The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-12-10

posterity blight and bury all such. While
great in their own estimation, without
any well-defined reason why, they origin
ate not, lead no path but the beaten
track, and never fail in ridicule, cheaE
cheap counsel, and structures upon the
advanced steps of their betters, often dis
couraging those who might be of some
service to the world Winkelried obscure
Swiss soldier, bows his breast to the ty
rants spear, thereby breaking the phalanz
OF the surrounding foe, and in his fall he
cries, Make way for liberty r. His com
RAIDS take up the cry, and with sturdy
hearts and untinching arms, make wide
the breach, the tyrants cohorts are driv-
en- back, panic succeeds defiance, a ma
ton in chains is rescued, and new
thoughts of liberty are implanted in the
world. All! here are thoughts that
breathe and words that burn. Behold
how great a matter little fire kindletn -
The song of Marsailles overthrew the
Bourbon Dynasty. And more: The
thought of Winkelried did not die with
its hero, but still lives How little had
the thoughts of human rights and OF
justice among men been cultivated be-
fore his age Kings claimed that coun-
tries and people were for their benefit,
and that they reigned by the grace OF
God. But in his fall absolutism began to
crumble. The thought grew, and en-
larged as a thrifty tree, the Tree of Lib
erty, and though often manned and cut
down by brute force, its roots were pene-
trating the crust of the inhabited globe,
and today her towering branches cover
an entire continent, and casts her pro-
tecting shadows over all the world
Magma Charta was the offspring of this
same thought, and after the lapse of ages
the the song was taken up by the hardy
mountaineers of New England, range
anew on the plains of Virginia, reverber-
ated far down among the Savannas.
We were then told that "all men are
created equal. The echo was heard
across the sea, and in the fermentation of
France we learned that the confines Of
oppression surrounded a smouldering
volcano. From the tops of the Cordil
leras. along the towering peaks of the
Andes the refrain is heard, echoing in
the vale and Spanish chains and the
Gallo yoke, as broken reeds, lie at the
feet of new born nations, Make way for
libertyP' Immortal words that can new
er die Monarchs are now often the
merest puppets, executive machines in
the hands of the constitutional law And
this cry shall go on, and on, until the
worshipers of the Ganges shall know
WhdG IL ID W Oo If00j 6u0 WdberS Ol Gue
Indus shall flow by the habitations of
freemen only, and the snow-clad peaks of
the Himalayas will no more cast their
shadows upon the hut of the slave.
Winkelried's thought was not of immor-
tality, but of freedom for his fatherland.
But why descant upon this one theme,
(however pleasing it may be), for the
world of thought is before us, and we
must not fail to remember, that bad
thoughts, as well as good, have 6ontribu-
ted of their abundance, to make up the
sum of the worlds history. A wrong
assumption may mislead for generations,
doing vast harm in time and carry in its
trains ruin and woe for eternity How
hard it is to eradicate old prejudices
And those most completely under it's
control are apt to consider themselves
the last of all its votaries. That the
world rested upon the back of some huge
monster, was the prevailing idea for many
generations and neither the learned
Ptolemies nor the polished Scipios had
the hardihood or means of dispelling the
illusion 1t maybe said that the desti-
nies of the world, for veal or woe, are in
the hands of its educators Loyald un-
derstood the import of this when he
said: "Give me the children to educate
till they are twelve years old, and 1 will
defy the world to proselyte them from
the tenets of Rome" How important,
then, is the mission of the teacher? So,
great is the responsibility that the work
should ever with thoughtfulness be en-
tered upon. The millions that the
American people expend, annually, for
the instruction of the rising generation
are not wrenched from them by taxation
for the purpose of main tanning in COM
parative d eness the indolents who con-
slider manual labor degrading; and every
principle of Justice demands that a fair
equivalent be rendered in improvement,
or the drones thrust out of the hive.
The place of the teacher, with its many
responsibilities, is not place of recrea-
ton, and if any have fully entered upon
the discharge of its onerous duties with
such cruel notions, the illusion was soon
dispelled by aching hearts and wearied
brain and tired frame. Let us remember
that Life is earnest, life is real, and
when we assume the responsibility, and
directing their thoughts in the channels
that they are almost sure to follow
through life, we ought to feel that the
task is a great one indeed, and that Di-
vine aid is required to assist us in the
right Excelsior" should be the motto
of every one, and let none be satisfied
with laurels that fade more easily than
they are obtained Hence, we must
work; and the time is not far distant
when teaching will be to all intents, a
unmixed with other callings,
not to be followed a portion of the year,
a makeshift, that ends may meet, but the
one honorable calling of nobler man
hood Then the drones will have to take
back seats, and only the efficient will be
allowed "to teach the young idea how to
shoot" The world has, in utter thought
lessness, misjudged those who were
termed zone idead men" To demon
strate this truth, we have only to look
back on the aggressors OF the beaten
paths in every age. l know that this
assertion will be regarded as an assump-
tion, and untenable, but fear not an in
vestigation. None but a prodigy or
monster-almost miracle with himself
can attain to pre-eminence in many
things. Homo opaiuS k6 was the dixit of
one of the world s most eminent divlnes.
LET the minister be a man of one book.
This is one idea that brings the great
reward, if not of that narrow, contracted
kind that excludes everything else, but
embraces great thought, one science, as
a life study, that the whole energries of
a great mind may be devoted thereto:
Won Moltke is pre-eminently one idead
man, and that idea is war A long lie
has been devoted to its study, and success
has not more brilliantly crowned anoth-
er. His expansive mind might have
found a field for eminence in some other
calling, but neither Wellington nor q
Napoleon could marshal or maneuver his
millions better than he. Luther was a
one idead man, with the great central
thought of rescuing christianity from the
thralldom of many ages of dark super
stition. The life work of Palaisey the
potter is well known, and Goodyear's