Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-01-08
TIE COLLEGE BILL

TIE COLIEGE BILL.
There are many Considerations to recommend thl
bill. !. will directly aid the continued prosecution
aud accomplishment of our system Of internal i'm
prvveuen.s. 1t will in connexiou with that system
OF improvements. cut Of our dependence on thu
Sorth-Eas: and lessen our intercourse with It,
TcSsths: w::h those improvements, 1t will form
measure OF retaliation. inotfensve III form, gu
efficient IL it's results. II will prevent the lmpor
ta,:oa and propagation of moral, social ana po'
G;ica heres:cs from abroad, and rear up able anu
sifc!en, teachers of sound conservative doctrines
q, home. Il will foster and furtify that healthy
s:s.s oi public opinion which already prevails at the
Sv.a sud enable il to oppose an insuperabe barrier
10 tbs irrosds of the vile isus nidees and super
e.i;:ons that Lsform and pollute Northern society,"
is most noble achievement however, will be, in this
rtn,n.;cn, on-y-;naking age, to remind men that
.cy have moral and intellectual wants. as well us ply
scai Ones, ami to supply those wants Physical science
ED ioechuuical constructveness are making giant
s:r:3csfor they taught i'll every Workshop Moral
Science lags behind, and sensual maeralisn threat
ell. 10 overw helm modern civilization. higher
grade OF education, an education that looks to know
ledge .ai, not means, is the ouly correctly"
50 It's downwecd tendency Of modern times. These
college, will supply this corrective.
l. vii! boget general thirst for knowledge, whilst
it affords the Of lite qualification, in the teach
ers that il will rear up. The poor cannot be educa
&. till ther taught to desire education, and they
1il, act desire it long lteracy is fashionable or
pa-Goaab.e with the rich. The rich will be more Ii.
bcrcl in extending the boon of education to the poor
when they have learned to estimate it properly
themselves. Tns bill now intercepts no provision
for the primary schools. If carried into law, it will
bvgvta love Of learning that will recognize education
rs primo necessity and natural right, and be ready
30 extend it, as far practicable to all the citizens
Of the Commonwealth. What we shall save, by cdu-
eating none abroad will 20 far to enable us to edu-
cate all at home. We are the friends OF l."d6ed
system o!Efree schools, wherever the density OF our
population will justify such schools, and have doubt
shs College bill is the best practical means of attain
ing this result. To curry out such system fully
now, We should have to import Yankee teachers, who
might abolition broadcast through the land Let
IL. friends Of general education pass this bill, and
they will furnish the to educate the poor increase
their desire for cducatou aud strengthen their claims
Upon the State. They and their friends will point to
%ha. has been done for those who not poor, aud
invoke 90 cvcn-handed justice TO do US muck for
them.
Al States rights measure it is of inestimable i'm
portance. knowiedGcis power, and doubly powerful
1:en that knowledge ls acquired u, ho,no. Loyalty
TO ,ne State and her institutions will grow up with
bone education and create the power and incentive
%. homo defence These colleges and our other i'm
provemeuts, will open new avenues of employment
vary our industrial pursuits, encourage commerce.
manufactures md the mechanic arts attach our native
citizens to their homes, retain our present population
and a,truc: immigration skill and capital from abroad
;nci.e the desire Of universal education by offering
appropriate empoyncn,s for all the educated iucrease
the wealth and numbers of our citizens, and, III fine
create all the elements Of separate independent ma
,;oaaliry, with the defend that nationality
The Cuioa is safest when lis separate members are
s::orges:--for strength de'ers aggression.
Wien We look 10 the system of legislation so hap
PLY i.sugurated in Virginia and other Southern
Safes we SEQ in it a bond Of Union aud bulwark
OF Stsres Rights.
ITSTIrE