Litchfield enquirer., 1842-01-13
TO PROMINENT CITIZENS.
BY J. oRvILLE TAYLOR,

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 reignty. Should he not be prepared for the
 Throne our institutions have given him ?-
 There IS gem in every human form; Iet tkt
 diamond te polished, and it will shine in truth
 and beauty. There is still in the most de.
 based beam etherial, though sullied and dis.
 honored, still divine.' And our motto should
 be. teach and habituate the people to make a i right use of the facilities which God has giv-
 en them, and then trust them 1earlessly to
 themselves. Give democracies education, 1 and freedom of action, and then let them alone.'J s,g.J .r 'l,'.' ''.'-. '+.. " i'..'. 'Uneducated mind, is educated vice. for God made man to know. He is the cteature of instruction; for in right education there is divine alcbymy which turns all the bn- ser parts of mans nature into gold. We are told by the ancients that as soon as the first rays of the morning sun fell upon the statue of Mcmnon, it sent up music. IL is af- ter the first rays of Knowledge fall upon man that his nature discourses harmony all before is the darkness of barbarism. -I l All can see that wickedness leads to misc ", yet very few find out that which is equal ly certain, that ignorance leadsto misery and misery to wickedness. Dr. Johnson was once asked: '.Who is tho most misera- ble man. and the reply of the sage was 'that man who cannot read on rainy day. The writer was once passing through park. and saw nailed to one of the trees :his warning {: All dogs found in this park will be shot.'- A friend who was with us remarked, unless dogs can read they are pretty bad off here.' y Now God has not only written his laws upon the trees, but in the stars and in the flowers his laws are above us and beneath us, on our right hand and on our left, and if a man is not able to read, he is pretty badly off here-worse off than the dog, for the dog has master who can read for him but man has no master between him and his God.
 hoy maxim, of more truth and force than any other ! remember ever to have seen, was thrown off by British statesman-bya man who was in learning vivd. varied and philosophical. and who in conversation threw out more genius, sparkling and brilliant as it came. than any other man of his age.- His profound apothegm was, that Education scas the cheap defe,te of nations.' And if ] might put a truism by the side of this. would say, It is cheaper to educate the infant mind, than to support the aged criminal. Yes, be. stow the pence on common schools and save the pounds on prisons. Man was not made to be sent to prison, but to be educated and 'the very worst use you can put man to is to hang him. Neither is n0D Hurnnn Poor Box into whose mouth we are 10 drop 8 few se.' ;l The ais gpGrsen& shld ie to ance of manhood, with all its jealousies, and it's narrow w-mindedness. and it's superstitions, and it's penury of enjoyments poor amid the intellectual and moral liches of the uni- verse blinded in this splendid temple which God has lighted up, and furnishing amid the profusion of cmnipotence. - d.,,7...' - 70 wo for those who trampIe on the mind, That T fearful thing They know not what they do z Iiolay rude hands on Gods mysteries there.'' -
 Corsefs, Tight Shoes, and Sel. .lfurder-- " Do you see that young lady !" snid friend to US a day or two ago, as he pointed to a delicate and beautifully dressed young fc- male who was passing on the opposite side of ihe way. f u1 rI
 We replied in the affirmative. s.
 "She doesn't look much like suicide, does she-one who would deliberately com init self-murder !". o c' 'i.,%
 "Ccrtainly not," we exclaimed. r} E,
 ."And yet" he added, "she is murdering herself slowly but surely every day. She is a frail, delicate creature. and not particular ly healthy at the best of times. It is now damp, cold, raw day, and yet she ventures forth in . thin light dress, with shoes. the soles of which are not as thick as half n dol lar. Besides this-see how she is cOrseted. She has laced herself so that shc must breathe with the greatest difficulty. Poor thing !-a few years longer, and she will be numbered among the myriads who have gone down to the grave through the agency of that terrible disease, consumption"
 How many arc there in Philadelphia in the situation ofthe young lady described v. How many who. in yielding to the require ments of fashion, are committing self-mur- tnP nn look on quietly and see their daughters dedi. cate themselves to an early grave! How many, indeed, who assist in the work of death, by affording the implements and en- zines of destruction !-PhiL Eng. ,. Luck.-There IS not more perniciOns notion afloat in the world, than the one ,whiel, ascribes to mere good fortune, the results of that unbroken energy of character. which through defeats and failures. still presses onward to its object, and regards every obstacle that would turn it from it's settled purpose, aot only wiihnVt disn'ay, but with exultation, as conferring addition al honor un the struggle it is so well pre- pared to sustain. This fatal mistake in worldly ethics. lIas blasted inc prosperity of It chills ambition; 1t deiers ordinary and honestly aspiring minds From lperseyeriugly following ant their correct prec6neeived plans it ofers a powerful Ftemptation to the undecided to relax irem their efforts; and, worse than all, it affords a plausible preiext for the inexcusable fail- ures 1.-the indoient. True it is. that the success of, schemes devised with tie utmost skill occasionally depends on fortuitous