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YAxOO CRY PUBLIC SCHOOLS


sIso at,be eiinces ;xhibiie to us, Of theirraI Ia
Isagfss III eIt studies: We think the ciizfns b
ynzoo have BENSON TO eonerStulate themselves upon
secutihgthe services Of this highly educated and
cstimaLle gentleman 1t has before this. been ne
ported to surctmens, that there was some difficulty
in procuring sufficient fmls to carry on our schools
and an increase of hex wac recommended BY the
School Commissioners. We most earnestly recon-
mend TO our people, that arrangements be made to
carry the Schools Tits cheaper for us to edn-
cate the children Of our city and make them useful
and yirtuous members Of society than TO let them
grow upin ignonncc and vice, tho sure consequcn-
ces of aneglsct Of educational means. 0nr Legis-
lature meets week,aftcr next andwc most earnestly
rccomnend to the mem 5crs Of that body. that some
provision bc made for the Free Schools Of State
The treasury is overuning with tho surplus funds
of the people Let it be divided out amoRg the
counties, IL htiild up Common Schools, which shall
insare US a virtuous and intelligent yeomanry, to
stand wall Of fire round our cherished free institu
tons ~
The question sometimes arises, whether the edu-
cational interests of the community receive anything
like that share Of the public attention to which they
arc entitled. The importance of that subject can
not well be overstatcd. 1t is not as momentous as
that which is to be educatcd--the rational and i'm
spec acle to see an individual who had come up to
the maturity and full-grown dimensions of man,
as helplessy mbocilc little child that is just
essaying, with many fears and tremblngs, to so
alone. But in relation to that which pre-eminentlY
constitutes the mnn--the wonderful tenant which
makes this animated structure its abode-we daily
meet with such contrasts Of age and mbccility only
the more revolving, because the extremes inin-
tely further apart; and yet the sight does not pain
U.S. for the obvious reason that it is SO customary
With Che infant faculties lef,undeveloped in their
infancy and the light from the unnunbered orbs in
the armament of knowledge shut outr--the man re-
mains child, In the order Of rank, the mind is
first; and an unreasonable space must be traversed
before we come to that which is second to it. Man
has many wants, more or less clamorous and urgent;
b1t apart from the concerns of religion none are so
deep and Vitalas the wantef the mind to be strength
ened, developed, matured and informed by suitable
education of ali its facilities,-a cultivation that
yields wealth far greater than be reared from
the broad surface of the EARTH or discovered in its
secret depths No other gift which the parent may
besow upon his child, will compensate for the lack
of chs To give it riches when it asks for an edu
cation, would be it give it stone when it asks for
bread. Without this, it has nothing, when it has
all things; with it, it has oh things, when it has
nothing.
The duty of the parent is obvious enough, but
what is the duty of the State in peference to the
Education of the young? Facts as we'll as reasoning
may the inquiry. In the State one great de-
sideratum is, to combine liberty and order in just
proportions; in those proportions that something
analogous to chemical affinity, will take place.
producing crystalline solid, which shall not be
moved by each change of the wind and fuctuatior
of the waves. Look, then at the history of France
beautifsl land by nature, natisa fnsgfiant wild
its greatmen, the rank of learning, ars andsrms
but whose millions Of peasantry are left uneducated
; We give it in compond. A king takes the throne
the multitude as had been their won't hail his nd
y vent with tumpltuous applause. Before his lovely
II queen who sits by bis side, they burn the incense
enthusiastic homage, but little short ofadoraton
3 few fiectng years revoFvc, and the heads of bod
in rivers. and amid fhe sanguinary scene, .repnbli
is proclaimed with wild shouts and boundies
;. Joy for the new born liberty. A new era ha
;. dawned, and in the golden rays of its morning
80 full of promise 20 On oppressed land ant
'e grooming people-the multitudes are deliriou
Re with rapture. Very soon. however, the seen
r changes, and Enrope's great conquerer appears
humble soldier first, victorious leader of armies
Consul. IN Emperor, at whose every rise in forum
and power, thegiddy crowd burst into new costa
g ces of delight. But amid the earthquake of tn
Is times, the adol is shaken from his PEDESTAL toer
D. and falls.
+ Another king appears; another shout of Joy
= Another king falls; jubilee againl The eitize
a king advances to the vacant throne, and the yer
heavens echo his welcome BAIT, alas the sam
of heavens echo the welcome of has Hight-poor fug
Of tive before the storm. They, who lately sang he
sannas, hoarse with the cry of "clcify hin
o away with him." A new Republici All land
: hear the nations song of triumph; the thrones c
2. mighty monarches rock in it, as though it were
ct universal tempest. And then new Napoleo
c. comes among the people, with the modesty and Il,
D. humility of an Absalom. "And Absalom said un
to him, see thy matters are good and right; br
y there is deputed of the king to hear thee
3 And Absalom said, moreover 0 that were mad
Judge in the land, that any man which hath an
st suit or cause might come unto me, and would d
III him justice. And it was so, that when any INA
le came nigh to do him obiesance, he put forth HI
= hand and took him, and kissed him; and so Aoss
II lom stole the hearts of the men of Israel" An
10 they made him President Of France The trumpe
ID sound. Then he usurped the Office for life, an
nc overturned the Constitution. And the same trun
9. pets give louder sound Then they decreed