Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-09-06
I,an a. Wosdffcrl wrecsrv.
STATE SCHOOL FUND

sAcrl'fnu t every member az rowun S.. II
The fap1 b. e9u,oacd % nii. absorb millions Of
the peoples money. ADD 90 j1s " hr apenh
iute a tald uni s1lisf.tn, season fsuu5 be- sppar.
AL The people Shouts know hr what cause
shcy ave taxed lhai % msy decide Oh ihc pro
prey of Necessity 81 ,hc Tax Oso.itly thls
igud a 70 b, r. 80 70 educate filrc atn,rllions
l. vail 70 lfuih br. q continued plavh.ng IN thc
hands Of dsirnin- politicians, aud L may hr used
% Ffesi cuiupmn fuud 10 buy up at ihs, "
vcodiilr 10 ihc political shamhl,s AID il Ibis use
IS rnadc q h. It viii b. OWING more 20 the iuiegri.
Is n our cryfns ihlu 20 any guards which Is va
The power ol fhe laN lnlhroW srouui q During
the last SESSION ~ the Legislature. Mr Dillingham;
81 the Senaie while debsinga b,li drawn 10 give
away ior pinioular object more than 5000. 900
Of the fund opculy declared IA Substance, BIS b..
lief TIA, no. dollar Of ,he fund would ever reach
the oblcci contemplated ~ he act tha; il would
Oh be dssmpalo1 or diverted ani YET added be-
neither OF the political parties dare arrest the fund
for fear Of the effect on his party, that is ncrher
81 the parties bad The moral courage 10 do right
I, is hoped TIA, the Hon Senator had no authority
10 confess cor any bu, himself and at most for hiGi.
self aud party This was frank admission and
The Senator's views in regard to the ultimate even,
Of the fund were not Just, there can be no doubt,
and still Tor the wan, Of courage in the Reprosen.
,vcs Of tho people, they are still 10 be taxed TO
swell fund, the proessed object Of which Is new
er 20 be accomplished And how is this TO be
done By talking Of educating pcstcrry by say
ing one thing and meaning another by talking
Of the poor children, rs though the poor children
were designed TO be benefited bv this fund which
Is never expected 10 reach pos,eritv Why the
vervimoncy TO swell this fund is taken from the
children, 10 be cast not the dogs bat upon the
stream Of time 20 be Sunk or disspalod before 1t
ever reach It's proposed destination In truth this
project Of benoiuing the cause of education by the
fund, connieracts Us own rrctcnt0ns
|, is, and always will be true, that the surest
guarantee for the future generations is 10 educate
the present, to the creates, practicable extent but
this fund takes the money from The object, and
places It where II will probably never benefit the
children Of any generation. Apply t to cause Of
education now, i, will be adyan,ag cously and safe
" invested The recrcailons, consequent upon
the Intellectual and moral culture are as certainly
the result Of a universal law OF the human mind |
as reproduction is the result Of animal and yege-
table organization AMI FAR more prolific in the for
mer than IN the latter case "rhe herb yielding |
seed after its kind" continues the species, bu, in
this case ana that Of The animals the ratio Of re-
production is limited by law which it cannot pass
while the recreation Of the mind are bounded only |
by the number of minds coming in contest with
mind. In the former case the increase is not only
limited but slow progressive; in the latter the re-
creations Of the mind are generated with the quick
ness OF thought, throughout the whole range of
mind coming IN cantasi with mind Kepler dis
covered the grea, law of motion. tina, the planets
describe equal areas in equal times Till then
this truth was unknown, and the result was the
cause Of pro,raced study; bu, no was this
truth promul gated, than every astronomer appro-
priaed it as part of his intellectual wealth, and
the universe Of men was raised TO a new elevation
TO contemplate, Throughout, n more extended hori-
zon the works Of the great Creator. This the re-
suit Of the recrraiive power of thought, and such
il will ever be in all the discoveries in science and
the arts, and to some extent in morals
But what are these in the accumulation OF funds
or wealth TO produce Intellectual Advancement, or
even 10 recreate or perpetnae itsoi2 Money IN
itself is inert the ore in the mine whence it was
extracted. |, is intellect alone which clothes it
with power and influence The value Of money
is in its use, as medium Of commerce 1t will
furnish facilities for human culture; but why ac-
cumulaic 1t 10 be buried N n napkin or in the
earth with the talent Of thrsloihful servant
The funds collected as the fruits Of public and
private munifcence 10 found Dartmouth college,
were not suffered to lie useless for century, ill
the generation Of contributors had all passed off
the stage: they were Immediately app for the
then, and all future generations Let us now con
template the result That institution is the centre
Of illumination TO an unknown exlen, dffusing
lis genial influence To the extreme fbrcs OF society
Should now those rays Intellectual & moral dark
ness wiih,hese concomiitan,s wickedness, and vice
aAd violence, we should soon appreciate the value
OF light, by transition into midnight moral dark.
ness. VIVA, amount Of the precious metal could
compensate for the calamity Of such a transition
Suppose the fund mania, which now fills the other.
wlse empty heads Of some Of our pseudo phan-
throplsis had been ia the days of the elder Vince.
lock and the money, which os,abised that ins,i,u-
ton, had been funded and loaned in the manner Of
our school fund, and the fund had attained its con-
iefnpIatei amount after having weathered and os-
capped all the dangers which lay across It's path in
MS passage 10 us, and We were the happy and fonu.
nate pos.erhy, who were TO begin TO draw from
thus ionolain-nol OF leaning but of money to lay
the foundation OF learning, and what would be our
condition as civilized chgisanized community
Ii II not be said that other facilities for education
would have been supplied. The argumcn, is the
same and mus, convince any sober think ing mind
that that money was well applied II funded, It's
greatest amount Of increase could not amount Of
increase could no, amount 10 6 per cent while the
moral and Intellectual Influence Of colleges so far as
capable Of computation, may be many hundred
fold Il is believed, that The schools aud colleges
OF our land actually cost the community no:hing
or II anything. they more than repay TO the CON
munay The entire expense Of their foundation and
support