The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-30

weafinessi OF iIiaf fEenfion. for ! ssiineb
longer period than Il will on words OF
4 se.tll SfE7ast subjects in which Il has no in
kereSts and no knowledge whatever Al
/ the Beginning. Another ADVANTAGE OF
this system IS that Il pnts idess Before
sNortls o1sls which are only their repFesen-
1 tat1SeS. We All Know that the man
who has q confused n6tfoIi ST The wine
Pof figures never can max 3. good atith-
met1clan, nor can a child Who has a
confused notion of the value of the
ideas Represented by the words 1t uses
f!ff1nk I! teorTectly. AT every step II null
I pplies ITS errors, and despaiis OF the
aftalnment of the clear and Correct
lSnowtedge OF anything. IN Boston. al
the hiRQer Gdrien, the Peabotfvss de
Eetop this system with much success.
SinSularly enough, Professor EIalde-
man proved that it originated in Har-
rtsburg, 50 far as this country Is con-
icernedf and he produced d book written
Sy the gentieman who taught himself
and Governor, Curtin, making use n
stthst "a ntiAll ~ that very method. There
IS many q child of great easoriinP
power, but whose pefeeptiSe facnififs
are; propotti ionate1y dull, So TINT H
5eses se,nttdsnee 81, its own 81 %
Instruction must he atisniufalr ifSsin-
able, by giving il accuracy of obserVa-
ttons and confidence in its own percep-
d6n. fse2 '3ssist - .ieI ''tsi %
The Kind ofTaIIk We IIIk to hear from
tfgass aiss Eastern HtrSfniHs ,lE ;
I The Charlottesville Va, , GbroaIeEe has
been Conspicuous among the Southern
papers for the good sense and ability
displayed indts aFticIos since the col
lapse of the rebellion. In a resent & ar
ltfcIe It says: 'i,l ~ ii''t-s =
.1he great idea involved in the late
var was the opening of the South to a
more active social life. Under the par
alEzing influence ofslaYery II had come
% bs generally viewed dogma at the
SouthS that social lstagnation was aR0Od.
and progress an evil. Our people were
grRHelY taught thatWe must notinerease
our Population, because Il would I'M
crease crime; and we must not eneour-
age the mechanic arts, because mantl-
iactuEing industry induced pauperism.
There was adelibeFate effort tone of the
most mOnstFouS alterations of mind in
history to obStruct the wheels of Gods
ehariot-an affected apprehension lest
thnt flaming chr should push on too fn-
r1ously. Weundertook to cryStaliHe ont
society, and fix It forever in the agFicul-
tural loT-ns itWas sometimes called
IN the patTiarchall form. We did not
want snlau farms, even if it did inn
EA0NG otAA lEkiAuEEf RlOulO
destroy our gentlemen To keep mp n
race Of gentlemen, we kept our lands
at six dollars per acre, when, if we had
sacrificed the gentlemen, thew. would
have been worth thirty, We would
not have manufactures, because they
would destroy the freshness and purity
OF our moral character. We were so
anxious TO keep virtnoUs, that we re-
solved that we would not grow rich!
We would not have schools, because
the Yankees had them. Could. this
state of things exist 2 Was not the rev
olution obliged %. Def Outraged nature,
long charging herself for the catastro-
phes ultimately burst the fetters that
man sought to impose on her, God
I55IT tflIti sucn q gale as
could alone stir its dead waves.
The law of the universe is I3e-and
God abhors DEATH Think you not that
agriculture, and Manufactures, Sand
Commerce, and Art and knowledge
are the purpose of God2 Think you
that he prefers the savage to the civil
lied state-the hunting ground to the
Nerdant meadows and fields burdened
with grain2 Are not cities ordained of.
God-with their eager life, their myriad
activities, their potent energiesf t'Oh
but there is so much. vice in citieS!''
said our Southern philosopher, land
therefore. Twill have no cities. God CAV G
us n planet to liveona and We will not inn
prove it because people Will commit
sims. Density of population begats inn
nloralities-and by purity Of reasoning
men ought not to begNt children, he
cause the more children the more vice. y
That IS the argument, and it was put
forth with the prufoundest gravity by
the South. Poor SOuthI as generous
and as noble a race Rs Greek or Norman
-but abominahiy mismannged. il4y
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