The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-03-08

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" acknowleh .ing aud trusting in them
The people must meet the question aud solve
it aud no Pope or K nperor to do II TO them
/ Oursi'le Of the inherent aptitude ut our p o
pie for popular government, we have hul
1iiis one trusty weapon with which 10 de
| fend ourst Ives against threads Ct the barba
| ans of disorder and lawlfssness tilht Mac
/ auay's future is to bring upon Use luca-
tion. For Imperial Body Guard and Prince
Regent, mounted Police. we would substi'
ttlte the s hool teacher and the school nise,
| so that Wien the test comes we Shall surely
find some better way out than Cesarisn or
anarchy. 10 the qualities of our public
teacher would we have a very close scrutiny,
20 that the more advanced aud Intelligent
desires of the community shall at al! times
call 10 the high trust, not men saturated
aud benumbed with tie errors and preju-
| 'lices that grow rank about them, but rather
these who stand III higher grounds an who
| may look down upon the clouds OF error ami
| darkness that drift at their feet. We WOuld
/ have the teacher no. a reflex ct that which
| Is About him SO much as Of that which i
q 'Ove hi,n-the leader rather than the repre-
sentative. Such. may do much to save II in
| hours Of trial from deinagogues and the
| forces of evil in society.
| Ii Is not alone the education OF the man
who carries his tin pail with his dinner as he
goes - his work chat Is to save tis. though,
perhaps, here we la,lst work most diligently,
since the blessing, not the curse, Of sin the
sweat Of thy brow shalt thna eat bread"
| falls upon the ruling mai ,rity with us at
least, but it is the education Of those born
| with few more extra yards OF broadcloth,
or right OF good fortune to more leisure
| hours from getting Bread and who as things
go, silently mould public opinion or are sent
| 10 make laws for us. Practical men of the
world nave very just aud epigrammatic
| way OF assigning to tile average college grail
aate his proper pin hole In the worlds econ
amy, unti! he shall have ui;learncd about all
! that he has acquired; the poor fellow thinks
that his Greek and Latin classics are to make
way i'll the world for him, but he fluids them
| alas almost useless; Inc knows literally
nothing Of the laws Of trade and finance, or
Ut Government and those civil liberties to
which he has birthriylit, aud SO far as he
| now stands in the world, is not as good Il
citizen as tie man with tin pail. who
KNOWS nothing beyond his new paper, ii
even this, and his daily struggle for fool.
For the Que las the practical experiences Of
MS life aud work. and the other that little
knowledge ut Solomun's, that is a dangerous
thing, and which is so aptsto binl MIN To
the real fact chat he has no knowledge WORT,
having at all
Education with us at least should have
one very essential objective point, not oni
reverence for free government but know
ledge of tue laws Til it govern men, aud of
tile great aud tixed principles that liz aG tine
foundation Of our civil liberties Il ID our pop
iiar government, and of the virtues that
aust of necessity predomiiato in order that
free government may be preserved, and
among which VIRTUES we count t.iaC Ct self
restraint Us perhaps the most portant AMI
in constant working. The wurknglnan aud
the inan of property, that Ia capital and la
Dor, edticate.i, conprcIieuditig the principles
of free government, realizing the necessity |
Ut self-rrstraint aud forbearance. The on,
desiring tlle supremacy nf law, and order.
and vested rights, aud public faith, not o,ily /
Dec use these tnlilg~sare just aud good. bu.
Oecali5e he, .n.orrow, may u,r!er some for
innate stroke, o. as result of long etf,rC eX |
change his tin pail for lands, and houses.
and bonds, while the other Il ready possess
ins tllese Things is already conser7atol,
VIII at all times be found united in preserv-
Ing society aud free government. Any per
lnanent hostility between capital and labor
under free gov -filnieiit Is ialpo>siDle, slilce
capital say, .'l,! this ,I,an shall eat
b ack bread and That man shall drink cii,a,n-
pa!lt, or the contrary, but ntn say, Il
>tlalf nave that VII Gil earn and little cialce
of getting more. aud you cannot m Ike laws
10 rob m. nf This or to give me Chat to which
1 nave nc right, with any prospect of my
getting it.ss
PossiDly we may not find 4 better reason
for the survival Vt Republican government
,kIIipny lis than thlS. Oar evil liberties are |
Anglo Saxon civil liberties. and our popular |
government is Il natural outgrowth OF the
AngI0-SaXon character. We are not Il
French Republic with its Liberty, Frater |
nifty, Equality" and the Guillotine, aud our |
evil lib roy is distinctly different om thai
of the French and Celtic. Our American
Constitution has not sprung up In night |
and ami exhibitions Of passion, but is the
out2rowtii OF generations Of sturdy struggle
AMI come To us with !, share of those ideas |
OF civil liberty. poured into England through
Saxon, Norman. and Dane; no mean sotir
ces Certainly from which to draw love of il0-
erty and the courage to defend il. TIC !
spleEdors of Imperialism or Of any arbitrary |
power, nave never compensated the Anglo
Saxon for loss Of liberty. Pope, King, and
Parliament have male numerous t,nsuccess- |
FIJI efforts to abridge aud utterly destroy |
those liberties in suppression of trial by |
Jury, and arbitrary arrests. and punishment |
without trial. and denial Of right to particl- |
pate In the government, and suppression OF
free speech, and abeas corpus, all OF which |
the Anglo-SaXOn i'll a determined way re- |
siste |, and spoke boldly against in Magma
Charter and British Bill of Rights and Con- |
ventions, and more yiIeIy Ia Reform Bills;
and OH this side the Mantle in Declaration
of Independence and constitution of these
United States. These liberties are not So
rloisly nlenaccd to-day, and it is well some |
times in our comfortable possession OF alt
fact and with some sense of gratitude.
II nations religious faith has anything
to do with its destiny, we may certainly
draw highest ai,g,iry al good for the Nations
of the Anglo-Saxoil race. The dictum OF
Pope or Synod always has been and al
ways will be utterly fatal to a high degree OF
civil liberty and to pnpuiar government.
Religious authority Is only another ranie Tor
the rule OF fanatlcisn, whether it bs Mo
hammcd, the Pope, or the Syund, aud SO VI,
fad in all time tile AnI H. Saxon ever work
ing in 0 position such authority. until in
America he has government. civil and politi
cal, utterly and completely unf.ttered frou,
government ca,lnlicai or priestly. Fllt spiri'
If Roman Catholicism j. quite destructive
Co liberty as is that of AiDfranrle,laui3 ii
The An.lp-Saxon, with the Koran. wnuIl
be onlya Norti. of E .rope rurk with priest
aud Pope, but Il ni-ocatrd Spa lard. N ,itller
Crescent nor Cross Is its symbol 1t has a
watciword Liberty. For VIVA. of religion.
faith it has, it ia content to draw its ilsp III
tipns from a grand SQUIRE, rather than ac-
Ncept it at the hands of Pope Or Car. With
us all State rei .iolls AMI sccts, and sappres-
-ions nf conscience, and all Sta Coils a ~
,!enial5 Of Gs,d are not recognized rs coming
wit in the di,nain Of government Business.
and we .lenlan the right Of all men To wor
ship God not To .rsiip iIn) rtc IN III
uwn Way AMI us Conscience dictates. with Il
respo, sipility for his belief to NJ po Wer other
than that which his c.,u-cie,l.e creates; aud
Yet with all this federation. deep in tie c'lar-
acttr 1T the Amglo-Saxon race are the livin-
principles OF that sublime faith preached a
Jerusalem by the Messiah and by that light,
Jewish nation In utterinces that pant men
t the highest moral law and TO the hroa les
principles of civil liberty. rs spoken b
Christ and the great rabbi lllllrl when tile
pagan came tn Inn to be instructed in thu
VI ,saic law. Do not to othe"s what you do
not like others to do to yuu,' and also Is
finding utterance in the exalted reverence,
with which Jewish law hedged about TIL in
livid,al. II is not mere chance that the
Any!u-Saxon casts away his mythology and
ptis aside Rrnish finaliciSm, to turn to
Christianity and Ju iaisim, and to accept in