Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-03-23
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 ing, lod lol with bo forobo1 1lngs
 uapn eoniH ercutsy iniA Agine thI1f Kit
 fuTscowls or darkness aM blackness
 hang over our future. Having lost our place in the so-called Federal Union. and been reduced te a Teritervs-or q Military sProfince tve flaney tlts eter of tcsalitlesAh yihss gtn dcNir; ;t | iffst lMb'
 more. Rat is=it the part of noble, val irat fsultfrF mep d2d women, thus to yleld to temporary adverses? Is it the part or Tfuc pafriofism to fold our arms
 and sadly and sglpomily brood over the ,pishansi that wapow 'canthclp? There lis d bettcr,and brighton day in, the fu-
 iure,s that ere long. will loom up with sa glorious flood of light that will break
 upon us like PAhI44As from thsSbrain of tJnp 5eraifWo, will but act our part no-
 ply and promptly. We. .ehave borne much, NC iean rhenr ntuch'n ore. Ne
 have lost our property, lost our plaSe {, m a nrstiengvnce' great sand rcspcated, ,lost all butWhst natnreis'G G od has giy. ] Qn us,sani iyet.weiarei.d.idh if we will but properly employ the resources now twithin our hai,Ave have minds, we { hayea soil, we lhave ambition, we have and letms put them forth aud
 resolve, that ''sink or swim, ,live or die,
 survive or perish" we whl,E men,. do our part, or nobly fall ir the attempt 1 10 accomplish the endI And the ,6rst
 great duty thatwc..ssnwc to Ourselves, sianh thQse' that ai,esto como after us,g is ltoedalqate ant train the youths of f,our people. This we can do, this We ouehl
 to do, andiif we failt do tIiis, weyare
 unworthy the mama of true patriots, ;unWqrthy to be called the sons of the aoble sifes that first achi hiered the free, pdom nnd indep ptridencc that we're once
 ours. .sIsSar Hlil a, ,.stfa | Enlightened minds and ertaoxs
 inanileisfcan mev6is beNlong enslaved," isiatrliismiT Portiens of the Caucasiah 4er Angfe~Saxon race, in different parts of the world,-have been overpowercd
 for q time, isW. like ltlfe siiidulderinr elebfissof tho volcano, that is upheayod i by internal heat, they will3rise ,lgaihfin 9newness of fifeiand vigora Mind isdlic itrno Ineasnres of man it is the great lever power that moycsuthe world; it is the tnue alehymy ahatseranforms all iit touches ;- bSis t1otllike iir it's ipoten- cy; ;and it is this grslssnolNfag gent that we are neglcctihsto educate and deve4r { op;5 Il sfs tllis ilresistablc lirinhan aeeff- ! ie!ofhas we are losing sight Of. Strange. If auehtean seem strange, that we will Eremain So incotfigibls stupid to our own best iiatcrest,s by suffering our boys 4apd girls Q grow up toamaifllood and Momaphood, uneduea ed sor, atleast, so ] simperfcctly educated, and vet lsucli Is l, the, shamcfu! fact. Ne know our duty,
 and do it not we wilfully peryert our
 means and energies we would con idemn such folly..and wickcdncss in any
 other people H'c can see the moat that tisin their eyes, but fail to find thc beam in our own.i Hut some one will say,
 Iou have said and written enough o,l the subject of education, and why don't YOU fellows tlo sometling?" We an- i swer, wAydonlt YOU, like mon, do some
 thing ? Why don'tyou talk, or act ot write in favor of 2, cause VOL dare not
 gainsay ?.r, ,,.. .t...... is4 s'i
 Many men will spend mopey enough
 at card tables, and in saloons, in one
 year, to Build up school houses, and ed
 ncatelall tho ihdieent children in the
 country; and ask men, to subscribe something fora school house, and they
 will scarcely deign to talk to you- i,evenianswcr you waggishly and un- ecouthly! Suclimcn as these are ready
 to say that they don't like to see.so ma $ny pieces in thc papers about schools and cducation.a aTo such, in all kind
 siess wewoufd say, that if they contin- fncstoread the papers, they will from
 time to, time, see something Oh this sub { ject, for wc. regard it as the most i'm
 portant, as wek as essential topic, that
 ovrr fndsia place ana newspaper, and
 edueatiohiis afavorite theme with pro-
 prietors and editors of newspapers.
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