Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-29
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Education--.Its Antag0nism 10 slave
~ OF Mind and BODY.

ligion, ethics, metaphysics, the arts and
sciences, Of political government and
the other branches Of human knowledge
education of the body 10 the princi
Plies Of health, vigor aud endurance, and
in habits Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in all |
that goes 10 make up the perfect man
and woman, is the best gift Of God to |
man, and the highest object, next to the |
salvation Of the immortal soul, which
ought to engage the attention and arouse
the energies Of mankind
What Is It that raises man above the
brste7 What is it that ciyilizes man
kind and redeems the world from is pris-
tine barbarism, eultiyates the SOIL builds
ships, houses, and works Of public utili
81, and brings all the blessings Of evil
zation2 Education does all this, and it
does more. 1t not only teaches man to
gather about him the comforts and lux
uries Of life, and 20 provide for the high
eat state Of physical enjoyment, but 1t
furnishes him with the means to crafty
that innate love Of Estheties--the bean
ful To the eye, The melodious to the ear,
and the grand and exquisite to the i'm
agination-whiea exists in every human
being, but which man in his unedueated
state knows but little Of, practically
Education is friendly to, and goes
hand ia hand with, Liberty, the world
over liberty OF thought and liberty Of &C
ftiou. In proportion "a people are ed
ueated in the general sense we speak Of,
they aspire to, if they do nos possess,
freedom Of word and action. On the
contrary, where a people are igno-
raut, OF where they are only educated in
the narrow field of.priesily and mouarch-
ical ideas aud dssigns-au education
which il little better than none at ALL
there intolerance, bigotry, aud fanati-
eism prevail in the latter instsnce, and
heathenism and all It's accompanying
horrors in the former
The people of the Free States are
more generally educated than any other
in the world, except, perhaps, the Ger
mana; consequently they are the freest
on earth, and the Germans, next to them,
possess the strongest cravings after a
: perfect freedom. Witness the sytDpathy
Of the Germans with the cause Of popu
Re lar sovereignty in Schleswig- Holstein,
y for the truth Of this latter remark In
n spite Of the efforts Of the monarehs Of
- Europe for or against the claims Ct DEN
mark; in spite Of the hali-hearted efforts
Y Of Prussia and Austria, on the one hand.
3 to wrest the Dnchies from Denmark, and
Of the clustering and threatening atti-
tude Of the British Government on the
other, the German people are determin-
ed that the people Of the Duchies shall
2, have fair play and 60 where their sym
h, pathies, interests, aud longings for liber-
" lead them. The German people do
- not view the difficulty as question as
to what potentate the people of the
4 Duehies shall serve under, bat as to
e Ss whether they shall be kept under any
n, monarchical yoke or allowed TO enjoy
ut the comparative freedom now eaioyed
4. by the mas of the German people
., With the people interested, il is in its
= ultimate results question OF liberty or
cd subsection
i
Il To this complexion DO all the great
'ars national or international disputes tend
" at the present time aud JUS, in proper
.. ton as knowledge prevails in its broad
= sense, just so near are the people of the
various countries OF the earth to state
% OF freedom and selfgovernment
i The people of Ireland, Hungary, Po-
Il laud, Mexico, Greece, and other eoun-
- =. tries which struggle or have struggled
Of for Independence or to throw OF des-
potic government, are not qualified BY
~ education for the change, else perhaps
ns they would be successful in their efforts.
Whenever people are sufficiently edu-
" Gated IN general knowledge, and in the
principles of civil and religious liberty,
= they viii fnd the means necessary to
er throw off the trammels of despotism.
IS Witness the case of our Thirteen Colo
MES at the time of the First Revolution.
- Our foreiathers were well educated in
the learning Of the times, and especially
= in the principles of civil and religious
B. liberty, taught them by Hampden and
% Sidney, Cromwell, Luther, Calvin, and
p . Knox, and the British Barons who wrest
y ed Magma Ckarta from reluctant king
- Where, in all the history of msu, did I
feeble people ever labor under greater
disadvantages, or fight against more ire
p, ~ mendons oddsq Aud yet how gloriousl,
q and thoroughly they triumphedl Thi'
he was the result of their education in th'
iii great underlying principles that thel
,ssS contended for.
As contrast, look at the apparent,
miserable failure of the Mexieans sgsins
- the French despos That people are *
norsnt, licentious, aud lawless. The,
have been sehoOled only in the WAYS o
their priests and tickle political leaders
and hence have no ideas Of true hhert,
sufficient TO unite them as body OF in
telligent patriots against the foreign in
vader. All that can save them is tn
q. Monroe Doctrine, and the knowledge G
. genuine independence and freedom to b
obtained hereafter from those adyentul
and Gus spirits from these United States, vi
when our rebellion is crushed, and ou
'rse Union re-esiablished stronger than eve,
> win flock to that Garden of the Tropic,
- II ! - - -. =. :.