Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07

women rotouS conventions, contlnuAly camOrn6
that government will to be tyrannical
intoersbe till by acts Of Legislation made
common delusiye and newspaper logic is that popu
lar elections for every thing give power TO the
pe while all and feel that it is the vile vena arts
tocracy place hunters whose power is increased to the
infinite detriment Of the people and the sovereignty
substantive evil OF perpetual attempts at political amend
mens is that they prevent moral and physical territorial
and various other ameorations and necessary
forms anonymously prosecuted No sober or sensible
person well doubt that ntemperance by drink by
fearful ravages far exceeding all ancient in thai
way, calls aloud for some check But the mote Of
whskey be expelled by the beam Of tobaccos Or men
scoded into sobrety by Others many Of them cergymen
who live by stimulation irrational and perncious
than drink and its primary school for indulgence by boys
smoking and chewing which educates them to be drunk
ards? IT, with Burke should not say let the thun-
ders of tie pulpit descend drunkenness stand up or
gin, at least let us be consistent with temperance
Madness Of radicasm and scism is caused by flaw in
the granite blocks from the Plymouth rock which the
corner-stenes Of free schools The most educated
without religion will not be the best educated people
Elevate the understanding without purifying the afec-
tons OF rising generation add the vast power Of read
ing to the sovereign power Of voting and great fierce
powerful gigantic nation may rise ingenious enterprs-
ing formidable, irresistible the hardest seamen the
bravest soldiers the sklfuest artisans with books and
bowie knives, revolyers and rifles weapons brandished
in every hand and arrogance spoung from every tongue
but all unhallowed by religious subordnation, wise
fear will be nation not to reform but to scourge
kind have heard it pously preached from the pulpit
that free schools will require pententiaries wherever
reading is taught without educating the heart well
the mind The Governor Of Northern State gives it
his experience of crimes that for part
derers Germans our peacebreakers Irish but our
cheats natives Of this country Our places of worship
many pastoral influences perhaps great and our
people generally religious others. But tanning and
subordinaton extremely difficult to rear notwith
standing lustrous examples of eminent religious
Whenever posterity far from the present age
as are from the battlefield of Thermopy@ and
mote history becomes sentimental always does, which
too yet to appreciate the religious fea-
lures of will shine among the brightest Of early
American annals. Their three greatest commanders
Washington in the revolution, Jackson in the second
with England and Scott in the with Mexico at the
head Of conquering armies ncucated pious
Nor let it be added in this assembly Of youths there
in the Sublime Pagan prisons of the renowned of
Thermopylae any thing edifyng than the young
Christian Lieutenant promising the most effective of
naval victories by calling to prayers before he clear
ed his ship for action Lake Champlan.
If the pernicous want of early religious instruction
contains the root of school system there also
functional nfrmities to be apprehended; the pestence
of sectaranism the contamination of local party politics.
and the vulgar capacities Of jobs.
Lately Irish servant in Philadelphia family thence
rising to be cab driver and disappointed of further ad
vancement to place in the Custom House. is teach
in of the Philadelphia public shoots. So uncom-
mon an instance OF preferment is not mentioned to dis
parage either that incumbent the institution who it
presumable passed the regular examination The teach
er OF ancient languages, when was at this University
fine scholar and admirable pedagogue, Irish and
learned lrshmen are common than learned Ameri
cans But the late Hibernia schoomaster alluded to
had certainly not from the scholastic Mecca ut Ply
mouth rock when, from mental service, promoted to
post much better paid than any associate Judge of the
Courts of Common Pleas Of this State and without abi
iy to that precarious rotation in Office which exchanges
the highest judicial funconares in most Of our States
under modern reformation.
Let me protest. too, against common American delu-
sion, propagated by informed press that open ca
from IN stat 10
even preeminentyan American speciality 1t is such
thing Open career is now almost universal The Eng
lish BAR church, and society TEEN with such dstin-
gushed upsars The French army has taken dozens of
marshas and generals from the ranks and the church
its prelates Even in Turkey every may rise be
grand viziers and, If not mistaken, Marshal Die
bitch, who not long since led the Russian army to the
Balkan mountains and Prince Paskewitch who subdued
hungary rose from low beginnings to be the makers of
their own fortunes.
Having just mentioned the American press it should
be added that the British press and the French and
believe the German, all conducted by men much bet
ter educated than most of editors Public opinion in
England where the press almost free ours and
other countries where Free is ndoctrinated at
any rate by scholars and fine writer's with classical
finish superior as indeed may be said nearly all of us
Americans
When from schools rise to colleges their excessive
numbers aud dimnutive classes, the unavoidable off
spring Of widespread independent realms deprecate di
pomas baccalaureates mastershps, and all other collie
gate honors that it is not always certain whether
docorate Of laws is dignity Such as
is, however, it is nearly half century since any
Governor of Pennsylvania has had that any other col
legiate, literary, scientific title consderaton-ds-
REIMBURSEMENT peculiar to Pennsylvania. The first six
Chief Magistrates of this Commonwealth after it became
independent ali gentlemen Of education cultivation
and superior information and they were all Phadel-
phians Among the vagaries Of progress in free and
aourshng State populous and opuent than several
Of the kingdoms of Europe onesxth of the people, the
metropolitan population have been for nearly half CEN
fury osracsed by the rest; that resident of this
metropolis or any graduate Ola college has BEEN by any
of the various parties nominated for Governor
BY the individual influence Of able and enthusiastic
Executive, New York. without natural advantages over
Pennsylvania to become the Empire State is So when
Pennsylvania might have been, if De Witt Clinton had
been chief magistrate here instead of there And the
example of such leaders, moreover induces succession
OF their emuators instead of dynasty of jewellers
Pennsylvania rings with daily boasts that she is the Key
stone, the backbone Of the Union. Philadelphia de-
of former days used pertinenty to vaunt
following in the shafts wherever Virginia
or ultimately New York, lead. Laudable and judicous
combination of city and college ascendancy, Boston and
Cambridge together gave Massachusetts, Presidents
Vice President several superior Secretaries Of State
sometimes three foreign Ministers the same time from
the single Of Boston, and altogether eight at differ
ent periods from that town. to the whole State Penn
sylvanas six four Of whom four different Administra-
tons took from less than and the same Phi
ladephia; while President only one Vice President
Secretary of State and analogous paucy of oil Fe
deral dgnites have been the lot of this sesacrhcinp
State.
As Voltaire says that Roman Catholics and Quakers
the religious persuasons most alike by reason that
extremes meet, individual and multtudinous the two
extremes Of arbitrary sovereignty have in their SINH
lar apprehensons Of large cities Despotc and dissoute
kings of France to avoid the popuace removed their
n.