Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26

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But the worst of these Neutrality-suspicious.
when once installed it becomes the hot-bed propa-
gator OF all-is the modern system of free schools
we forget who 1t is that has charged and proved
that the New England system of free schools has
been the cause and prolific source of all the legion:
OF horrible infdeties aud tTeasons that have turn
ed her cities into Sodoms and Gomorrahs, and her
ialr land into the common westinghouse Of bowling
bedlamities We abominate the system because
the schools are free, and because they make that
which ought to be the reward of toll, and earnest
ardent and almost super-human individual effort,
cheap, commonplace, priceless and uninviting. As
there is no royal road to learning, so there ought
to be no mob road to learning.
A 'little learning" is dangerous thing-to the
individual to society, to learning ITSELF to all con-
servatism of thought and all stability in general
affairs. The sole function of the free school is to
supply that little learning ;" and thus it is charg-
ed to the brim with incendiarsms, heresies and all
the explosive elements which uproot and rend and
desolate society
Free schools are only another name for Govern
ment schools and both natural and revealed law
make 1t the duty OF the parent to educate his chill
dren, and not the duty of Government. 1t is as
much the business of the father to instruct the
mind OF the child to i'll its belly and it is no
more the duty of Government to furnish free cd
ucation for children than free soup free buttermilk
or free bonnyclabber-no more its duty to furnish
nurses and abyjumpers. 1t is the duty of parents
to support and nurture their children and if the
task is burden to them they apt to forogo the
having of children at all-whch is much better
than having children to be bundled off upon the
cold charities of the public for nurture and instruc-
tion. 1t is alike their duty to educate their chill
dren in the rudiments of knowledge, and if they
feel themselves unequal to the burden in this case
too they will be apt to forego the having of chill
dren; This responsibility of parents for their
children is the well.sprng of parental happiness
and every effort to divest them Of it dries up the
home affections, undermines the institution Of the
family, fills society with reprobate rufhans, and
approximates the nature of the human species to
that of the brutal and callous crocodile, which de-
posts its eggs uppon the sand, leaves them to be
hatched by the sun and the brood to be reared by
| the tender mercies of the elements. Care and
anxiety the sources of affection and as you
dvest parents of these for their children you cut
the tie by which God has bound together the home
circle. 1t is the duty Of the parent to nurture and
instruct his children and it is the duty of the Gov
ernment to make the parent do this, as much for
the parents as the children's good. When YOU
destroy the recoections of the child, the youth or
the man. for mother and for father upon what an
awful abyss of licencousness and crime do you
not launch him Shall the State. in the name Of
benevolence or any other name under heaven, with
iron grasp, tear the infant from home, father ant
mother withoutincurring the vengeance Of outraged
Nature ? Whom God has Joined together let nC
man put asunder.
j Our Virginia fathers established the best system
of government which ever the wit of men conceiv
ed; and every departure from their system has in.
volyed US in laybrnths OF trouble. They handed
down to us three institutions distinct as the
Godhead, and each alike essential to the weli-beng
of society. They hcdged each of these institutions
around with strong barriers, to prevent their mu
tual interference or ENHANCEMENT, and in every in
stance in which modern reform" has leveled one
of these barriers, have we had deep and lasting
reason to repent the vandal impiety and folly
!, These institutions are: /. The General Govern
ment, charged with the entire and exclusive man
agement of national affairs; 2. The State Gov
ornment charged with the entire and exclusive
control Of municipal affairs; 8. The domestic o.
plantation government, charged with the entire
and exclusive management Of domestic affairs
These three insttutions-ihs Confederation, the
State and the Family--our fathers planted as dis
tinct, Independent, sovereign and sacred institu
tions. In proportion as we have restricted
each within its sphere at the South have We enjoy
ed the blessings Of peace, quiet stability and con
servatisn. To the respect we have paid them a
the South do owe all those favorable condition
t in our society which have distinguished our 10
from that Of the afflicted, beeagured and bedevile,
North TO the fact tina. the North hare not uprre