The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-08-19

practical age, in which we live, hence
my remarks shall be of a practical
charaeter.
do not know how, | could better
improve the time allotted me on this
occasion, than by attempting to show
1.-THE NECESSITY OF EDUCATION IN A
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.
The common arguments, in favor of
education, have been so. often repeated,
that in attempting to address you on
/ this sa5ject, 1 feel like appealing to
your judgement and good sense to
bear testimony to its worth, rather
than attempt to make your convictions
firner or your good feelings stronger
by any attestation of mine.
! / hardly need say, that by the term
Education, mean much more, than an
ability toread,, write and keep common
accounts. | comprehend under this
noble term, such training of the body
ais shall build it up, with robustness
and vigor, atohce protecting it against
disease and enabling it to act tornsa-
titely, upon the crude substances OF
EAruPE--to turn wilderness into
cultivated felds-a forest into ships
quaries and elay-pits into villages and
cities--to tame the hghtning's flash
and make it. .subservient to its own use.
l near also, to include such a training
OF the intellect, as shall enable it to
discover those permanent and mighty
laWs, which pervade all parts of the
created universe, whether material or
spiritual.
This S necessary, because if we act
in obedience to these laws all the re-
sistIess forces of natureabeeome our
anxiliaIies and cheer US on to certain
prosperity and triumph, but if we act in
contravention and defaneeof these laws
their NATURE resists, ttwarts and battles
us, end in the end it is just, as GER
tain, that she will oyerwhelm us with
ruin. as it is, that God is stronger
than man. And finally, by the term
: Edaeafiotion, ] mean such eultiya-
! ton of our moral affections and reli-
i gious susceptibilitics, as shall lend to
J, a subjeetion and conformity Of our af-
J fections, appetites, propensities and
sentiments to the viii of Heaven.
/, Eentlemen: It is not manifest to us
J all, that no individual unless he pos
sesses some of the lower forms eduea-
t tier, can even transact the eoarsest
] ard most common interest of life, with
| ont daily error and daily shame. The
general utility of knowledge also, the
higher and more endearing satisfaction
/ of tie intellect resulting from the dis
: eorery and contemplation Of those
! mighty truths, with which the mate
q rial ana spiritual world are alike filed
! impart TO orr subject true dignity
i ana aubIime elevation. Proper eduea-
!. ton tempers those feelings, which
/ otherwise would consume and blast US;
q il has authority TO say, tofhe ciamor.
7 ous propesities of our nature, "peact
a be stfll' has the auxiliary power Il
) Efifu us for the endea7nenfs Of domestic
!. the duties Of social, and the sanotit,
! of immortal life. And in its high ofic.
i of enhancing the enjoyment, whicl
! each one Of Is may feel, il the yirtu
b and Happiness of all others--in thes
i higa ana sacred prerogatives, the cous
1t Of Education lays claim to our health
4 toouf minds, and to our strength, q
IL one df tlIe most efficient instrument
d prepafad bF tie Creator for the vel
ID fare Of Ills creatures and the glory {
ID Himself.
ID Take any individual you pleas
Of seperate him from tie crowd of me
IL and lo5k at him apaet and elene-lik
III solfe Robinson Crusoe, ina far off il
ii lana of the ocean, without any lhuma
Il being around him and with no prospe'
II Of bsefin any human being behind hi
II and.eFan III such solitude, how a,
re therattve over his actions, how decisi'
nj Of ontenlplations and Of his eond
as tioa are the instructions he receive
b. and che habits he formed in early lif
ut But now behold him, as one Of Il
on tun1eltous throng Of men-obserl
Lit the vice influences, which he exer
oyer others in The wants Of trade, in Il
he reeorts Of pleasure IN the high places