue the
paper al the end Of the term subscribed for
or pay up the arrearages, ne was bound for
another year"
THIS settles very important principle,
What's IN q Name "a correspou.
dent suggests the name Of" SUB Treasury"
for colt Of great speed. 1t would certain.
Is be iehcjtous for enc inclined to bolt"
Such colt ought TO be " handy at "a the
turns " aud carry catch weights start
at the first tap and "go distance, "
Y Spirit Of he Times.