Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-12-02

many Of the teachers employed have been found
utterly incompetent, or else they have abandoned
their undertakings, as soon as they could find a
more lucrative or less laborious employment.-
This will ever Be the case until the great bodv of
tho teachers of our State shall b. educated in our
State. Men must become endeared 10 our State,
by the advantages which have been afforded them,
intellectually and morally, as we'll as in pecu.
mary point Of view. They mus, grow up with a
consciousness that they have resources at home,
as liberal as those 10 be found abroad. Our young
men must learn to owe debt Of gratitude to their
native or adopted State. They must not look with
marvel or wonder upon the intellectual facilities
abroad. But from infancy they should learn to
feel and know, thas the highest ambition for scho-
lastlc Preferment may b gratifed without going
The civil, social and moral prospe ritv of every
country depends, in q great Measure, upon the in.
telectuai standard OF those who pursue the libe.
raj professions. In q Republican Government.
where the equality Of man is ACKNOWLEDGMENT
where tho art Of War is regarded ms one of the
evils Of the want Of perfect civilization. the only
road opened to a laudable ambition, lies in the
path of letters, attainments in literature or the
acquisitions of science. Our physicians, our law.
yers, our theologans, our editors, and our teach.
ers, should be mon of liberal Quotations. Even
those who command the mighty beats propelled
by that greatest of all inventions, printing only
excepted, steam. should not be more practical me.
chanics. The safety of every life which is me-
cessariIy entrusted to their care, requires that
they should scientifically understand every prin.
ciple Of operative mechanics.
1t Is no exception to the general rule to saw,
that some Of the brightest ornaments of the libe.
| raj professions, have been those whose command.
ing geniuses have been developed by self culture.
This only proves that in this age OF onward i'm.
provement, the real genius will sometimes rise
! superior to those Who have enjoyed more liberal
! advantages. But such examples have ever been
and ever will be. the most ready patrons of nsti.
tutions of learning. They have painfully learn.
cd the obstacles which the self.educated man has
to overcome, and hence they are always mos,
ready to afford the means Of education to others.
Nor do these bright examples look with more in.
diligence upon the mere pretender--the creature
who seeks to enter the learned professions with.
out any intellectual standard, or goal for his am.
| bition-or rather with no ambition beyond his
; more love Of case, of money, or of contemplate
power.
Yet il 10 lamentably true, that the number who
will sock to enter the learned professions without
competent qualifications will increase until pro.
per standard of attachments shall he established
by public sentiment. This standard can only be
established, by the general diffusion Of knowledge
among tho many.
When this desirable object shall have been &C.
complished, the great influx of lawyers, doctors
ministers and teachers. who have not capacity tc
succeed in the older States, will ce,se to flow in
to Arkansas. Men from other States will then
expect to enter respectable competition, and moi
to succeed by imposing on the ignorance of the
people, on whom they too often wish to speculate.
We are aware that there are some in our State
who insist that before we undertake to establish
college, we should hare first established, in eve.
ry neighborhood, good primary schools. Had we
proofs that, the latter very desirable object would
be sooner attained in the absence Of the former,
we should attach more importance to the objec-
ton. But we have no example. in any country,
of very considerable encouragement being given
TO primary schools, in the absence Of ella ssical
situations. While in every State, where colleges,
for liberal educations, have been founded, prima-
ry schools of the first order have very soon sprung
up, in every neighborhood.
In countries where the means of public or pri.
vate instruction, Of education through the ustru-
mentality of schools or self cuturs, are placed
within reach Of every ambitious youth, ardentIy
desiring the lights of science or the pleasures Of
literature, the patrons Of learning may pause and
discuss the most appropriate means Of promoting
the great ends of diffnsing universal intelligence.
rality of a generous public in behalf Of the "FAR
WEST SEMlNARY,"is altogether different. Should
we pause and coldly calculate the merits of this
or that plan, our youth mentally perish. They
grow up without the general diffusion of tina,
knowledge which endears the institutions of their
country 10 their minds, and prepares them for the
spontaneous defence Of the valuable inheritance
of civil liberty-that liberty transmitted to them
by glorious apd immortal ancestry. But place
the means of liberal and enlightened education
within reach Of the youth of our country, and the
same bold spirit which has caused the hardy po-
neers of our western borders, to forsake the ease
and indulgence of more refined society, and brook
the hardships and difficulties Of new settlement
will induce their children to master and overcome
every obstacle which conceals truth beneath the
most difficult and abtruse science.
| To the citizens of the older States, who have
already many we'll endowed and prosperous nsti.
tutons Of learning, we appeal with full conf.
dence that, the undertaking will meet tito warm
sympathy, if not the liberal support of every pa.
,riot and philanthropist. The people Of our coun.
try, who have conquered the wilderness, earnest
ly desire the location of a college among them
The expenses incident to such an undertaking, are
creator than it could be expected population sc
new can bear. They have hardly yet recovered
from the heavy OUTLAWS incident to a new settle
men;. 1t is in the behalf of people who have