The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-12-26


The words that we have learned while young
Shall follow all our days:
For they're engraven on our hearts,
And you cannot erase"
We wontg give up the Bible, &C.
We won't give up the Bible
Well shout it far and wide;
Until the echo shall be heard
Beyond the rolling tide
Till all shall know that we, though young,
Withstand each treach'rous art:
And that from Gods own sacred word
Well never, never part.
We won't give up the Bible, &c.
Mayor HARPER then introduced
the exclusion of the Bible from the schools in certain
wasds of this CITY, He commenced by observing to his
public school system, that the glory Of the EN-
pre State and City, in which the Bible was read and
nonorsd and fst sure that he would not withhold bis
ell essential to their system Of government and its
prosperity In abiding the bsnishment Of the Bible
from the schools he would say for the satisfaction Of the
public and to correct wrong Impressions that it not
universal in this city. So far from that being the fact
the Bible was read in about three ourths Of the schools in
the city and county, which attended by about the
same proportion of the total number Of children attend
ing those schools The same was also true Of the Ward
Schools established under the law and the incorp0
with the orphsn Asylum. that Of the Roman Catholic
the teachers read the Holy Scriptures their pdps
according to the Douay version, without note or com
whose schools the Bible was excluded the children at
tending which forbidden to read the Bible He owed
it, however to the teachers Of these schools to that
he did not fluid among them any who objected 10 the use
of the Bible and was equally due to the parents ofthe
pupils that they equally free from objections to the
reading Of the Scriptures BY them Indeed far from
that it daily read by large number Of them who at
tended those schools in which it used The blame
Officers ~ He would not At that time stop detail the
complaints in which, as County superintendent he was
involved and the little success which attended his app
cation on the subject Suffice it to say that those who
sanctioned the exclusion OF the Bible thereby admitted
that It necessary evil Under these circumstances
ia s due admnistraon, or else 70 wink at the B
bls being trampled under foot with IMMUNITY, In
HI ssw asns Goss s Be-
voice of American Protestants. To be called upon in
the nineteenth century in Protestant country in land
of religious feeling to defend the Of the Bible
enough to make blush the degeneracy of their
country and those little who had SO sweet.
ready & cry ou on the
system that makes its defence necessary" To
and American and who were the Cause Of en-
GLIDING the Bible he would say as Alexander once said
to cowardly soldier who claimed to DO namesake Of
his" Change your name or change your character
Dr. Reese then entered into very poe c eulogy Of the
Bible which is not necessary to give, most persons
such book to be banshed from their schools and
would American citizens tolerate an sc thereby jshon
sring their Goo Shades 81 the Pilgrim fathers forbid
he thought correct to regard the exclusion Of the
Bible gratutous wrong onhe part Of those he men
argument in its favor as book in general use, was
founded first upon the universality Of It's adoption
arty prevsiled; in England, Scotland ireland,
Prussia, Switzerland &C.; whilst the other hand in
Russia, Rome, Spain, and other countries where the
former prevailed 1t excluded consistently with the
Of liberty The speaker here detailed the unharmonous
working Of the system by having two sets Of oicersa
different set Of principles in operation. One sustaining
the Of the Bible the other excluding making
selection IT Of book. the s other different ONE
produce harmonycould not be anything but odious and
unpopular and totally inconsistent with the main design
Of this system which was to train up the young in vir
tue and intelligence, these essential to the peipe
tuity Of free institutions, for without them uni
versa suffrage became universal curse it designed
upon ALL whether native or foreign without
distinction OF country or religion that nsrnnon
al 0 1nsd Of which 'd
be said, "the rich and the poor meet together,
the Lord is the master Of them all" The fear
fcaons for American citizenship for the very first duty
man may be required to perform would be to testify
Judge could accept the oath of him who did not respect
and know how to value the Bible. He who was taught
to regard the Bible as sectsrian bosk might as As
youth who were SO instructed would not be
good citizens but pests of society The schools under
the supervision Of the Roman Catholics defeated the de-
sign Of the excellent system of education; many Of
them comprising nearly altogether Irish Roman Catho
Continued to aene
much length thot the grants Of money to these schools
illegal under the act because Of the exclusion Of
the Bible sectarian book; that option was left
with him' as County Superintendent duty being
plainly and explicitly to administer the laws although
that had brought down upon him the sevees attacks Of
the press end em every quarter He protested his deter
mnaon opersevere from conviction Of duty declaring
that If the law directed the use of the Roman Mssa he
would either enforce that injunction resign. He
thought Il was high time for all Americans who loved the
word Of TRUTH to awake in ts defenceif they did not
in very short time, they should general confsgra
ton Of Bibles that would Hume the sky with its lurd
Rames and the enacted were Witnessed
time ago toward the northern border OF the State
he nh IN vpru pnf nj r
Reese's remarks, which were in some particulars
pointed and racy, and pretty severe upon the grow
ing evil OF Popery. The address. which was a
written one, was read in such rapid manner as to
battle all attempts to report IT, which is loss con-
sdcrng the curious compound Of coincidence for
the Bible zeal for religion, and hatred Of Popery,
which it presented.
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