Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-02-26


Importance to education, affair of public
ment. whether elementary arademical. II is not 10
teach one mans Boy his A. B, c. another mans boy
little Latin and Greek for any advantage emou-
men of his that the pilgrim fathers founded the
College required The support each is School
As aI individuals. many few. concernedl have
Just much natural right call the State TO pay the
bill OF the tailor who clothes the builder who shelters
my chldren,aS Of The school master or school mistress
t- tutor or professor who lnstrucs them The duty Of
educahng inc people rests on great public grounds,
moral and political foundations. 1t is deduced from the
intimate connection which experience has shown TO exist
between the public welfare and all the elements of
al prosperity the hand and the enlightenment of
the population the other In this point of view say
it confidently. good College education for those who need
II and want 1t, is Just much the interest OF the many
good School education They are both the interest Of
tla is the whole community 1t is. Of human things the
highest interest of the State put the of obtain
ing good School education and good College education
within the reach Of the largest number of her ch4eren
The concluding passages referring TO The California
movement are exceedingly beautiful:
We hear much present of the veins of gold which
are brought 10 light in every latitude of either henis
phere in fact, we hear of nothing else But care
wat mines may be opened in the North in the South
in the mountains of Siberia the Sieas of California
wheresoever the fountains of the golden tide gush
forth, lhe srea will flow The regions where ednca
ted intellect has the boundless work of the
useful and ornamental Yes. sir, if Massachusetts
remains to the policy which has hitherto in the
main governed her legislation and i. not now
he departed from, generous of the golden tide will
reach her distant shores. Let Others
Tempt icy seas where scarce the waters roll
Where clearer flames low round the frozen pole:
Or under Southern skies eXalt their sails,
Led by new stars, and and borne by spicy gales,
For me--
Yes, for me- may poor old rocky, sandy Massachusetts
eXcsim, land as she is of the School, the Academy and
The Collpup-lPnd uf he
Church,
For me the balm shall bleed and amber flow,
The coral redden, and the ruby glow.
The pearly she'll its lucid globe infoId,
And Phgbus warm The ripenlng 10 gold.
1t matters not if every pebble in the bed Of the Sa;
ramento a diamond as big and precious the
mysterious hO hi moor which read of in the last &C
counts from India whose possession the fate Of empire
is believed, in those benIged regions TO depend. 1t mat
tiers not if this Pactolus flow through region,
which stretches for furlongs-a of solid gold. The
jewels ard the ngots will find their the great
centres Of civilization, where cultivated mind gives birth
to the arts, and freedom renders property The
region itself to when these fabulous atrac-
ting the countless hosts of thrift cupdy and adventure
will derive fear the smallest part of the benefit. Could
they be peoped entirely with grants, like the best Of
those who have taken their departure from among us and
who carry with them outfit of New England prnc
pies and habits, it would be well; but much fear the
gold region will for long line be Of anarchy and
confusion, of violence and boodshed, of bewderng
and maddenng losses of any thing but social happiness,
and well regulated civil liberty.
If we will not be taught by any thing else, let US learn
Of history. 1t not Mexico and Peru; (what it
imports 10 bear in mlnd) Portugal Spain
which reaped the silver and golden harvest of the SIX
teenth and seventeen centuries. 1t the INDUSTRIOUS
enlightened, cultivated stales Of the north and of
Europe. II was little Holland, scarcely one fifth large
New England; hardly able to keep her head above the
waters of the super incumbent ocean, with five univer
sites dotling her limited surface. 1t England with
her foundation schools, her ndomabe, public opinion
her representative system, her twin universities, it
to hes, free and enlightened countries that the gold and
silver owed; not merely adding the material wealth Of
the community, but quickeung the energy Of the indus
tfous classes breaking down feudasm furnishing the
snews of war to The champions Of protestant liberty, and
thus cheering them 10 the great struggle. t. whose
successful issue it is owing its effects under
Providence that you, Sir, sit in safety beneath the canopy
that overhangs this hall.
What the love Of liberty, the Of education, and a
large and enlightened regard for Intellectual and moral
interests ld for the parent state, tnev will do fir
They will give temporal prosperity; and with it what
s infinitely better, not only and praise with the
contemporary nations who form with the great pr ccs-
sion of humanity, but a and praise among enght-
ened men and enlightened states to the end Of time.