Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-11-23

to improve system ofcommon government
for common good, make himself an effective
champion of King by helping to confuse, |
misrepresent and destroy peoples effort at
common improvement, because administered |
by the people That he could, from the same
rostrum still resonant with his loud protesta-
lions of love for the people, make deadly
and insidious thrust at their most vital inter
4 ests-make moytal effort to strike them
down in the very hour of their deli7erance
by arresting them in their march from the
bondage and the fesh-pots of Egypt and
send them back to darkness and inglorious
ease This march at true independence is
: somewhat toilsome there must be sefde-
] mails and compromises of opinions-there
] must be watchings and labors, patiently per-
/; formed, and endured by all.
There is duty for every body 10 dis.
! charge-there is sacrifice that every one
3 must make. We must not ask exemption
: from trouble the iroabie Of selt-government
5 and Of popular improvement is freemans
e pleasure. 1t is duty which we owe to the
S offspring which we bring into the world aad
2 if we refuse to be troubled with efforts to
= start them on career of virtue and happi-
+: ness, we will have to face them as witnesses
r against US at that Tribunal before which
every man must give an account of the deeds
{ done in the body. 1t is duty we owe to
: God. our bene6cent Creator, who has endow-
e ed US with reason and immortal souls; we
3 were not made for mere brute indulgence,
| but gifteu with the glorious faculty of hum
r bly, serving the Almighty Ruler of Heaven
and Earth by acting as builders in the Eter-
nal Temple of Light. If we refuse so to
e build, then we scatter with the destroyer
:, and we must look, not for chiId's reward
and place in the Fathers house of many
s mansions but for everlasting penance in the
. realms of darkness. Il is duty we owe to
ourselves and country and while we claim
: the proud title of freemeni it is a shame TO US
|, to talk Of trouble in connection with the ed
ucation of our children.
l. Our liberties do not depend on our rulers
n but on ourselves if we will assume the
:, trouble ofraising our children right, there is
# no earthly potentate or politician we need to
l. fear; if we allow them to grow up effeminate
v with indulgence, debauched with luxurious
l. ease, and prizing nothing but money and
D. ended and we are its destroyers.
rf We think il We can only make money we
will be independent and if We would be-
le stow just tithe of the pains incurred for
It, this, on the education and training of our
o. children, we would sooner attain our end.
i 4" What constitutes State?
lg Moth high-raised battlements or labored mound,
IS Thick wall or moated gate
IN Nat Nat haHs and broad arm ports.
~ :. Not starred and spangled Courts
IL Where low-bound baseness watts perfume
c to pride.
be No men, highminded men,
he With powers as far above dull brutes en-
ce dued
he In forest, brake or den,
IN As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude
Men, who their duties know,
. But know their rights, and knO1cing dare main
0. tain,
nd Prevent the long-aimed blow,
d And crush the tyrant while they rend tn
ey chain.
or THESE constitute State;
"a And sovereign law, that States collected aUiL
~ Ger thrones and globes elate
o'' Sits Empress, crowning good, repressin
ILL.,"
OF The management of our Common SchoC
'od system can be carried on as our State is gov
en- erned. There can be and ought to be a sin
NC gle executive head, exercising a general ST
lld pervsion, diffusing information, collectin
ub- statistics and making stated reports of tn
i'm progress and condition of the whole system
ten ana from him the government should radiat
9rs. down to County officers, to neighborhood o
our fcers, &c, &c, all acting in concert and vi
,ul- der one direction. But after all has bee
n done orthat can be done in this respect, the
can is still a duty for every man to perform, ju
the as he has series Of lahors in connectic
hat with the government of the State.
YER There must be healthy state of publ
ave opinion in every neighborhood; every schoC
ded house must be watched, and every teach
10! rewarded by the people themselves. Th'
ON must have the districts properly laid off,
lees suit the general convenience, and the hous
don located in the right places they must S
rid, that these houses are comfortable to th
gov children, and not miserable purgatories C
mes culated to make the tenants hate the We
un- name of School. They must let the chldr
con- know that they are cared for, and that {
lem. Schools and teachers to which they are Sc
nniy are respected by the parents.
most They must also let the teacher KIN
oliti- that good account of his actions will
we looked for and they must do as they ha
,e in learned from their fathers to do in resp
oliti- to the government, differ about its mana
nong nIent, dispute and contend each one for
place way. but NEVER. NEVER consider these
'asis. ferences Of opinion as reason fo- Civ
peo- up the government or the Common Schoc
le, in For one | want our Republic, in its lei
cellar and spirit. to stand while time endures;
I'm OF one, ] believe that its stability depends
! get the intelligence and virtue Of the peoI
insist and that popular intelligence, as the hist
carry of the world shows, can only be fully I
FOOLS. NOTED by Common Schools which throw
ght / burden Of education on all according to IL
ush ! means, and make education cheap to all
= one cept the very rich.
.noue And lastly. believe no Common Scht
pop can flourish unless the people are willin!
. peo- take trouble on themselves in this conr
and ton, and that it is unworthy of freeme
hools. refuse to be troubled with the trainin
they their children, the hope Of the State, al
,eopie trust they have assumed before God to q
e anv age with unceasing care.
could With much respect,
of Z. ID. WILEY
pure November, 1853.