Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-07

ths was not precisely the spirit IN which hey were
treated. Ddhe deal with men by terror and strength,
or by mildness and reason, Howdid lie treat even
his ushers of his first Cabinet! and how the under
master elected with. him! Was he not one Of those
teachers who relied infinitely less on books than
blows who often inflicted punishment to-day for
the very thing he had taught yesterday and who,
in truth, in the discipline of his school, would have
Topped the whole Tree Of knowledge to turn its
boughs into rods and cudges But mark the mex,
parcel of these morals for, let it be observed thai
all we are quoting is from continuous passage;
"If teacher would be truly obeyed he must be
dy to give liberties than take them the obligations
upon him. than 10 enforce the obligations 10 him and above
ALL he must avoid any ostentaon Of for there
probably nothing that youth quick perceive slow
To forget and to despse, moral coxcomby The
moasc and pesc Of the present day the last thing
that oughtto have any place in the world and the school
room Is the last place in the world where ought TO be
Practised."
The ruler, then--(and why not still more Of men
than Of boys !)-should be still more exactng OF
himself than Of those he governs should not have
a loose creed as 10 his own powers and duties,
strict as 10 the rights and obligations OF every
body else. Was that the Democratic practice,
when the Executive proclaimed that he should Judge
for himself Of the consttntonaty OF all laws! when
he made war upon coordinate branches OF the Go
lvernment! or when he announced himself the ex-
elusive Representative ofthe peoples The Review
says buys should moi be governed thus does it
then hold that men should
Again: il says nothing Of the high necessity that,
TO keep up his authority, he who governs must
maintain his character for The most unvarying inn
partially. N0body must be prescribed: there
must be no (avortes or there is an end Of all good
feeling, of all confidence. Those under the ban
will be rebellious the petted pupils be insolent.
Now, how is it on this score! Modern demo-
crazy" has divided the national school-room into
two great classes-one that is to be scourged an
other that is TO be pampered.
But the Review talks Of " the ostentation Of con-
science" and Of :. moral coxcombry," as amongst
the very worst things that can be employed among
boys. What, them does it think of such g ostenta-
lion 7 and such /" coxcombry,' when used as one
of the grand resorts Of politics? Yet this, as every
body knows, is the grand " Democratic method
When its professors mean to strike blow at the
States the Constitution, they always pave the
way by making great rout about them. The
State Rights men trampled on the abroad seal y of
New Jersey; fitted out expeditions against Rhode
Island; pronounce that it never was republican
government; and keep that worthy and wise little
State for near two years on sort of nesided trial
before Congress, body having no pretencc of ju-
risdiction over its internal acts. They nullify
sound and necessary law Of Congress. They are
but willing to assume the debts
If
they eannex" the United States to foreign Powers
by joint resolutions
Observe, however, the sequel of the passage.
Would not one think that grown men have as many
rights personal and POLITICAL as boys or girls in an
academy! Is that half Of the country who, by
fraud and by extraneous help, have lost an election
TO be DISTINGUISHED, put under general public for
teiture and outlawry, such as would be monstrous
and tyrannical in an old-fed school-house?
60 The whole SYSTEM indeed Of administration should be
pervaded by spirit Of humanity and conscenousness Ev
act Of enforcement derive sanction and its efficacy
from an obviously yet unostenaous duty
tie who strikes blow from of duty and
then turns hide his grief for the pain disgrace he
has been obliged inc vii scarcely need to strike again
On all scores indeed il best treat pupils as If we
thought they had sous II they may always have
hem; but by treating them they had we NAV reasona
Ny hope TO develop souls in them whe by treating them
If they had none, shall be kill all the germs Of
oul out OF them Doubtless the Of all governments il
hat which only acts upon them not within them which
yes them all 10 dread and nothing venerate: and the
worst is that which dsians upon them i'm order
within them for, whether pups have souls not
hey certainly have bodies and treating them they had
bodies is nearly bad treating them if they had no
ous"
Every body, even infdels, must acknowledge the |
ense if not the sacredness of that scrptural maxim
which says, Train up child in the way he should
y0Sand when he is old he will not depart from it,
This being acknowledged, what is to be thought Of
he remainder of this passage, as a series of I" De-
nocratic " truths /!
'fo reason with pupil, is but 10 compromise with his
e will the surest way To confirm the very dsobedience
which needs TO be subduej No possibly understand
he worth Of obedience until he obeys; and all attempts to
him into it only tend strengthen him against it. I
be said that pupils rational beings, is they
not rational beings until they obey il they Were they
would need TO lie reasoned into submission. In the school
the nursery ounce OF birch is always worth ton
Of logic That there danger using the former admit
ted that there ~ danger refusing IT, very wise man
once asserted and very wise demonstrating The
truth people may well b. destroyed in their YOUTH az be
educated into grown-up destrucves they may IS well be
burnt IN the egg, hached into walking frebands"
So, then! The business Of teaching is, al last,
to hinder men from rpening into "grown-up de-
structIves," from becoming walking fire-brands -
In other words, IL is to prevent them from being
Locofocos OF the first water, approved members Of
the Progressive Democracy" and worthy gradu-
aies Of " the Empire Club -