Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-03-14

oansad the conspirasor, one patient 5ofI
e'dtand heat. of hunger and thirst; and
s. wanting In eloquence, was successfully
plotting treason against the State withsthe
unedueatsd rabble. While Demosthenes
WAS giving utterance to his immortal Phil
liPisS, the willy Macedonian conqueror.
locking 70 universal empire relied upon the
ignorance and degeneracy Of the 5ody Of
people for che Accomplishment Of schemes
Ui ambition. and declared thstt gold was
more powerful than armies. While Eschy-
"a and Sophoeles were eortending for the
prize Of victory in dramatic composition,
andVirgil aud Horace in undying verses,
were perpetuating to, the latest postsrity
Ihe honors and glories of their country
and eountrymonI the Appian. way and the
cities, tho Peninsula were crowded with
an iiliteEato e'nd degenerate people. whose
highast am 3ition WAS TO be hailed as vic
Tor in thor national sports. The Learning
Of those times was confined to a favored
feW.r The many were uneducated. He'll
cen . and ParnasSus were barrIcaded
Against them. and the waters of Castalia
driSdaup at their approach. No wonder,
fhen. that these once powerful republican
nations have disappeared !! II we, as a
government, would avoid their i'll fAted
dOasiniss, lot US profit by their example.
Lstus industriously develop the intellec
tual and moral powers Of the youth Of our
country. whereby, alone, temporal happi~
ness can DO attained, civilization advan-
0Od. and human rights firmly and securely
established. Let VS. build our hopes Offu-
turs greatness az nation on the virtue and
Intelligence Of our people and, like the
wise man, we shall have built upon rock.
and may then how around US. conscious Of
cur safety, and of the perpetuity Of our
free and civil institutions.
Fathers, this call is first upon you. Ii
IL no boon that is humbly craved at your
hands. Itis demanded as right, a right
founded m natural justice, and right re-
cognized and enjoyed by the unwritten
law Of the land. ChiefJustice Blackstone
sa- that "the last duty of parents to their
children is that of an education suitable
70 Lheir condition in life ; duty pointed
out by reason. and of far the greatest i'm
portanae of any" This is the law Of
Virginia. It is unrepealed, and this day
10 Of binding force. Let it not be said
thAtga code of laws established so long
since IhAtthe memory of man rurneth
not to the contrary, that a code of laws
snanating from y Semi-barbarous age.
which after-ages have endorsed as the
perfection of wisdom, enj oins the educa-
ton of their children as a civil duty on pa
rents, and that, in the middle Of the nine
teenth century, this law is disregarded
and violated. And tho Christian code
tells you to train up your children in the
way they should 60, and gives the assu-
rance that when they are old they will
not depart from it. This INDUCTION and
assurance is of high authority and the
assurances given is most stimulating and
encouraging. and daily observation veri>
6Osiits truth. True, children for time.
Eay. wander from the tSachings Of their
early youth, but they will return.
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Wherever the tread Of tho Christian
missionary il heard. whether among the
golden plaeers of California, tho wig
vans of the American forests, or under
the burning sun of Liberia. there, also. is
seen the SChoolmaster rs a co-worker in
the great cause Of civilization and re-
demption from darkness TO light. Metho
diGts, Presbyterians, Baplists. Episcopal
lianE-every sect aud denomination Of
Of Christians, Protestant and Catholic. as
to this great cause, stand on common
platform. 1t is powerful array, we'll
disciplined hest, whose lives. whose for
tunes and sacred honors. and whose hopes
for the future have been unreservedly de.
dieated to the cause of human emancipn-
sion from the thraldom of ignorance, su-
and vice. They have the APP
probation OF tho wise and Virtuous among |
men the approving smiles of angels and
their great Teacher, as a cloud by day
and pillar of FIRE by night, is going be-
fore sad pointing out the way. And
verify believe that more is due to the un,
seGsing and untiring efforts of The Chris
sian ministry in the promotion Of popular
than any other or all other eau
ses combined. And when we look to the
efforts thew have made and are now mas
king to enliArhten. civilize, and sVangelize
the world by the means of popular
sducatien-wh.1t a commentary is here
found on the infi Iel boast that the truths
Of science and phi. 'oaophy are inconsistent
with the teachings of the Christians BIZ
Bile! The greatest E'est. and most learn
ed of earth. have been firm believers in
tho true faith. Newton, Locke, and 9TH
,rs whose minds were dee. 7ly lmhued with
ILe philosophy otthsir own and past ages
we're enabled to "sse through mature up
10 \ natures God" And p. 'Ous Chris
ian bard has truly said that the "accents
II prayer are often heard to iss>Te from
fps wet with Castalian dews."
Education is the handmade of Oh. Tis'n'
.uity. United as they now are. tn eli
march is onward and upward. And III, :
.ltars Of superstition and folly will shortly
lEve noyotary for their unhSllowed Of. !
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