Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-02
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Ork DxAR FRIExps, THR PrstIe:-We voals
i presume again tocaIl your attention to eur de
mand for s.Free Schools, md We trust in you
I gencrosify, to grant our request, and not to re
gard Us ms too presumptuoas but We would like
to be going 10 school, just as soon as We canr--
1 Come nos, il there wasa little exertion made on
your part. could mot WE go to . yres sekoos,
month Or two, this winter yet Nov, Just TO sat
sfy yourselves that free schoolsr are essentially
necessary to the future greatness of your beauti.
ful city, tours We should say, for you know that
we are to have all these nice things bye and bye,
| whether we are ready for them or not dust
| look aronnd yoa and observe the men thatiare
| at the head of our affairs-our Grimes, STAIRS,
Halls, cooibaughs, Roters Hcnrys, Brosnings,
Sunderland Wright and Hendrie !; but shall We
go on, why. we should have to name all the busi-
ness men in town --mechanics, merchants, doc
tors and lawyers; men who are fully qualified
by EDUCATION, for the positions they occupy, yes
and for the positions which they would like to
occupy, (hgh in tile estimation Of their country
men, learned good and great.
E Now could we this morning with them, take
look back through the pages of7memory, and
visit lin imagination) their early scenes, their
boyhood homes, doubt not that about the first
intelligible lines we shonld find on those pages,
would be the recollection of schoolboy days, with
its associations oftops marbles, base ball, short
jackets, and the tingling Of the whip, below the
bottom Of them, ferules, &c. Yea smany, if not
the most Of them, could tell of the common
school, and the bright aspirations that dawned
there. Oh, the happy memories that arise they
carry my thoughts back in bright, bright days
those sunny meadows, those purling brooks,
those shady groves, succeeded by the laughing
sleigh bells, the mittens, the sled and the skates;
but above all, through all, and around all-those
sweet, those dear, happy faces, many Of them
long since mingled with the dust-the casket re-
posing near the homestead the jewel returned
to its more congenial heaven-others on lifes
road have turned to the North, the South, the
East and the West--hastening on. ever on, to
that meeting, where / trust we shall find sweet
repose. What, tears? pshaw Excuse me dear
friends, forgot that was acting as amanuensis
for the little folks. street. .'FztE as2.st7a
ButDow dear Friend as We have already ap-
pealed to the Gentlemen, who we have no doubt
are ready to act and with their might. But as all
good men are in some degree modest men, they
DO not like to be first, and are only waiting for
some one to move, now, Ladies'! Mothers! SIS
tiers! Let turn and appeal to you, and when
did childhood ever appeal to womenin vain? No,
we know that you love US, although we are wild
and wayward sometimes. Because, although we
act sometimes as though we didn't care, yet we
do care, for We love our Dear Mothers and our
kind sisters, and we really wish to make them
happy; but how can we, if we do not go to school
and learn how to be good and useful in life in
stead of learning and practicing mischief ..
Come ladies to you we appeal to make the
start inthis matter, we are sure our Fathers and
Brothers and all the gentlemen, will help YOU
Suppose you should call a meeting, appoint
committee, get up "Free school supper, and let
the Friends have an opportunity of contributing,
and let us see if we cannot get enough to have
school two or three months, yet, this winter and
then before that expires, it will give our Fathers
and Brothers chance, to have Free schools,
fixed fact in this community.
In behalf of the children UNCLE JOE.