New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-21

TIE Trov Wig wants to be noticed in connection
with cur controversy with The Hartford COHrdat,
ard shall be accommodated In reference to our
statement Of the fact that Gov. Seward, in his Mes
cage Of $40 did net sugges, that the children OF i'm
MIGRANTS lust landed IN our shores should be taught
in public schools the religious creeds ani native
tongues OF heir ancestors but by teachers speaking
their own ls,eusges aud protesting their inherited
faith Tie Wig ssks:
"Wi The 1RIBUNE be good enough - explain
little further ough, It no. 10 be the frss anxiety OF
the parents and We public. that German French,
Italian and other children speaking foreign TOM ue,
when fresh-landed on or shores, should be taiyat
10 speak our larguseel Add will they sooner l5arn
10 do so from tegchen Themselves Germdn, french,
Italian, &c, than OF native. born teachers Nov,
hcfe il a POINT which iIE TRIBUNE is bound 10 meet
end answer, II il loDge; per.ists IN Justlying Gov
Stewards recommendation. VIII 1t do 80
Ard msy trespass Upon its sm al sock OF good
rsture By asking il 10 answer one inquiry more
Where is was the ecesaty OF empby ing teachers
"frotessing the same faith via the foreign children
M mselyesl II the ohsct armed at was BOT I, make
the usases AID exercee of the schools conform to the
prscticts Of the rtgi0R of the children parents-to
instill into their young minds tbs fai'h, a1ions and
habits Of thought Lculcsted by the religion watch
their fatbers ard mothers learned II the Old world,
ard brought with them TO our sboies-and il il WAS
not to exclude the Protestant BJle from all such
scbC os-whst was the object
"IHE TRIBUNE may DO sure that unsophisticlted
people will continue 10 turn these queries over in
their own minds, ard if they have any doubts az %
What Gov. Seward dbl resily mean BY his recomnsn-
datiop they VIII not be solved By any amount OF
scol6ing.'
Here, you see, the issue originally male by The
Wig ard its Know Nothing confedera,es is com
pletey juggled out Of sight. and one very different
iugelod INTO its place. 1t is no longer insised that
Gov Sewerd wished immigrant children schooled in
TIER mother tongues and the Catholic faith, but thai
...off,, ind; .ia
Well the old issue being disposed of, we will meet
the new one
Gov Seward intended that these children of freshly
landed Germans, French, Italians, &C., should be
taught to re sd and speak langusge-tiis and no
other In order to do so, seemed to him desirable
that the teachers to whom they were sent should be
able 10 understand and be understood by them at the
start Is this reasoDaule or mott suppose your
enid were 10 be sent tomorrow to learn German,
End had bis choice of two schools in one of which
the teachers understood German only, while in the
Other they spoke and apprehended German and En-
csh sliAe-io which would you prefer to send him ,
Gov S. rever minated that the teachers OF these
in migrant children shoul not be natve-born, but
simply that they ho uld be able to speak and under
stand the only language as yetcompiehended by their
pupils as well as that which they were to be taught
But what good in employing teachers " protesting
4" the came faith with those we sought to coax
promptly into our schools Simply this good-that
their prejudice would be dsarmed and suspicion al
lsyed. The poor, ihterate, ignorant, big,ted super
s,itous immigrant is too often led 10 suspect that
common schools are proselytDg traps set to pervert
bis childrsns minds and peril their immortal souls.
This, it is to be hoped, he will ou'grow, unless
Know -Nothingism is enabled to give him good
grounds for their suspcioni but meantime precious
months are being wasted in idleness and vagrancy.
Let us obviate this danger, says Gov S. by creating
special schools a. the points where ihess newcomers
are most numerous, in which teacher, who are OF
their cherished faith and can speak 10 them in
their mother tongue and understand their
answers, may solicit their attendance and disarm
tteiy jealc us fears. We regard this suggestion
emirently spacious, benefcent and humane, and
have no doubt that its prompt adoption would have
ADDED thousands ere this TO our educated and yir-
tuous population, and subracted hundreds from the
lumber Of inmates crowdng Our prisons and
alms houses.-But mind that we have no quarrel
with those who see this matter in q different light
from ours; we only insist tina. they shall not mske
Gov. 5. recomr end what he never thought OF.