Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-06

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ture, be would always carry the switch and leave it
under the tree from which ho had taken t,'for how
do know, said he, but there may be some sympa.
thy between the switch and the tree; l will leave
it under the shade Of its mother = Such are the
grounds, | suppose, upon which Rufus Choate
must be saved it at all. And the call at the last day
will be, come ye blessed Of my father enter 70 in
to the rest prepared for you from the foundation
Of the world, for ye found q tumble bug Oh its
back, and reversed it,ye returned the severed twig
to its parent Tree =
This is no fancy sketch. 1t is q yeritable in.
stance Of the culture and piety Of the present age.
Not but that it is well enough to avoid the need
less cruelty Of those, whom Cowper said Gle would
not enter in his list of friends but, is this all that
is to be required of Rufus Choatc Yet this is
the culture OF the college and church combined :;
for Rufus Choate was the child of both Dartmouth
College and the American church, and both seem
proud of him,-and be was worthy os them. And
Webster and Choate, the slave system, the popular
sentiment of tho land, aud the manners and Gus
toms of the people, are the fruits that the college
and the school have givenus, and are worthy of the
seed which produced them !
Hence, when l look over the schools 1 see that
the age needs something better. We have, and
must have, our standards Of greatness; but some
things look great, because others arc small. To.
day l was reading in a volume of Dean Swift's,
how CULVER, a famous sailor, was shipwrecked on
the island Of Lilliput, where the inhabitants were
but six inches high. Amongst them he was u
giant, and they called him the man.mountain.
But he got away from that coun try and visited an.
other country where the people were SIXTY feet
high, and there he W as but a pigmy,-as small as
he had been large before. The Great Eastern was
not so large among ships, nor the Prince of Wales
in Canada, as he was to the Lilliputians. So our
great men, like Webster, and Choate, and DR..
Adams are great, because the rest are 80 small
Some time our infants will BIO greater than Daniel
Webster. But now we are in the island of Lllli-
put, and six inches is the height of a common
man; and to this stature our schools have helped
to bring US. We need a far different class of
teachers, as well in our common schools, as 10 our
colleges. Now, he is the best teacher who can
bring his pupil out m Jst creditably, at a fashion
able school examination. The people receive that
as education, and they think that when q boy can
say all his lessone over his education is complete.
W z a IVY 6OVo W 1AuiNulN lOul JOul0t tuOy
pui an A. B. to his name, which they say means
Bachelor of Arts but which, generally, may be
more properly interpreted A Blockhead. He goes
forth with no fixed principles,"-no settled charac-
ter visits the South, perhaps, and they rob him
Of the very little humanity he has left. Next he
goes to Congress. or becomes a preacher, aud
breaches total depravity, and illustrates in his life
and character the doctrine he teaches.
Now, l know we ere off the right track here.
Our pilgrimage lies through the dismal swamp |
have been des3riI ing. The teacher, like the
preacher, asks wh,' will pay,and acts accordingly,
You remember, many of you when you como to
this Western country. l have seen, near here, an
old man, who I'D me that when be settled where
| found him living, twenty-five years before, he
bad not a single neighbor within twenty-five miles,
lie lived six months, alone, without seeing a hu-
man being, and the solemn stiffness oe the night
was broken only by the bowling Of the wolves near
his campfire. At first the pioneers spotted"
trees, to mark iheir course through the forest, and
by those they made their pilgrimage on foot. AT.
ter a time they had common roads, with carriages
TO ride in. Time passed and they had turppikes,
and now we have iron tracks, and hy in fiery chart
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ssrd the lightning in advance, to tell of our com
ing. But while all these changes 90 on around
us, the old spotted trees of scholarship remain,
Homer was studied 10y our grandlathers and great
grandfathers, and men think for that reason they
must study him now, and they do. Ten genera
tions of students have hardened the old path Of
learning by ~ploddiHg along it, OuI Orthodox church.
es have yet the Westminster cateehismithat John
Cal vim left them three hundred years ago, and the
church prides herself in it. The followers Of John
Wesley are treading the same course. Wesley
was the comet, and his followers, tue Methodists
are the comets tail. Great men strike QUIT truth,
fathers boots, and thinks himself greater than bis
father. So, little minds may be made greater by
following Homer, great minds are greater by fol
lowing their own inspirations, and do not need
him as their model. Some minds are 30 narrow
that they will choose nune but the meanest models
Webster,a s / said, uttered some noble sentiments
They used to be in our school books, but they are
not there now. The age does not want them, auG
they have disappeared. Thus, much that was no
BILE has been stricken from our literature. Tb,
American Tract Society have published numerout
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manity was struck out Of their pages. Our OWL
poets have uttered some noble sentiments but W,
will not allow our children to read them and hav
cast them all out of our school books, which one
contained them. A radical sentiment! must not b.
uttered, lest heroes should DO the consequence.
But l need not pursue this train of thought
further. What the age Vants is not what it needs
We want heros,-men and women. Not men sucl
as fill the Professors Chairs Of Dartmouth ant
Harvard, and the pulpits Of the American church
but such as come from God. Some one said o
Abraham Lincoln that he had none Of the grace
of polished life; and it was answered that thu
tailors and dancing master did not make him.
that God Almighty made Abraham Lincoln.
could not quite credit the statement, because my
ideas OF God are higher than that. / want mer
that Dartmouth or Harvard does rot make, mer
that come forth from the brain of Jove, if not full
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