New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-24
SKETCHES OF LECTURES.
Hsw to Manufacture America. Cisisen~.


Rev. Mr. Beecher, on last Tuesday night.
delivered lecture tbs subject to large aadisaee
Ct the TabeEnsole. Broadway. Ga being iatrodeeel.
be sad All Is not gold thai cutters nor are ali ca
szens who vote, for jus the mere sreriag proves
nothiag IS to the intrinsic preciousaess 50 the mere
voting proves nothing the intrinsic fitness for
the practice Technically speaking an American CT
ti1sn i man who has lived certain humber OF years
ON American soil With equal fe6oisy witty writer
hss declared that chemically speaking nsa "a forty.
sve pounds Of carbon and ntrogsn difased tArOagh
Eve pail fulls Of water and the 5e6noa Is good
a. the other To manufacture American eitirss In
The technical sense Is only necessary 70 take white
boy and feed him. If time be necessary Is AZ cleo
lions the imported article may be hal In the latter
Gaze il takes declaration alttle swearing, bus con-
science Is not necessary in mere voter, technical
citizen The manufacture Of voters was not however.
the theme a. this matters hze TO genuine American
citizen The problem Is 70 train boys 50 that they
shall become intelligent epitomes and upholders OF
American doctrines and principles. The lecturer then
stated that education necessary 10 make q good
citizen he proposed 10 consider the school system in
It's American aspect and sdspeAtions He considered
that hunsR govern ments were productive OF EVIL As
well coed, and that complete peace eoeld only oNs;
under absolute despctsm enslrc freedom. but u
would be found that the less the governing. the
better the government In all the jealousy mani.
Tested toward every department Of the State would
be well consider the common school question which
at present undergoing 50 close an investigation all
over the land, and h ought to be met openly. II
IL urged that education may safely be trusted to
voluntary eaota End that the State has no right 10 fn
erere in IL produced good results for Il was
confended thst If state can prescribe dictionaries and
CrsmmATs, why not Bibles and cstechlsnls; and THAI
stormy pohncs often likely q mix themselves up
with this question also the money raised for the pur
NaStsr "a rarsI
IN itsel Is not sufficient for many other things
which the ate in such case would be obliged 10 pro-
vide; that makes persons happy cannot be adj
vanced, for IL al times had contrary effect aud the
South American happier in his ignorance under the
ncas than they under the wosh lessons the Spea-
ards taught them la this country there Is selfex
isng Government no governing class, and one hun
dred Of our principal men were 10 die 10 morrow, this
would not slack the spin OF Government wheels Self
government " our boast, and when We speak OF the
Government We mean that part OF the body polite
which u to the remainder the brain Is to the body
Whatever may be thought night for countries whersa
class born TO govern 20 good with bsyOnets, while
governing by divine wisdom, II Is clear that with US
there can be clear sight sound head unless the
body be strong and healthy In despotic Governments
IL may be sufficient TO educate the heir apparent and
his expected councillors but where every citizen can
not only be eect0r but also oe elected TO govern
and the swearing weather beaten whartb0y Is ~ likely
to become City Father the Of the most respect
able ctzen, and when his swearing, thevng obscenty
instead of being hindrsnce Il likely aid Ia his eloc
tiOnthe right Of the State them TO educate cannot be
questioned. The blood which circuates through the
toe will circulate thr) ugh the head II there be
sores below there will be sympathies above virus BE-
low there will be poison above The right of State To
provide and compel universal education u, then simply
the right Of selipreservaon aud a. this ght uuques
toned, the Common School, az an American institution,
must stand The phlanthrOpist had his arguments for
education founded ON beneyolence; the religious man,
in order that all should be- able 10 read the Bible The
merchant he's also his Arguments and there are many
N
the subject The sectarian question the question
OF taxation powerful bat these questions OF de-
tail But this Is sun not the argument There some
again. who ssy that education does not make good CIT
zen, and cay that there Ia them connection between
common schools and good citizens did education
make men moral. THIS was ttshOuld be confessed, but
too true, and IL was time then, TO have the problem
solved and hIeducation defective, to see II our
schools could not b. made TO harmonic with
other institutions II be true that ignorance "a
thus destructive Of true democracy every good citizen
should give hs aid 10 the spread OF universal education
and the difficult the task L. the greater the
sliy tor the alternative H. educate the citizens, or die
democracy. Edacson s not after all, 50 difficult
ii clearly understood Ii Is not 20 educate msn, but
simply 20 train citizen-o make him understand his
franchise and wisely The talk about human per.
ecbty The State Is for citizens not for
men, and education In It's larger sense Is no business OF
the State God has laid this obligation parents for
their children. and upon each for himself The ed
ueation OF mar has eternity for term time and
CATION the education OF citizen "a the work Of
Germ Of the State whether man DO fool phi
losOpher but below that state il IL very vital matter
There are two modes by which individuals combaed
into society One IL the compeiling-the outside
method. This u despOtismthe other calls for intell
gence on the part Of the individuals Ill they become
self governing The one Is sreetOrgsn with an auto
crst 10 turn the crank and the citizen IL only pipe
hold still and blOw-the other orchestra with a
chosen conductor and the citizen solo performer
and when Il IL his duty % play hBmOnously men
fond OF be preferred the orchestra
hen Uea I0 a bn IN abNraz 20 he,
nghn Of citizenship act wisely. when admit
our boys to vote when they come Of age ast wisely
in this slso. But YET we are besotted fools TO imagine
our Democracy % be Noahs ark, and that 10 our
only duty 20 drive In the catfle There IL no magic
in vote. Give child sxe-it does not follow he
can chop wood, nor y there any virtue In soil to
change ser INTO citizen slave into freeman.
You TO be sure, know enough 20 be good citizens you
know that the way redress private wrongs or public
injustice II not BY violence and that hight Is an.
meaning and dsorderly and mob the aysnt courier OF
anarchy. You know that your right be protected
BY law and how to purge corrupt Legislation you know
how 10 impeach or indcs corrupt rulers. Thus
are you freernen. There are, however. men who do
not know hs and who 20 ignorant that they can
not understand d, They cannot know it BY reading
by bearing, for liars abound and hll the air
nor by thinking, for tbey never think They only feel
legislators are with theIn Olarehs with them, blow 10
the only conceivable remedy for violence; thieying
tskes revenge Of knayery. There many citizens,
both native and adopted among who have been driven
along an iron railroad unquesrDning and unthnking,
VINO KNOW OF notlonAl state or
sovereignty. The lecturer went on 10 show what |
the difference between the education OF and
citizen, and eontended that The present Of compulsory
education vss vrong-thst the youth should be
think and not made % lesrn. he lnstaDced the Of
boy who came before him 10 psss examination for
higher school than that IN which ne was, and be gave
him some small figures b calculate Oh, said the boy,
do not want % do that-uOther says mnst learn Latin
and Greek and mathematics lie cOntended much |
the wrong bent gwen the minds Of youth By the smbl
ton OF parents 70 have their children make figure IN
the world and ye: when they CUT frofn school /
they came useless for any practical object and
tended that the who taught the youth 10 think and
70 become practically useful eiuzen< did for
k country than be who led home the ragged remnant
OF ro~dy band Of folorn hope with dkease IA their
bones and evil In their souls High schools and colleges
he WA ready 70 resign, but no, the common schools
and be trusted th1, more pains woa Be taken 70 make
them practically useful The lecturer concluded AMID
,he applause Of the meeting
This = the lar; Lecture Of The Peoples course his
season