New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-17

good and useful citizens shall be abundan,y compen-
stated for our pains
The children then sang very sweeuy tn, fol
lowing
AMERICA. LOVE THEE STILL.
AMERICA love thee still
There : glory in thy name
There 5 brightness besmins from thy birth.
Ard honor from thy fame
There : beauty In thy naked soil.
Repeating smiles Of love
Thy rocks and blooming wilds proclaim
Protection from above.
America love thee .iil
Beneath thy valleys 'est
The oil grims of iyrants power
Bright emblem Of tho besi
IN round them. clothed in silence los
The Wondering patriots fame.
Embamed In sacred Memorys irt-
Immortal donors claim.
America. love thee still
Thou art my native land
Thy i1ys 80 pure can rc'er be found
Upon a foreign strand.
Though Pleasure. path and Fortune smiles
III other chimes seem fair
The hr shtest of their hopes and Joys
Can ught with thee compare
America love thee still
Respondent giories gesm
Through all thy deeds the sacred light
Shall ever be my theme.
Pure from the realms of vctoryssky
The crown was given 10 thee
Midst starry lights eternal stands
The Orb OF Liberty.
Hos Horace MASS was then introduced 10
the Meeting.
Mr.. MAxS said that if he was addressing any 9th
or audcnre-one Of Legislators or Judges. or those
societies who have gone out on missions OF Denevoence
over the earth he should exOrt them to do all in their
mower to preserve the innocence. purity and happiness
which men Yet retain. and which they brought with
oin from childhood But IN addressing body ofteach
er- have dIicreit duty 20 perform. they seek Tor ar
safarlt4rfz rather than remedies they
from guilt rather than svenge IT,
Look al the great spectacle Of humanity no. help
iess ID il when first anded on the shores Of time utterly
unable 70 distinguish between rs blessings and s Oane
Crcumstances chances caprice and worse than all,
false example, seize humanity aud eeds them oy nun
dred. and thousands into folly and vice Years roll on
and they wander wider and wider from the paths oil IN
nocence and virtue and they suffered to wander
and from ignorance. apathy and something worse, no
effort seems to be made TO bring them back. until their
bad habits gigantic forms Of EVIL and they put on
the Gorgon 70 fright society. (Appsuse) Then follows
crime after crime and the officers OF justice step In and
with the prison and the rope seek TO erny man from
doing evil. The Clergy pursue another pan-oth r.
pursue other plans and happy they are they can bring
soul back from the paths OF sn however sse IN ie
day il may be before they made the effort But. oh
how SCARED and cut and msnslei all over with the
wounds of the degradation the poor creatures thus
arrested in their wretched career
But the teacher stands No the gate Of life tAppisuse)
He does wait till the journey Is nall nnisned before
he points 10 the goal and ntereres 70 save the health Of
bod. and mind He alurcs 10 virtue Dy US Deauly "a
ther than deter. from ia vice by lie deformiiy ZAP
ulsu-cD IN the teachers centred all our hopes Tor
our cOuntryi0r the stability Of Us nsutuuons-lor Us
noble example % the nations 81 the earth ana Tor All a
IS lovely and Of good report IN is men ana US women
Education may be divided to Two parts-meutal and
phvsical-and mental may be subdiyted into two VIZ
Intellectual and moral and these again into that when
iocudes our duty 10 God which Is religious and that
which includes our duty which Is moral There
are various other subdivisions but all are twoold
there be considered most especially the nature
OF the party % be acted upon and the means or mode OF
acting upon IL And It sexceedingy difficult correctly 10
define 80 important subject
some say that Education consists IN a mode oil act
ing On the mind but this i erroneous Tor all the
modes of acting the body sl.o must be considered to
come under the den0mr alton OF Education There "as
a certain hsh 10 said by Cecil that could only DC
caught a; night and certain other KIND Oh n-h mat
could only be eau ght in the day time md the diitcuy
was 10 know how catch each Of these and when to
catch them.
Others have spoken Of what they call dumb Educs-
donof the effects Il various nsnimate objects upon the
mlni--0f TIE scenery Of mountaineering ocean-iorm'
Of gs-siatuary And 10 carry out thtr
theory il would be- necessary 70 have all men born a<c
all born under the clrcuinstsncos-n tns same
the same hour OF the day and al e same sea
sous OF tie year.
But the Tact Is that Education . always going on and
never /. finished IN tbs lie new lessons are presented
and learnt aad an acted upon and their influence LELAND
owned A. a.. the various stages O he-at Tue chanse
from the mothers arms % he efforts 10 aOnen the
schOO.Doy Gays-On entering the tension Vergins ~
manhood-at the time OF ase-at the birth Of the
hrst child and subsequent stage Of life tl death
closes the all these Influences wait US on as the
winds waii cloud through The SKY
Mr. " went 10 SPEAK Of that which lies at the bot
tom Of sound Education and dwell with much force on
the fact thar every word in language was borrowed
from some ancien, -ignhcston 70 which Il had sim1
fude He ins,anced the words Intelligence 81 -l-
gion.T morals &c; many stone had been happened
AMI cut before men called satire cutting All CIV
.r.Fz I n
row .iniirude. Fulton had not long discovered the
application Of steam boats before cemagogues were
,sd ~ ct their steam up and men have frequently
t..u ~'.oxu u" since that time. Marx the rgura
1--WE language that men have used IN AL
past time What Protean shapes we make
the mind assume We make It assume al the forms that
ocean ever presents. Now u i -aif q De honhesrr
Cd and now pigeon iyered then again y - eagle
eyed and again /. y beared and blinded Il IS a
meteor eow-woFm Az ieHis fdi4As Il Is alleged 10
possess all the Of water once disposition Is SAL
20 Be sweet and ano,hers i sour one IS redoen oil al
the fragrance OF Ara5y the Best and another stnAs IN
the nOsirs Of Heaven In innocence, the mind Uhlie
prejudice i Is yellow in malace. Il - black and 10
bsck malice has unfreguenily been attached liter
any blue applause and aggnier)
Now although these ern1sms are beautifully descrlp-
tive and graphic yet they the elements with which
false philosophers ugge Often they become the germs
oferror and they rpen and produce harvest OF
misery and crime. But there Is one emblem which bet
ter coends Itself % teachers II u this they nave Of
ten h.ered the mind 70 garden And there IS nothing
completely comparison between the material nature
and the spiritual nature this vzor Of the sol ken
ed IN Of inielecr-weeds kened 70 wees,
sc cultivation may be bestowed on al parts Of the gar
den. or the garden may be utterly neglected In one
garden you may raise nothing but gsudy hoxers Wills;
the life sustaining iruii utterly neglected; IN one ar
den the fruit may be well cultivated and vel cared for.
whilst In others fruit D. neglected and suffered 10 rot
and decay. In some gardens We see nothing but the
fsunrins holyhOck, sunaOver. or dahiss whilst in
others are found the cooling febrifuge the dseasees
irOyng herbs and al that - valuable. (Apllag.e) 30,
10 -Ome families nothing but abundance OF fne
snowy dresses a. sorts Of gitrerng sewgsws and any
ousntfy of richly bound nonsense. Laughter and sp.
p4use whilst in others they have abundance Of rich
food fur the body and soul. (ipplsuss)
There Il one feature Of the mind, however which il
most especially 10 be pointed on, and strictly attended
10. And this the Growth Of mind Growth Is the
attribute Of all the minds attributes IL 10 the very mega
ton Of lnertness and stand sul II adds idea TO idea
from the localities Of the nurssry 70 he Tar OF noun