New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-29

arice. all that j. most benighted in Biyotry.
Manv will be driven 10 vote No because our
Schools do not permit the inculcations Of
DISPUTED Theologic doctrines during their
sessions. which Of course they coull not
and never can DO without ceasing 70 be Com
mon. The Sabbath is set apart flr Rali
cious instruction, md on tina, dag tie Com
mon School freely surrenders all chiil-en 70
such teaching rs their parenfs shall prefer.
Only thirty hours out Of every one hundred
and six.y.eight are claimed By tie school,
leaving one hundred and thirty-ei-ht q
e7ery week for other duties, ;aclul.r5 Re-
licious. During these hours, any child may
lie amply instructed without charge in Sab
hath Schools, Bible Glasses. Ylsuy or
Prayer Meetings, n such tene.s as Lis pa-
rents OF guardians may prefer. Wha-r1n-
sense, what fuhlity, then, to say that IT,
vo'ion Of thirtv hours Tor wcot 81 Iir-'T
secular studies is O. prescription o' Religion
and an establishment Of goddess fiualan.
As to the mutterings Of Ayarile, we
have even less respect for them. The man
who objects to educate all children at the
expense of Property, because he has Prop
erty and has no children needing common
school education, is too small-soule1, too
bateyed, TO perceive what his interest re-
quires. Where does he suppose the thrifty,
active young man will pay most for farm
where there are good Common Schools for
his children, sustained by a tax on Property,
or where these are deficient and their place
supplied by private or rate-bill schools?
Where will the stout, twO-handed laborer
'hive out cheapest-where his children are
made welcome to Free Schools, or where
there are none such? How men so short
sighted as our rich antagonists of Free
Schools ever became rich is a puzzle-we
can't believe that many of them ever ac-
ouired wealth by wise foresight and thrifty
calculation. SHINING fints would far bet
ter suit the genius displayed in their hos
tility to Free Schools.
We do not fear the defeat of Free
Schools in the popular vote this Fall, but
we shall not be satisfied with less than
majority that must set the question at rest
for ever. Until it is so, we shall never be
free from the annoying and spiteful capers
which in several Counties have deprived
the people of any schools at all for a good
part of the present year. Until we have
made the little great men who are now en-
cheering the opposition understand that
their kicking and laundering will only serve
to deepen the popular determination 10 have
Free Schools, and good schools at that, kept
through nine or ten months ofeach year, and
to render the opposers odiOus and distrusted,
we shall have no peace and no real enjoy
ment Of the benefits Of the Free School
principle Let us set our mark at Two
Hundred Thousand Majority this year, and
work so as 70 attain it; then further opposi-
ton will be justly stigmatized as factious
and treated accordingly. There should be
some end to controversy like this; and if
any conceivable thoroughness of beating
will satisfy the adverse party, they shall be
satisfied at this trial.
The friends of Free Schools in SYRIA
cuse have called State Convention to meet
in that City on Wednesday the l2th day Of
June, inviting their opponents to attend and
participate in the discussion. The time is
not convenient to US, but We mean to attend;
and we say this to give force to our exhorta-
ton to other friends of the cause generally
to be represented there. One good man
present from every Town and Ward in the
State would insure that Two Hundred Thou
sand Majority next November. We must
devise the ways and means of speaking
through the City and County Press, infu-
encing the nominations Of both parties, see
ing that the right Resolutions are passed by
Political Conventions, that Ballots are print
ed and duly distributed, and that active
electioneerers of each party stand beside
the ticket-boxes of such party in each Elec-
ton District and ask every voter to take a
ballot for Free Schools. To these ends Or
ganization and Concert are essential, and
we entreat the friends of Free Schools to be
represented at Syracuse. Don't suppose it
necessary to send battalions but let every
County, and if possible every Town send
at least one good man, who will know how
to set the bali in motion when he returns, so
that it will not stop till after November.
The District School Journal, we rejoice
10 see. is MAKING a Good fight ON the great