Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-03

they know not how TO use IT, scarcely the purpose for
which it is intended Education Of different kind is
what England must now attend to. She has read
ing machines enough she must train thinking re-
fectng moral and industrious and women who, to
reading and writing add the powers of the head and
the feelings of the heart AT present with all the public
and national and Sunday and ragged schools and all the
long lists Of patrons and supporters Of education which
NIL up Exeter Hall oraton there is no country in the
world where there is such parade of education and such
mass OF ignorance where there is such show OF
religious education the Sunday and much profanity
throughout the week great profession Of religion and
80 heathen population In no kingdom Of the earth
10 there SO much wealth and much pauperism No
where does squad misery SO closely approach paatial
magmhcence. No where does an uneducated working
class so loudly reproach an intellectual nation Mr. COB
DEM remarking on this at Barnsley said "Why do peo-
pie live in bad cellars, surrounded by filth and disease
You may say 1t their poverty but their comes
MS much from their ignorance their vices and their
vices often spring from their ignorance" The Earl
OF SHAFrEsDuRY does not deep for the cause Of su
fering. lie attributes all to poverty and says unless
You feed clohe and shelter the hungry naked and
the houseless, schools will be Of little lie oms to
notice what is truly the of poverty Mr. CoBpEN
goes the of the evil he admits the existence Of
the poverty hopeless abect, and disregarded it is
but he justly says ignorance truly parent crime
is its offspring He wishes to apply the to this evil
to to the very root of it, and by removing ignorance
destroy and eradicate all its fearful progeny. The igno-
with which he is not that of which George the
Third complained 1t is not the ignorance which prevents
child from reading the Bible 1t is the ignorance which
prevents him from understanding it and correctly appre-
cating its contens it is the ignorance Of the first prn
cples Of domestic and social and political duties it is
the want of domestic, social and political rights and it
is education Of the proper kind which alone give
knowledge Of the former and the possession of the
latter.
The phanthropsts Of England have attempted to edu-
cate the poor of England in the way the mission
aries have attempted cvze the savage and reclaim
the barbarian. They have gone with the Bible in their
hands, but not with its wisdom in their heads its good
ness in their hearts They have tried to the crop
to grow where the ground not prepared for its
ture; consequently nothing but failure was to be ex-
peced
That the present degradation and consequent deprav-
ty of great proportion Of people England large
ly owing to physical sorry to admit but
educated people would have sunk SO low, and
education Of the proper kind would do much lift
them of the slough into which they have fallen We
earnestly hope that it is not the slough despond de-
spair; for many helping hand will be extended towards
them to aid them in their rightly directed e1erons
to obtain better position. writer in the Times of
Tuesday last takes in opinion the following
view Of this question. He says:
If the agricultural aborer received higher wages than
now, the money would without education to teach him
how to spend it. be addition TO his comfort And it is
the in the towns. You may pay labor better; you
may provide better dwellings you may build up churches,
open chapels and organize Sunday schools; you may
have home missionaries Scripture readers health nspec
tors and all the police with which phanthrophy would
watch poverty but until the poor educated.
are taught how to provide for their wellbeing,
afforded innocent recreation and made feel their
hu will he Int fefnp rtaiu nd
abused ameloraon it will be assistance which does not
help, kindness which comes in aims charity which
not be appreciated and IL will asten the bonds Of the in
degradation while it paints the outward depra
vity."
This subject of education connects itself very closely
with that of sanitary reform for without certain guam
tty of the right description of the former cannot
make the poor either of the necessity Of the latter
the best of obtaining it. Even the most
commodous, airy, and comfortable dwelling houses OBJ
tanned for the poor and they all safely placed in
them, unless education either preceded with the
change of residence the house would become
impure the old one and we should find that the
teral part Of could not be well and permanently pro-
vded for unless his higher nature his moral and intel
ecua and spiritual being also received partof
attention
We want here that sort Of education which viii make
poverty meekly proud and humbly independent; which
will make it ceanly temperate moral, and religious in
every position The poor be taught respect and
themselves, and again must quote Mr.. CoBpEs,
and say: The best way to accomplish this is to afford
them other occupation recreation than that which
lis derived only through their in fact the best
way is give them education" What that education
should be we have endeavored to point out
After we had written thus far struck with
idea that the greater part of American friends would
scarcely know what writing about you real
ly class Of people in the United States with which
the poor Of England be compared You have no
Of squad poverty because you have stagnsnt
cespools Of ignorance to give them birth but probably
you imagine what these latter would produce and do
produce where they exist. II you cannot comprehend
the extent Of the evil here nevertheless believe that it is
still frighful reality, and be thankful that you
empt from it. OF the ignorance and crime Of Europe you
have striking proof in the statistics OF your seventh
From that census IL appears that the whole
Der Of persons convicted of crime in the United States for
the year which ended june 1850 about 81 900; Of
these $4,000 natives ncluding colored prsoners)
and 900 foreign born BY the authority and to
the date, informed that your population
then composed Of sos natives Of its SOIL 2216828
born in foreign countries snG 30 S14 whose nativity could
not be determined These statements show that at that
time, and have to suppose that crcumstan-
have materially changed since them there nearly
foreign resident nine native whites whilst there
than oregn-born criminal to every native, in
GLIDING black and white. This should Europe
commentators upon American criminal statistics to
look nto the subject little below the surface before
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