Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-17

Rduontion In the Vocntive Case
II IL were not that those who know least
Of education are usually most forward to
fa talk about il in public, it might be thought
u reflection upon the State school system
that its most noisy champions advocate it
for the very reason which they who have
devoted brains and time to its practical
operation, regard as its defects. An earnest
Superintendent who is making teaching in
the State schools the business of his life,
deprecates the consequences of neglect OF that
moral training which was cared for under
the previous system of voluntary schools.
The article was copied into the organ of the
State Teachers Association, edited by the
State School Commissioner, than whom no
man is more sincere and energetic in his
desire to make the State system perfect.
But writer in an evening paper in this
city, who is anxious to identify himself with
the State school system, with the hope that
il win pass for education, declares that moral
training has no business in the public
schools. II would not of course, be fair to
hold the earnest friends of the State schools
responsible for the folly of those whose only
qualification to talk of education, is to ex-
emplify the want of it.
But ii must seem to Cincnnatians re-
freshing exhibition of impudence for the
Times 10 charge that the Pass publishes
these comments of the school-men for the
purpose of introducing Roman ecclesiasti-
csm into the schools-"for consideration
in prospective, doubtless" As if every man
was not aware that the wealth and business
ofthis city is in Protestant hands, and that
Protestant bigotry pays, and is the only
kind that does pay as if this fact had not
been played upon by Cincinnati journals
until the spirit of bigotry and intolerance
represented in them, makes the ancient hate
of Hebrew and Philistine, and of Christian
and Jew, mild by comparison; as if they
who contribute to the support of this spirit
did not know that it was utterly hypocrit-
ical and mercenary, but think that it may do
- some good with the ignorant; as ifany body
ever advocated liberality and respect for
the opinions Of all, out Of base or mercenary
motives; as if the publisher of the Times,
chuckling over his success from fostering the
neanest prejudces he could seize upon, did
not regard itas proof of total want of news
paper shrewdness for publisher to express
liberal sentiments, and to neglect to turn th'
bigotry of the people to profit.
Yet the Times thinks there must be "a
consideration in prospective lit can not i'm
ngine any now, therefore it thinks it must be
prospectve,) because its whole experience
forbids that it should suppose that journal
can advocate or oppose any thing without {
consideration.
-- Yet it can easily try falsely to put tn
Pass in the position of advocating the in
PRODUCTION of ecclesiasteism in the publi
schools, when we have showed that religious
instruction can not be given without offend
ing some consciences. And while the Time
declares that the State ''is excluded from th
domain of conscience" and from gvinJ
moral instruction, proposition to toxic th
Protestant Bible from the public school
would elicit from it an outcry ten times NOR
noisy than it would from any who have an
religion TO lose.