The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-10-17
UNIVERSAL EDUCATION.
BY HORACE GREHLY


idea And shall there come a time when the
deliver in the mine and the rice swamp, and the
orphans OF the prodgal and the felon, the very
offspring Of shame, shall bc truly, systematically
educated? Glorious contamination twilight
of the millennium Who will not labor, and
court sacrifices, and snfsr reprnach, # he may
hasten, by even so much as a day, its blessed
coming? Who will moi take courage from the
contemplation Of what the last century has
seen accomplished, if not in absolute results,
vet in preparing the approaches, in removing
impodncnts, in correcting and expanding the
public comprehension of the work to be done,
and the feasibility of doing it? Whatever of
evil and suffering the future may have in store
for us, though the earth be destined yet to be
ploughed by the sword, and fertized by human
gore, until rank Srowths Of the dead.est weeds
shall ovcrshadow it, sitting into premature de-
cay, every plant most conducive TO health or to
fragrance. the time shall! surely come when true
and universal education shall dispel the dense
night of ignorance and perverseness that now
enshrouds the vast majority Of the human race,
shall banlsh evil and wretchedness almost
wholly from earth, by removing or unmasking
the multform temptations 10 wrong doing, shall
put an end to robbery, hatred, oppression, and
war, hy difusing widely and thoroughly living
consciousness of the brotherhood of mankind,
and the sure blessedness as well as righteous
ness of doing ever as we would have others do
to US. "Train up child in the way he should
90. and when he is old he will not depart from
it." Such is the promse which enables us to
see to the end of the dizzy whirl of wrong and
misery in which our race has long sinned and
suffered On wise and systematic training,
based on the widest knowledge, the truest mo-
raly, and tending ever 10 universal good. as
the only assurance Of special or personal well
being, rests the great hope of the terrestrial
renovation and elevation of man.
Not the warrior, then, or the statesman, nor
ye, the master worker, as such, but the teacher,
in our day, leads the van guard CT humanity
Whether in the seminary by the way side, by
uttered word or printed page, our true king is
not he who hest directs the siege, or sets his
s1uadrons in the field, or heads the charge, but
be who can and will instruct and enlghen his
fellows. 80 that at least some few of the gener.
alton OF whom he is, shall he wiser, purer, no.
bler for his living among them, and prepared
to carry forward the work of which he was an
humble instrument, 10 its far grander and lo!lier
consummation. Oh, far above the conquerer
of kingdoms, the dcstroyers Of hosts by the
sword and bayonet is he whose fearless victo.
rics reddcn no river and whiten no plain: but
he who leads the understanding willing cap
tive, and builds his empires not of the wrenched
and bleeding fragments of suhiuga.ed nations,
hut on the realms Of intellect which he has dis.
covered, and planted, and peoplod with benih-
cent activity and enduring joy! The mathe-
ma,ician who, in his humble study, undisturbed
as vet by the footsteps of monarchs, and their
ministers, demonstrates the existence of plan.
ct, before unsupported by astronomy, and unob:
served by the telescope; the author, who, from
his humble garrrt, sends forth the scroll which
shall constran thousands to laugh or weep at
his will who topples down a venerable fraud
by an allcgory, or crl,shes down dynasty by
an cpigram, he shall live and reign over still
increasing dominion, when the paseboard
kings, whose steps are counted in court circu.
lars, and timed by stupid huzzas, shall have long
since mouldrIcd and been forgotten. TO build
out into chaos and drrar vacuity; to render
some corner ollhe primal darkness radent with
The presence of an idea TO supplant ignorance
by knowledge, an! sin by virtue; such is the
mission of our age, worthy 10 enkindle the am.
bi.un of the Ioliiest, ye, profrring opportunity
and reward to the most lowly. TO the work
of universal enlightenment, be our lives hence.
forth consccratct, until the black clouds Of i'm.
pruring evil are irradiatrd and dispersed by
th. fill cllnEs scncc of the divinc predicted day,
when -: All shall know the Lord, from the least
u;to the greatest" and when wrong and woe
shall vanish forever from the presence of uni.
rersal knowledge, purity andbliss
4 poet in the Kcrnc Republican, celebrating
the works of Dame Nature, has an idea which
comes very near hcing original:
.Shc next made woman--so tho story goes
With an improved material and art;
Gave liar form tho choicest ono Of these
Iha, make uushl beautiful, aud to her heart
power 10 soften mnns--ard forced the rose
Its blushing tint to her soft checks mpart-
Then chop'd tho rainbow up and with the clips
She went 10 work and finished of her lps!'
| TitE ABoLITfON PARTY TR0fER IN THE
STATE OF Nrw ioRK, being The Simon Purcs
who voted for Gcrrit Smith for President last
fall, are in the field with a State ticket, made
out at Corllandville last week. There is no.
thing new In the phase orihe ticket, unless it
consists in the fact that these parlisans, rs if to
exhibit their ruadneratcd principles in stronger
relief than ever, have placed it Mr.. S. r.
ward the colored Divinc,'as Secretary Of State.
Albany Argus.
Mr.. BENTON AND TIE PREsIDENCy.-Thc
union the Democracy,in New York The Herald
says, as n primary step in on effort hereafter to
be made, to bring forward Col. Benton, of Mis-
souri, is tho candidate of the Democracy for
the Presidency, at ih" proper time. II appears
the leaders of both parties (tiunkcrs and Barn,
burners) have given out, al Utica and Syracuse,
such TO be their purpose.