Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-08
THE OHIO SCHOOL JOURNAL.

Than 10 bow the reck and bend the knee
In the p%roudest palace OF slavery"
THE OHIO SCHOOL JOURNAL.
We have recently received one or TWO num-
bers Of this monthly publication, which is
now issued at Columbus, o.. price so cents
per year. Each No. contains fifteen octave
pages, and is devoted, as its name indicates,
to the promotion Of education.
Although the world has been rolling on its
axis thousands Of years, the science Of edu-
cation is but yet imperfectly understood and
unless teaching was one of the lost arts of
the ancients, it never has been understood as
its importance demands. Christian nations
have one peculiarly in their mode of teach
ing, of which we believe heathendom is rea-
sonably clear. We aIlude to the practice Of
teaching-both at home and at school-tle
very opposite Of what children are e]njoincd
10 practice. They are brought into as init
mate connection as possible with unprinci-
pied heroes Of former times, and licentious
d%epi'gods of heather mythology. These
persoDages are presented 10 them as models
upon which to form their own character. Ia
many instances the tristan most lasting con-
ceptions which a school-boy has of greatness,
is derived from the picture Of some noted rob-
Der and oPpressor of his race, whose deeds
have been made the theme for the poets song,
or the subject Of the historians praise; deeds,
so nfamou in their character, that if com
mitled in this day and land, would sub
ject the perpotrator to the penitentiary or The
gallows; and The narration Of whose exploits,
instead Of forming tn school books Of Amer
lea, would find a place with the biographies
of Captain Kidd or the pirate Laftte. Is it
not unreasonable TO expect a boy thus educa-
ted 10 become a Christian man?
The character of Jesus has been made less
a subject for study in Christian schools. than
that of Achilles, Hector and Ajax. The
school-boys of the 18Th century are less IA
miliar with the beautiful, peace-breathing doc
trines of the man Of Judea, than with the in
cldents of NaPoleon's career, or the bloody
struggle OF the fathers of &c, 1t is no won
der that drunkenness, and war, and slavery,
continue 10 exist; for those who are now
men, have been taught, either by their home
or school education, or both, 10 tolerate, if
not 10 admire these things in others. Train
up a child in the way he sh Juld 90, and when
he is old he will not depart from it," but
those who are now men, or the great mass
OF them, have been trained up in the way
they should not go, and the deplorable results
are before us.
We rejoice that the spirit of reform is NOV
ing in this, as in every thing else which af-
fects the temporal or eternal happiness of
man. 4 better time is coming, ma it has
already come, and a great change has been
wrought In the character Of educational pub
LEGATIONS from the veriest nursery story 10 the
school-boy's finishing volume. Success, saw
We to every measure which has a tendency
to make the little man start right as he tod.
dies from the cradle with the great world
before him for his school and his theatre of
action.
The OCEAN WAvE.-Corbett and Trunick.
OF New Lisbon, have issued proposals to pub
llsh a weekly journal with the above name.
They promise that it shall be the cheapest
and best newspaper in the West" However
ms may be, the price-Sl per years. GER
talniy low enough, and we should say too
low TO afford a living profit, unless their adj
vertising patronage should be good. The
Prospectus promises well; and if the Tenn
peranco people in the country round about
are aware of the benefit, both morally and
pecunlariIy, which a good Temperance paper
Is 10 the community in which ii circulates,
they will give practical evidence of it in their
encouragement of whatever tends 10 promote
its interests. ="
"CoNQUERlNG a PEAcE."-We recommend
this tale on our 4rh page to all of our readers
who are unfortunately engaged in litigation
if such there be. The writer admirably H.
illustrates The evil results Of what is of too fire.
quent occurrence-legal revenge. No one
who reads it, unless he is boiling over with
fight, or himself engaged in such a contest
as is described, can help admitting that Mr..
GoOdyear's mode of settling a difficulty, is
the true way to conquer a peace" Proba-
bly, all litigantS will sooner or later become
convinced of this, if not before, yet certainly
after their pockets have been stripped. Had
one tenth of the money that has been spent
in law during the past year by parties mere
ly TO show their "spunk," been expended in
disseminating The principles of good will, the
world would have been much nearer con-
queTing a peace than it now is.