Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-07
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER
THE aREyIEw" FURTHER REVIEWED.

III speaking not long since oil the |" Democratic
Review" and its assault on the freedom of the
press, in its new law Of treason, we said that we
might upon another occasion revert TO further ar
ticle in the same review, which we had not then
the time to comment upon. The paper to which
we thus alluded is one on Education, and may be
found at page 468 Of the Review in question. A
long passage in it struck MS with great force, az
fording the attempt establish, in regard the dis
cpline Of the young, truths in precise contradiction
to the entire system by which Locoiocism would
govern the same persons at ripened age.
Either the principles laid down by the Demo
cratic organ are utterly false TO the youth, or
those which it sets up for different stage of life
must be false as 10 the man. For, surely, educa-
ton is but the early training those habits and arts
Of which mature life is 10 be the exercise Apply,
then, the following doctrines as the legitimate guides
for the formation of mems minds, feelings and hab-
itndes, and what will become of that absence Of all
reverence, Of all love of order, Of all willing obe-
dienee, which make the main temper, thought,
genius Of the very Jacobnism which those OF the
g Democratic " constantly inculcate
II will, indeed, be distinctly seen, in the very
outset of our intended citations, that the Review
admits of itself all that we have just caimad-ilai
in effect, Wordsworth says:
The boy is father to the man 7;
and you train the boy, therefore, thus and Thus
only that the manmay be, of his own accord, what
you made the boy by compulsion. We begin with
the following:
All plans then, Of instruction worthless unless
they aim, far they 60 the harmonious and simuane
GUS development and culture Of whole nature The truth
IS human being is 70 be raised Of the region of
norance and debasemen by fragments and sections tar
he IS raised at ALL his whole being be raised
and all attempts raise him otherwise will but tend pull
him asunder In this division destruction it is
if the BRAIN the heart and the lungs should perform their
several functions apart from each other while it is only by
the united action Of all that each continues to exist To
sruct perform the highest duty of intelligent being
another intelligent being, grounds of sympa
thy and from feelings of mutual affection. Teaching the
exercise Of benevolence in mpang knowledge from
of duty the discharge Of duty in mpartng knowledge from
principle of love- how you have it. but it must
be all in EACH and each in all or can be truly nothing
Now mark the pregnancy to our purpose Of what
follows
But there Is probably, point in which this position is
better verified than in the obvious necessity of sbordnaon
and respectful submission teacher To load down teach
with responsibilities and yet withhold from him the auto
rity requisite their discharge, almost
psePosterous The great strife among Democrats u.s. 10
secure right uIhouf doing dulles TO realize The
benefits Of government, schoui being governed Inpatient
Of the least inequality demand all the blessings of subor
dnaon and every where trying substitute convictions
of interest for sentiments Of loyalty and We
like Gonzao IN the play, the latter end Of whose
wealth fogeis the beginning viii have sovereignty,
and yet will all be kings Now, TO he above beyond
the control OF teacher simply To be above beyond his
instruction for it is perfectly natural that pupils should
ceve themselves wiser than their teacher when they en-
couaged allowed to sit in judgment his acquisitions
Dociiy implies submNvenes and upon indocity all in
strucfon Of poweress The must be humbed
he he
can be moulded People rise until they look up
TO something above hem while looking up to themselves,
their course is always downwards Angels far we
know, have fallen but and that attempt
at selfgovemment Democracy may be good in its place,
but if people be treated democrats boyhood
expected that they will turn devils in manhood
Here, then, is the very strongest admission that
Democracy" as practised by us Democrats is
any thing but fit 10 be taught the young and, this
being granted, we not how the logical conclu-
sion Gu be escaped, lhat such democracy is not
fit to be practised by the old. If they are to act
upon it, certainly the sooner IL is taught them the
better.
sTis education forms the tender mind
Just as the twg is bent, the trees inclined"
But the Review has evidently caught glimpse
Of that old Spartans notion, who, arguing with an
Athenian as to their several forms Of government,
said to him.: " Your are in favor Of democracy, it
seems il, them you are sincere, why do you not
: SET up one in your own family! Why do you
/. claim TO govern your own children and slaves -
But observe what the Review then goes on to
say Of the necessity Of subordnation to law and
order in schools:
sefgoverning school is, simply, selfdamning school
fmen gorern themselves, they peorce be
first taught obey. Obedience ourselves the renun-
citation Of all obedeuce people be made coordinate with
each other they all become teachers teacher pupils
and bedam springs up in the footsteps Of schoohouse
democracy. No teach US, unless he be over
IL he set ourselves, shall be ourselves
over him. In Short truly learn from teacher
till we obey him; truly obey him, ill
him truly him. all we recognise
his superiority and that recognition awakened
minds, Il must be awakened ia our bodies III we
both obey and revere, his freemen we obey with
revesng, slaves him if we neither obey nor
revere, we slaves to the devil"
Now, had IRE said such lungs what less than
general cry Of horror would have arisen from all
the scandalized q Democracy" Virginia would
have turned PALE South Carolina red, New Hamp-
shire blue and they who sit aoft, the recording
angels Of other peoples opinions, when some ac
cnsing spirit Of the Union = the Jacob Jour
nal had flown up to the Cabinet with the daring
expressions, would have written them down with
angelic pity, and perhaps halEblotted them out
with tears over the frailty into which men can
lapse, even amidst all the lights Of Jacksonian Re