Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-09-18
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EDUCATION IN GRANT COUNTY.

1t is conceded point, that mental and
moral Improvements are inseperabIy con-
nected. 10 sever mind and soul is abso-
lutely impossible, and be who disciplines
he former in a systematic and scientific
training, approximate towards the sum
nit of true MORAL greatness and will most
likely, arrive at last, at the position where
God desi gned responsible accountable be-
ings to stand.
Public schools of moral and scientific
character are what distinguish the Aneri-
can people from savage and barbarou>
ribes; and, if to day we occupy one oil
the most conspicuous positions among all
the countries on the face of the globe, we
owe it 10 the mental and moral elevation
of our national character. Our Pilgrim
Fathers were men of letters as we'll as men
OF moral character, and it is a matter OF
devout thankfuness wit b us that thew did
not entirely fail to leave their impress up
on their numerous and hbe ty loving pro
geny. The natural advantages of the
great West are equal to those of any 9th
er part of the civilized world. Nature
has spread out delightful landscape t..
our view and cleared it of every encum-
brance for mans sake. The soil is prolific
20 proserb, atfording ample remunera-
ton Ia the hushandman for all his toll and
sacrifice; and of our mineral resources it is
kro%n that they are very extensive il
not altogether inexhausibe. Men be-
come itch with ordinary care and industry,
and Trustworthy ambition exhibits itself
IN many localities for the diffusion Of cen-
fife aud general intelligence. We assume
the position that mental cultivation to tn
great West is of more Importance at this
time than he breaking of broal prairies,
the erection of <pl. ndid edlfces or the tri-
nmph Of political aslirants.
The increase of general science will
make better mechanics, better farmers and
better citizens; for it has been demon
>irated that to be successful, in husbandry
or The mechanic arts, the masses must be
educated; errors are TO he exposed and
theories put in practice.
Every District School House in the
West is but an indication of the love of
liberty, and ever higher departRent of sci
enee and literature is but the growth or
rapid Development from infancy to age.
The stale opinions of f,gies, and their
Isvmpathizels, that the enlightenment of
the masses produces a nation of rogues has
long since been exploded We have too
many and iamentable evidences in the his
Tory of nations, that ignorance is the pa
rent of soperstiiious devotion, and the sup
preston of civil and religious light, is, to
many, the harbinger of political and relig
| ious enslavement. Go TO Spain, Italy and
Portugal in the Old World, and TO Mexi
co and South America in the New, and
we have practical demonstration Of the
state efsoeiety, where the people are mol
permitted to read and investigate for them
selves In these coun RES there are but
TWO classes who receive respectable eda-
Iea,ion-those who are the recognized reli
gious tea hers of the people and those
whe are designed to fill some responsible
position in society or in the state. 1u ou'
own happy country we are not cursed with
inflated, aristocratic Lords and Nobles.-
The Genius of Liberty having invested
true royalty, true republication, true SOW
ereignty In the breasts of the common PEG
pie. But to perpetuate American princl
I pies, it is important that we tax every
agency for the accomplishment of the glc
I rious end in view. Schools and Institute.
are to be TO The rising generation what th'
great Atlantic Gable is to Europe ant
America. "Thoughts that breath ant
! words that burn" are to cross and recros
!. from Maine to Georgia and from the ster
lie sands of Cape Cod to the shores of th,
far of Pacific. But are our state ane
county doing their duty in reference to tn,
education of the rising generation! Thl
is question: easily answered. Genera
provision is male for rudimentsl instruc
ton of our children. But what paren
wishes his offspring to rest satisfied viii
this and nc. morea Wisconsin has Stat,
University, but what particular benefit i
gTTT Is the citizens of Grant County! Gu
; louly. salvation is, to have Academies an'
institutes of learning, independent of th'
j. Offices and funds Of the State.
That this mar be accomplished, grea
Ie5nea.in i interest is to agltate the heart
II thnss within whose localities thes
schools &c 10 be established; for be
y horne in mind that TO found and build y
schools Of high grade, great sacrifices 9
: time and outlay Of money are required
X gnt few know The emhsrrsssInenis throag
(which some Of our high schools have sirae
: gled 10 attain their present elesss' sn,s :
s the end is not ret, for embarrsssineh's =
.i5ilsneb > character still stare them IN %
: susA -, ..,r,.l.tel 10 make the friend