Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-05
ANOTHER STEP IN THE DEREC-
TI0N or CONTEMPLATION. \

ANOTH Err STEP IN THE DEREC-
TI0N OF CONTEMPLATION.
A bin was reported in the House of
Representatives the other day by MIR.
Hoar, of Massachusetts,, brother of the
Attorney General, in which it is declared
that education is Can object of uational
interest and concern" and his bill au-
thosizes the President to appoint in each
State SO State superintendent of national
schools, who shall! divide it into as many
subdivisions as the State has representa-
tiyes in Congress" And that ''the Sc
cretary of the Interior shall appoint
some suitable person to be local superin-
tendent of national schools in each school
district This would send to
each school district in the
Unitnd States, political drill sergeant,
and make each schoolhouse recruiting
Office. 1t would bring into the field po-
itical army of at least $4,000 plant
men, who prefer political drilling to ordi-
nary work in the field or shop. The bill
further provides, 'sThat such number of
schools shall be kept in each district as
the State superintendent shall direct.
f'That it shall be the duty of syery local
superintendent 10 select the place for the
schoolhouse within his district which he
shall purchase in the name of the United
States. Gin case no suitable place can
be obtained with the consent of the own
er, the division inspector may appropriate
a tract for such purpose" This pow
er of ''eminent domain" authoriz-
ing the government TO take lands
from the owners without their consent,
the author of the bill cannot find in the
constitution, but that appears to be OF
very little consequence. The bin further
provides ''That the school books to be
used in all national schools shall be such
as are prescribed by the said superinten-
dent under the direction of the Commits
sloner Of Education That the local su-
perintendent shall selec: and contract with
a teacher, or teachers, for the schools
within his district There is ample pro-
vision for securing the services of another
army of politicians to train the youthful
mind into conformity with the head of the
government, and especially as they are to
use only such school books as the head of
the establishment prescribes. This will
afford tempting opportunity for the
Helpers, the Greeleys, the Beechers and
the sanctimonious hypocrites who brawl
through the country, or make mockery
of religion in Congress, to supply the
school with books for political prosely-
ting for their own personal benefit. The
message of President Grant, communities
ting to Congress the fifteenth amendment
to the constitution, conclusively proves
that he is in favor of this unconstitutional
design upon the American children. The
bill contains this alarming provision,
"That direct tax of - millions OF
dollars is hereby laid upon the United
States respectively" as provided in the
act of 1866, under which every acre OF
land in the United States was ordered to
be taxed, and would have been if the ex
ecution of the law had not been post
poned, and finally repealed. The brieI sy-
nopsis we have given of this bill clearly
indicates the design of the Radical lead
ers upon the rising generation. Enbold-
ened by the success which attended the
efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau in in
sitting Radical ideas into the negroes, we
have here an effort to establish a man.
moth national school system in which
the children of the country shall be
brought up in the Radical faith. 1t is by
this means that these desperate political
gamblers seek to perpetuate their lease
upon power. How much further do we
have to so before it viii be safe to pro-
pose the establishment of an absolute
| despotism. - .. .