Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-19

WOulQ % SOuteuIeu VIII tug SU4toA rlh3te9
and NOT be allowed to extend into Texas
be would not thank you. They :hTe fight
ling In the;South TO carry slavery beyond
Texas into the vast regions Of Central
America. Now Iisay thAVif the geogEaph-
icaI features of the county had been look
ed at by the ruling classes and thosewhO
write In the newspapers, they would not
| have arrived ct Q conviction of the success
Of the southern side. There is neWspa-
per in London read by everybody bat /
have marVeIed at the ignorance which 1t
!has betrayed on the geographical features
of this territory In one article recently
there was river Of Eve hundred and
eighty miles of. Internal nayigationi to
which the largest river IN. this country is q
mere riVnIat, andIit was made TO turn up
hillary number OF miles into another Fiver,
aud these two rivers eeuepteds BeTsmade
to fall into 3 thiEd river. Now, there ts
real danger in the ignorance Of what fog
want Of & better term, may call the F1-
ling classes Of this countFYj here is real
danger from their total ignorance of eve
.erythtng relating TO America aRdyOu Wsy
IRet into dificulties from this oighOFance
which may cost much nationGi dishonor to
escape from. - 80 tsl.s y II
If I vera rich man"I would epdOW 3
professor's chair at Oxford and Cambridge
to Instruct the pnder- grsduates Of those
universities in American history. L will
undertakes to say, and ], speak aafisedly,
that 4 VIII takeRny undergraduate now at
Oxford or Cambridge, and will bring him
to q map OF the United States, and ask him
to pnt bis finger on Chicago. and will l1-
dertske to say thst he. does NOT go within
Q thousand miles of it. Yet Chicago ls a
Mace Of 100, 900 Inhabitants from which
600, 600 70 2, ,O0O!OO people in eur own
country are anpually fed. These younggeR-
tlemep know all about the geography of
ancient Greece end Egypt. NOMjrI know
l shall be peltBd with Greek and Latin
quotations. for what am going to say.
When I was at Athens, !. sailed oat one
summer morning % seek the famous river,
the Ilissus, and after walking some hun'
drea yards or so up What appeated ito
be the bed of a RmoUntain torrent ] came
upon q number OF .AtheniRn laundresaes,
and found they had damned up this fa-
mons classical river, aud we're using every
drop of its wGter for their own sanitary
Purposes. Why, then, should not these
young gentlemen who know Gil about the
geography Of the Ilissus know also some.
thing about the geography of the Missis
sippip am great advocate Of culture of
every kind, and say when dudIa man
like Professor Goodwin Smith or Professor
Rogers, who, in addition to prOf0upd clas-
sic8l learning, have a vast knowledge OF
modern affaiFs, and who as WeIl Rs schOl
ars, ara profound thinkers. / know. them
| TO be men Who have 9 vast superiority
over me and ] bow to them with reverence
| for their superior advantages: but toibrin8
young men from cOllege, With no knoWr
| ledge Of the country in which the gtegt
drama of, modern politics and national liEe
is now being worked ont, who are igna'
rant of a country like America, buti who,
whether it be tor good or evil must cxeS-
else more influence in this conntEy than
any other class; to bring up thegy0uag
destitue ,Of such knowledge, and 70 piece
| them in responsible positions. in the gev-
ernmedt, is. I say. fmperiling its best "a.
1 teFests, and earnest femonstFanCe5 ought
! to be made against ouch state Of edTca'
ton by every public man who values in
the slightest degree the future welfare OF
| bis country. 49,, 49,. 4. I. e. I.
You now know my opinions with Tespsc'
to the future of America. IIdon't desire 70
carry them out, and should not have: said
\ so much If so much had not been said on
the other side. ] want nothing but nen~
trality-but five are to have perfect peu'
trslity on this subject, let ne try for heay--
/ ems sake, TO hRV6 little temper "a the
discussion Of a question for which, happily
for us, we are not responsible. l am mute
and silenced when recollect thatI have
been protesting against war ever since
came into public life; but | have never
succeeded in preventing war all over the
world. could not say to America, "Why
do you insist on carrying on this ciyi! war7'
1 would at once be subject TO the reply
GWhy do you not take the beam out ot
your own eye before you take the moteouI
Of ours" But fear that the advocates
of all these wars against which have al.
ways been VainIy protesting, are now turn.
ing up the whites of their eyes as II they
had been Quakers from their birth. 81
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