The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-07-12

ca Wotid cur testimony OF respect and gratitude
to our bre1hern over the Atlantic, for what the
are ding in education. They are exhibiting to
US the glorious spectacle of "A thoroughly nation.
al education; no State central machine for
grinding out loyalty and religion from the mass.
OF special kind and in fixed quantities but
f something like real training IF mind and hear,
for free use, personal and social We, elias /,
have little TO say that is creditabe under this
head, and not very much that is immediately
hopeful When We think of our thousands of
town Arabs. and tens of thousands of our rural
innocents, in state next to idiotcy for want of
education, We find our spirits decline rapidlv
from the songuine pitch TO which they had been
| raised by less important returns of the Census
mere can be AZ question of the adyancema mt
ofthe national intelligence on the whole. The
spread "f books and newspapers in spite of many
| disastrous restrictions the spread of the assn
cate principle, in regard to the purchase If
land, the saving of funds, and the prosecution
OF business and, yet more, the improved tam
per and conduct manifested in recent srikes-
all tesh'y 10 The Improvement of the popular
Intelligence. But still, we have death lists "
and an immense infant mortality in our burial
clubs: we have complete population of iuyen |
lie dellnqnents and the State has not vet de-
sis'ed from its wrong-of first leaving the parent
generation in the disqualification Of Ignorance. |
ana men failing to stand IN loco parents to the
ch'G'eh. However we may, onThe instant
exert oarseiSes-however we may from the
instant succeed, We must bear, for another GEN.
eraion al least, the difficulty burden, and shame
mus resting apon us. In the United States
nearly tour millions OF the youth of the nation |
were al school in June, 1S5O,-tha is, pea ~
one in every five of the free population.
AS for what the American nation, as a whole
is 10 tecome, at its present rate Of progress, il
is really an overwhelming idea Sir Charles
Lyeii, who has been four times to the United
States within dozen years so, has said in
pubic speech, and on other occasions, that he
had TO open his eyes and his mind afresh eyerv
time he went, as IT TO observe new nation, so =
vast were the changes in every department of !.
social life The computation is, that at the :
present iate ri progress. The United States will :
;ontai iu,i,JoO,JilO at the end of The century :,
A crm"cl.,ic irpnblic of l00,f 0 900 cit zens ;,
NJ ct,tai.iiy 1T II, W spectacle on cur globe
I'D iare p.iylrge ii viii be to some Of the
"'nh how at oar sco Is and universities to sec =,
"a their latter days. When consider that. :,
# this growing nation, ali the ,.frm and inner :.
PCT ~ body and mind cared tnr, all the chill %
r-u edu, afed, and ali criminals t,,,en in hand
> he made the best IT, we shall nj wonder that
here are 50 many exrectants Of the milenium
D those shores. 1t is mt quarter Of centu-
since the din, solemn islands of Manitou, in III
&c great lakes, W re- ike our Mona when the ar
onlans were in our south eastern district - 8,
here was the Great Spirit to be consulted and | r,
'opaed by the Druids of that western re-
on, while the invader lived afar off and now ..
e country has the aspect OF ours, after lapse V.
ii teen centuries-having good things to show /,
Inch we 40 not YET p,ss,s s.