Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-10-11
ately occur in the year of legislative
suspension.
EDUCATION.

suspension.
EDUCATION.
1 congratulate you upon the mani
fest advancement the cause of Popu-
lar Education is making in our State.
There is growing interest in our
Public Schools, and the truth is gen.
orally acknowledged. that the educa-
ton of the people is an Indispensable
safeguard to the preservation of free
government. For the general diffu-
sion of education, reliance must be
had primarily, upon free Common
Schools. 1t is therefore of vital i'm
portance to the welfare of the State,
that the instruction afforded in these
schools should be of the highest char
acter attainable. 1t should, however,
be remembered, that system of edu-
cation which fails to embrace the
Academic and Collegiate methods and
opportunities, is incomplete, and must
languish. Where mental culture is
broadcast and deepest, there are the
fountains whence flow the best educa-
tional influences ever drawing up to
higher plane what is below. In
turn the Common School sends up its
select material to the higher inStitu.
tions. and thus the extremes of the
complete system reciprocally elevate
and sustain each other.
| commend to your vigilant care
the interests of all our institutions of
education.
Experiment in all the States fore
most in the cause of education. has
proved the great value of the Normal
School, in training teachers for the
Common Schools. Good teachers are
indispensable, and the Normal School
is the best inStrumentality which can
be employed, to secure the needed
supply. | venture to suggest that
the time has como for the adoption
in this State, of more settled and
efectual policy on this subject.
For information relative to the
practical working of the plan now in
operation, its obvious defects, and the
remedy therefor, refer you to the re,
port OF the Board of Education, and |
commend the suggestions therein set
forth to your earnest consideration.
While the plan referred to has not
been without beneficial results, yet 1t
manifestly falls far short of our need.
The State has not in any proper sense
a Normal School. 1t is for you care
fully to consider, whether the policy,
SO cautiously inauguratcd, should not
now be firmly established upon such
permanent basis as shall secure the
desired end.
1t is notorious, that no small pro-
portion of the children of the State
DO not attend any school. The re.
cognized duty Of the State to furnish
the means of education to all her chill
dren, implies the power to compel the
attendance of all. Ignorance is a
prolific source Of every form of social
/ disorder. The propriety Of the exer
else at this time Of your undoubted
power for its prevention, l submit tC
your careful consideration.
ATTACHMENT LAW.
| esteem it my duty to call your at
tention to the evils of our law of sum
mary attachment. They have Ions
been felt and acknowledged. A per
fectly solvent business man is liable
to q summary attachment Of all hi
property upon a claim which NAY
prove wholly groundless or even fcti
tious: his credit may be thereby seri
ously impaired, and perhaps his bust
ness broken up and destroyed. On
} the other hand if a debtor be reall,
, iusolvant, the first attaching credito
may absorb all his assets, leaving
without satisfaction or redress al
S other creditors, frequently comprisin!
6 widows and minors, who cannot exer
else the sharp diligence the law re
quires.
A law which not only permits bu
Q encourages the application Of all tn
Q property of an iuSolvent debtor to tn
: payment of one greedy creditor, t
= the exclusion of all others, is so mar
ifestly unjust, that comment is unneC
/ essary.
Entertaining these views, and bt
f lieving as | do, that this law is a pos
/ tive hindrance to business enterpris,
: which should receive every encourag,
;, ment,I respectfully recommend a car
5 full consideration of the subject. an
that the law be essentially modi6et
e and stripped of its harsh, and uniu:
o features.
n THE JATLS.