The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-15

tho writer. was willing that the matter
rnioht undergo calm, candid, and thorough |
discnssion in its columns. Not 6e'ns en-
lowed with the perspicacity OF the D.spa ,',
the Herald Of course did not perceive ,pa'
the article was "iudicrous." Wnether !.
" h,dicrous may be doubtful question.
The Ppr1ld has high respect for the Jug,
ment OF the Dispatch, but, not convinced o.
iIs intllibiity, 1t does really dount tnt
iud;cr onsness of the article. The DSpato"
NAV possibly belong to that class OF c.tlcs
WIN have such an aptitude for the "tuoi-
cr,,nsD that they see 1t where 1t does not
s.sist. The Herald will only add that on TIE
nnblic. school system much may be said' ana
nlansibIy said, on different sidess but argu.
ments on any side must be refuted II refuted
a. all, not by pronouncing them '<aadicrous .
or describing them by other disparaging
epithets, but by fair and logicsa replies.
RELsaces HERALD.
| The following Is the ~iudictmeut" 10
| which we referred. Let tue reader rcmem-
Der, whist reading 1t, that the Law thus ae-
uouuced SLOWS every man 10 send bis chh'
drcn 10 any school, Of any sort, public or pr
vate:
! ~In the great State N New York the law
far ertfnrced education, compelling attend
xnce at school Of al children between 1he
aces ef eight and fourteen, went into opera
ton ON the first Of Jaauary. Let us see DO"
a lsx-abidipc. Godfesring citizen, with coas
aren TO be educated, is placed 10 resaaoo
to it: .,;, r,;
~He may think, as the writer OF thas arr
c,e thinks. and has so acted, that boys unoei
to-, years of sre should be taught only VIVA
tbev NAV learn at home as pastlme ape
! Measure, and that their interests are pes
Consulted by light labor and abundant Sports
Inr exercise in the open air, that their frames
NAV he developed and strengthened, ara tbell
MUSCLES made hard, elastic, and frm. BIZ
the law laughs at such notions Of hygiene
. and compels the boys to the crouded rooms
Of the SchoG. .:,,,.;o, \
"He may Know that the constitution 0
, his child. from Inherited or induced disease
) is too weakly to stand the long and close coz
6nement of The public school, for the RUE
are and must be uniform; yet the chl'u, oe
spite the fsther's objection, or in the teeth
his positive prohibition. must go.
ale NAV know that his Guild has beer
outraged and insultcd by unmerited or un
Just discipline yet the boy must be Jorce(
10 90 back, without redress and without repa
ration, and bis manly sense OF honor crusneo
and his proud spirit forced into tame SUI
mission.
"He may know that views of politics ant
/ government are taught which offend bis coz
, vic,ions; and yet be must send his sons an'
olloac then, to be inoculated ,cih doctrine
fatal, in his opinion, to the liberties OF NJ
country.
f He may kno,o that the teacher is 'ncon'
! petent and unfit; that the pupils attend,n
are M.mannered. uulgor, corrupt; ana ina
his children ,oiU be Starved IN intellect
e ruined in manners, and debauched IN morals
+ get the poor boy and shrinking girl must 60
= "He may know that in the only Schoot &C
, cessble TO him, in all the protein form
which tiendi$h Ingenuity can suggest, doc
triues are insidiousIy inculcated which den.
the existence aud spurn the authority o
I God, and treat Christ as myth or lmPos
p tor. Yet he must send his fresh. pure So'
into an atmos phere all fetid with blasphem.
and ilreligiou, that be may learn TO insult nj
Creator and trample under foot the blood o
the Atonemept."
: [Our itaIics.l
: If the Herald published the above, know
ing the law to be as it is, then we are "cor
!, WINGED Of its falibility." Its idea as TO VIVA
} is temperate" differs from ours.