, 1863-01-01
COMsION SCHOOLS vs.. ACADEMIES.
To the Editor of the Puget Sound Herald:

| To the Editor Of tic Puget Sound Herald:
Through the columns Of your journal learn
that the Territorial University is now completed
so that its timed cupolI pays daily homage tC
the setting sun. The rise and progress Of uni
vetSities and other high schools in our country
carries US back tn the very twilight Of cOlonia
dependency; and as the hardy and abused piO.
neers of this and other Territories Of the mother
republic are the mere unheard vassals, subjected
to the slang and abuse Of the imported Satraps
transported hither to waste our substance and
belle us, when they cannot sell us, it is then meet
and proper that we should have an institution fnI
the special accommodation Of the compassionate
missionaries, the anoinied latter Day SnintS from
the very bosom Of Father Abraham, who, the
anxiety Of their pous souls, have left the scenes
Of their childhood "iar in heather lands to dwell "
The province Of Massachusetts founded and en-.
dowed the first high school in America for how
could 4 batch Of imported proconsuls, saddled
on an unwilling people, to whom they were, il
possible, a. hateful as are our present rulers to
our own people, get and maintain an illgGtten
supremacy without the aid and assistance Of the
Kings high school, where the Governor, General
Of the lurces, the Admiral Of the station. their
Lnrdships the Bishop, ArchdeacOn, Dean, the
Judges, the Attorney and Solicitor General, the
Kings Counsel, the Clerk Of the Crown, and
| COuuueSs buOes COuiu rear uuO Bluu up llelk
cubs, on all which occasions q Fellow from VA.
ford welded the rod and ruler and taught the
young idea to Shoot, too often in very strange
channels. Il was my misfortune In 1851 to have
attended an exhibition Of the Kings high school
IN n British colony, which was Oely c0ntrO led
and managed by an imported batch, at the head
Of which was Governor who had not witnessed
sober sunset for thirty years He aud his
pimps were intellectually rrgaled By Fellow
frOm Oxford, who, "like q tall bully, lifted his
head and lied, first, last al the time, about the
Republican institutions and people Of the then
United States, all Of which was eagerly swallowed
by his snoring and unapprvciatite audience.
Notwithstanding that said high school was SUP
ported out Of the colonial revenue yet the dear
people were not "thar." The good people Of
massachusetts,, so forward in every good work,
and so earnest IN every effort having a tendency
10 amelioTate the pains and hardShilIS' Of nian.
kind, though foremost In the Revolniion, and
more earnest in carrying out its beh, sts on the
battle. field, yet clung 10 the old EnglISh policy
with greater tenaeity than any other q her sister
States, and more particularly in her school sys.
ten. Among the brilliant names 10 the hundred
orators Of Boston, none deserve brighter mention
than the hOnored successor Of John Q. Adams in
the Congress Of the United Statvs--Hon. Ilora.e q
Mann, who brought the school system Of HAT
cunmONWealtn 70 SUCH uegree OF p'rleetlOn
Elile acting as Sccretary of its Board Of Educa.
ton for period 81 thirteen years. The en- lrmous
school fund Of that State, derived chiefly frun
the forests of Milne, enabled the Board q Edu.
cation to subsidise academies in every town con.
Iainihg q certain humber Of dwelling HOUSES,
which were quickly turned to acconnt BY the
men Of property and standing Thus, In most
Of the towns, especially In the mannlactu, Ing
districts, the cotton lords had their high schoos,
10 which the children Of the aristocracy found
shelter from the "common white trash, " and, as
matter Of course, the wicked houFished Cor q
season IN well furnished warm schools, supplied
with magnificent apparatus and libraries OF choice
works i will readily appear that as the high
schools advanced, the common schools retrogradcd
pro rata; Cor as the leading families were privi.
legged with academic facilities, Ia which their
earthly treasures were d posted, Il will not seem
strange that they lost every interest 10 the COM
alon schools, which had now become Z mere
Jim-C Grow car, only at for ragged boys, orphan
ehildren-~th the poor white trash" Matters did
not move smoothly; the schools. the handmade
Of religion. Were sunken low a. 70 be hopeless,
when, inlslS. the acaeemic system, being weighed
IN the balance and ionnd wanting, was summarily
repealed and banished out Of the Bay State as
an unclpan thing; aud .'the poor boys college, I"
the common school, placed high IN the statutes
Of the State, higher N the hrsrts Of her grva'
people, and much higher IN the eslimation Of phi
ianihropists throughout the wide world Tie
common schools being thus elevah d BY the unan.
ilnous action Of generous community, endofss d
and enforced bV her leading minds, subsidized
bv en- unsparing treasury. guarded bv the light
Of enlightened and progressive civilization, ac-
commodated By magnificent temples built and
adorned undera uniform system Of architectural
beauty and design. graded into different grada-
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seek wisdom within their whlled walls literally
furnished with al the apparatus Of modern ii-
vention, together with Wcll-srlectcd works Thus
the milk Of wisdom h tenderlv dealt out and
kindly impressed on the infant mind
Z" By unuan's voice, whose soul from
Sordid motives free,
And snertly prnclaims 70 oceans child,
Sailorl there Is hope for thee
Thus are an the Younger scholars placed under
The matefnnl care Of ltmalea. while ne older and
mnrc advanced are placed under lhe ronlr0l and
instruction of male teachers. where excellent op-
portunilIcs ARE afforded 70 every child IN the
commonwealth 70 acquiro a thorough knowledge
IL an the branches nf useful Or practical cduca-
linn, including several languagus Is well as anme
nf the ahsirase sciences. Al without money and
without price, and within the reach of every home
and every child, BE- be 0T she blue, black or
white"
jon LkxE, MD.
slsiIscoOm, Dsc.I5lh. 1850.
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