The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1870-04-01
ANOTHER NAVE TOWARDS
GENERALIZATION.

We copy the following from the
Nashville Union and american:
"Mr IIoar, n Massachusetts Representa-
tive in Congress, has introduced bill in the
House, providing for , Federal system of
Education and the hill has been referred to
the Committee on Education and Lnbor.-
1t provides for the appointment, by the Presi-
dent, OF three State superintendent fer each
State, who shall have control of the educa-
tionnl interest of the State. The State is to
be divided into as many divisions Ms it has
representative each division is to have II
division inspector, and each division is to be
divided into school districts. No books are
to he used or instruction given calculated
TO favor any religious sect nndahe expense
il TO be borne By the peOpe themselves ;.
district tax being laid f0v EDUCATIONAL
purposes.
Thus 1t is, remarks the Columbus Enquirer,
that the coils Of "the annconda," tia,
strangled the South, are now being tighten.
ed round every State in the Union. The
right to guarantee n republican form of
government" to the States is 10 be made
the warrant for taking from them, and from
their people, their system of cducation.-
Congress will by such measures, reduce the
States to the dignity and powers of counties
and the checks and balances that constituted
the beauty and harmony Of our old system
of government will be swept away"
How the poisonous worms squirm
under the righteous heel that seeks to
suppress their wicked venom!
decentralization (" and the "coils of
the anaconda p This is a new and
strange name for popular and liberal
education. A great and benign gov
eminent having made large donations
of lands and money to the States for
educational purposes, now proposing to
organize system of supcrintendency
so as to give efficiency to educational
interests, becomes, therefore, vicious
anaconda !!
Thank God for such snake if it be
a snake, and for such Capitalization.
If the people are to be hugyed TO death
and centralized, by giving to their chill
dren liberal, free education, impart-
ing to them the power to be respecta-
bic and noble men and women, looking
up to greatness, true nobility and to
God, instead of struggling in the dirt
and mire of Ignorance and vice, We
say to Uncle Sam. hug on, and hug
ever! Anacondaize as much as you
please and will. We like that kind of
centralizing. Lead us up to such
centre, at and around which intelli-
gence shall smile over the ruins of ig-
noranoe where the foundations of So
cial and national greatness Shalt be
built upon the rock of knowledge. Yes,
lead us up to that centre; and, when
we get there, we will build monu.
ment Of grateful hearts, to the honor
and fadeless memory of a government
that thus blesses its people.
Bit we know the cause Of the
Democratic snarl at this plan for the
peoples emancipation from ignorance.
1t is a death-blow at rcd-nosed Nasty
Democracy. That party's power dc.
ponds upon the ignorance of the
masses; SO that the aristocratic few
may govern the ignorant many. Ig-
norancc and slavery are bastard twins.
The kind of Capitalization which these
Democrats want is ignorance, we'll
meistened with. poor brandy and mean
whiskey. and their anaconda is the still
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