Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-02-12
DUCAT THE PEOPLE.

Men OF wealth, men oil learning, pour in
structiou Ipon the heads OF the ~people-you
owe the baptism. Look at the boy in
the quite hatless, shoeless, and almost na-
ked, he i a part OF our king, a part OF our
sovereignty. Should he not receive a soyer-
eign's education? Should he not be prepared
TOR the fhrone our institutions have given
him? There is a gem in every human form;
let the diImond be polished, and it will shine
in truth and beauty. There is still in the
most detased "a beam ethereal, though sui
lied and d%ishonorei, still divine" And our
motto should be-Teach and habituate Tie
people to make a right use of the faculties
which God has given them, and trust them
i~earlessly TO themselves. Give Democracies
education and freedom of action, and then
" let them alone"
Uneducated mind is educated vice." for
God made man TO know. He is the creature
OF Instructions; Tor, III a night education, there
lie = dirine-a ielss ns; a'h ssa > Soae. al ,be bao
told by the ancients that, as soon as the first
rays OF the morning sun fall upon the statues
OF Memnon, il sent up music. 1t is after the
irsl rays of knowledge fall upon man, that
his nature discourses harmony-ail before is
the darkness of barbarism.
| All can see that wickedness leads to mis-
cry, yet very few find out that which is equal
ly certain, that ignorance leads to misery, and
misery TO wretchedness. DR.. johnson was
once asked 9 who is the most miserable MANI
and the reply OF The sage was, "that man who
can not read on a rainy day" The writer
was once passing Though a park, and saw
nailed to one oil the trees, this warning: IAN
dogs found in this park will be shot" \
friend who was with us re narked, unless
dogs can read they are pretty badly off here
Now, God has not only written his laws up
on the trees, but i'll III. stars and in the A Nv
ers; his laws are above us and beneath US, on
our right and on our left, anu, if a manis not
able 10 read, he is " pretty badly of here
worse of than the dog. for the dog has a mas
ter to read for him; but man has no master
between him aud his God.
A maxim, OF more truth and force than
any | remember to have seen, was thrown off
by a British statesman-by a man who was,
IN learning. vivid, varied, and philosophical,
and who, IN conversation, threw out more
gems, sparkling and brilliant as they came,
than any other man Of his age. His profound
apothegm was, that :" Education is the cheap
defence OF nations" And, if | might put d
tfulsm by the side of this, | would say it is
cheaper 10 educate the infant mind, than it
Is TO support the aged criminal. Yes, be-
stow the pence on common schools. and save
the pounds on prisons. Man was not made
TO be sent TO prison, but to be educated; aud
me very worst use you can put a man to is
TO hang him" Neither is a man a Human
Poor Box fa,o whose mouth we are TO drop a
few cents daily. "The ignorant child left TO
grow up darkenins into the deeper ignorance
OF manhood, with all lis jealousies, and mar
row -m~indedness. an its supersti,ious, and
It's penury OF enJoyments, poor amid the in
tellectual and molal riches of the Universe;
blind in its splendid temple which God has
lighted up, and furnishing amid the proiu-
slons of omnipoIenee."
wo Tor those who trample on the mind,
mat fearful thing They know not wha they
,of wha' ihey deal with lido
ihey lay rude hands upon Gods mysteries
err."-Americaa Amaranth.