The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-17
D01,u PiaH on the Message.

Having disposed Of our material prosper
ay in his message as he has in his admin
istration, in rather brief manner, he
next proceeds TO discuss our common
school system. His Excellency has our
common school system very much at heart
lie obtained through that crowning glory
of our enlig ghtened and ever free people
such cuisure he is enabled by it to grasp
at and grapple with the deep philosophical
truths that lie at the foundation of our
amazing system of self government; from
j. lie obtained such mastery OF the
English language, speaking and writing
with such ciearness and force, that he
cherished the common schools as I've does
his infant son Fred, and all his brothers
in-law and other legal and Illegal eonnec-
tons. He seeks to exalt, 70 magnify, ''tO
hoop up" as bad little boys say, with
more force than elegance, the common
school system. Touch the common school
system and you toe ch the most susceptible
part of His EXcellency.
And this anxiety does not come any too
soon. Some evil disposed persons might
say with ru6e Sueers, ''Since when has his
excellency felt moved to such concern
auent the colleges of the people 2'' Had
his excelency confined this anxiety in his
executive bosom a year longer he might
have been gathered to his fathers-sup-
posing that his fathers could be found -
without pensive public knowing hat vol
canic fires we've slumberiug i'll his patriotic
person.
We can well imagine that when in youth
the government gave him sueh scholarly
learning at West Point he broodcd, at Ben
ny Havens' aud elsewhere, over the beau
ties and excellence of the common schools.
Subsequently, when engaged in the honest
pursuit OF hauling cor,i-wood into St.
Louis, can beieye that, seated OH such
measured fuel, he said to his soul, Com
mon schools, they must be maintained if
lose fifty cents on this load And then
when he retired to the gubboat while Sher-
man, solitary and alone, SWING our eagles
through the smoke of battle in triumph
above the bloody field of Shiloh, he retired
to brood over the perilous condition Of our
common schools.
The common schools called for no end
of brooding, and this intellectual pursuit
would have continued until to day but for
the learned and pious o. p. Morton, who,
realizing the peril to the common schools,
and the brooding condition of his superior
in Office, went up to the capitol. yea, verify,
into the library thereof, aud calling aloud
for ''Fox's Book of Martyrs, ''Popery Un-
veiled,' "The Confessions of an Escaped
Nun, ~ and other learned and pious works,
did study the same and make notes thereon.
part of his senatorial person would be a
christian statesman of great activity, did
then and there discover that the destruc-
ton of the common school system has been
fpretold in prophecy by Daniel, to he
wrought out by the Pope of Rome, said p.
at r. being clearly foreshadowed in the
Little Horn-of Daniel, that is in these days
to be upreared and thrust into the vitals Of
oui republic, being the common school sys-
TO thereof aud IN oh
to rip open and destroy the same. Com
municatiDg this startling discovery TO that
High Custodian of the Kings Conscience
The Rt. Rev. Maj. General John =. New
man, late of China, the two wended their
way to the executive palace and impaired
the dreful prophecy unto his Alcoholic
Majesty, who broke into perspiration and
much profanity at the fearful threateninrs
r from the Powers of Darkness. And it was
then and there resolved that the Little
Horn referred to by Dan, the prophet,
should, so to speak, be sawed of by mess
sage of warning and power to the threat>
ened, enlightened, and sanity children of
the republic.
One can imagine the alarm that will
spread throughout the land as this mes
sage of warning is read, especially in the
rural districts, whore the schoolmaster, in
a swallow-tail coat and under plug hat,
lects of his little school.
The fact is We feel some alarm ourselves
We are not subject to pancs. We have
heard lions, more or less intoxicated, roar
in our time. Bnt if the Little Horn of
Daniel should prove to be, as claimed by
Brothers Morton and Newman, the scarlet
! female at Rome, we shall be tempted to
suspend the publication of The Capitol,
sell our real estate, which consists of "A lot
/ III the cemetery, and emigrate to Colorado
or Alaska We always thought the Little
! Horn of Daniel referred 10 the little horns
! of the sample rooms and corner groceries.
and the conflict seemed confined to the
/ great Michigandsr, Zachariah, aud other
! statesman of that sort, so we were not un-
! easy. But what in the Old Scratch will
/ become of us if the Pope should prove to
! be the little horn and gore into our com
! mon school system, as our scholarly, pious
/ and really good President warns us p
! Washington CAPITOL