Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-14

! and drive the Jews out after thai, D.
cheating more than they have the repu
tation of doing.
One thing is certain, unless the bust
ness morals can be reformed among u
unless Schuylerism in al its form
can be put down-Botany Bay viii hav,
rival on this side of the globe; ant
our felons, cheats and swindlers, instead
of absconding for fraud and embezzle
ment, will show their books of "money
borrowed" money on deposit" anC
''notes payable" /" as their title and com
mission for the highest honors and Offices
at home.
Ny friends, why have 1 given yor
this borrowing account of the condition
of the masses in our Fatherland, and o
the dishonors and perils of their socia
superiors, growing out of this condition.
1t is with no unkind feeling towards
that nation, but it is with the hope thai
this great lesson, given in the providence
of God, may not be lost upon us. 1t is
with the hope that the retribution ol
others may be an admonition to us
that the sufferings and crimes of SO
many millions may strike upon us cloud
on the heart as thunder on the ear
and may avert similar calamities from
the hundred millions who viii soon
dwell in the broad land we inbabit.
For this end, three things we must do:
First, let every inward feeling and
outward emblem of division of man
into castles be consigned to eternal ST
lence and oblivion, no matter by what
means this be done. To coax servant
into livery by batteries, is as foul play
as to drive him into rags by oppression.
As man who has ghastly sore
upon his face strives to cover it by
screen or fllet, so the man who keeps
his fellow beings in livery, is only stri-
wing to conceal a ghastly gangrene on
his soul. The only patent of nobility
we recognize, consists in talent and vir-
tue. They are Gods sign manuel
All are originals; they never run to
John or Charles and his heirs for ever,
They cannot be counterfeited at the
Herald's Office, nor supplanted by Col
lege diplomas. ...-.a
In the second place, provide the
means of subsistence for all. l do not
say, provide subsistence, but the means
of it. He who prevents poverty is a
greater public benefactor than he who
relieves it; and to furnish employment
that will buy bread is more creditable
than to give the bread itself Besides,
it is a process that turns black bread
into white, and soup naigre into soup a
la mode. Industry is not SO much a vir-
tue, as it is the medium in which all the
virtues flourish, bloom and bear fruit.
Every abandoned child, cast-out upon
the world, brings promissory note or
bill, which, if not paid when presented,
by a good education and diligent habits,
is sure to come back at late day with
crimes for usury, and half dozen vi
cious children as the cost of protest.
There is a sum in simple addition
which learned men have not yet found
out how to solve: Add an idle boy and
a dozen years together, and the amount
is-a vicious man.. ft#ts
Thirdly, and lastly, sustain public
schools, free, moral, unsectarian educa-
ton.
First, make it absolutely universal in
its comprehensiyeness; next, make it as
in character as money and
talent can. In the public schools give
equal rights of conscience to all. I'm
pose no duties or privations on any
which you would net that he should i'm
pose upon you. Cherish and support
these nurseries of Republicanism and
.hese handmaidens of Christianity, alike
against the violence that would assault,
he intolerance that would pervert, or
The Jesuitism that would undermine
And should the fatal day ever come,
when these blessed institutions to which
the noble State of Ohio has given
home In her heart, shall be converted
into proselyting instruments, training
Theological Ishmaels whose bloody
hands are against every man, then, in
stead of years of Spanish Inquisitions,
and Auto-deJe's and spectacles of st.
Bartholomews, let the process of de-
struction, in mercy, be expedited and
humanized, by placing bombshell
under every school house in the land,
and by firing them at signal, turn our
common schools into one Moscow of
common desolation. ss.. -e-r.H8h
Here, then, in cultivating the senti-
nents of human Brotherhood in making
sbor honorable, and assuring its high
rewards, and in fostering institutions for
universal intelligence with love to God
and man as their motto, and their in
ward motive. Here is work enough
for the wisdom of man, and the love of
woman, until the ages shall cease to
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