Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-07-14


the tune Of six millions in as many weeks.
How TO MANuFAcTUEE AN AMERICAN
CITIZEN. Thomas K Beech has recently
been lecturing in New York We like his
mode of manufacturing men and citizens.
II IS substantially strai, forward, cut-a-
cross-lots answer 10 the question /: How
shall we train boys to become valuable citi.
zensl The answer is substantially this
educate them---educaie the hands as well
as the head-educaie the whole body and
the whole mind "Governmenl is TO men,
says the lecturer, as harness is to borses-
burden Indeed, but necessary, If we in.
tend 10 get much work out Of our team
/ That knowledge is essential TO the growth
OF young American, Is true; but bread
and butter are equally essential, and itte
birch, at times; but there is no reason WIN
the state should furnish them. The right
OF the state to educate its citizens is ne
more nor less than self-preservaiion--tho
right to enact prohibitory stalu,es-,hc
right Of the head to dictate surgical Cd.
Grafton to the bruised feet This one ar
gumeni is alI-suflicieni, that democracy
cannot exist without an educated people,
The state exists for citizens, not for ind.
vidual men. The care of children is no,
It's funcIon--,hat devolves upon parental
authority. The state must care for It's Cit.
zens, present and future
The son Of peer might with pro
prie,y lay in large grist Of { facts re
membered' before beginning to grnd.--
But the Yankee must begin to grind the
first load that comes. The boy studying
geography, reads Of Persia and the ru
ms of Persep oils, and deems it a prod
gious bore. Let the teacher set him T.
reading commercial daily-to huntin,
up The Manila ropeAnd Smyrna figs ami
Havana oranges in il, and tell whence
they come he is a reader at once he
reads while a, school what he will rea
when a man. Geography becomes
passion with him. The school is fitiin.
him to graduate into the world. Set
boy 10 tell what he is paying for when he
pays sixteen pence for pound of coffee.
aud he Is studying political economy un-
awares. Make the lad curious-make
his eyes stand out with wonder of Ger
tam mysteries, make him thirsty for
knowledge, and then put out the springs,
that he will surely drink of them.
The common schools must be support
ed--in the worst, the dIr,iesl, the fool
est part of our land they must be sup
ported. Where teachers are discouraged
where the newspapers never speak Of
4 model school-in those repusve bull /
ings where congregate The most ragged
Of our city boys, there we must support
the common school. Ii is a disinfectaat
and is most needed in the foulest quarter.
Ii you give that neighborhood up, It's
grown up vileness will have no pity on
you. When the fire is SO hot that lAe
hremen run, God he Up the city!
The young citizen must be taught
a thorough discipline. IL isa wro .
doclrlue, that discipline only keeps The
school STILL while the boy nbsoIbs
knowledge from his books. The disai-
pine is his best lesson-lhe books are
mostly helps to enforce it. Weld good
steel on To anything-an axe or nee
de--and il makes an edge. A well
disciplined boy will make a good doctor
or lawyer, farmer or merchant. Disei-
pine IS particularly called for in our day,
when nobody IS afraid OF his father, uu-
body pulls off bis hat 70 the minister
aud nobody, sure, IS AFRAID of an alder
man. We tend towards snarchy.--
Freedom is our Observation-Disclosures
obedience is our peculiar want. In the
schools, 100 much is II the Gus that the
word obey is the constitution. Bl',
out IN the world, the scholar is unde
constitution which provides for lis own
amendment. The school should be an
apprenticeship teacher a master
workman. All apprentices will bot
Better they should do il in the school,
experimenting, than outside, where bless
ed Institutions must suffer. An alaTniist
is a coward we would not be such
But there is a shadow on the future aud
the men who tread the quarter deck may
be pardoned for knit brows and clouded
counter noes, while they study TO meet
storm which may be brewing.
A citizen should not be the pipe o.
hand-organ for any ruler To force the
wind lhrough-glylng certain sound 1T
The will OF another. Father he should
be one of an orchestral sole perform
er. lie can sing anything his duty Is
TO sing harmonhously.
Now see the difference between an
educated and ignorant voter. The lat
ter knows no good reason for his polil-
cal action, Tor his vote. Tor his opinion.
tie co ,iounds vengeance and justice. -
He is kep, on the track only by 'hs