American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-03-22
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ths school, = lie Hearth. WithorttEese, So
eial order coaid not be ma utainad for is
month. In proportion. .alse, as The people ar
free does ihe influence of the frstdecline d
thai oflhe two lsst increase. Austris and
Russia rule by the terror of the dungeon.
} TSe United States is governed by the pee
pie themselves. cddea,edto to tha. end intel
lsctaally at tie school. aud morally at the
hearth. IF ever tie time should comc
when the world viii sec perfect govern
ment, the prison viii disappear sltoge:h
ev, and only the school and the Preside ro
rnain 4
Theprison is, indeed, The rudest Of all
the agencies designed for the improvement
ofthe human race. In fact 1t practical
il' rather an cngipe for y;ndictivc punish
rrent, than a means for successfully lead
ing the vicious back to rirtue. Few who
oaee eniesa jsil come out permanently re.
formed. The majority, perhaps, src real
~ Aaao verse. Fer na LAST hundred
ycAss philanthropy has exhausted every
resource to render prirons places Of refor-
mstiou; but though few criminals, in thai
interval, have been restored 10 society, the
number has beer vss.Iy exceeded by that
Of the eonyie;s haplessly deprayed.
There Is, IN truth, something IN the
very nature Of prison which, while it
strikes terror rouses tie singer Of the vic
tim agains! sociesy, Incarceration calls
up whatever there IL Of the tiger in the
haar! In ahori, to seek to make people
better by immaring them in dungeons, is
beginning a. the wrong end. Prisons re-
strain, but rarely reform men.
If our race is to be improved, we must
dependleFs on tho prison aud more on tho
tchool aud the hearth. 10 other words,
We must rely less on fear as applied TO tho
grown up climipsl and more on tho dlTu-
sion OF intelligence and good morals O.
mong the "a yet unpeyerted young.
a great writer has well said, that at is
ensaP'f 70 puDu schooi-houset tlsn jsll''
''''''o' sio" ,'isS IN proportion 70 the
.'s,sns' -i.', u eoucS''op crlme a'mln'soes'---
Asa class, tho men who cannot read arc
nY'' O'u'a 'n 'hs!r ,1''eS 'lan 'he men
Hno can lhoy ar'nk more are apt to
ss' nlo'elFequen'ly in'o arrays, ana are
soa''nasiy onehd'ug 'heisws' AsAgen-
'f4i ruis' aiso' Just IN proportion 40 men
= ", tlore h'gniy educated are they better
members o. society Where there is one
: foicssor Weo9er, there are scores OF
LEngtelJts and Springs. Every common
wea''n''here'oFe'f should have good schools.
, "''0 statesman WIN 'ooK 70 me
'ooipous0' nos oh'y " d apfeVenhve o'
'''''e' f. oU' 40 = mental sy'nna1iumin winch
~ 'iN'u r competent Vo'ers ana icglslS-
.o''' An 'ss"'FAn' Peopl9 may DC made the
uHpe' oi neli"Bosues' or the slaves oil a
n'''l''fy DICTATOR inucn easier 'nan wen
ias'ruese1 one' q NApoieon' ior exam
Pc = @s Impossible Tor America, I"
"Isp'a2 gen won.a DC, ,pgrhapa' Tor france
pu''''e schooi ~ Sun not 'ho most pow
s'iptenstAo ihrecapefaunG society One
may uiso'liino '''e '''l'eiiecs ana inform The
n.iau' put unless me principles are cultlyat
ca Also' only nan The work "a DONE Ir
gt NIu ansaN al sVV4 L. a
i'es 'ho .'Aensai quallIleS are the agents o.
gooa ana evil exactly aspuro or impure
moayes p.oponqerate In a man Tho Me-
phis'opnlles OF uoethe' conceded to be the
very 'nesrasaon OF Wleksdne's'i' is the idea
oi pasSi0nless intellect devoted to unmixod
evil
me Luciier OF Milton has generous
quaHuss Smid ms depraVity. The Me-
pAlStophilcs ismerely = cold sneering f9nd
baI nowhere can moral truth be impaired
90 eHcc'4AIly as AZ the hre'side' 1t is no
= we school tlat men acquire thor habits
% Fecnlude' but a. the mothers knee, be
meath tho peaceful love Of the parental
A',,''i.' 'or tne 'sacacr task Is primer
PANy 10 MORN ths mlnd, While 'he MIS-
hioii % me nome IS 70 improve tho hears.