The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-11
How our Peculiar Form OF Govern.
eminent Requires la Youth 10
DO Educated.
IlO ElIt0fl or The IntolllGonceF

BIO Educated.
TO tho Editon ofthe lntelllEenceE
No patriotic citizen can stand indIi-
ferent to this subject now. lie sees his
government, though 30 young, already
hardly second 10 any OIL earth, In pow.
or, wealth and national Importance and
influence. lie sees Its structure Ia
unique, and antaHolisLic In form and
principles to the other great powers.
He must see that what Il achieves It
has got to do for Itself, not only WIthS
out the aid or sympathy, but In spite Of
the active opposition OF the other great
powers, united IN "Holy allanceh 10
perpetaate their dynaHiiea In the old
World. He sees It an experiment here
totore tried but TO fall. The governed
being at the same time the governors,
or BoverelgnB az we call them; the peO-
pie themselves holding the supreme
power and enactlug and administering
tue laws, through agents whom they
appoint, and whose guide, or power OF
attorney, are the Constitutions,
In view Of these facts, no one can
help feeling how Important Il 10 that
the coming voters, who are 10 be the
soverelgnB, should be properly trained
and educated. The history OF the race
points uB to the kind Of men that make
the best rulera. They are those who are
most normally and harmonIously de.
veloped, phySically, morally lnteliectu.
ally and reliGiously, with their animal
natures subjected TO their higher facuI.
ties. To be MmaSter Of themselvesr Is
an indispensable requisite to good rul-
erB,
No one, I think, will say II Is not de.
Blrable that our voters should attain to
this standard, while every one Will
concede that the continuance and safety
OF the despoti6ms OF the Old World
would not admit Of It at all. These re.
qulre their subjects To be 30 ed ucated,
trained and moulded as 10 make obe.
dlent and submissive subjects, or their
despotlsms would cease. Hence It Is
seen that the two forms OF government
require entirely different modes Of
training and education. Indeed, our
coming soverelgnB should be trained
and educated In the mode Napoleon
and Alexander are training and edu-
eating their sons, who are expected 60
succeed them-0nly not OF course In 30
high, broad and varied culture-but aB
far as they do 90, the training and edu.
cation OF our youth should be the same,
to the end they may be wise leRIa.
latorB, and at the same time nbadient
10 the laws they help 70 make, "A good
ruler is generally an obeyer OF the laws.
Now, In order to thus train and edu-
cate our youth, they should be taught
what I .unheAitatInRly say: the
truth on Az subjects, which every human
soul. before It becomes perverted,
naturally loves and grows and thrIyes
upon. This is Rs necessary TO O healthy
normal growth and development Of our
moral, intelleotualand religious nature
AZ good nourtshtng food, pure water
and abr are to our physical, The infant
mind, before Il has become perverted,
has q natural love fortFuth, and innate
desire to find out the nature, cause and
reason OF thlugs. First, BY Its TASTE,
awakened at the mothers breast, 1t
tries all things BY putting them 10 lis
mouth; then, touch by the hand, with
which It clutches hold Of everything
coming within lis reach. Hand il a
rattle and show II how, and with how
much glse It will make It fly FOR a
short time, when It stops and begins 10
examine for the cause that makes II
rattle; open the rattle aud show the
cause, and what o 10y beams from lie
little face Then It soon throws Il
down aud cries for something new, for
Its Instinct tells IL there 10 no time to be
!ost, as It has everything to learn.
How soon and how readily the smile Of
the mother awakena angelic smiles on
its dimpling cheek. It seems to laugh
all mr. nj ~
Now this 10 humanity as It comes to
us from Gods hand. And Is It any
wonder Jesus 80 loved little children,
and selected them 30 often to typify
the Kingdom he came TO establish. No
one need say there Ia not In these little
ones, what may be trained and educa.
ted into noble manhood and woman.
hood. It Ia the errors In the culture
they receive, that produces the abnor.
mities we witness. AS the twig Ia
bent the trees lncllned.' A few early
touches servo 10 give, shape and direc.
tion 10 q whole after, character. The
early training Of American SovereIgns
belongs prominently, to woman. Is
there any higher duty or right for a
true woman 70 aspire .aiter2 Truth,
which Ia Gods law, Ia always simple
and harmonious, and readily adjusts
itself to the comprehension and love Of
the pure In heart,' though a mere
child; and feeds and nourishea both
mind and heart, and makes them grow
In sounduess and strength, and will
produce such youth as are required TO
be the sovereigns In our Government,
But II we Wish to educate and train
them to become obedient and submis-
slve subjects of despotic ruler, we
should feed their intellectual and moral
natures on JdlSehood and whatever is
awe-inspiring, in order to stunt and
deform both, and employ q large corps
OF priests or ministers to cram their
minds with Westminster catechisns,
Athanaslum creeda and confessions OF
faith, and absurd and lncomprehensI-
BILE dogmas geuerally-thefeby making
them bewlldered tools and things In
the hends OF subsidized priesthood
and submissive subjects to q tyranE's
yoke, who may be said 70 otOn them
and whose right 90 to do, they have
been taught so 10 believe, Ia dipine,
But totally different 1t is under our
Government, which the people them
selves own, and In which they alone
are soverslgus.
The history Of the order OF men, de.
nominated the Priesthood that have
from the earliest times arrogated 10
themselves the care Of souls Is proba.
bly, the darkest the world furnishes,
The Priest OF Isis, as described by Bul.
wer, may be taken as a not unfair ex-
ample. Truth 10 what our people 70.
qulre, and each citizen including the
growing child, may well exclaim In
the Language OF the Greclan combatant,
while involved In unnatural clouds
and darkness
"Dispel thiSoloud. the light OF Heaven restore,
Give me TO AEE, and AJAX asks no more"
Very Respectfully, G.P.