Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-29

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the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the TIM
and fourth generation. When we look backward and Sc
how the number Of ancestors Louoed u eacn Iemo'
IN the ascending SCALE aghs Us TO enect now many COT
fluent streams from vicious fountains mi have been Pome
into the physical system of single indv dual. Where,
many generations this hed entailment Of maades has ne
been broken by single obedient and vuou lie, who ca
conceive Of the animal debasemens and depa, les that
centre in single person. At every descent III worst ma
become and the possible Of deteriora ton is inf
nite Before the human race any part it, becomes NOR
diseased physically vile, it not time to a. rest AM
This only be done through education, through
miracles and would require than three hundred ant
sixty five miracles each year. preserve health and strength
under present vicious social habits Those who de- no
expect the Intervention Of miracles false TO their families
to the community, and to God if they do not urge forward
the work OF physical education, the only means Of escung
the from in6niy of scknesses, weaknesses and
palms. Public schools the only insumentaly for incul
eating upon the community large, knowledge Of the gea
laws Of heaah and life. IN wy FH~3 ei.g
There never was snea necessity Of mParng power 10
the human intellect and of rePenishing with knowledge
as at the present times and in country s this necessity 80
imperative in The common Affairs OF life require
hundred times knowledge now, than they did CEN
tuy ago. New forms and kinds of business too, daily
emerging into practice which must be conducsed with mte
gencs and skill they will ruin their conductors. How
much knowledge and art requisite to make cotton
wooen factory with all in nice and numerous appendages
than to make spinning wheel a dista; 70 manage
locomotive railroad, than to drive team highway
to build and navigate steamship, than 10 sail vessel to
make chronometer than dial hour to manage
telegraph, than send courer to make powerpress
that shall strike off ten thousand copies in hour ee-
scope that shall lay open the structure Ct the universe than to
copy manuscripts profess asrolosy The pofoundest
sciences working their way into the day BUSINESS Of
life, and carrying power and beauty, and multiplication OF
products they CO. and whatsoever seize upon
the benefits which they confer will be left in poverty misery
and contempt. t&l ist 3.
Not only all the departments of business there every
where life energy, and compass but the the
with new social and political prerogayes The freeman who
where he peaes and select whatever occupation he
peases needs vastly Judgment and intelligence than
subject of desposm who is born into niche of labor
and stay where be is born. The citizen who manages
only his personal affairs, but those of his munic
paly; who governs himself in all his political relations,
through representatives chosen by himself whose vote may
determine not only who shall be rulers bot what Of
national international policy shall be established annusd
whose will peace orwa national honor national nany
may depend-such CITIZEN in capacity, in knowledge,
and in wisdom, should be god in comparison with
Russian serf, Hindso paah At this time, then, say
there is vastly for the mind Of do, and TO under
stand than there before and therefore, that mind
must be proportionately strengthened and iumined!
There time when the moral nature of man
needed culture and publication than needs them at
the present hour What we call civilization and progress have
increased temptations thousand fodn this country ten
thousand fold The for wealth. luxury ambition, and
pride, open to all. With multiplied privileges, have
only multiplied obligations, which may contemn
but multiplied dangers into which may fall Where OPP
preston and despotism reign all the nobsr faculties OF man
dwared, suned and shorn Of their power But oPpes
sion and despotsm dwarf and stunt, and despo OF their
power all the evil passions of not less than their nobler
impulses In this country all that is base and depaved in
the human heart has such full liberty and wide compass and
hot stimulus of action have been kn own before
Wickedness not less than virtue diabosm not less than
utaranism, has its steam engines and its presses,
and its lightning teegraphs Those external restraints OF
blind for authority and superstous dread Of re
gous guides and fiery penal codes which rePessed the
passions of and parayzed all energy, lifted off,
internal and moral restraints be not substituted for the ex
ternal and arbitrary that removed the people, instead
of being conqueors and soveregn their passions will
be their victims and their slaves Even the ceares revela
tons from Heaven, and the sancfying influences OF Tod,
unless vouchsad daily and momenty as to upersede
all voon and conscience of would not preclude VIZ
tuous training indispensable prerequisite to happy
and honorable life. He takes but limited view OF the inhu
ences and the efficacy Of Christian ethics who does not
to incorporate and mould them into the habits and sentiments
youth who, fast the juvenile mind opens to the per-
cepon Of wonder of beauty, and of truth, has not an ex
hausess of moral wonders and beauties and truths
ready for TRANSMISSION into it. li. ss5 Eassg.,
BY force Of these weghy considerations which pertain to
the whole circle Of human interests individual and social
mortal and immortal instructed to enreat those most
effective guides and reormers Of mankndthose guides and
eomers who efficiently upon the race because they
upon in the duce and impossible of childhood
and adolescence and who also upon the largest
bers well with the greatest poweo assemble at the
time and place specified in the first Of the resolutions to deli
Derae great interests OF
intensity Of its action, to enlarge the compass Of its bene-
cence and to cheer and stimulate each other in the discharge
Of their respective duties II each shall bring though be
but apers light, their united rays will pour food of u
mnaon upon the whole path Of duty II each shall inspire
the others, though be with but flash of enthusiasm
their union shall become il tongues of fame uerng
prophecies and hymns of gadnes If each shall mpar to
his brethren, though it be but feeble impulse, their
bned force will endue every with vgor and every heart
with resolution unknown before; that each shall return
to his sphere Of duty to work longer in lonely field
and by his solitary strength but with energy borrow
ed from thousand arms, and with living consciousness
that all good angels and Father in Heaven are
co-workers with him for the improvement of mankind
HORACE MANN,
President of the late National Convention
of the Friends Of Education.
WASHINGTON, MAI 10, 1850.
Reports upon the following topics, it is expect
ed, will be made by committees appointed at the
last meeting of the Convention
l. Territorial civil subdivisions Of the State, involving
the which the district system should be carried and
the notifications Of which the same is susceptible
2. School Architecture, including the location, size, modes
of ventaton warming and seating, &C. of buildings intend
ed for educational purposes. #..
g. School attendance including the school age of children,
and the best modes Of securing the regular and puncua at
tendance of children at school. ~ an s..#..
d. Grades of Schools the number and character of each
grade. .Es III
s. Course of instruction physical intellectual, moral and
religious esthetcal Industrial Studes-books, apparatus,
methods.
g. Teachers-ther qualifications their examination and
Normal Schools teachers institutes books
the theory and practice Of teaching. a..
T. SupPorax on property, tax on parents, school fund
c. Co.