Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-02-09
To TIE EDITOR OF TIE ENQUIRER.


Sir We may be pfcsumng too much upon YOUR
columns, when you have SO much more important ma
ter TO introduce 10 The public; bot as purpose 10
correct the errors which "lloanc IN the ar. Wing IS
spreading Broadcast IN relation the Military School
We hope you Will bear with beyond your usual
courtesy, winch we acknowledge has ever been very
liberal In No = OF this writer, it stated, that the
individuals Of The present Guatd nave go guard
often as every shrd day, and thereupon IT is To DC IN
terred, that the proposed Cadets would have time
Tor study. We viii not stop enquire ii tins ae tie
case-y,z: that guard duly comes round 10 often,
(Which, by the way, we believe 10 be mlstcke,) but
assuming It true, @e ask If Ito the proposed number
OF Cadets vii not essen the frequency OF thus duty
IN proportion OF oo-lhe number oil the present Guard
TO l30: In other words, tn's duty would come rnund
about once per week, which often as II does al
West Point So that, granting the premises Of ltoane
the result is greatly dtl!ereu, from hls conclusions
But "iherc IS an immense deal Of fatigue duty 10 be
performed, and that OF the most mcnial and iaborI"is
kind, says "Rcane.'' Ths is the charge, but unior
tuna,ely tor hun, he has given sptc.fraons what
constitutes tins immense deal Of menal and luxurious
duty we ask,-ihe duties OF the Armory Why,
there any more required than performed at every
Military SCHOOL, We say, no--but then there IS the
Penl,entlary 10 take care Of WE'LL not the PRISONERS
attend TO their police In plain words, IS there
any other than guard duty done there by the Guard
But says "Roane, "nothing could guarantee The
safe and faithful performance OF the services required,
but the most rigid discipline go VIC should presume,
from The ,naferi out of which the body oil inns aard
is composed: of,cntimes, should think, requiring
one half 10 take of the other half and asked
"woud the Cadets submit to such discipline: Deny
ing any similarity of character moral or physical be
tween the members OF the present Guard aud the pro
posed Cadets, refuse such comparisons, as not
only unfair, but extremely illIberai We will, how
ever, say, that we believe the Cadets would require
only similar discipline is observed other similar
institutions But commission, in the U. S. army, is
given by "Roane as mann reason why the Cadets at
West Point "SuJiai: 20 punishment. One would sup
pose from ali this emphasis about severity Of discipline,
brookng ndiguilies, "ac,s Of oppression" "submis
sion Ia punishment, HAT the lads were TO be treated
like the drunken nutEous ADD wretched soldiers, such
a. enlist because they cast out from all other
ployrnen Now, IS THIS l'kely' Is 1t dune at West
Point Is il d0"e az L,tsnSten Then, why parade
such irrelevant matter sst at tbs fime ? Its purpose
NAV be- suspected. Is there 10 United States con-
missions waiting for the graduates as at West Point
"Roane" asks, What incentive, ira, If acquiring
mos! tmpsrjtc: tdeeatoa-f, indeed, as cW attempt
10 sho 5rfore i;ahe lure Of tie subjce he rains am
e1ucaLon at aH-will the Cadet have" &c, &c.
We answer all this, and much more, BY saving
that this kind of ptejndgmeEt, this unwarrantable
abuse Of the results Of an institution, bsJore II is
MD here, savors of more i'll feeling, than fairness
and naturally enough leads to ask, why is this
undue sensibil,iy; .'Roane" should beware, and re
member that fffefs hare "No education ut all
IS 10 be gained Indeed . DO the graduates at West
Point have 'no education at ala Do the gradu
ates of our Lexington school have ono education at
all = And yet have shown, no; only smila
rity, but perfect likeness, in the proposed school
and that at Lexington. We have seen the bull
before The House, and lis provisions almost word
for word, and letter Tor letter, w!h that under which
Lexington school exists: and yet, says "Roane,
The of the cadets al these schools vii be
"direchy antag0nisttc.
Having conured up second Peni,en,iary in tie
Cadet School-givpg It's inmates san immense deal
Of fatigue and mental duty to perform with ''no edu.
cation all, when they shall have got and with
the awful punishment when they shall have era.
duated Of having 10 teach the ga b abs aud ehs,
"Roane comes the characteristic conc!rsiou, that
these young lads will purposely dsobcy orders, tha'
they may be dsmssed-and, with this annhatlon Of
The whole scheme, we had supposed he would have
come 10 finale. But not so--more is to concur
which we shall wait-proposing TO. his consideration,
however this question: II, with the 22 coo annually
expended, all the good results now obtained be
t;nued, together with the smallest advancement
IN education for surely he wi! concede some) would
il not be wise to accept the scheme; We regret 10
notice the ready endorsement Of the Editors al the
Wing of all the statements of "Roane, but we pre-
they have acted upon their general principle, of
opposing whatever the Enquirer advocates.
RANDOLPH.