The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-07-23

twenty-five or tweEty-six years of age;
and as home citizen, at the editorial ia
bic of county whig paper. makes toll
cradle respectable appearance. He is
and always was remarkably fond of git
in for'ard'' in the world, and from a
boy up when chance offered, was death
cn making a speech, or trying to. Schuy-
Ter is rather lively and cheerful, and
sometimes rather sparkling, and disposed
to be witty; and take him altogether, one
way and another, he has considerable tai
ent. On short acquaintance, one would
be disposed to like him; that is as citi-
zen; but bless his soul, no one but wild,
clean-gone mad whig would ever expect
to see him in Congress. Schuyler, we
said, take him one way and another. has
considerable talent; but alas. all COM
pounds have some nauseous drug, and so
with men. Schuyler has good memory,
good language, fair ideas, and all that;
but unfortunate man that he is, he has
neither age, experience, or judgment.
Clay and Jackson were pushed forward
very early; but those were times of trial,
and they were men Of an age, and not a
day. Schuyler is trying the same IA ce;
but he is not man in a million, and
these are not days of trouble. Schuyler
has been a consistent whig, because he
has opposed erery thing done or propo-
sed to be done by the democracy, which
is the essence of whiggery, but he has not
been consistent politician, nor very
liberal republican. He has in times gone
by, supported abolitionism and free soil
strong--and now he has fallen back into
the arms of "Old Law" and goes the COM
promise like death. He was once wor-
shipful admirer of Davy Wilmot, and a
bitter a5user of Dan Webster, but now
the tables are turned, He once hung for
old wing claims of bank, distribution, as
sumption, high tariff, and all that; but
his knife Topped it all off when General
Taylor come ont, and he who once cried
aloud against military chieftains, went
j! loud for "Old lack" with black line
over his principles" Well, he sus
tanned "Old Zack," and his cabinet; and
when time and public opinion had con-
signed the one TO dust, and the other to
oblivious contempt. Fillmore chan
ged the whole policy of administration &
we find Schuyler adding another paper to
the tail of his political kite. and she veers
round and sails after Fillmore. add he
gets some pap" in the shape of govern
ment printing. and his father n-law gets
into the Post Office Department, and all
swims smoothly, and he follows up the
old rule. keeps good whig, by opposing
every advance made by the democrats
and as TO wings. holding his legs ready to
fall in any direction. But for this we
care nothing; he was a whig, and of
course his nature would let him do no.
thing else. Such conduct might suggest
the idea to some people, that we could
hardly trust him. but may be not. Well
Schuyler wants to go to Congress and
make laws for us--us here in Indiana.
We said he wanted judgment. Now a
man of judgment acts prudently, not for
himself only, but for others. He went
to the convention last fall, to help make
new constitution. The people expect
ed him to act for the people at large. and
not for any one man or set of men. The
people had decided in favor of free
schools, and they were straining every
nerve 10 advance a fund for free school
purposes. We are far in advance of other
States in some benevolent institutions,
and the people asked for free education.
The poor man who had no means, wanted
his children to have chance to learn to
read and write. and larger majority of
the people were willing to give it to him.
Our funds were small, and the wise men
of the convention wished to increase it.
and give every. poor man an equal chance
with rich one--give him good school
at his own door, and the means 10 keep
it up withou: his hard earnings drawn
from him by taxes for that purpose.
Well, Schuyler opposed it. He was in
convention. He was witty, smart, and
anxious to go to Congress; but he want
ed judgment-he opposed free schools,
and would moi help sustain them by a
funda rental provision IN the constitp-
ton giving large fund and costing the
people nothing. Don't you believe it?
Turn 10 the Convention Journal, page
$40. You will see minute of proceed
ings to convert the State University fund
into the common school fund by consent
of Congress, and Schuyler said no, it
should not be done, and it was not
done.
This State University is fixed in this
way. A long time ago. Congress gave
two townships of land (each six miles
square, for State University, and to
forever remain fund for that purpose.
1t is now located in one of the richest
portions of the State, and the fund is
worth very large sum of money. 1t
could only be applied 10 free school pur-
poses by consent of Congress, and of
course Congress would consent that we
should apply it as we thought best, and