The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-10-08


TT The Richmond Enquirer saws that
every school and college in the South
should teach that slave society is the com.
mon, natural, rightful and normal state Of
society. They should also teach that no
other form OF society is, in the general, right
or expedent.
The Richmond Enquirer and every body
else may Get themselves about such nnnatu-
raj and diabolical work just as earnestly and
staiiouslv nv they choose. but in this uni.
verse Of God there is nothing more certain
than that they will be destined TO the most
complete and inglorous defeat. You cannot
crush out OF the human mind the idea Of
the free exercise Of its energie, and the
Tree indulgence of its hopes. Next to its
dreams and lts hopes Of heaven, the most
inspiring though; of the human mind. in all
ages aad In al Chimes, the brightest ideal
ti'at las Tired the fancy aud wake the costa.
cy 81 sous, has been the idea Of Freedom,
universal and complete. Good ana Liner
ty!f - not merely the bombastic expression
OF the half civilized, yearning aud untutor
Ell Mexican, with whom practical politics is
Wild md maynard and uamanageable ab.
siraeton; nor ola sopbomorical youth in his
eariy, halcyon dreams il is a sentiment az
deep and ms wide as the human heart,-a
sentiment which has REDEEMED every scaffold
ana sahctted every instrument Of torture
That human Ingenuity ever invented n sen.
iitnen' for which the best and hravest of our
race ever sluce time began have Welded un
taeir lives with triumphant joy. Ages on
ages Of careful tuition. uninterruptediy con-
ilnaed, have "a vet been unable to crush ont
u the human mina the idea that man was
born Tor something better than bondage
that shacklcs and servitude were 1.-THE
natural and normal state OF society" Every
imperial and monarchicni dynasty expends
It's best aud most persistent energies to ac-
comPiish an end SO desirable To il. Its the
theory and practice, the sole oecupation. the
eseai science, Of kngcraft, and of all
karope tod day. But itfas, always. every
whore, ingloyioasly fails, and no.hina ia
iiainer 10 any man with eyes NOT binder
taaa bats, than that the word Is prorress
"a towards ultimate and universal freedom.
u ls great distance 70 the point. Much
labor Is % be expended and great sacrifice,
afe 70 he made bn, the tendency is in tia,
aifec'loh' aud HAT - the shining goal on
WHICH the etc- OF the race are fixed.
- wenotieel the little Item v hich We have
need AT the head Of this article. we inyol.
antarily connected !, with an incident yh;e,
tfaBsitred a few GAYS ago in our own ex,,e.
retee The South has undertaken 10 bui.,
UP schools in her own territory because Il
The Northern institutions where her son
have heretofore been mainly educated, the
have generally imbibedto much Of the IRE
siirii which prevailed there. They hay
soahd that "a. .eas. Il Mas polite, and man
haye thought that i was necessary. to res,ra
tae mind q the sising generation. 10 Cur
taf ffse tendencies, to teach another philos
ephy, and TO crush the fanatical dream
winch have troubled .he pinis II rencroa
youth aud lars and noble age ever since H.
neaft ~ man began 70 beat The cause q
tyranny and oppression is the same every
aasra, and the policy vi Eufapean ,yran,
al! american slafenolicrs is identical. .
- s..ns ,sars ms ;soula hs
pafsned the educational policy which "
have inaieated, s..h much success, no doub
Tar taefe u point g winch il can lie sax
fuzzy prosecuted, ~ there i 4 point whei
.fineAorably fnil-. We.i, .ias, veek we receis
81 q letter from ealing professor in on
u tie most prominent ot tao,e sou;hcr
institutions. lie j. southern u.aa. H.,
and bred and We d9u6t II !. ever ,rol fre
s9.l; bot that letter we rubssael, ana 5.
readers doubtless peyasei and marked + :
lie has been lately 10 tie Lab. Il res3in
oar weekly paper, we knew. aAl .ac recc,
ton oi his letter was n gratdsius and II.
nilcant Fact. But Immediately foliowit
thai, We received q catalogue Of that san
institasion, with the compliments Of sever