The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-23
The Science OF Government and orr
city schools.

The Science OF Government az
taught in our city schools has no pos
sible connection with party politics.
The treatise used is styled The First
Book of the Constitution, and was pre-
pared and Published by FuRNAN SHEr-
pAEp. ESQ, Of Philadelphia, more than
ten years ago. Ii is simply sort OF
adjunct to American History, and fun
nishes information concerning the form
of our national government, the mode
of legislation and the powers and du-
,ies of the three several branches-
legislative, executive and judicial. 1t
is an important part of the education
of every American boy or girl, and can
be omitted with no more propriety than
American History can lie banished from
our schools. It il taught in pub
lie schools all over the land, and
we have not learned that II has any
where been considered synonymous with
politics except in Wheeling Icy our
Radical contemporary. 1t isno more
allied to party politics than is
Cushing or JEFFERSON Manual,
one or the other OF which is usually
adopted for the government OF deliber,
alive bodies. The subjects treated OF
are those upon which all Americans,
without distinction Of party race,
color, or previous condition of scrvi-
tude," should he informed. The crus-
ade which is being made against 1t here
is, TO say he least of it, absurd.
If the study Of the form OF our gov
eminent. as taught in our city schools,
afforded to the teacher any opportunity
Of Installing partisan notions into the
minds of pupils, the Democrats Of the
city are the only persons who have any
right to object Ii is notorious that Of
the six principals in our city schools, all
but one are adherents OF the Radical
party The teachers who most warmly
commend SuEPrARDS First Book Of
the Constitution are Radicals, but they
know what the book contains, and the
editor of the Iatsliigencsr does not
And while speaking of school affairs,
it may be proper for Us to say that the
indispensable course OF study in our
city schools embraces merely the ordi-
nary English branches, American His
tory; and its adjunct, this Science of
Government which contains merely
an explanation of the form Of our gov
eminent and the duties of its several
branches, as set forth in the COustitu-
ton. We cannot see that this is bur
dening the pupils beyond what they can
bear without prejudice to their comfort
and health 1t is necessary, too, that
the course of study be made compul-
sorry, else pupils, TO CRAFTY their own
whims, would take one study this week
and, dropping the first, take another
next week, and So on until all system
was DESTROYED and the usefulness OF the
school seriously impaired OF course.
there must be exceptions to all general
rules, and so there are under al the
regulations of;our city schools. Where
any good reason exists for the eXemp-
ton OF pupil from pursuing any par
ticular branch of study, OF course the
Superintendent will permit such exemp
ton. The course pursued by the In
telIgcncer, however, in denouncing the
government of the city schools and
striving to break down the authority of
the Superintendent, is destructive OF
the efficiency of the school system. !
While striving TO fix upon the Demo /
Gratis charge of hostility 10 public .
schools, the Intcligcncer is ever ready ,
TO sieze any opportunity to intlict injury .
upon the free schools in this CITY.
The editor of the Maryville (Tennes-
see) Republican is a colored man, but
not much inclined to follow the malig-
nant teachings OF scslawag Radicalism.
He says: Let us not stop TO unearth