American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-10-07
AN ELOQUENT EXTRACT.

FROM AN ADDRESS BY HON. HORACE MANN.
at were better, far better, that the atheist
and the basphemer and he who since the last
setting sun has died his parricide or sunk his
soul i'll sacrilege should cha llenge equal politca
power with the wisest and best, than that the
great lesson which Heaven for six Thousand
years, has been teaching the world, should be
lost upon 1.-THE lesson, that the intellectual
and moral nature of man, is the one thing pre-.
cious in the sight of God, and therefore, that
unless this nature is enlightened and refined
and purified, neither opulence, nor power, mol
learning, nor genius, nor domestic sanctity, mol
the holiness of Gods affairs can be safe. Unit
the immortal and god-hke capacities of every
human being that comes into the world are
deemed more worthy, are watched more ten
derby than any other thing no dynasty of men
no form Of government, shall stand or can stant
upon the face of earth, and the force of fraue
that would seek to uphold them shall be but a!
letters of fax to bind the fame. Let those who
are ieoparded or lost by fraud or misgovern-
ment, let those who quake with apprehension
for the fate of all they hold dear, let those who
behold and lament the Dissertation of all that is
holy-let rulers whose counsels are perpexed
whose plans are bafiled, whose laws are violat-
ed or cvaded, let them all know that whatever
of i'll they fear or feel are but the just retribu-
tons of righteous Heaven for neglected child
hood. Remember the then child whose voice
first lisps to-day, before that voice shall whis-
per treason or thunder sedition at the head OF
an armed band. Remember the child whose
hand first left its tiny bauble, before that hand
shall scatter fire-brands, arrows Of death. Re-
member those sporting groups of youth, in
whose halcyon bosoms there sleeps an ocean as
yet scarcely ruffied by the passions, which soon
shall heave it as with tempest strength. Re
member that whatever station in life they may
fill, these inortals-these immortals are our
care Then should we devote, cXpcnd, consc-
crate ourselves to the holy work Of their inn
provement. Let us pour out light and truth as
God pours out rain and sunshine. Let US not
seek knowledge as the luxury Of the few, but
dispense it as the bread Of life. Let us learn
how the ignorant may be instructed, the inno-
cent preserved, the vicious reclaimed. Let us
call down the Astronomer from the sky, the
Geoogist from his subterranean explorations.
Summon if need be the mightest intellects
from the council chamber of the nation. En-
ter clustered halls where the scholiest muses.
over his superhuous annotations, dissolved con-
clave and synod, where subtle poemics are
vanly discussing their barren dogmas. Collect
whatever talent or erudition, or eloquence, or
authority this broad land can supply, and 60
forth and teach this people. For in the name
of the living God it must be proclaimed, that
RIGHTEOUSNESS must be the liberty and violence
and chicanery the law, and superstition and
craft the religion: and the seli-instructed indul-
gence OF every sensual and unhallowed passion,
the only happiness of that people who neglect
the education of their children