The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-06-18

ulSIdctih8 puDnc attention, or rather
arTaaing the people into strong fac,
tons, each secures support; but the
party is filed with weakening dissen-
sions which enable the enemy TO achieve
5 an easy victory and then laugh in theil
sleeves at Republican folly and self-des-
truction. Is it not time to imagine il
the cost of maintaining these two sheets
is not far more than the $40 paid as an
; nual subscriptions Il Should not the
community withdraw support from ono
or the other, or both7 Certainly if bui
one, if even one, is needed. This is g
matter that profoundly interests the
District. More than that, it concerns
the entire State. aHi o TTs1 r
Since writing the foregoing, the wri.
ter has with pleasure noticed the appar.
emily cordial unanimity of support SC
far rendered by these two dailies to the
action of the State convention in nomin-
ating Gen. X. B. Hayes for Governor, a
third time. But, judging from the past
there is good ground for profound
anxiety lest they will get by the ears
concerning some point in the manage
ment Of the campaign, and thus cause
such division and decentralization as
will blight the present brilliant promise
iof complete Republican victory, and
fulfill the weak expectation, on the part
of Democrats, of good triumph in the
next presidential campaign.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH OUR PUBLIC
/ SCHOOLS T
These peoples Colleges" have long
been our honor and pride No grander
scheme on earth could be devised, than
that the children of the State be edu-
Gated by its wealth flowing through
common fund. Even the the childless
have cheerfully paid the necessary tax,
because they regard popular ignorance
as one of the worse foes to individual
safety and prosperity. Only one restric-
ton has been demanded--that nothingI
of sectarian nature be admitted within
the school-room-which requirement is
but in accordance with the principles of
a government that has no established
church. Morality, however, is freely
inculcated as one of the fundamental
principles of Repuolicanism, as impor-
tant as patriotism itself.
But even so wise and benefcent q sys-
tenn of education has ever had and now
has, its uncompromising foes. In its
very nature it is the great leveler of dis
tinctions in birth and wealth, and the |
sworn enemy of aristocracy in any sense e
,ther than that of moral worth. It is c
llso naturally the answering opponent e
4 any religion that seeks to become es- a
in land of liberty, and it is il
hostile to that form of reli- Il
ion which keeps its followers in dark s
less and moral degradation in order the il
more easily to mould them to its cor q
upt use. 1t could not reasonably be
expected that the American system of Il
,ublic schools would be in accord with v
,ither aristocracy of birth or aristocracy n
# religious faith. Indeed, that it an a
agonizes these strong-holds of injustice C
nd moral poverty, is one of its stronger s
ecommends to public esteem.
Just now the foes of our noble schools o
re unusually active and determined. {
III along our advanced lines, is raging '
torn of shot and shell vomited forth in v
urid fame by every conceivable piece k
# ordnance, from petty, swapping, lay b
'op-gun, up to the ponderous, below l
ng, cardinal two-hundred-p FOUNDER. 1t s
8 not at all singular that a corrupt, con- c
piring, treacherous, unpatriotic system $
# religion, which taking advantage of I
'ur magnanimous welcome of the vic a
inns of persecution and tyranny from d
very nation and cline, mas insidionsly i
5ained strong foot-holds everywhere in {
'ur very midst, should now more openly Il
manifest its diabolical hatred of free r
Iom, and like the resuscitated serpent
ting the country which has nurtured it a
nto vitality and power. Perhaps the q
lation ought to cease to be surprised at c
ny plunge into cowardly infamy that \
he fallen American Democracy may !
make, but the people have not wholly ]
ost confidence in its loud protestations d
# patriotism and integrity; and yet it Il
would seem that no farther evidence of {
Is violence and worthlessness is needed, o
han its present shameful, unholy, coal n
ton with this stupenduous system of 3
hypocrisy and fraud. It IL t
,e dark and sad day in our republic
yhen this unpatriotie and nngodly un- Q
ON succeeds, and it is to be hoped that {
IL Lovers of their country and of moral e
ty, and OF pure religion, laying for the
present every minor difference aside, Z
viii labor as never before for the tri- 7
lmph Of the truth and the right. I'll t
his bold attempt at union of church q
md State be not promptly met and sig
ally defeated, the nation will soon be g
n the midst Of a civil war eontrasted I
With which the late bloody and destruc- a