Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-10-29
Universal Education.
sBI HOMAGE GREELEY

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BH HORACE GREELEY.
Universal Education! Grand, inspiring |
ideal And shall there come q time when |
the deliver in the mine and the rice swamp, I
aad tho orphans of the prodigal and the TEL
on, the very offspring of shame. shall be
truly systematically educated! Glorious
consumation! twilight Of the millennium |
who will not labor, and court sacrafices, |
and suffer reproach, if he may hasten. by |
even so much as day, its blessed coming?
Who will not take courage from the con-
temptation Of what the last century has |
seen accomplished, if not in absolute re-
suits, yel in preparing the approaches. in
removing impediments, in correcting and
expanding the public comprehension OF the
work to be done, and Of the feasibility OF
doing i;2 Whatever of evil and Of suffer-
ing The future may have in store Tor us,
though the earth may be destined yet TO be
ploughed by the sword, and fertilized by
human gore, until rank growth of The dead
liest weeds shall oyershadow ii, sitting in
10 premature decay every plant most con-
duciveto health or to fragrance--the time
shall surely come when true and universal
sdacation shall dispel the dense night OF
ignorance and perverseness that now en-
shrouds the vast majority OF the human
race; shall Danish evil and wrelchedness
almost wholly from earth, by removing or
unmasking the multiiorm temptations to
wronKsaeings; shall put an end 10 robbery,
hatred, oppression, aud war, by dittusing
widely and thoroughly living conscious.
ness OF the brotherhood of mankind, and
the sure blessedness, as well as righteous
mesa Of doing ever as We would have others
do to US. ''rrain upa child in the way
he should go, and when he is old he Will
not depart from in Such is the promise
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
wildcat knowledge, the truest morality, and
tending ever TO universal good, as the only
assurance of special or personal well-be-
lug, rests the great hope OF the terrestrial
renovation and elevation Of man.
Mot The warrior, then,or the statesman,
nor yet the master worker, as such, but the
teacher, in our day, leads the vanguard Of
humanity. Whether in the seminary or
by the wayside, by uttered word or printed
page, our true king is not he who best di-
reefs The siege, or sets his squadrons in
the field, heuds the charge-bus he who
can and will instruct md enlighten his
follows, so that at least. some few ofahe
generation Of whom he is shall be wiser,
rurer, nabler, for his, living among them,
and prepared 10 carry forward The work,
o. winch he was an humble instrument, to
sfur grander and loftier censpmation.
On, far above the conquefor Of Kingdoms,
the destroyer OF hosts by the sword and the
oayonet, is he whose fearless victories red
den no river and whilen no plain; but he
who leads The understanding willing cap.
live, and builds his empires not of the
wrsnched and bleeding fragments of SUBJ
iugalej nations, out on the realms of intel
eiocs which he has discovered, and planted,
and peypled with benihcent activity and
enduringj,y! The mathematician who, in
his humble study, undis,urbed as yet by the
footsteps Of rnonarchs and their ministers,
demonstrates the existence Of planet,
before onsuspected by astronomy and un.
observed by The telescope; the author who,
from his humble garret, sends forth the
scroll which shall constrain thousands upon
thousands te laugh or weep al his will; who
topples down q venerable fraud by an alle-
CORY, or ctushes down dynasty by an ep.
igrarn, he shall live and reign over a still
increasing dominion, when the pasteboard
kings whose steps are counted in court cir
culars, and timed by stupid huzzas, shall
have long since mouldered and been forgot.
ten.. 70 build out into chaos and drear
vacu;ty; to render some corner of the pri-
NAL darkness radiant with the presence of
an idea; to supplunt ignorance by knowl-
edge, and sin by virtue; such is the mission
Of our age, worthy to enkindle the ambition
OF the leitiest, Yet proffering opportunity
nld rewnrd to the most lowly. To the
work Of universal enlightenment be our
lives hencelorlh consecrated, until the black
clouds of impending evil are irradiated and
dispersed by the full efulgence Of the di-
vinely.predicled day when"A All shall know
the Lord, from the least unto the Creates" !"
and when wrong and woe shall vanish for
ever IRON the presence of universal knowl.
edge, purity and bliss..-Nineteentb Gem
fury. u 5 s4s.o..4sszs
We have rarely come .ncross more
.perfec. specimen Of pathos than is contain
ed in The following exor:atlon from the
New York knickerbocker to
.ss' A-A-RcH THE sKRIprERs.AHp'
There is a very touching and we have
no doubt authentic story just now going the
rounds Of The religious and secular press,
entitled sIhs Old Family Bible TO the
effect, namely, that on the banks of the
Wabash, the effects Of a poor widow, who
had been left comparatively destitute at The
death o. her husband, had been selzed by
the sheriff for debt, and were being sold al
auction; and among these effects an ole
family Bible was put up for sale. She
begged the constable TO spare this memente
nf her dear and honored parents, but he