American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1844-11-13
WEDNESDAY MORNING, Nov IS, 1874

WEDNESDAY MORNING, Nov. Is, 1874
SUBSCRIPTION IN THE DIsTRIcT. Since the
announcement of our determination to support
American Republican principles, we have add
ed five hundred names TO our subscription list
in the District of Columbia.
FREE GOVERNMENT. 1t is justly remarked
by Montesquieu, that virtue and intelligence
are essential to the people who live under n
republican system Of government; and it is this
conviction that has induced the extensive or
ganizaton of public schools in many of the
states of the union. BY extending the benefits
of education to all, greater equality is pro-
duced, and better safeguard afforded for the
institutions of the country. As each citizen is
entitled to participate in the selection OF pub
lie officers, it is important that the minds OF all
should be SO cnlightencdby education, as to ena-
BILE them to appreciate their rights, and to ex-
,ercise them free and uncontrolled. This is the
great end and object of the common school
system; and there can be no doubt that, through
the agency of this system, aided by private
schools, the advantages of education will be
much more extensively diti'used than hereto
sore and that, as the rising generation become
more enlightened, they will become more vir-
tuous, and more attached to the system Of gov
eminent under which they live. But a dark
cloud hangs over this fair prospect. Whilst
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education, for the important stations which
they are hereafter to occupy citizens and
rulers of our country, European powers are
exerting themselves to overwhom us with
their convicts and paupers, who bring with
them their prejudices, ignorance, vices and
criminal propcnsities thus the benefits of
our school system are to be neutrazed or de-
stroyed by the action of foreign governments
Our country is to be made the receptacle for
the criminals and paupers of Europe; who are
not only to mingle with our citizens on terms
of equality, but are to be endowed with rights
which may enable them to control the destiny
of our country. They leave the goals and
poor houses of Earopc, to meet us at the ballot
box in the selection of our rulers. This Is an
intolerable grievance, which cannot and will
not, be much longer submitted to. The reports
of former health officer of this port shew
that the "maimed, the halt and the blind, " and
the branded criminal, have been precipitated
upon our shores, by order of some of the au-
thorities on the continent; and all these in pro-
cess of time, no doubt became citizens of the
IT, States Can native Americans or adopted
citizens who have become such from choice,
consent that practice so runous to the morals
of the community, and so prejudcial to the pu-
rity Of our elections, shall be longer continued:
We shall be mi taken if single voice re-
spond in the affirmative. We have all COM
mon tie which binds us to our country, and we
should all be equally Jealous in preserving our
republican institutions. Let then every Anne
rican in principle unite to put down all foreign
influence; and to maintain and transmit to those
who ale to succeed us, the priceless inheritance
which was bequeathed to US by the patriots of
the revolution.