Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-23

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- MsaerN Absmenasfsn ree
schoeis.
Re have rot 10 hating everything with the
r.s3r free--ffvm free negroes dorm and up
throurh the whole catalogue of denominations,
,1.masceuerics lusts, PHILOSOPHERS. fanaticism
and fnlj;es. free FARMS free labor, free niggrrs
free sociesy. free will, free thinking, free love,
free wives. free children and free schools all be-
longing 10 the same brood Of damnable isIns
whose mother is Sin and whose daddy IS the
Dcvil--arc all the progeny of that prolific mon
s,er which greeted Satan on his arrival at the
gates OF he'll. which,
,. = AZ. ais, and fair.
I'm, .nied foul IN many scaiy told
yclunlfnous and vast serpent arms
With mortal ssing Anon, nes m,,a.s ,n,a%
Min vide Cerbsrean mouths nun ioad. and many
Ahideoas peel !; yet when they rs, would creep,
aaght dtareed Their noise a nae ass y a,'
MIMI ,n.een. - Ill
~, ~. ,,,r., ~ al these aboninat;on.-be-
,,,,a, ,whan snnce insfaled Il becomes the hot
49,, ~ ,f ~ &c tho r,os,er,, svstem of
frao Schools We forget who Il is that has
-. -.,ai and nroxed that the New England sys-
tan, sc FREQ schools has been the cause and pro-
i6c so,rce of ali the erions of horrible inf;del.
;,;.. od ,rcasons that have turned her cities into
Ss,,,,,s and f;omorrahs and her fair land into
Tho common nestlinr-p place of bowling bcdlam-
;,ns We ahom;natc the system because the
schools arc frce. and because they make that
,sb;ch aught 10 be the reward of toll and earn
es, ,rdont and almost superhuman individual
effort chan common.place. prizeless and unin-
v;,;n9 a. there il no roval road to learning, so
thars o,,rht n be M nah road to learning.
.i;.,Ie Icarn;ngn i a dangerous thinr-to
the individual 10 Society. to learning itself to
an conservatism Of thought and all stability in
GENERAL affairs The sole function of the free
School il 70 supnly that s.lttle learning J, and
Tins Il is charged 10 the brim with rcendiarisms,
beresies and all the explosive elements which
unroot and rend and iesolate society.
E,ee schools are only another name for Cor.
srno,eat schools; and both natural and revealed
law make II the duty of the parent to educate
his children, and not the duty of Governments
II Is az mn,.h the business of the father to in
struct the mind of the child as to fill its belly ;
and !, ;s mn more the dntv Of Government To
furnish free education for children than free SOUP
free buttermilk or free bonnyclabber-no more
its duty to furnish coyernesses and pedapocues
than erannies. wet.nurses and baby-iumpers.
It is the duty of parents to support and nurture
| their children and if the task ia burden to
| them they are apt to foreso the having of chill
|
children to be bundled of. upon the cold char.
ties Of tho nuhlic for nurture and instruction. -
tits alike their duty to educate their children in
| the rudiments of knowledge. and If they feel
| themselves UNEQUAL to the brrden in this case
| too they will be ant to forego tho having of
| children This resnons;h;lity of narents for
their children is the well-spring of parental hap.
npess and every effort To divest then of II dries
| nm the home affections. undermines the institu.
rutfians and annrox;matos the nature of tho hu.
man sn,.eies to that Of the brutal and Gallons
crocodile. which denosits its eggs mon tho sand
l,,vcs them To bc hotched nv fbe Gun and The
brood IN be reared nv the tender morc;es of The
oI.monts Care and anx;aty arc N. so,r.os of
affection and ma vo, diyest narnrts of tbnso for
their children Won on, tho rio hv Which Cod ba.
| hound togetber tho homo c;rcJo t. :. ,ba anty
of tho norent IN nurture and ms, mot b;s cb,ror
and 4 * the dnty oc the Eovernmont 10 mata tba
norent do this as much for tbe n,ren,'s 90 rho
cb;ldren,s GOOD When Won ID dss,roS tho rccn,.
iect;ons of Tho child tho yon,b ~ 10 nav Co...
mo,her and for f,tbor mon wb., an an.GJ 10 s
nf l;centousness and cr;,ne do vn,; nn, launch
b;ms Shall Tho st,ta in Tho n,mo nF h"r"rn'
inno. ~ anr o,bar non,o - -, III,
;rn, ,,ras,, ZOO tha ;nE,nt go, -. e,.i.s sa
mother without ;ncurr;no rho yen,eancn 81 nm,'
RACED Nature > Whom God hoe ;o;nad ,oro,har
let no man mt asnnder N '' ''N ''s sou ''''
Our Virginia fathers established the best sys-
tenn of government which ever the wit of men
conceived; and every dcparture from their sys-
fem has involved us in layybrnths of trouble
They banded down to us three institutions as
distinct as the God-head, and each alike essen
tial to the well-beinp of society. They bedrcd
each Of these institutions around with strong
barriers. to prevent their mutual interference or
entanglemens, and in every instance in which
modern "retorm" has levelcd one of these bar
riers, have we had deep and lasting reason to re-
pent the. vandai iapiety and folly. These insti-
tutions are: 1. The Federal Government,
charged with the entire and exclusive manage
ment of national affairs 2. The State Govern
ment, charged with the entire and exclusive CON
troll of municipal affairs; 9. The domestic or
| plantation government, charged with the en-
| tire and exclusive management of domestic
affairs These three institutions--thc Confeder-
alton, the State and the Family-our fathers
planted as distinct independent, sovereign and
sacred institutions In proportion as we have
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