The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-11-24
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HLnds COUNTY Teachers, Institute.

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County Institute, a system OF common Schools
in the State of Mississippi, is deemed practi.
cable and eminently desirable.
1t is a fact universally admitted BY all phil
anthropists, patriots and statesmen, that to per.
petuate our republican institutions, the great
body OF the people must be educated. Since
those who now administer the government
occupy the offices Of the State, direct the
cOmPlicate machinery Of society in all its va
ried grades and ramifcations, will ever retain
their prejudices and opinions, except perhaps
they be warped through personal interests or
the tyranny of public opinion; since these
present actors in the drama of Lille, after the
lapse OF ten years, will have finished their
parts and left the stage to their successors to
the more susceptible youth, if any great work
OF popular interest be contemplated, the eG-
forts of those must be added who, in advance
OF public opinion, sally forth as champions
and elevate the people to this standard. The
Spartan fully conyersant with the mainsprings
@ ONtANhoS ulu lhW5 Vi uNUlH0 DTOs
gress, applied here-h systems for ameliora-
ting the condition Of his contrymen, and with
what signal success every tyro in ancient his
tory well knows. The youth constitute the
great neral lever by which a nation may be
raised to the zenith of prosperity and fame,
or sunk TO a depth of natural disgrace never
before reached. The education of our youth
then, without a trope, is the substratum of the
government OF those who, in less than a quar-
ter of a century, will become the people,.
Does the State love her youth? She has not
expatriated them, but she has denied them
State provisions commensurate with the duties
she owes to them. Her conduct for them has
evinced only passive, a reflex regard, such
as would promote her dignity and Importance
in the national confederacy. That love OF
country, 10 the Lacedemonlan ever held OFT
as the polar star, which shonld influence all
their actions, thoughts and affections, should
be the energizing principle Of our Legislators
who should lead and direct, instead Of EoloVU-
ing public sentiment who must fix the STAN
dard, and require conformity TO it on the part
Of the people. A parent can manifest no
higher regard than in the future welfare of
those who bear his name and share his honors;
nor can the State in a nobler cause exercise
her prerogative than in rendering her future
Legislators worthy of being the successors of
the present.
For the education Of the masses, human in
g%enuity has thus far failed to discover any
other or better mode than that devised by the
fathers of New England more than two cen
turtles since, Common Schools. That the State
has the power of providing for and protecting
her internal interests all will readily admit
that it be of the highest moment that her youth
be educated no true lover Of his species will
deny that this end can be effected by no other
means than through the instrunentality of
Common Schools throughout her borders, the
sequel, we trust, will show: therefore, some
Bile; if practicable, then indispensable; If in
dispensible, it is the imperative duty Of the
State Immediately to repair this long neglect;
and really, as she has heretofore virtually as
sumed the paternity Of her thousands of youth
who glory in her name.
The cause oil the complete education of
every human being, without regard Il, the ac-
cidehts of birth OF fortune, is worthy of the
concentration of all our powers, and, if need
be, any sacrifice Of time and labor we may be
called upon to make in its behalf, Ignorance
is not indigenous on American soil. Munif-
cent Legislation left unguarded the portals o.
civilization ,-thence has sprung into monster
magnitude the exotic hydra we now must
combat. If one species Of weapons will not
exterminate, other oil greater potency must be
substituted, and no compromise is to be
asked and none granted. Cline and pauPer-
ism are the Legitimate offspring, and generally
the concomitants o fignorance. Here is spread
out a vast moral waste, ample to employ the
powers Of all the benefactors Of the races
Whatever children we suffer to grow VI
amongst us, we must live with them as mer
They are to be our cO-partners in the relations
of life our equals at the polls, our rulers in leg
~islative halls, the awardors Of justice in ou
courts. However intolerable at home, they
cannot be banished to any foreign land; how
ever worthless, they cannot be sent to die il
camps or be slain in the battle; however fla
gitious, but few Of them will be sequesterer
from society by improvement, or doomed Il
expiate their offences with their lives. Gov
ernments do not see the criminal or pauper il
the neglected child, and therefore they 81
calmly BY, until aroused from their stupor b.
the cry Of hunger or the spectacle Of crime
Then they erect the alms-house, the prison, tn
gibbet, to arrest or mitigate the evils whicl
timely caution might have prevented. TIL
courts and ministers of justice sit by until tn
petty delinquencies Of youth glare out in tn