The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-29

8 the question has been as household words all
over the State during the last ten montnsThere need
be 10 cause 81 irritation, grunsbiog fault 6ndiog
or elimination il The rex Legislature adopt the
yetoeo act OF last year ane IT becomes approved
by executive sapction.
rbe temperance msn as they style thems Ives,
are te,mined rot again to be cheated out OF the
choice OF their own Speaker. Mr. Lttejohn was their
csl dida'e az tie last session. ard they bad the
strength to elect hiu.: but they were mys.eriousy
defea'ed by the magic infuence OF political
agency. He will be on the course again. and though
firm and decited silver gray it IS hardly possible
that the Seward section will venture again to inter-
upon a crusade 20 defeat him.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
IL your paper OF last Monday Q6th) there is a
report of sermon prea,hed by tie Rev. d.. Chez
YER, tie day before, the subject Of the loss Of
the Arctic The Doctor used the following Ian.
guags:-" There is Lesson here in regard to the
importance OF having our common laborers Of 30
cety, engineers, fifemen, and seamen, educated in
the fesr OF Godtaught thsir responsibility to him.
1t SO happens continues the Rev. speaker, that
many of this class get their education at the public
schsls that If the Bible ana its religion be not
in some way taught there, they know nothing at ell
about it, &c Now there are two points in the pre-
csdiDg quotation to which wish particularly to
take exception. Fit it is very unjust to class the
engineers of our steam merchant service with com
mon laborers," either in point of Intelligence, edu-
cation manners, OF the position they hold in socis.
ty All citizens, II is true, are politically and in
TIE eye o. the Lag, equal; but the conditions ad-
yertec TO above, intelligence education, manners,
Distractions which all the reasoning of theofe tca
eqaslity cannot get lid of. The larger number Of
Gu. ginse;s are men Of superior intelligence the
vey nature Of their pursuits is such, that to stand
hInH IN hnTp
&c. |. sir, am an engineer, and feel proud Of my
profession. There is not another elias, Of men in
tbs CONF unity wto are 60 often called to act in
cases OF the most urgent Dscessty and could cite
numbers who, in the most IT, ing times, have been
equal to the emergency, and whose edu alton, in
teiligence and department suit them well for the
iefie is OF p ivate lite. And wsat If they did
GET their education at the pubic schools? Hsee not
some OF the most distip guis. ed Of country
cone tie same! And does the pious Doctor pre-
sumo that because religious inst, uction ia not
part ct the discipline of THAT noble institution
(Which tie keystone to the arch of our liberties
! humbly trust the Almighty may preserve to us
feuver) the religious culture of the pupil is neglect.
ed al home and the family shrine abolished? Does
he suppose that because we are engineers, pious
father's counses pass UNDECIDED, or . devoted
mothers a1moniti0ns ard appeals made in vain2
No. no, such a conclusion is fallscy. Alas alas
that DIV. Hing in magnificent tabernscles should 80
warp the Judgment and distort the vision. Let us
hope tlat Dr. Cheever is too good christian to de-
legae to another that instruction which no one can
impart to child with so much force and effect as
pare nt and that st home.
The second point to which wish to call your
attention is, that Dr. Cheever has, by implication,
assumed that the crew-fremen, walters, &C., saved
from the Arctic-were educated at common schools.
This assumption falls to the ground on mere look
at tho list Of the saved. A large majority of the
names denote foreign birth, and they are DOUBTLESS
Catholics, and whether educated in the old or in
this country no one believes them to have had the
advantage OF q common school education. Doctor
Cheevsr could hardly have cited q weaker argu-
ment against our public schools as at present con-
sttuted, and he is unhappy as ridiculous in his
Classification of ennineers. J.B.K.
New York, Oct. 10, 1854.