Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-07-29


all the children. The people of the south
where 1t is most needed, arc eager and
anxious to apply it, but ii is costly beyond
their financial ability. being already taxed
| as far as they can bear. They only cry
| for help.
Sixth-That as II is a common danger.
threatening alike all, and is largely a re,
suit for which the whole country is re-
sponslble, therefore the whole country is
equally interested in aycrting il.
Seventh-That as local and State tax.
alton is very burdensome, falling, as il
docs, chiefly on the real estate and per.
sonal property Of those least able TO bear
1t, while national revenues come, mainly,
from luxuries, and from articles bought
by accumulated wealth, willing and able
TO pay for them, and hence is not felt by
the masses of the people, and as the per.
petuity OF the nation is as much endang.
cred by Ignorance as the existence of the
States, therefore the necessary money
should be appropriated out of the nation
| al reasury-already overfowing with a
l hundred millions OF the peoples dollars
| 1t is the glory of the Republican party
to have originated and passed this bene-
ficent measure through the Senate. 1t is
the glory of the young Tennessee Demo
cracy, that her gallant. gifted, and fear.
less junior Senator. Howell Z. jackson,
scouting as unworthy of rising patriotic
and enlightened statesmen, the antiauated
prejudices of old fogyism, and trampling
under his manly feet the shattered fetters
of a senseless medieval partisanship.
proved himself the peerless peer OF the
| proudest, and worthy the highest honors
and purest love of the whole people of
the volunteer State, by showing himself
Its devoted friend and victorious cham
pion. All honor to the clear. headed, big
hearted men of any and all parties who
dare to do their own thinking and braycly
maintain the right under any and all cir.
| cumstances, here, elsewhere and every
where.
There is hope for the republic while
such men are found in lis legislative
halls, or wear the judicial ermine as the
insignia of merited executive recogni.
tion.
God bless the little children of Tennes.
see, all of them, but my heart glows with
peculiar interest for that army of 400.
600 young Tennesseeans who have never
! yet tasted the sweets of mental cultiva.
tion. Our noble Senate tried to give YOU
a chance. They saw your condition:
your anxious yearning for the means of
which war and misfortune had bereft
you, to go to school, and get upon level
{ OF equality Of intelligence with your
neighbor boys and girls they wanted you
: to enter upon the struggles Of life upon
} footing of equality with them, armed and
} equipped for the battle, at all points Just
like them. Yes, the noble Republican
Senators and few Democratic Senators
J like your Senator Jackson, saw your
: anxiety. Their hearts blcd for you, and,
! doubt not, wept in sympathy with you,
like your mother and father do when
they think of their inability to educate
you, and they passed the $77, 600, 900 bill
, and sent ii oyer to the house of represen.
7 tatiyes for it action. Here in this branch
Q of congress, where.the Democrats arc In
r the majority, Notwithstanding they al.
. ways make great noise just before ev.
Q cry election about how they love the pco.
) pie and how the voice of the people is the
D voice of God, and how anxious they are
for the unfortunate people, and always
+ charging the Republicans with favoring
the rich. building UP great monopolies.
} making the rich man richer and poor
folks poorer, Notwithstanding all these
! pretensions they strangled II TO death
, without even giving it decent hearing.
, Now, my old Democratic friend, and
! you, my other younger friend, who have
7 from six to twelve children TO educate
and nothing to do II with but poverty,
, can you afford to support and cast your
: vote for any politician or party that thus
$ turns deaf ear to the touching, fearful
and eloquent appeals of 100000 bright
s and aspiring but unfortunate little child.
I rem of the people Of your own State, and
g thus invites the ever.advancing pillows
4 of ignorance and depravity to undermine
0 and submerge the citadel of this worlds
2 last experiment of frcedoml
5 For myself am most happy. and II
. affords me greater pleasure than can ex.
press, TO stand before the grand tribunal
I Of Tennessee s fair daughters and noble
G sons rich and poor. white and colored,
+, old and young, as the humble but willing
: champion Of free thought, free speech, a
free press, and free homes, and above all
I Of free education to all, as the infalible
!. and indispensable defence and protection
1 Of all the rest.
It Why, my countrymen, let us, for q
n moment, glance at the objects and ends
3 TO which II Is the supreme province Of
|: education to address all Its energies.
IS The business OF education Is to deyelor
1t and perfect the native but naturally dor
Is mant faculties of the mind and soul OF
: men. The painter works upon the bosom
,r Of his outstretched canvass and with the
% subtle magic of his pencil calls forth the
% charming plantpms born Of lights and
8, shades, color and form, and revels in the
g enchanted world of his lovely creation.
lc The sculptor cuts from the cold shapeless
c marble exquisite forms. of grace, harmo
10 ny and beauty, and breathes into them
q the miraculous semblance Of his own di.
vine genius. But these are all transient
e and destructible, designed only to please
!, the eye, cater TO the cultured fancy, and
h to satisfy the longings of the aesthetic
d nature. The gorgeous canvass must fade
!, and decay, and the beautiful marble
J. must crumble beneath the remorseles.
l. touch OF the passing centuries But the
l. works Of the educator perish not. Edu
10 cation moves, as the master spirit il
70 loftier realms OF art, 1t wields Its skill OF
II impcrishable materials, and labors la III,
II world of the immaterial and immorta
soul. The schoolroom Is Its studio an,
0. heaven and earth the grand salon wherein
ID are exhibited its magnificent triumphs o
,f skill, There 1t paints and carves, mould
10 and fashions, smoothes and polishes il
u the ETHEREAL substance Of the soul. II
Or trophies sparkle and shine, like dazzlin
a. jewels, all along the pathway of histor
!, as the stardust paths that span the mid
night heavens. Our own splendid age
10 the most advanced, and most distinguish
n cd OF all the ages past, Is all radiant witt
the splendor Of its intellectual gems
n They blaze like suns In the world Of sci
% ence and art, literature and religion
N Their flood of light peneiratcs and pei
\, vades those vast domains and their dee
Q. abysses, revealing the hidden mysteric
al ofithe great unknown. But, while on