The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-05
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COLUMBIA DEMO oCRAT, VOL. XII, NO. IL

ready to vote it. IL had advanced to third
reading, believe, but ] had advocated the
superntendency, believed in it then, and
believe in it now. Before a convention OF
snperntendents in Harrisburg intentional.
ly took advantage. in an address made TO
them, to say that if the law pending in the
House and Senate both was ever passed,
there was power behind the throne which
would forever prevent il making a law.
resolved to veto il. and let them know it,
and the bill fell. The superintendent is one
of the most important auxiliaries to be found
in your school system. We have good su-
perintendents from our normal schools we
want them, and there is where we manuiac-
ture them. Why there is not better ma
chine, especially in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, than your normal school. We
make professors there. Although our good
professor there (Dr Griswod) is not from
Pennsylvania, yet he was manufactured in
an institution pretty much like that.
And what we want is prompt decision in
the second place. There is room there.
Remember that everything grand in our
schools is there, there. And we dedicate
this school to-day. Ashes few months
ago, there it stands to-day in its greatness.
Look out at i'll on yonder hill, green and
swelling Oh, you are happy in having
i
home! But above all and before all, mind,
immortal, beautiful, then beautiful objects,
nature, inspirting, strengthening (And.
now, then, | must stop but for a moment J
There is this in tive have our normal
school we dedicate it to-day; we have oar
common schools we have the children of
our Commonwealth invited to enter, max
ing men of them, and women too nothing
better in the world than a good wife, nothing
better than happy homeland, while ad.
vocate the equality of women and teachers.
| would say to-day in:this presence that the
proudest position woman can OCCUPY is
the mother and head of christian house
hold. sitting as queen ruling with the scep-
tire OF love, children her subjects bowing
down before her, her praise ever in their
mouths, and the praises of God, the worlds
governor, ever present on their lips. God
bless our homes, our American homes, and
our christian mothers and wives, queens of
all of us, and to which | and my young
friends upon this platform all bow in most
Now, then, there is tlis again In our
schools. Education in all its departments
educated men. Look out upon the world
day, the hundred years. If YOU will. of
American history See the progress we
have made in all the arts and sciencos-lit-
erature and learning everywhere, What a
wonderful, mighty movement within the cir
Gle of a hundred years American progress,
\ wild hOwling waste then, to-day a pa.
ton OF more than forty millions of people.
Cur schools, churches, monuments of indus
try, governments, everywhere built and
standing before the world to tell them to
look mt the work of frccmen aided by free
thought and free education. We asi; the
world to come. Free as air intro1ucfd. de-
vel"ped by education, and to be continued
by education now and forever We want to
make men-that is what we want; men of
character, men of courage, men of DESTINY.
men of enlarged knowledge, men who will
understand the book they read in, and will
be free by reading, and who will get hold of
the thought and the idea that will make men
Tree. Yes, we want an education that will
recognize man, we care not where horn
whether born slave with :, complexion
darker than mine he is Il man; let him be
iltted up, raised to heaven, if You viii let
all the world know that we, at least, under
stand what manhood means, that we, at
least, understand the idea involving true
manho"d. God give MS men. An age like
TINS demands men of strong minds, great
hearts, true faith and ready hands; men
that the lust OF power cannot kill, men that
the Hp"Il' OF oince cannot buy, men who
possess opinions and will, men who have
honor, men who will not lie--such are the
men we need, such the men America de
mands, such we are preparing in our schools;
and may the day soon come when all these
shall be inscribed upon the American char
acter, and corruption in high places un.
known; honesty and truth and the fear OF
God the grand traits Of the American citi-
cen and the American statesman. God bless
your school and the proceedings of this az
ternoon. Applause