Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-09-27


isordcT, as diamonds in pewter; it IS not airs
! place Of elegance, ASSURANCE substituted for
ase; neither is il to be master Of huent speech,
= to garnish the same with stale Quotations from I
he classics; much less is it to live in the Don Juan
elm, acce ptng barbarisfn by poetic inspiration 1
the same which n late noble poet, drawing cut
# Turks and pirates, became the chosen laureate .
u slavcry,-not any or all OF these can make
Up such STYLE of oflIfr, as We IN TINS age
demand. We have up now To point
where We look for true intellectual refinement.
aud II ripe state of personal culture. But how
clearly is IL TO be violation Of its own laws,
for slavery 10 produce genuine scholar. or
man who, in any department of excellence,
unless il be- in politics, il not a full century
behind his time. And If ask for what -
dcarer and better still, for pure Christian
morality, the youth Of slavery are trained IN no
such habits most congenia TO vIrtue- The
point Of honor IS the onl principle many OF th-Hi
know. Violence aud dissipation bring down
every succeeding generation to il state continual
ly lower; so that now, after a hundred and hity
years passed. the siaveholding territory may be
so uncomfortable TO tic faithful ministry OF
Christ, By of lis Jealous tempers. ana The
known TepugBance IL las TO many OF the hrst
iEaxfms Of the Gospel that scarcely mission
3ry can be found TO enter 1t. Connected Win
tliis tsorai decay, the resources Of nature also
exhausted, aud her fertile territories changed
to "A desert by the uncreating power OF a spend
Thrift Institution. Aud thea, having made
waste where God hid made garden. slavery
gathers up the relics Of bankruptcy, aud the
baser relics still OF virtue and all miuiy enter
prise, and goes forth to renew, virgin soil,
It's dismal nd foflorn history. Thus. ut length,
has been produced what may be called the bowie
knife style of civilization, and the new west oil
the South Is overrun nv ia spirit or blood
which dcfes all laws OF q oG and man honorable,
but not honest; prom pit to resent injury. slack
TO discharge debt; educated 10 ease, and rcaster,
Of course, when the means of living fail, TO find
them ii the gambling table or the race ground,
than IN any work of industry-prob1blv sfuan-
dcring the means of living there, to relieve the
tcdium Of ease ITSELF
The free schools of the North lead 10
the common diffusion Of knowledge and
the equalization Of society. The private
schools Of the South divide men into pa
.ricians and plebeians; that. in the lat
ter, Il nuisance grows out Of education
itself In the public schools of New \ orll
there are libraries now amounting To- more
than a million Of volumes. In the schools
Of Massachusetts,. the number OF volumes
is relatively less. but the quality is greatly
superior In each of these States, within
hall an hours walk Of the poorest farm
house or mechanics shop, there is a
library, free and open to every child. con-
tanning works Of history, biography. trav
CI5. tiI'icS, IIStuIdl SClcIiCc, SAE-' w.
which viii supply him with the noblesi
capital Of intelligence whcrcwith to COM
u.encc the business Of making himself IA
useful and intelligent citizen. With the
exception of New Orleans, (whose free
schools were commenced and have been
presided over by a Massachusetts man. J
and three or four other cities, all the
libraries in The public schools Of the slave
States could be carried in a school-boy's
sa'chcl. The libraries Of all the universe
tics and colleges Of :hc South contain
223.iI6 volumes; those of the North
593 G97 volumes. The lbra'ics of south
crn theological schools, % 500; those of
northern, 1912 $50.
Look into Silimai's Journal. or the
volumes Of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and inquire whence
the commune atoms come, Where live
the historians of the country, Sparks Pres
colt, Bancroft: the poets, Whittier. Bryant,
Longicllow, Lowell; the jurisis. Story.
Kent, Whcaton; the classic models OF
writings, Claiming, Everett, Irving; the
females writers, Miss Scdgwick, Mrs
Sigourncy. and Mrs. Child! All this
proceeds from no superiority of natural
endowment on the one side. or infefioritv
on the other The southern States arc all
within what may be called 'thc 3atitudcs
Of genius" for there is Il small belt around
the globe, comprising but a few degrees Of
latitude, which has produced all the dis
tinGIished men who have ever lived.
say this difference results from no differ
cnce in natural endowment. The mem
tai cndowmcnts at the South are equal to
those in any part of the world. But it
comes because in one quarter the COM
mon atmosphere is viviticd with know
ledge. electric with ideas. while slavery
gathers its Berotian iogs over the other.
VIVA, Yves, Point has been TO our armies
in MEXICO. that. and more than that. good
schools would be to the intelligence and
industrial prosperity of our country.
II may seem little ont of place. but
cannot irrbear here advcr,in9 TO one point.
which. as IL lover of children and parent.
touches me more deeply than any other
To whom are intru>tel at the South the
early care aud nurture of children! 1t
has been thought by many educators and
that children lean as
Inucl, before the age of seven wears as
ever afterwards Who. at the South adj
ministers this carly knowlcd.e-,kese
ideas. these views. that have such sover-
cign efficacy in the formation of adult
character! Who has the custody of child
rem during this ductile. forming. receptive
period of liic-a period when the mind
absorbS whatever is brought into contact
with it! Sir. the children of the South
more OF less. and generally m,rc. are
tended and nur'ured by slaves. Ignorance,
superstition. vulgarity. passion. and per-
|,aps impurity. are the breasts at which
they nurse. Whatever other affections
God may see fit TO bring upon me, what
ever other mercies He may withhold. may
lie give me none but persons of intelli-
gence, refinement. of moral excellence, to
walk with my children during the initiative
years OF their existence. and lead them in
he paths of knowledge. and breathe into
heir hearts the breath of moral and reli-
,ous life. [coNcLUsIoN NEXT wEEk.