New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-13
Registry is required, and We do not believe they
Uill grudge the co-t OF making II general.
III. On the subject Of Common schools Mr.
Smith SAID

(wbere Common Schools sre OF recent origin 50
web educated as those of Massachusetts, Nay:
Is there one living Pennsy sylvanian-barely one
who will to-day contend that Education Is not
more general and less imperfect since that State
established Common School system than 1t was
before' Pennsylvenia had sixty years experience
since Indepsndence. of what Mr. Smith terms
the people supporting schools Voluntarily.
| under the impulse of " self-interest, II not
q" beneyoence; but she abandoned this IN l'5o,
and adopted instead a Common School sys-
tenn under State impulse and supervision. That
she has to-day many more schools and better
teachers in proportion to her population than she
ever had under the voluntary system-that her
schools are rapidly increasing in number and i'm
proving in character-that her teachers are better
qualified and better paid than they were under the
hap-hszard system, are facts as clear as noonday.
So il r in jersey, though her system, about
equally recent, is more timid and hating than
Pennsylyana's. Here are facts of wide notorlety.
backed by unimpeachabe statistics. Should they
not prevail against Mr. Smith naked assertions of
what. according to his theory, should be ?
". Mr.. smith being asked whether the Repub-
lean party had not been powerfully instrumental
10 making Kansas Free State, answered IN the
negative. saying:
saved under God b. her strong arms ard
10 old John Brown of O,awasmie. Here Mr. Smith s,ves
trief sketch Of TIE ksr,a. struggle ais. read e,et from
John Brown Greet praise due % Ma.sansetts Tor TIE
eynz oi Kansas one merchant IN Boston MI siestu nsh
given s7ot Massachuses az ad n9oy ID 'eifliu. me-
theTe.endrs the rsEi siid OF men T1rr. ~.Fe no" zen
pre.s,ste men 90 Ssv.sste and could net suchs
aor,y have saved the sta'el II Slave contributions had
been piled upon kan.as he'll ow-beeag.e sayery ge.er
Ieache- toward heaven never coud have or'H Save
ksusas owe, her salvation 70 herself
We do think Mr. Smith could have afforded
TO be- candid and just on this point; but if there
was ever an answer of the :" scurvy politician"
the above is one. Mr. Smith cites one Boston
merchant who contributed liberaly to sustain the
Free-State cause in Kansas, and we presume oor-
recil, Now, If the 5000 given by Dir. Stesrns
aided to make Kansas a Free State, is it or is 1t
not obvious that the tens Of thousands contributed
by Others exerted Il like influence Considerably
over 500 600 was contributed through this Office
and every dollar of it handed over to the Natonal
Committee of the friends of Free Kansas to aid in
the struggle. Thousands Of Free-State immigrants
to Kansas were thus aided either to reach that
Territory, in the shape Of arms, provisions and
clothing after they had settled there Hundreds
were thus helped to stay through the severe
Winter of l-56-7 many bad made up to them
q small part tf what they had lost b.
Borier-Rufiisn outrage and spolaton. Nine
tenths Of AL that contributed done for Free
Kansas was contributed or done by Republicans.
1t was b. Republican Journals and speeches in
Congress that the Free North aroused and in
cited to resist the domination and repel the out
RACES of the Border Rufians; it was by Repub-
ican Committee raised by Republican efforts and
votes in the House, that the abominabe frauds
and usurpaiions by which Kansas was subjected to
Pro-Slayery rule were proved authentlcally before
the country, in such shape to defy sophstication
and preclude contradiction. q" Old John Brown
of Osawatamie" and nnr'een-wentieths Of his
co-deienders of Freedom in Kansas, were and
are Republicans, and migrated thither under the
impulse of Republican ideas sud convictions. But
for the Republican party. aud the sentiment which
called that party into being, there would have
been no Cor at the best not eno1gh) strong arms
and brave spirits in Kansas to save her from Bor-
der Rufian and Sayeholdiug domination in loj7--
any more than in lSJ5-6 We hold that Mr..
Sullh tSStItloh' dpp'f EIfth hi' 'Ss'"ti"ii' "i-
true and that they do credit neither 10 hs candor
nor his magnanimity
V. Had we time and space we should be glad
to discuss thoroughly Mr.. Smiths fundamental doc
trine that Government has no righttul power 10
do any more than protect persons aud property.
This doctrine, had it prevailed, would have left the
Erie Canal unmade and New-York City mere
satellite 10 Philadelphia or Baltimore. Ii would
abolish not merely State Canals sud Common
Schools, but common roads, leaving every man
who travels 10 make his roads for himself Ii
would preclude all laws against Adultery, Lewd-
ness, Incest and give the fullest legal mpanity to
libertine passions. Yet see with what transparent
sophstry Mr. Smith seeks to tlude the legitimate
consequences Of his own doctrines:
Nh Smith here asked his opinion on the subject q
Poyeauy snd il reply aid ,aa the Ci.i Government could
nsht Tl tables show nat er vas bt one ma 70
ea, wouaf md for eact Il followed r q
should have ,eu husbands she would rob nie
OF tAor rights Lsashlsr Government .hoiid IL.
ierIOse."
Now let US look closely into this. "Goyern-
''mebt," Says Mr.. Smith, "has no other duties
- but those involved in the protection of life and
property" Very good: One man, having
ample property chooses to live with three or
four women as his wives. By what right, on what
principle does Government. on Mr.. SIuths theory,
int. r.ere with their voluntary aid mutually salts
factory arrangement Why, says he, " the census
tables show but one woman for each man.
Begging your pardon, Mr.. s.. the census tables
Enr ThoUss1i