The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-06-24

I tfneS lac not theSe advantages. nave
a belief that ignorance, =. dead lifeles'
ignorance--is a great curse, and as We
have less Of il than they had il past times
we're happier for the change. II is as
useless 10 say that the world does MOI
progress, as TO say that waller don't run
down hill, when it's moi stopped from
doing so. iq a'a Fi'- 35
Mr.. Mo1tpeu. Change is too com
mon. There's nothing stationary. Like
the Alhcnian people we are always in
chase after novelty, and novelty s moi
always, or very often, il il ever is, whole
some progress, There is no quiet in
life now, iI's all hurry and bus,le. Boys
are men now almost as soon as they can
talk, and parents are looked on as an
incumbrancc, and their authority and
guidance slishied. This, tits true, is a
sort Of progress, bu, il is not real one.
II we have common schools they do not
teach now the uses OF patient industry
in learning. lt's always raco ogains
time. The teacher that hurries over the
books is preferred 10 the one who cOre-
fully makes sure as he goes along.
Reading, whiting, arithmetic, gtSmmar,
and geography. are all now professod 10
be iaugh. in few lessons, and who is
the wiser FOR il. There is only one
thug learned, and that is great capita
Of confidence, but unfortunately il is
almost always like borrowed capital.
There is nothing substantial for its foun
daiion. Men make parade Of knowledge
when il is all superficial and show, Of
nearly so. ln politics too, our roformers
are always IN a hurry. They pick up
some bad practice, and they form socie>
lies and hold meetings, and talk about
how very wicked is abe practice they
condemn, and go home thinking the
world should come down at once and
thank them for opening its blind eyes,
and making i. better, after while il
turns out that the world has paid but
very little aitentiop9to them, moving on
very much in Its old course, and then
they try 10 resort to force, and make it
good, whether il will or no, and Of course
they succeed less in this sort Of effuri
than before. I grant that people have
got in a hurry, are fond Of experiments,
and qaarreliwilh every thing as old as
their grandfaihers, bui that's not the
progress that's likely 10 make the world
lbe,ter.mud 70 a5lilaasa l5l a9aq isla
+ Mr. Salsbwy.-=This question is of
real importance, and my friend Maxwell,
though he denies progress, qye! is swept
along in ,heo general hurry he speaks Of
and partakes Of lis spirit. He linsists
,ha; in new country, where men have
10 conquer nature, where the forest has
to be cleared away, where cities, and
counties, and States, have TO be built, yet
in less than century of before uniriod
( selfgoyernmeni, all the vast results Of
the great discoveries Of recent times
shall be completed, ma,ured, and devel-
oped in his time. This cannot be done.
The years of nations move slow, COM
pared with the fight of common life.
Yet, when we look at The giant efforts Of
a rapidly growing, energetic, and happy
people, living under The dominion Of self
imposed laws, rejoicing in the achieve
men,s OF peace, and bringing all the
knowledge Of the past. and the irven-
tons of the present, into the practical
service Of commoa life, we cannot doubt,
if we have looked at the past os history,
that the great experiment Of republican
government-.-democra,ic republican re-
preventative government, aided by the
free circulation of intelligence, the free
interchange Of though, aud approximate
equality of conditions and actual equal
ity Of rights is spec iacle new TO man
kind, is a progress so mighty that il
would seem 10 me that nothing but
absolute mental blindness would fail TO
see il. This progress, il is true, has not
penetrated every particular of human
character and action, it has not made
immortality unknown, but already tue
people Of tie United States constitute q
more moral people than exists under
any other government on earth. The
education that our system gives, il still
imperfect, is yet as genial and as general
as the dews Of heaven. We are not free