The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1854-01-06
1.NI0 Hfll IfIW 1Ii43l
WHGLE NO. 665.

ant guilty and fined her one dollar. The
Judge, 10 puseing sentence, according 10
The statute, will condemn her 10 impris.
onmeni for moi less than six monlhs.''
l;isa crime, then, in the Slate Of VII.
ginia, to leach certain class OF the in.
habitanis Of the State to RsAD; and this,
too, the class who from their position in
the socia! scale have tho greatest need
Of instruction. The penalty for this crime
is imprisonment for NOT less than six
months, and fno at the discretion or The
court. Now does ary man in bic sober
senses believe that this Is crime against
the Slatei aoi boo aeamnaqgi l.#od
Iasa late exchunge paper we find, dnS
der the head Of "news itemar the fols
lowing, in jux'a-posiiioh: laF8 weil5
1"Mdgaret Simmons has been arrested
at Chicago for murderingIher own daugh-
Ter, aged II years, BY beating and drown
ing her in tub. The mother was in
toxicated. 49, Mrs. Magaret Douglass
woe tired in Norfolk, Va, on Friday, for
teaching negro children TO read & write"
What will5bs done with Margaret Sim.
mons remansto be seen !. perhaps she
will be sent to the penitchiiary, perhaps
TO The insane asylum. Bu! MargaretDoug-
lass is sentenced 10 not less than six
months imprisonment. Can any man
place thesei4o Margarots in the same
position befofs the law! The one mur.
dors her oUn child this is crime against
society and the State. The other teaches
poor, lgnooant children TO read and write.
Is This also a crime against society and
the Statei What sor: Of society, what,
sort Of State is that where such ontct
is accounted a crime, 10 be punished with
imprisonment What sort Of State is
that which deems such statute necessa.
ry for its own protect;one Is il State
founded upon freedom, intelligence, JUS
tice and viriue,, or State in which the
tyranny and burbarism OF past ages lnger
under the forms Of popular government
The Grand Duke Of Tuscany impriaons
his subjects who read the's Word of God
in their rown houses, and plso imprisonst
the female subjects of annther govern.
ment who distribute Bibles within his ter
ritory. A Virgnian court imprisons the
citizens Of the Stale for teaching persons
toread, in their private houses, and wo'd
wish severer penalties upon citis4ns from
another State should they attempt tho
saEae. Well, we are thankful that we do
notlive either in Tuscany or in Virginia,
where such crimes against cisiliza,ioH,
against liberty, against humanity against
both man and God, are perpelraled in .
the name oflaw. s III
We cease TO wonder That statesman
Of Virginia could boast that in his district,
there was no newspaper, and ihai he de-,
sired none. Yet one would think iba,
even Mr.. Wise would blush for the Old
Dominion. How can Virginia hold up
her head in a cohfederacy ofc;vlized e.
"a" IL . & ~ Il .4 ~ III
Christian States! And how long shall
those States be asked 10 hold her barbar,
ism in felloSship2 The free States tax,
themselves in every way, toaeducate alb
classes oflhe people, and so to maintain
our free institutions. Virginia makes il
a penal offense 10 teach her most degra-
ded inhabitants to read; keepsen her soil
an ignorant horde, dangerous 10 The pub.i
lie welfare, and then demands that We
give up principle for such a Union.
We commend The State Of Virginia to
the immediate attention Of tha SoulheIn,
Aid Society. A State Of ample ierriios
~ and Of vast material resources, seItiet'
under the highest auspices Of royal favor,
and long time blessed with an Episcopal
establishment, which after more thaniw
centuries is still,o a great extent miss
sionnry ground, dependent upon aid from
abroad for the support 81 rural church
H. "a ~
es, and which makes j. penal offense 10,
teach the most ignorant and degraded Of
its inhabitants 10 read and wfite, hassure-y
ly large eclaim upon the citizens and aid
Of those who have uudsrtakento evange-
lize the South without reference 10 lis
local and peculiar instilulions.-N Y.
Independent. sstsss s,s,,
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