The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-18

NV Books Gotisboro Messenger
earns thai Daniel X. Gooil,c / about
0 issue a $50 page History OF Recon
.rructIon, which will raise the curtain
upou a good deal of official rascAiity.
Prof. Royal, Of Wake Forest, Is
aid to be preparing a work on Moral
sciepce.-"Hou. John Manning and
!. b. Henderson, Esq, member OF the
ode commission, with their clerks,
Nessr. John \. Manning aud ".
.3lackmer. are at the Beobow House,
greensboro. engaged in lndexing the
ode. Mr.. Dortch i In New FORK 81
peryising the printing. IL will take a
month or more 10 perfect the index.
Turing which time Greensboro will be
headquarters for the commission. -
We have received from Col. John ,.
Long, Of Newborn, copy of his recent
.ddress at Pautego. He Is undoub eddy
me of the most eloquent men with the
very i, said t. equal his rhetoric. Hl>
address 10 the knights at a Touruanent
Pampilco some years ago " : a gem
Ne hal give extracts from a HdntHs-
TIM Star edit" "a follows
An address delivered before Pantegu
lLstitu c. on the l5tn al June last. by
,lr. John ). Long, ot Nesbern, has been
cad by u, with pleasure and admiration.
The subject Is The sons OF the Soil.
The address has been printed IN neat
pamphiet torn. Mr.. Long is one of the
gifted men OF North Carolina with the
pen. There Is IN his address, as IN all
II his published productions that have
come under our eye. an exceeding opu-
ence OF rhetoric. but rhetoric beautiful,
scholarly, glowing aud often richly
FIRE GIFTED. fae are indeed but ie"
Caroiiuians VIII, combine 50 much VI
passionate though with such exquisite
powers Of expression.
''He insists wisely upon elevatlng the
standard Of teachers. Capacity and
scholarship should be the only standard,
country" This is certainly true. 1t /,
a great and biistering shame whenever
politics enters into the running OF the
schools. Trustees are sometimes 0p-
pointed to the University not because they
are literally educated or hare any true
kn0wiedge OF the work they UtU haUe to
perform, but because they are members
IF the Legislature, are politicians dnd
hire chte elk enough to seek such an empty
place. No self respecting man no man
of elevated character aud principle, can
possibly priz. any degree or any honor
that come from self-seeking and log
rolling. Mr. Long eloquently says
The world Of letters and the temples
of learning should be kept free from
tra0,ps aud dtmdgOgues. When the
| ETHEREAL mind gr pples with the m ste
rie~ of KNOWLEDGE there should abide
the holy hush If worship and alteration.
leac!ers aud scholars alike should min
ister at The affairs of an honest purpose.
And u great State should so far for
get its responsibility to the people, as to
appaint u%nScrupulous and time serving
agents to manage the interests of Its
schools. the people should rise up III
their might aud drive the money chang
ers FROM the temple
'On the other point we must still
draw on our friend. lie says with equaI
truch and felicity =
The farmer who takes his boy out
of school. to save the cost of a hand il
the field, IS burning the cIaUe at boh
ends. The parent who retrenches upon
the education of his children, when he
should 90 bare footed himself, if need
be, to have them carved and polished to
be the pi lars aud lintels of his OWL
home when disease and old age have laid
him in the dust, is preparing = habita.
ton Of silence with broken pillars wheI
the harvest time of his folly shall come
The triumph Of any great cause depend.
upon the self sacrifice Of its support
prS.