New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-11

lCN, WHICH,
- Seemed woman to the waist, and friT,
But ended foul in many scaly fold
NCiuinnous and vast serpent arms
With mortal sting about her middle round
4 cry Of hell-houuds Ceasing bark'd
With wide Cerberesn mouths iul loud and many
A hideous peel: yet when they list would creep,
~ aupht disturbed their noise, into her womb
And kennel there yet there still berked and howled
Within unseen
But the worst 'of all these Observation-Disclosures,
when once installed it becomes the hot-bed propa-
gator of als the modern system OF free schools. We
forget WHO it that has charged aud proved that the
New-Ergland system of free schools has been the
cause and prolific of all the legious OF horrible
ndees and tre0sOns that have turned her cities into
SOdoms and GomOrahs, and her fair land into the
common ncstling-plaee of bowling bedlamites. We
sbominate the system because the schools free,
and because they make that which ought to be the
ward of toll and earnest, ardent, and almost super
human individual effort, cheap, commonplace, prize
less and uninvng. As there no royat road to learn
ing, 80 there ought TO be no mob road to learning.
A little learning Is dangerous thlng-to the IN
divdua to society to learning itself to all cOnserva-
tlsn of thought and all stability in general affairs.
The sole function of the free school is TO supply that
little leammg;" and thus il is charged TO the brm
with incerGiarsms heresies, and al The explosive eie
ments which uproot and rend aud desolate society.
Free schools are only another name for Government
schools and both natural and revealed law make il the
duty Of the parent TO educate his children and not the
duty of Government. II is much the business OF
the father TO instruct the mind of the child 70 FIJI is
belly; and II is no more the duty Of Government TO
buttemik Of free bonnyclabber-no more its duty to
furnish gOvenesses and pedagogues than grannies
wet nurses and bahy;jumpers. II If the duty of pa
rents 10 support and nurture their chidren and II the
task is burden 70 them they are apt to foregO the
having Of children at an--whch is much better than
having children 70 he bundled off upon the cold CHAIR
ties Of the public for nurture and instruction. II is
alike their duty to educate their children in tie rud
meuts OF knowledge and if they feel themselves
quail 10 tie burden, in this case too they VII be
apt TO foreCo the having of children. This respon-
sibity Of parent, for their children Is the welsprng
of parental happiness, aud tevery effort TO diycst
them Of il dries up the home affections, under
mines the institution Of the family, fills society
with reprobate ruhans, and approximate> the nature
of the human species 10 that of the brutal and caIou
crocodile which posts ts egg upon the sand leaves
them tO be hatched by the sun and the brood 10 be
reared by the tender merces of the elements. Care
and anxiety are tie sources Of affection; and YOU
dves parents of these for their children, YOU cui the
lie hv which God has bound together the home circle.
Ii the duty of the parent TO nurture and instruct h
children, and il ! the duty OF the Government L.
make the parent DO this, much for the parents a.
the childItn's good. When You destroy the recol-
ections q tie child the youth or the man, Tor mother
and for father upon what awful abyss OF cencious
ness and crime do YOU not launch him Shall tue
State in the name of benevolence any other name
under heaven, with iron grasp, tear tie infant from
hOiqe father and mother without mourning the
Vengeance Of outraged NatUrv Whom GOD Las
joined together lei no man pu. asundtr.
Our Virginia fathers established the best system of
government which ever the Wit OF men conceived
and every departure from tier system has involved
laybrintis Of trouble. They handed down 10 Is
three institutions distinct the Godhead and each
alike essential 70 the we-beng Of society. They
hedged eecb Of these institutions around with strong
barriers - prevent their mutual interference or en-
tanglement and in every instance in which modern
"rCforn has ltveled one Of these barriers, have We
had deep ard lasting reason 10 repent the van2Rl I'M
piety and folly These institutions are /. TIE FEEDER
al Government, charged with the entire aud exclusive
management Of national Affairs; .. The State Gov.
eminent, charged viii the entire and exclusive eonr
Of municipal Gfas; ;. Tie domestic orpSn:at.on gov