The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-01-01

form your duly. OtherS are 10 Cooperate
with you in carrying on the enterprise,
but you must infUse into their bosoms the
necessary energy and spirit. Leave your
impression you may-upon the char.
acter Of the state of Vermont. Even
should your services be expended in this
field of action bu! for single year, you
may leave bright impression that shall
be traceable for long years TO come, in The
improved condition OF our common
schools. You may identify your names
with all the benign results which shall
flow from such improvement. The en-
,erpIizing pioneer who first lays open TO
the sun the painless wilderness, is not
soon forgotten in the succeeding stages of
advanced cultivation; and the successive
Improvements afterwards superadded,
mus. be regarded in history as but q con-
tInuaion of the labor which his hand be-
gun.
And finally, as a last Indictment, (f
indeed more could be- needed to insure the
exertion of your best energies,) if you
worthily and efficiently bear your part in
those agencies under which the State OF
Vermont shall gradually rise in the scale
of virtue and intelligence, until she shall
attain high eminence in these ennobIng
characteristics, you shall, if your lives
nre spared, reap rich and living reward
in your own bosoms. You shall look
abroad and see her sons as they emerge
from childhood. growing up into iniel!i-
gent, useful and honorable member
daughters becoming vir!uous, we'll inform
ed and accomplished women ; and you
may exclaim in the honest pride and
gladness of your hearts" these-lhese
are our Jewels" And that pride and
gladness shall have omprehensiveness
ofscope, and there will mingle with these
emotions a sense or consciousness of ele-
walton ard expansion of soul, unknown 10
the bosom of the Roman matron; for
while her "jewes' were but fen. yours
shall be numbered by thousands and tens
Of Thousands.
These instructions have Of necessity,
been drawn up in haste, and without time
for mature reflection. If | have seemed
TO dictate upon some points which do not
fairly come within my province, it is be-
cause | have assumed 10 act as YOUR organ
and express what i! was presu ned would
be your own united views, could you
have had free intercourse and a full IN,
derstanding with each other. For it was
believed that your action would be more
confident and decided, il concerted and
harmonious, than it could be Otherwise
and this concert could not be secured,
under presen! circumstances, in any other
way.
l! is deemed proper that copy Of this
should be furnished 10 each board oflown
superintenden,s, when they shall have
been appointed, as their duties are, in
many respects, similar to your own and
measures will be taken TO efe:t this OBJ
ject.
The brief general advice to teachers
hereto subjoined. is given not with a view
OF superseding or controlling 10 any
shape, your own eforls, but because it is
believed that by the method proposed for
sending it abroad, it may reach all, or
near! y all, our schools, and be producing,
as it is hoped, a, least some beneficial ef,
fects, before your own direct and person.
al influence can be brought 10 bear upon
them. 1t is in!ended that copy shall
be sent 10 every school district in the state,
a. least 10 every one in which a teacher is
employed for the present winter, 10 be
put into his hands as soon as practicable
and it may be LEFT, al the close of The
echool, in the hands of the district clerk
or prudential committee, for future use by
way of reference or otherwise, as occa,
sion ray require.
In conclusion permit me 10 suggest to
you the facilities which some periodical
paper, devoted to the interests of common
school education would afford you in the
discharge of your duties. And especial.
~ would | confidently and strongly re-
commend 10 you as an assistant and
guide, work entitled "The School and
the Schoolmaster.' 1t is not perhaps so
tull upon some topics as some other works
OF the kind; but II is the most systematic
and complete of any with which am ac-
quain!ed. Arrangements have been
made by which it is hoped you may be
able to obtain it, if desired, at Burlington,
and perhaps elsewhere.
Instructions will be given you, in re.
gard TO the examination Of teachers, pre-
vious 10 the time when you will be called
upon 10 examine candidates for the sum.
mer schools, HORACE EATON,
Stale Superintendent Common Schools.
Enosburgh, Dec. /, l045.
SHIpwREcKs IN THE ST. LAWRENCE.
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wrecks of vessels which departed late from