Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1844-05-11
LIBERTY MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY MAY H. 1914

b --you have worked, honestly workod I
Al hufd labor until your haul u rs hard II
re your hcarl Is soltand tender, 'Scorn cwl
~ NOT point her slow unmoving finger q
X you. There is no blot on your namo
d You have dug the carLw for your bread
X. and lived literally ~by tn, sweat 0
b your brow You have lived honestly
s. YOU have paid your debts with The casI
0 down; You owe no man any thing bu
'flgood will; your industry has been uni
o ring; a thousand and thousand slurI,
u blows you have struck with lreeman',
u right good VIII for the glorious privilege
i OF beng independent Every way b,
0 which you have won 'gecr' is justified by
IA honor. You have oppressed no man, yoI
' haze been just 10 every man, and have
5 never robbed the poor, or the widow, or
: the orphan. You are a hapPy oil man -
= there sJollIty in your very eve, and TEN.
: peraie habits have made you health.
/ Iul, buoyant, aud cheerful. God has Civ
en- you children and grandchildren, and
your sons and daughters are like thick
iorsst around you. The kid hospiablc
partner Of your bosom aud of your Jour
lucy through life still abides with YOU on
earth; and you have laid up pi.aiy! piea-
~! and haze peace with it Tor vopr good
Iold age. This is mastery, this is a self.
made man. Now tell me, good ana great
old man, what would you not have been
had-you not held in your grasp the lever
OF knowledge! Ah!yoa know wha it is
10 have handspike AT logrolling or "A
house raising. You know what 'tur-
cldse' Of power is. knowledge, learning,
is all that and n!2ye. How many blind
Hicks il would-haye saved you! How
many thousands and tens OF thousand
more than you have now in your old 'bue
chest you would have had, could have
seen by 'iearnlng's light the dark ways
oil Nature? Do you know that learning
made your axe-he.ve, your plough handle
shat it applies in the most proper way
that very handspke--your OK chain
that il prepares the very best manure
THAT il can boa. you all hollow In apply
ing II TO the soil-that it knows more Than
YOU do all bout the soil OF every field
you plough, and can-seli-you Of every
plant which grows on it, and the food ii
Graves. Did you know that learning
saves labor, sells your grain, fixes the
price, and carries it away Tor you?"
| We can only copy further the closing
passage Of his address. 1t is as beautiful
aud eloquent in expression as it is true
and noble in sentiment:
There is nothing which indicates so
we'll the order, the elegance, the strength,
the wealth, the morals and manners OF
any people as their schools. Good schools
alone can develope the wonderous might
and majesty of'Ihe' People, Their pow
er is the power of inleIlec, which Yields
every agent Of the moral and physical
world Armed with books, it has domln-
ion over every passion, affection, and SEN
iiment, as well as over fire, ami water,
and earth, and air, and all their elements
In war it is stronger than arms, and IN
peace it yields all the blessings of arts.
ICullivate that power, magnify and enlarge
lis dominions until it knows no bounds,
and you will be UNNECESSARILY great IN
every attribute OF moral, religious, re-
fnei, wealthy, and powerful free people.
Be enlightened only, and you will be
bounteous in your charities, graceful in
your pleasures plenleous in your means
Of magnicence, equal in your privileges,
HAPPY IN your homes, sale in all your
munimenls of freedom, and glorious in
lall your monuments Of greatness.
II am about 10 leave you for season.
And, otlthat when return 10 you aud
again travel my wonled round, can only
find amidst the changes Of time one al
eust which will be any thing but sad.
Schools! schools! schools! Tree schools! IN
every village aud al every turn OF the
roadside. Common free schools! with
their delightful uproar their bounding
boys--their sweet little modeslly, court
|seying, ayhap girls--iheir play grounds
I-lheir pranks--their chestnut and their
CHERRY trees--ther springs Of sweet wa
Iters, with their gourd or their wilk's
Ishell--lheir swings-their sweet briars
I--their< sporls--thei- loves-lheir flights
t-their.lerules and brch--with their mu-
sic of the murmuring 'a;-b-absn Or
4 .a ~. u TX.
Imy friends, go back 10 The days Of child
hood-fomember the OLE school house
land, whilst The tear OF a swelling good
heart stands in your eyes, go about this
work at once! The vintage school!
! w hat enaciipns andlhopes nestle aud Ion
lldlein IT'S BOSOM! What hallsad, halt
/. sweet memories, rush back tots by'gone
! happy days! IL, when return,l can bpl
llstop at one common Tree, school--hear one
.lswel l-wasifed and well-combed' ufchin ask.
I'Who is lhatP aud hear onolher reply;
.lsIIeis our old Representative, who told
! Jour parents that The STATE scas bound q
lteach.us all as ITS owa children, and pefsts4.
ded them to bear tarss for our education,
II viii then feel the joy ofhsvlng done