Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-05-15
EDUCATION OF CHILDREN,

is put to school at an early age, If care.
Is taken to provide the best master, and
1.-THE morals are preserved by good ex-
amples and religious influences, the
parents think all has been done that
duty reqnlies, and that Their Progeny
viii have nothing TO reproach them fer.
Fatal erro;! 1t is not the mental, so
much as The physical education Of your
child, for which you will be called ia
account. Good health is gilmore val
ne than book learning; and contentment
and happiness a better heritage than
millions of dollars. But no person
can be happy with sicl1ly constitu-
floa. Hall The miserable hypochon
dTiacs you know may thank their pa
rents fora diseased state of mind. A
healthy frame has noreto do with sound
Intellect than you illink; and The short
est road 10 desponAency;s tn rough a
d'sordered system. Ifyou would have
your Children grow up able, energetic
men, with minds equal 10 either for
tune, take care in early childhood that
they lay the seeds Ola good constitution
by proper exercise. AS a general
rule, children are put 70 school too
soon. The consequence is that the
vital power which ought to 90 to
strengthen the nussels and enlarge the
francis consumed in the subs tances of
brain oyer-taSed BY study; and nothing
IS more common now than to see chill
aren with large heads, whom tbei: pa
rents consider prodigiss, but who are,
IN erery instance ape h7aoac of. affected
with fits, headaches, vertigos, or other
nervous disorders. Often children thus
abused, become insane; still oftener
they die prematurely. Indeed, it has
grown into prcverb that child SIS
too smart to live In the public
schools of this city and county this O.
ver-taxing Of children with study pre-
walls to lanentable extent. We have
known tasks to be given to child, and
to one, two, Of more than ordinary a.
blllty, which occupied nearly all her
time when out of schoo! to prepare for
the ensuing day, leaving little or no
leisure for recreation. The fact is,
teachers wish to make short cuts to
learning; andcram where they ought to
instruct. Ii parents knew how the
constitution Of their progeny are weak
ened by such a forcing system, and
what fertile source of i'll, health and
unhappiness arising from i!l-health is
thus laid up for their victims, they
would attend more to the physical eiu-
cation oftheir children, see that they
had daily exercises, and not attempt
to coahne them in school more than four
hours day, until they are ten yea rs
old.--Neal's Gazette.
The C-';se Of Or Defeat. As we
apprehended the fraudulent votes,
which were polled al the recent cleo
ton in this county, turned the scales,
and the Wing candidates, to whom
will be awarded the certificates Of cleo
ton, have been chosen BY an Illegal ex-
ere,se Of the elective franchise.
First: Take the votes manufactured
by George r. Long, comprising in all
about l2O, of which 60 or 70 were
polled, and what clause of the Consti-
tuition, what substantial right to free
hold, eonfefs the right Of suffrage upon
his agrantees?
Admit Long was the purchaser Of
lands sold for the nol-payment of tax
escharged to the righlfnl owners
The Constitution requires freehold
voter to be spossessedp Long never
had possession, at most had only the
right of property, which could have
been obtained only BY a resort to law,
that is allowing the rightful owners to
be merely adverse claiments. Long,
therefore being out Of the possession
and his grantees also, they consequent
III, could not legally exercise the right
Of suffrage. This is one view of the
ease, admitting the right of property
passed to Long by his purchase, which
We deny, but admit 10 shew even in
that case he nor his grantees never had
the right TO vote upon such claims.
Secondly: The lands in question are
and have been, IN facf, for long peri
OF Of years in the uninterrupted pos
session Of the rigatful owners, who
, have been the peaceable andindustrious
tiIlcrs and annual tax payers on the
same, though BY the errors and neglect
ofthe land commissioners and assessors
their lands were improperly charged
with taxes to others, 10 persons in
some instances wholly unknown] as
well as the proper owners, and as was
inevitably the result, the lands were
non.incliy sold forthe non-payment Of
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