Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-12-09


this simple fact Sidney Smith draws
his strongest argument in favor of
female education, and when Gov. /
Slade, of VT, who became so deeply |
interested in education in the great |!
Western States, to which he sent so |
many brilliant and interesting COM
panies of lady teachers, was met nv |
the objection that the smart, enter |
prising young men of the West would |
not permit such young women to re-
main long in the work of teaching"
the instant reply, l well remember,
of the noble Governor was. THAT it
is one of my hestarguments for send
ing them, for there is not one among
them all, who rs wife and mother
will fail to leave the impress OF her
heart and mind upon those growing
States.
What our whole country needs is
the refining influence of educated,
christian women and men. And
when we consider the influence of
woman. whether over women or men,
for veal or for woe, who can overes
innate the Importance of female ell
ucation, and especially in country
like ours? Good and noble women,
and full many with the dew of life's
morning sparkling like jewels in a
diadem richer than princes wear, have,
in all ages of the world, moulded the
lives of our best and noblest men.
We honor them and bow at their
knee, But blot from existence the
school and the church, Danish the Ii
brary, and all the fostering influences
of christian houses-we breed only
vipers.
"vipers who creep, where man disdains
to climb;
And, having wound their noisome fet-
IerS round
The pillars of our Capital of State,
Hang, kissing, at the nobler man be-
low ~
When we compare the statistics of
illiteracy and crime with the same
statistics gathered from other coun-
tries. we can but admire the sagacity
of a people who decided at so early Il
day that the permanence Of truly
democratic and free institutions rests,
necessarily, upon the intelligence of
the people-in other words, that
where the people are to govern, the
people must be educated. Separate
from this a Government by the peo-
pie might fail to be a Government. FOR
the people. Penn, Washington, JEFF
ferson, as well rs the stern old Puri-
tans of New England-all insisted
upon the education of the people ut
the public expense. No proposition
can be more strange than that State
is bound TO punish its subjects Tor
not knowing their duty, and at the
same time take no steps to let them
know what that duty is. In q re
cent speech in Georgia. Alex. H.
Stephens insists upon Il knowledge OF
organic law, both State and National,
as absolutely necessary TO constitute
a voter sufficiently intelligent, and in
/ South Carolina such knowledge is
a necessary part, as required by law,
of primary school education. In the
State of New York n library is placed
in every district school. Certainly.
| if as Kossuth well observed, the time
has come when even bayonets should
think-it becomes every American
citizen to think-otherwise though
all the stars of the armament should
blaze on the glory which we look
upon as the emblem of our glory as
Il nation, "why, it appears no other
thing to me than foul and pestilent
congregation of vapOnrs!
In no other country on earth, how
ever, are there so many free schools,
and such a sense of personal respon-
sibilitv on the part of every citizen,
and such ceaseless vigilance. This
is the price of our liberty. Our'very
4 life AS a nation, and we are proud OF
this-is nursed in one hundred and
forty one thousand schools, in which
we have more than seven millions OF
pupils in attendance! To support
these schools we paid in 1870 ninety
five millions of dollars, of which six
ty-four millions were raised by taxa
ton, against less than two mil
lions raised by taxation in Eng
land; and yet, perhaps, there
is no feeling so general as ina
we are not, after all, doing but
share of the noble work which Goo
in his amazing providence, has com
mitted to our hands. New hope
however. inspires us as we look Tor
ward to the future, and, with lncreas
;no faith in human nature and II
, Cod ON which our Democratic instl
, tutions rest, it is our privilege to re
ioice in the noble mission and prom
. ise of a free school, free church
and free press aud library. Th'
/, precious legacy of our forefathers
, who moulded this nation and made !
+ what it is, and whose spirit, descend
ed to us, teaches us this greatest les
SON of the age, and bids us go on Il
, this noble work so nobiy begun.
And now. young ladies, perml
: me to congratulate you upon TINS
f your noble undertaking, and expires
\ the hope that your present success
e may prove only the earnest oi trl s
: umph over every obstacle in the iu
ture. With higher aims and nooie
. purposes in the establishment oil thl
{ Literary Association in connectiol
with your school, there is no goo'
!, citizen who does not rejoice IN you
), efforts. AS l gaze upon you, | can
n not but exclaim:
n "How beautiful is youth! how bright
II CLEANS
= With its illusions, aspirations, dreams
: Book of Beginnings, Story without Enc
4 Each maid heroine, and each one
friendi
/ Aladdin's Lamp, and Fortunatus' Purs'
d rrh,, holds tho treasures of the universe