Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-02-22
(Prcm che Vermont chronioie'l
qNa stnS, Reform school Located

cess has crowned the euorts OF the So'h-
mlssioners. After two months spent
In examination, inquiry and eonsuita'
ton. within the State and Without
after much elaboration, and with anx-
ions desire that no step should be taken
but the right one, the State Reform
School is located.
A foundation Is laid, such, we think,
as has not been laid before In Vermont. |
In laying It, we have followed the ex-
example OF an older and more populous |
State bat not until demonstration had
| been afforded that the institution was |
want OF our own, and ong2t 10 be es-
! tablished on independent grounds
upon reasons laid In the existing con- |
dition and present and prospective |
wants of our population. We have |
not acted in the spirit OF mere imitation, |
and built because others have bullded, |
and that we might be like unto them.
| We have not said the other States
1 have Reform Schools, therefore let rs
have one,-as the children of Israel
petitioned for a king that they might
not be excelled in pomp and pride by
| the nations around them. We have not
! said let US have charitable institutions,
Lecause they are the glory of other
| sts:as, and signals On the pathway oil
cultivation, What we harn donS has
risen out of our own sense Of wans ond
of duty, Of what we saw had at length
become a necessity for our own State
a necessary means for its advancing
progress and improvement to rescue 1t
fromthe misery and shame of protiigacy,
restitution, vagrancy and vice 10 do
our Christian duty to the neglected and
the helpless and the vicious In our own
youthful population.
A foundation has been laid, we trust,
for many generations. 1t has been LAID
in the hope that on it may rise an ed
edifiCe of Christian benefCent and en-
lightened humanity,-thato ont OF it may
be opened fountain, the streams where
Of shall refresh many thirsty soul, and
make glad the heart Of The forsaken and
desolate,-that on it may be erected q
beacon light, a con- fort and o guide to
many an erring and wandering soul,
beckC1ing him 10 refuge and & rest
Warning him OF the ways OF ruin, and
poiuting oU'G to him paths Of pleasant
ness and peace. We expect that 1t shall
prove fountain of knowledge and in
, struction to darkened, ignorent and
misguided minds, that have none u
tech, to counsel, TO direct them. W.
| expect it to be seat OF genuine in
t struction and education Tor such as art
/. denied access to those fountains else
y where,-that find not their places in tn
common school, along with the Othe
y more favored children of the land, tina
/ seek not instruction OF the feet of pa
rental love, aud wisdom, around tn
family hearth stone that go no
- to the house of God on the Sabbath, t
, learn the lessons of Christians wisdom
y from the lips of Christian teachers, no
ioin in the songs and praises Of tn
"a sanctuary, along with the people of Goo
n We mean that 1t shall be Sabbath an
,e q sanctuary to those who otherwise haV
w | none. We mean that it shall teach Tn
language of prayer and devotion to liz
10 otherwise accustomed only to protanit
n and the utterance of rude and senseles
T. and corrupt impulse, desire, and pa
s. sion. We mean that it6hall furnish o.
ID ! cupation and exercise to minds othe
9 | wise idle and vacant, or the haunts
~ evil thoughts, influences and purpose
ia We mean to plant the seeds of vi
81, tue and knowledge, to spring up ar
st outgrow and finally destroy the ev
rs and wanton growths of the uncultivat'
heart and mind. We mean that it shs
r. furnish employment for hands unus'
-. to labor, and train them to systemat
Z" useful and wholesome work, work tn
". snail invigorate the body and give
n wholesome course and tone to T.
thoughts of the mind,-work that shs
to make the subject feel that he is III
nv fully and honorabiy employed, that
of time and his energies are not throS
IN. away, that he is leading better w
tes of life, than one OF ideness, vagran
toe and crime that he is learning not to
fa q thief, a nuisance, tax and burd
upon society, but an honest and II
full and an Honorable citizen, with I
,ev consciousness Of worth and of use1
70 and honorable position among men.
- In the foundation thus laid by
1A State for the poor, the outcast,
oy- friendless, and the destitute, within
borders, are embodied the true prin
he pies of national welfare. 1t is the p,
err which God hath chosen, 1t is the con
tion which he imposes, and upon viii
the His favor is to depcuu. 1t ls ny poll
to the ration in regard to all it's peOr
,s.' whether white or black, or foreign
ut home born, that we are to be guided c
in Of all our perplexites and dangers
that we are to secure the solid and I
to | safe and the just reconstruction, Il
,w our light is to rise in obscurity and G
dark ness to become as the noon d
icy as not this the fSst that have chos,
ere to loose the bands of wickedness,
'ay undo the heavy harden, and to let t
a oppressed go free, and that ye bre
every yoke1 IL it not to deal thy brs
to the hungry, and that thou bring t
IL. poor that are cast ont TO thy hon
nm, when thou seest the naked that tn
cover him and that thou hide not u
eSs seif from their own G--h Whpn th
leo shsH after this measure keep a fast NJ
the Lord, then shall thy light brs
} forth rs the morning, and thy hrA
I | shall spring forth spppdilv Then sh.