The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-20

uECuANl0M 10. xVlI.-Dy ~os,Ao nelsr0ek.
I.svi>istures. government functionaries. and
thu publie useAs, arc concentrating aud combin.
ins their efforts for the promotion of practical
s.ienee. with aunsnimity, energy and patriotism
which ensure speedy and triumphant success.
With legislatures the only question il, the best
mode Of advancing an object recognized by all
a. fundamental for individual and general pros
parity. combined IN wealth. science, and morals
Government funotionsries, OF our own and for
eigp nations, gladly improve opportunities to
use their official relations and influence, as we'll
+. they may, 10 strengthen the only safe Foundation
on which rest all the Institutions aud appoint
msnts OF the governments under which they act
The President Of the United States shows,
both BY word and deed, that his official dignity,
in his view, is not lowered but elevated by ap
pearing 10 the centre of congregation of
children, to administer TO them words of en-
couragement, and to distribute among them to-
kens OF appreciation to the most deserving. A
Judge in high standing says, 81 shall gladly use
all my influence upon the bench, in the social
circle, and through the public journals. for the
advancement of such an object science, uni
versslly diffused, aud largely applied for supply
ING human wants, for enlightening and elevating
Human beings.
A foreign minister said "The system pro-
proposed (scenttc reciprocation)is, in my opin-
ion, calculated to promote enlightened and pa
cifc ntercourse among nations. ! shall there
fore earnestly recommend It, both to institutions
and individuals in my own country, as eminenty
calculated to benefit themselves by extending
their benefits to Others"
The printing press. professedy the supreme
organ Of light, and possessing an omnipotence
in its controlling influence, now more than ever
e. 4. nf grIap tar
of the public press has already to some extent
changed newspapers into school books. BY be
coming generally both the patrons and the We
hcles of science, they will find in the schools of
our country new, large, and rich field of labor,
and schools will recognise them as the richest
fountains of knowledge, furnishing streams
ABUNDANT and perennial.
Each of these three repositories of power
legislatures, government functionaries, and the
public press--iunishes at once an index OF pub
lie sentiment, and an agency for rendering that
sentiment reality. Such sentiment gives to
each of these agencies, provided expressly for
securing and advancing the objects Of its
pleasure, mandate which is absolute, not to
be disobeyed. except by the displacing of such
agency. for giving place to another ready to
yield obedience to the authority which crea-
ted it.
The object having the combined and separate
support of these three agencies, Is not some
thing in the wind which no one can possess or
define. 1t is perfectly definite and within the
reach of every one disposed to hold out his
hnnd to take it. The simple, plain, universal
laws established by the Creator for controlling
every operation in the physical, intellectual, or
moral world, science applied to human acants--to
be in the possession of all, constitute the object
aimed at by the legislature, its func!ionaries
and the press, under the peremptory order of
public sentiment, whose word is law, whose
mandate cannot be disobeyed Hence the pro-
Qress of "PRACTICAL SCIENCE" must be rapid
it's success certain, its completion triumphant.
ExpRRImErTs.-Some five years since the
public schools of New York recognised patriot
ism as ali object proper to be embraced in their
system of institution. To show it in deed more
than word, they directed portion of each week
to be employed by their pupils in preparing
specimens of writing, drawing, mechanism
needle work, mineral collections, and other pro-
auctions Of nature and art, for distribution in
aid of the cause. This new and strong motive
power upon young minds caused many teachers
entirely to change their tables IN relation to
punishment. Instead of saying to their pupils,
"If you do not get your lessons you must stay
after school," they said, =" Ii you will get your
lessons you may stay after school to prepare
specimens to send to the members of our legis-
lature, to the United States Senators, and
others in Congress, to school conventions,
superintendents of schools, foreign Ministers,
and other agencies for aiding them 10 let their
tights shine" Among hundred members OF
Congress and more, one acknowledged the re-
ception of such specimens by saying, " shall
gladly use all my influence when return home,
whittier the beautiful specimens sent me are
forwarded, to promote system which every
one must approve" 1t may probably be said
with safety that in every case in which patriotic
feelings aud sentiments have been presented as
motives to study and orderly department in
schools the results have been less punishment
and greater improvement.