New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-25

v,Se 10 stimulate their fonest PRIDE o. success am
wholesome ambition Of leArplg, AID OF manners
children Of fore gIeTs speaking broken bn3t>h W.
Jay and writing GOOD grammar II months nehce
the sons Of first ciI2ens inteTspefsed WIN 'as
children of our honest .aboTsrs ihe Capitalist ana
Sis potsr sending their hidTen "a ihs same sc1e)i
and the porier's boy ouistippmg rlS employers
son IN schois rshp ana SGon, on tae Strength OF
takiBg a better place IN society Is It not worm
While BY almost any ans 10 's'n attention. 10
subject 20 fraughs with patr'o1' feeling and true
Christ az emotion s;.mula LIS to those negigent
of Instruction. so 'iencins t olaers d,spo'ea 10
complain Of the working VI oGf lusn. 'iions
Nv brethtsn II a s, SEN ike This bad 20 BE- n. AM
tanned as the free,Om OF a c'Hain city va, oy
an annual contribution o. fcrf ives, thOhgh
they were the best lives Ia me community,
il would be a cheap sacrld =. And, NEED,
il Is peyhsps almost ell that blessing Sbifh As II
costs netting TO those VINO reap most IRON y, IS
hksly 10 be unceTvaTed. should De measured oy
some occasional sacrhce or fngauui Calamity. rot
If knew that endangered any chiil's NE. Qy ihe
process necessary ~ ms efuciDn, my sense OF me
value OF education would not permit me 70 shrnR
from the rIsk. | would rather venture us HE IMAM
veft1re him. an ignorant. ecucaied human cfsf-
ture forth upon the world But many parents VIII
NOT yet sacrifce much as then cDnven ence or
thoiI pride educate their children IN our Common
Schools They would sooner let them grow up naf
educated or not educated AT ALL than g. 10 the p1o-
lie school. They forget that they wrong the >.a'e
and the world, by turning loose their incompetent
offspring on society The State Is never such an
economist, as when at any expense, she educa'es
her children and the pride that keeps any plien.
from avang themselves o. such pri'ilests' so,s
of treason and cruelty combined hrst an IRE i'eFa'
wrong TO the child, next the urlustlhable "lhufa"h
OF precisely much knowledge and disclp!lEe IRON
the State, AID the imposition Must so mch Spies
and iBcompetency and probable crime, II even
through panic and aversion and magnlhed sense OF
peril or BY any whatsoever. the recent caiam-
lty stouli arouse public attention 10 the eIhtenSe
and greatness and glory of Pubic schoois' 10 Tue
blessing they prove to tens OF thousands, 10 the
neglected privilege hey offer TO thousands more,
costly as the means have been, TINS oerea'eiheh'
would turn out a mercy To the community.
v Our final lesson is one OF Patriotism. The JOSS
OF these little ones lost while seeking and enjoying
the protection and advantages OF our pest American
blessing, ought to give wholesome snoSk 70 our
American child. While we acquesce IN tue De-
reavement with which Divine Providence has
afflicted our community, it is well that We should
haze An ADEQUATE sense of our loss. Fifty Children
most of them native-born, all Of them IN high
sense Americans, have been suddenly taken from
us. taken away IN the bloom OF childhood chlldren
not of careless parents, else they would not have
| met their death IN the school-house-chidren, not
| growing up 10 be burden and shame 10 the coul-
munlty for they were Receiving the instruction. tna'
offers the best security against such perll-chliufen
| not the unwelcome mcumbrance OF an already
ovcrcrow ded population, but the valuable increase
| OF a new country, whose wealth is It's people chill
| dren born, not to narrow resources and precarous
hopes to a worn-out soil, crumbhng clvlllzanon or
| atotierng poty--but born 10 a large and free do
MAN, 10 simple scope Of industry and rich rewards
OF enterprise born to a nations youth and VlgoT-to
happy present and glorious future born, may we
well say IT, IN the most fortunate spot on the earths
surface and at the most interesting period OF human
| hisioy-aId now. alas taken from community
where men are net cheap-where every citl-
zen's life is of real value-where lie itself is
glorious boon, and where youth, Win an
education such as these we're receiving, has
| the prospect Of career OF intense interest
and most fatering hope. There are countries
| where every child that is born is an intruder upon
an overwhelmed soil where every child THAI dies
relieves the pressure of a bursting social system.
! Thank God we can yet sincerely weep over tne
| graves of American children, and md no consoa.
ton in the reflection that hungry mouth IS stopped
| with the dust OF the tomb, or that competitors
foot has slipped from the DER crowded pathway INTO
the grave. Here the prophetic day has daxned, OF
| which Isaiah spoke " viii make man more pre-
cious than fine gold even man than the golden
wedge of Ophr" How much OF the yellow sdni
OF our modern Ophir could well afford 70 give To
| ransom the lives OF these fifty American children
| Among them supbcr some who would DOUBTLESS have
been leaders IN the cnterOrse, the intelligence ana
! the virtue OF our communty-our fulure represent
aiiy i'm The halls of some one
! whose Jus, opening bud would have lowered INTO 4
| consummate ornament to the nation ana TIE World
| all OF them children OF promise not one oil whom
could be spared from the demands OF the future for
what but THAT tiee Of inteiligence when our Common
Schools is pouring INTO the arteries OF the naton,
| guarantees its health Oar educated youth are lac
host pre- iced Of liberty, virtue pisty union Inc
wice West is impatlently waiting for their coming.
| Tie distant murmur of our Common SCHOOLS thriils
| the prsiIes and slopes of the PACING with nope.
Tie foweT-spoited grass OF unuodden WIGS IS hoi-
| ding welcome 10 our biossoming chlluren, as the
!
telhceLce and order and beauty the vast domainso
| our yet untenanted country. And II the nation
mu st mourn The loss OF so much young and promis-
| ing he-hlve not the time and the circumstances
arrived When We may be justified in deplonng even
Tor the departed themselves the loss of life which
| Divine Providence has chosen 10 make 80 Vauao!e
No acdule scene III the stereotyped language OF lip
religion should keep from acknowledging the gO-
! ~ and desrableneSs of the life that now is AS
| II opens before our children. In times OF penufy
ard rerseCcutioy and despair TO die is great gain
In tines of ignorance and vice and stationary or re-
Ioeace prosperity the loss OF lie IS not 10 DE de
! poud. But the life OF an American cnio' eincdteu
ms all may be educated supported rs all may DC sup
| ported. crowned with the success which ordinary
DILIGENCE and virtue can secuTe-the lie oi an Anne
ricap cbd horn in the middle OF the XlXth century,
when all the spendors OF art, science, and soclai
SKIN and literature, and moral and political ana re-
litio life and liberty are bursting Ike anrorai
lights from the eastern horizon OF the wofid ahu
| ,Eootne nm 10 form crown of glory over our own
| land-Why TO make light OF such he--not 70 oe
! poIe It's extinction as the quencnlng OF orliliam
hcpe-not revereniy 10 feel that Heaven ltsef may
he tasked TO mace more attractive sphere more
inviting prospect aiTer hope before the budding h
II aDity Of our childTep-'s 10 sacfhce orr utmost
and heartiest convictions To q formal ecnO oil
popular superstitlon. That God has future FOR rs
and our children, better than tie present, we may
teyouty hope but let us not dlspttaee tne nl.ehse
ard unspeaka able value OF iite nset nor struggle
less ,esolutely 10 cefend that priceless possession
with every sacrifice Of money, ski ana science
| for life worth to any people oeofe, VIVA,
! il isWorth To our chidren-nor AZ any Ihe Oe!ole
| what I. IS worth TO day.
And thur, my brethren, le. stake home-we who
are len an org the living. and whose children are yet
spaed-ihe great lesson Of our preseht bereavement
"a sense Of blessings, az ifee ana edlcated
people rich IN opportunities, IN prospects, IN son,
ano IN institutions. Let US look ON our children
With new eyes, as blessed IN proportion 10 'hen
YOUTH fortunate accordiI their hyes promise 20
| stretch furhest into that splendid future, which
the intelligence, the humanity, the science, Tue
faith Of the times is preparing for the newborn
generation. Let Us henceioEth, cherish our sons
and cur daughters with new care, as the polished
corners OF that Temple which Is arising on the rough
but firm foundations our fathers laid. Let US more
highly value and more tencery guard human life,
whose worth is constantly increasing and which ID
cur country comes constantly welcomed 10 ne"
aJd puIer opportunities of happiness let US more
literally sustain our institutions Of learning, and
Of mixing them me ssmlnaIes 1t a