Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-01-19

industrial pursuit will be aided and promo |
ted by its operations; every man who Is |
educated is improved in usefulness, in pro. |
portion as he is skilled in labor, or intelli-
gent in the professions, and Is in every re-
spect more valuable to society. EdHeation
seems to be essential to loyalty, for no State
in the full enjoyment OF free schools, eyer
rcbelled against the government.
Pennsylvania should be the vanguard In
the great mission cf education. She should
remember that as she has been the mother
of States, she should also be the teacher of
States. 1.-THE great problem of civilization
is how to bring the higher intelligence of
the community, and its better moral feelings,
to bear upon the masses of the people, so
that the lowest grades Of intelligence and
merals shall always be approaching the
higher, and the higher still rising. A church
purified of superstition solves part of this
problem, and good school system does the
rest"
. THE STATE MILITARY.
Nothing. after the education of the pco
pie, contributes more to the security of
State than thorough military system. The
fathers of the Republic, acting upon the in
stinct Of preparing for war in time Of peace,
embodied this knowledge among the pri-
mary obligations of the citizen. Yet the
rebellion found us almost wholly upprepared.
Our confidence In our institutions was go
firm that the idea of an attack upon them
from any quarter, much less from those who
had been the Spoiled children" of the gov
ernment, was never believed possible, how
ever threatened. The first clash of arms
found US equally undeceived aud morgan
lied, and we very soon experienced that the
contrivers of the great slave conspiracy had
not only strengthened themselves by the
stolen ships, arms and Notifications of the
government, but had been for years designedly
instructing their youth in the science of
arms and when the bloody tempest opened
upon US they were ready to spring ut the
heart of the Republic, while the citizens, in
whose hands the government was left, were
compelled to protect themselves and their
country as best they could.
When we reflect upon the horrible sacri6-
ces we endured to maintain our liberties,
and anticipate that glcricns period of our
country when the whole continent will be
dedicated to human freedom, and when the
despotisms of the earth will construe our ex-
ample into standing threat against their
tyranny, we cannot disregard the considera-
ton of this important subject.
AS before remarked, Pennsylvania contri.
buted over three hundred Thousand troops
| to the national cause. Deducting the loss OF
. nearly thousand by wounds and disease in
J cured in the field, what an immense army
has been left to circulate among and to edu
cate the mass of our population Properly
comprebending this thought, We have al
once the secret of our past success, our pre-
l sent safety and our future power. It woult
r be easy to create an emulation in the science
: of arms among the youth of the State, b,
y proper organization, and to disseminate, il
0 all our schools, that loyalty to the who'll
= country, without which there can be no per
o manent safety for our liberty.
J. In their late report, the visitors to tn
8 cant stress upon the necessity Of such pre-
r ceptors, in the future, as would teach tn
J, students of that institution their first and un
e avodiable obligations to the principles upol
i which the government itself reposes. Th
= neglect of this kind of instruction was fel
IT in almost every movement during the recen
conflict; and it is not going too far to So
n that many who disregarded their oaths, an
n who drew their swords against the govern
e ment that had educated and nourished then
d found o meretricious consolation in the fac
s. that they were permitted to cherish an all(
It glance to the State in which they were borr
e which conflicted with and destroyed tbs
i love of country which should be made ~
It preme above all other political obligations
If, in our past and recent experience, theI
n has been exhibited the valuable and splei
a. did achievements of our volunteers in til
'e national defence, there has also been show
% the necessity for military skill, and thi
,e knowledge of, and familiarity with, the rul'
g Of discipline so essentially necessary in the
o promt and eifectual employment. In orde
N therefore, to make our military system elIe
Il tive, we should have particular regard ft
at the lesson, that to prevent or repel DANCE
Or We should have particular regard for Il
OF lesson, that to prevent or repel danger, OF
I'd State should always have we'll discipline
force, prepared to act with promptness an
Il. vigor on any emergency nor should We 10
'y get that it is impossible to tell how soon o,
ct warlike energies may again be required
es the field.
e. HOME RESOURCES AND HOME LABOR.
ut In nothing have our trials during the wa
on and the resulting triumph to our arms, be,
1d so full of compensation, as in the establis
ment of the proud fact that We are not on
nd able to defend ourselves against assault, b
to what is equally important, to depend up
nd and lice upon Our oaon resources. AT the til
nd the rebellion was precipitated upon US t
ar whole business and trade OF the nation W
ed paralyzed. Corn in the West was used
ed fuel, and the producer was compelled to 10
les not only the interest upon his capital, b
is. the very capital he had invested. Labor W
in excess, and men were everywhere scare
ing for employment Mills and iurnaG
lg- were abandoned. Domestic intercourse "
~, so trifiling that the stocks of o number
SITS most important railroads in the country
en- to, and long remained at, an average price
,es less than fifty per cent. But the nome
on danger to the Union became imminent, q
nal the necessity of self-reliance was plainly p
sented as the only means of securing prot
ION tion, and the gradual dispersion of our m
lot camille marine by the apprehension o.
of armed vessels of the rebels, the Amcric
The people began to practice upon the maxi
tn of selfdefence and self-dependence. FIR
lch having been, if not absolutely impoverish
or and almost without remunerative enterpri
ion depressed by unemployed labor and i
an capital, all their great material agencies W
ich brought into motion with promptitu
leir and kept in operation with rapidity q
ion regularity, which relieved them from wa