Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-10-16

their present torpor, and set free FROM
their present bondage, the myriads ef
bonndless minds, now wolse than un-
productive, otaa ignorant, slothful and
vicious population, TO make, educated,
industrious AID moral citizens, and ia
their enlightened Judgment and culli-
waited sense of justice, afford to Quits,
and those who think and feel with him,
the best security for the judiciouS, ex-
tensise and permanent advancement
Of Internal improvement, whilst we
adopt the most certain and efficient
means of increasing he wealth Of the
people with which they are to be con-
structed. We would give to education
that inmediate,altention and indepen-
dent action ofthe Legislature to which
lis paramount importance, not only as
measure of State economy, but as one
OF humanity, justice and seIf.preserva-
ton, entities ii: Quits would make it
the incident to a hazardous speculation
"a dependant on an expensive conin-
gency. While Quits requires for his
scheme an enormous outlay of'he pub
lie treasury and consequent increase of
taxation, for local improvements, to an
amount of which the most skillful en-
gineer could not now form any proba-
bic estimate, we ask for the general i'm
provement of the people Of the aghole
State, and of every part ofit-in knowl-
edge, in morals and in wealth-the
expenditure ola sum, not raised by "a
public debt but by justly apportioned
contributions from the people,so incon-
siderable, that they would scarcely be
felt or complained Of by any one. Nor
is the force or correctness Of this last
assertion at all invalidated by the sta
tistics Of Quits, or the arguments and
deductions he derives from them; a.
mong which is the most extraordinary
error, of supposing that, 'the people in
the Northern States educate them
selves 1t was intended here to ex-
pose the very ride discrepancy between
those statistics and the official docu-
ments Of those States and of ours; as
well as to show, how very large pro-
portion Of the children of all classes in
those States are educated at the public
expense. But more time and space
in your paper has already been occu-
pied, than | could reasonably expect or
desire you to devote to this subject at
one time. The earliest opportunity
shall be devoted to that object. For
the present, permit me in all friendship
and respect to suggest to Quits the
prvpriety, the jjuotice, the patti ivtisr", of
avoiding in his able advocacy of the
cause, which he has SO zealously es-
poused, every thing which may create
and foster among the people and in the
Legislature, petty, narrow-mlnded,
parties in behalf of the different schemes
of proposed State Improvement men
tai, moral or pecuniary, jealous Of each
others success, and viewing the pub
lie Treasury as an object of plunder,to
be seized and enjoyed by the strongest.
In the consideration ofsuch subjects all
local distinctions and less worthy mo-
tives should be forever banished; and
each one, from whatever part of the
State be may come should feel that he is
in justice ,liberaity and pride simply
VIRGINIAN.
TABLE No. /.
Counties of Virginia, which, in le43, had less
than one-lhird of the INDECENT children in
them at school, according to the Second Au-
ditor's Report, of Dec. I'd, 1874.
EASTERN VIRGINIA.