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

In regard to the first top lis well known that pbysica
qualities hereditary DisesA7 ahu oeScehd HoI
parent 10 offspring by law of aIre as names descend oy
law of God still ordans that the pody niquies
the fathers shall be visited upon th children, unto the thr
and fourth generation When we look backward, and SCI
how the number Of our ancestors Louoed a. eacn remove
IN the ascending scale, aghs TO reiect now many con
fluent streams from vicious fountains mi have been pose
into the physical system Of single indiv dual Where, te
many generations, this hod enament OF maiades has moi
been broken by single obedien and vituou life who can
conceive Of the animal debasemens and depra, es that
centre in single person At every descent, IN may
become and the possible series Of deerora on is inf
nite Before The human any part Of becomes more
diseased physically more ve it not time to Gest and
restore This only be done through education through
miracles and would require than three hundred and
miracles each year. to preserve health and strength
under our present vicious social habits Those who do not
expect the Intervention Of Miracles false TO their ahes
to the community and to God If they do not urge forward
the work physical education, the only Of escung
the race from nfnity of scknesse weaknesses and
palms. Public schools the only nstrunentany for incul
eating upon the community It large knowledge Of the great
1 laws Of heath and life. F 9if fNtt s@ '@s
There was sueh necessity Of inparing power
the human intellect and Of ePaenishng with knowledgs
at the present time and in country s this Necessity
imperative in The affairs Of life require
hundred times knowledge now, than they did
tuy ago. New forms and kinds Of business too, daily
gencs and skill they will ruin their conductors How
much knowledge and requisite to make cotton
or wooen factory, with all m nice and numerous appendage
than to make spinning distaf; 10 manage
locomotive Railroad than to drive team highway
build and navigate steamship, than sail vessel to
make chronomete than dial hour glass to manage
telegraph, than send courier to make power-press
that shall strike off ten thousand copies in an hour, ,ele
scope that shall lay open the structure Ct the than to
copy manuscripts, profess asology. The pofoundest
sciences working their way the day business Of
life and carrying power and beauty, and multiplication Of
products wherever they and whosoever cannot seize
the benefits which they CONFER win be left in poverty misery
and contempt h E aht .3tI +
Not only in all the departments Of business there every
where more life, energy, and compass but the masseso the
people investing themselves, becoming invested
with social and political preroga,ives The freeman who
may go where he peases and select whatever occupation be
peases, needs vastly Judgment and intelligence than the
subject Of desposm who is born niche Of labor
and must stay where he is born. The citizen who manages
not only his personal affairs but those of his muaic
paly who governs himself in all his political relations,
through representatives chosen by himself whose vote may
determine only who shall be rulers but what
rationale international policy shall be established annusd
whose will peace war; national honor national inany
may depend-such Citizen in capacity, in knowledge,
and in wisdom, should be god, in comparison with
Russian se Hndso paiah. At this time, them say,
there vastly more for the mind Of man to do and TO under
stand than there before an therefore, that mind
must be proportionately strengthened and illumined!
There a time when the moral nature Of man
needed culture and publication than it needs them at
the present hour What call civilization and progress have
increased temptations thousand oldia this country ten
thousand fold The for wealth, luxury, ambition, and
pride, is open to all With multiplied privileges, have
not only multiplied obligations, which may coniemn,
but multiplied dangers into which may fall. Where OPP
preston and desposm reign, all the nobsr faculties of
dwaed stunted and shorn Of their power But oppes
sion and despotism dwarf and STUNT and despoi Of their
power all the evil passions Of less than their nober
impulses In this country, all that is base and depraved in
the human heart has such full liberty and wide compass and
hot stimulus of action have been kn before
Wickedness less than virtue dabosm, not less than
utIaransm has its engines and its power presses,
and its lightning eegraphs. Those external restraints OF
blind for authority and supetious dread OF reli-
gous guides and fiery penal Codes which repessed the
passions Of and paralyzed all energy now lifted off,
If internal and moral restraints be not substituted for the
ernal and arbitrary that removed the people, instead
of being conquerors and sovereigns their passions
be their victims and their slaves Even the cleaest revela
ons from Heaven, and the sancfying influences OF God,
unless vouchsad daily and momenty as to
all voon and conscience of would not preclude vr
uous training indispensable prerequisite TO happy
and honorable e He takes but limited view OF the nfu
ences and the efficacy Of Christian ethics who does not strive
incorporate and mould them into the habits and sentiments
youth who fast the juvenile mind opens to the per-
cepion Of wonder, Of beauty, and Of TRUTH has not
haustess of moral wonders aud beauties and truths
ready for TRANSMISSION into it. gag#l+@8
By force of these weghy considerations which pertain
the whole circle Of human interests individual and social
mortal and mmora instructed to entreat those most
effective guides and eformers Of mankindthose guides and
reores who efficiently upon the race, because they
upon in the ducle and mpresbe state Of childhood
and adolescence and who also upon the largest
bers well with the greatest poer-to assemble the
time and place specified in the first Of the resolutions, to deli
berate upon the great interests of educaon increase the
intensity Of its action enlarge the compass its bene
cence and to cheer and stimulate each other in the discharge
Of their respective duties each shall bring though it be
but apers light, their united rays will pour flood of u
mnaton upon the whole path Of duty each shall inspire
the Others though be with but fash of enthusiasm
their union shall become tongues Of flame, uerng
prophecies and hymns Of gadness If each shall mpart to
his brethren, though be but feeble impulse, their com
bned force will endue every with vgor and every heart
with resolution unknown before that each shall return
to his sphere of duty, 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
co-wokers with him for the improvement Of mankind
#s HORACE MANN,
President of the late National Convention 1
of the Friends Of Education.
WAsHINGroN Mar ls, 1850. ....Ea .
Reports upon the following topics, il is expect
ed, will be made by committees appointed at the
last meeting Of the Convention:
L. Territorial or civil subdivisions of the State, involving
the extent which the district system should be carried, and
the notifications Of which the same is susceptible.
q School Architecture including the location sze modes
Of ventaton warming and eang &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 punual at