Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25
A BROADER SYSTEM REQUIRED.

f; BROADER SYSTEM REQUIRED.
!, But we want system of broader education
Tor the American people in the al IS OF peace
IL Is perhaps unnecessary at present to multi
p. ply Institutions for the training of profes
: sIonal men, as those we have are equal t
: the task of furnishing all that are needed
and some g professional supernumeraries >
not SO much needed. The great want is a
) system by which each one among the masses
r may become more valuable to himself anG
r to society, aud more honored and esteemed.
agriculture aad the mechanic arts always
5 lack recruits, and most lack recruits that
t have been drilled Willing hands can here
) always find room for boundless enterprise.
Our own artisans, however, like too many
other Americans, most esteem the Dig
NIFTY OF pecuniary profits and are gener-
ally supposed to be more proud of swift work
than OF the sknliul ana dexterous They
wear out and leave too few honored ma mes
to gIld their memories and stamp their work
manshlp. Let them be taught better. Ag-
rIculture also should have such base OF
scientific instruction as will enable every far
mer to obtain more valuable crops without
an annual and permanent depletion of the
soil. La Great BrIta they have GER
taInly studied agricultural econ omy by scien-
tihc me:hods longer and more profoundly
shan we have ever been prompted to do in
! America, and yet they had 10 1871 four
million fewer sheep than in 1868, and in
1871 the number OF cattle fewer by
| seventy thousand than In 1870. In 1872
the general outcry there as to the increased
cost OF butchers meat has been fearful Our
condition as TO sheep and cattle is not who'll
ly dsslmilar, and was temporarily rather
worse, when the slaughter pens OF the recent
war made such notable havoc of American
stock, and from which we but slowly re-
| covering.
diminished stock, from which must be
led an increasing population, is a calamity
to be avoided by any nation, tor the shrink
| age IN stock will be followed by an equal
shrlnkage Of crops This is point that
should be looked after, and before we have
| squandered all the ma tural fertility of our
sJl.
EQUALITY OF ExDownESrs.
The former act of Congress made distri-
button OF lands on the basis of the number of
presidential electors for each State, or the
Lumber OF Representatives aud Senators of
each State Ins was an approx imation to
tnat ratio OF population made at the earliest
tune posslbl alter the taking Of the census.
butstili only an apprO xImatIou, and destitute
OF absolute accuracy.
lne present bill proposes an equal State
distribution, or to complete the endowment
oI one college IN each State.
The paramount OGJecC Is 10 place higher
and more appropriate education within Reach
Ot ali the pJJr a. well as tue rich, without
regard 70 ancestry or race, and Of that sort
which VIII engenler perpetual appetite for
more. For TINS purpose IT we rely only
upon the lew college,, ever So well estab-
isued as private corporations, they will be too
much crowded, or iaII to excite general sym
Pathy, or be hampered by an antiquated
a rtIf Il g.
tessIOnaI advancement, dni the cost will be
made TO many unbearabls burden; but
let them be well iOundsd 10 every Safe by
national and, and then local pride VIII be
aroused 70 nurse and guard their prosperity |
aud the expense Ot a liberal education will be
made 50 moderate that no Oae will bs
excluded VINO has strength Of natural parts
and sufficient ambition 10 20 and knock at
tie doors.
COLLEGE STUDENTS oBLITERATE STATE LINES.
An examination Of the catalogues OF all
we'll established institutions of learning will
show their cosmopolitan character, and
Justify the argument for equal favor in be- |
half Of the national colleges At Harvard Uni |
versity the number OF undergraduates in
lS7l-72 was GIG, and 2ll of these hail from
twenty-three other States. More than half |
ot the l34 law students, or : /, came from |
twenty-five other States. la the Kentucky |
University, nearly halt, or 206 out Of SO |
udeuts came from twenty-tour States aud |
two Territories. AT y lie College, in 1871 !
-, the catalogue shows that out OF 52I /
academIcal students, 81 came from twenty |
four other States, or over 20 per cent, in |
clndlng from beyond the sea-leaving only |
III with their homes at present IN Connec- |
ticut Ot 90 theological students, only II |
are from Connecticut, while 50 are account
ed for elsewhere At Dartmouth, in 1870 /
II, there were 437 students, and only loo of i
these came from New Hampshire, and all the
rest were from nineteen other States and
foreign countries.
EVERY STATE AMERICAN.
The only obstacle that ever existed to the
Welding together of all parts of our common
country was slavery, and that having b~en
removed, we snail soon develope our character
az a nation Any incoherency cannot be per-
manent. Grouped we have been, and as
we shall be, our future destiny is assimilation
of the leading features which give tone and
character to the several States. The records
show that the blood of one State is no stranger
in any OF her. War itself has brought us nearer
toge ther, pounded US into cohesion, and com
PEELED better acq uain tance- War is IN
some sense magnetic, and when the struggle
is over it no longer repels, but attracts.
Some virtues as well vices must be and
are recprocally admitted. All the States
are locked arm IN arm. One cannot be ben
Gifted without cOntering benefits upon all.
Nor can one be injured without giving pain
to all. The nation is equally Interested in
the advancement of all OF its children. Their
good name is the common property OF all
Under these circumstances it is OF great i'm
portance that the colleges aided and to be
aided by the Government shall be of equal
ga pacitv and of equal scOpe and character
VIgor and health and equal favor must be
secured to all.
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
No nation ever held so rich and vast an
estate in lands as has been and now is held
by the United States, and nowhere have been
found lands of equal fertility, with such
diversity Of soil aud climate, to be disposed
OF so cheaply, selling in the morning of our
history at merely nominal price; at noon
doubled in value by divisions, halt-and-half, {
with railroads at evening made free to all
actual ttIers, end at all times ungrudgingly {
set apart + 4 the endowment of schools aud I
for soldiers bountles. lhe policy pursued, I
though sometimes pushed rather Impetuous- {
Iv, on the whole has largely Contributed to a
the advancement OF the country, and Is fair {
ly entitled to be set down as enlightened {
But the public domain has been clipped $
Of it's magnificent proportions; 1t is no long q
er iIlimItable; It's grand and oenefcent IN /
fueuces IN the coming aye will be brought j
TO an end md, ar It's bulk dlmlnshes, it's g
value. like the remainder Of the sibylline /
books. is to be more highly priced. When q
hose who come alter shall review i
The dispos tion which shall have been made '
If what may be called the continental re- j
sources of the better half OF the New World d
am pe suaded that no part of our policy v