Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1845-11-26

AN ELEGANT ExrRAcr.-It were bet
ter, far better, that the atheist and
the blasphemer, and he who since the
last setting sun has died as a parricide OF
suak his soul in sacrilege, should chal-
lenge equal political power with the wi.
ssst and best, than 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, ID the one thing
precious in the sight Of God, and there
fore. that unless this nature is enlight-
ensd and refined and purified, neither op-
ulence, nor power, nor learning. mol
genius, nor domestic sanctity, nor the
holiness Of Gods alter can be safe. Un-
til the immortal and god.like capacities
Of every human being that comes into
the world are deemed more worthy, are
watched more tenderly than any other
thing, no dynasty Of men, no form Of
government, shall stand or can stand
upon the face Of the earth, and the force
Of fraud that would seek to uphold them
shall be as but fetters Of flax to bind the
fame.
Let those who are jeoparded or lost
by fraud or misgovernmont, let those
who quake with apprehension forl the
fate of all they hold dear, let those who
behold and lament the desecration of all
that is holy; lot rulers whose counseIs
are perplexed, whose plans are baffled,
whese laws are violated or evaded. let
them all know that whatever of III they
fear or feel, are but the just retrbutions
of righteous Heaven for neglected child
hood. Remember thou the child whose
voice first Iisps to-day, before that voice
shall whisper treason or thunder sedition
ct the head of an armed band. Remem>
ber the child whose hand drst left the
tiAy bauble, before that hand shall scat-
ter fire. brands, arrows and death. Re-
those sporting groups OF youth,
in whose halcyon bosoms there sleeps an
ocean as yet scarcely raffled by the pas
sions, which soon will heave it with
tempest strength. Rememberthat what
over station in life they may fill, these
these immortals are our care.
Then should we devote, expend, conse-
crate ourselves to the holy work Of their
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 innocent preserved, the
vicious reclaimed. Let us call down the
Astronomer from the sky, the Geologist
from his subterranean explorations.
Summon, If need be. the mightiest in.
tellects from the council chamber of the
nation. Enter cloistored nails where the
scoliast muses. over his superfuous an.
notations, dissolve conclave and synod,
where subtle polemics are vainly dis
cussing their barren dogmas. Collect
whatever talent or erudition, or elo-
quence, oriauthority this broad land can
supply, and 90 forth and teach this peo-
pie. For in the name of the living God
!. must be proclaimed, that licentious.
ness must be the liberty, and violence
and chicanery the law, and superstition
and craft the religion; and the seIfin-
indulgence of every sensual and
unhallowed passion, the only happiness
Of that people who neglect the education
Of their children.-.address ofthe Hon.
Horses Mann. --