'Through the still darkness of this grave-like While thus I reasoned-lo! adown the clear blue time, sky

-admonishing all men that human darkness issues / consent to any means, and follow any man. Thus,

finally in human ruin; that want of wisdom does at last mean want of power to exist on this earth, where, as it has been said, "If you will not have illumination from above, you shall have conflagration from below, and whoever refuses light will get it in the form of lightning one day !"

True, the mere schoolmaster is a small element of such "illumination;" but we are never to forget

with a general desire to be upright, the exigency of
his party pushes constantly to dishonorable deeds.
He opposes fraud by craft; lie by lie; slander by
counter-aspersion. To be sure it is wrong to mis-
state, to distort, to suppress, or color facts; it is
wrong to employ the evil passions; to set class
against class; the poor against the rich, the country
against the city, the farmer against the mechanic,

that he is the first element, the indispensable pre-one section against another section. But his oppoliminary of all others. Let us have the schoolmas- nents do it, and if they will take advantage of men's ter; we shall then be the readier to try for some-corruption, he must, or lose by his virtue. He gra

thing more. No truth that he or another can teach us but is supported and confirmed by all truths. To nothing but error is or can any truth be dangerous. Who would obstruct, who would not cordially forward, a human being imparting to another any increase of real faculty, any real initiation, speculative or practical, into this universe, and its facts and laws, provided he really do impart such, and restrict himself to doing it? To know the multiplicationtable, is better than not to know it. If a man will teach another to make a pair of shoes, he will enlarge the faculty, the availability of that other, the worth of that other to himself and to all creatures, and to the Maker of all creatures and of him. Teach one another; see that none who could learn go untaught, if you could help him: there is no more universal law.

That jealousy for constitutional liberty, still more that scruples of religion, should obstruct this sacred, everlasting duty, so pressingly important even now, is very sad. Above all, that that religion should be found standing on the highways to say, "Let men continue ignorant of reading and arithmetic, lest they learn heterodoxy in theology; let not men learn the simplest laws of this universe, lest they mislearn the highest," I know not where else there is seen so altogether tragical a spectacle!" In the name of God the Maker, who said, and hourly yet says, let there be light, we command that you continue in darkness!" Such a spectacle, I venture to think, will end; it ought decidedly to end, and that soon. If any portion of a man's creed, religious or constitutional, command him to stand in the way of arithmetic and the alphabet, let such portion of his creed become suspect to him!

Of the details of your scheme I do not profess to judge, without more deliberation than is now possible; and indeed my eagerness to see any scheme whatever of national education adopted (for the worst I ever heard of is better than none) might render me liable to partiality in judging. But your two principles, first, that of popular support and local self-government (to which, in better days, a superior and supreme national superintendency, the fit post for the highest and noblest intellect we had among us, might be superadded); and secondly, that of excluding all religious teaching but what is unsectarian! these clearly seem to me the only practicable principles at this epoch;-an epoch which, more than any other, calls upon us to "practise" straightway some principle or principles, and get a little education accomplished, if we would not fare worse before long! And therefore, with my whole heart, I bid you persevere and prosper, - Yours sincerely,

H. R. FORREST, Esq., Sec., &c.

T. CARLYLE.

THE PARTY MAN. He has associated his ambition, his interests, and his affections with a party. He prefers, doubtless, that his side should be victorious by the best means, and under the championship of good men; but rather than lose the victory, he will

dually adopts two characters, a personal and a poli-
tical character. All the requisitions of his conscience
he obeys in his private character; all the requisi-
tions of his party, he obeys in his political conduct.
In one character he is a man of principle; in the
other, a man of mere expedients. As a man, he
means to be veracious, honest, moral; as a politi-
cian, he is deceitful, cunning, unscrupulous,-any-
thing for a party. As a man, he abhors the slimy
demagogue; as a politician, he employs him as a
scavenger. As a man, he shrinks from the flagi-
tiousness of slander; as a politician, he permits it,
smiles upon it in others, rejoices in the success
gained by it. As a man, he respects no one who is
rotten in heart; as a politician, no man through
whom victory may be gained can be too bad. As
a citizen, he is an apostle of temperance; as a poli-
tician, he puts his shoulder under the men who
deluge their track with whiskey, marching a crew of
brawling patriots, pugnaciously drunk, to exercise
the freeman's noblest franchise-the VOTE. As a
citizen, he is considerate of the young, and counsels
them with admirable wisdom; then, as a politician,
he votes for tools, supporting for the magistracy wor-
shipful aspirants scraped from the ditch, the grog-
shop, and the brothel; thus saying by deeds which
the young are quick to understand: "I jested when
I warned you of bad company; for you perceive
none worse than those whom I delight to honor."
For his religion he will give up all his secular inte-
rests; but for his politics he gives up even his reli-
gion. He adores virtue, and rewards vice. Whilst
bolstering up unrighteous measures, and more un-
righteous men, he prays for the advancement of
religion, and justice, and honor. I would to God
that his prayer might be answered upon his own
political head; for never was there a place where
such blessings were more needed! I am puzzled to
know what will happen at death to this politic
Christian, but most unchristian politician.-People's
Journal.

THE BETROTHED OF ROBERT EMMETT.-We copied
from a Dublin paper a statement headed "The Be-
trothed of Robert Emmett,"-giving an account of
the death in Rome of a Miss Curran, who was
therein stated to be no other than the heroine of
Moore's popular song and Washington Irving's
touching tale. We stated at the time our disbelief;
and our incredulity has received the following con-
firmation from an unknown correspondent, who
speaks, however, with authority:"The Miss
Curran whose death took place some little time
back at Rome was the eldest daughter of the late
Right Hon. J. R. Curran, her name Amelia; the
Miss Curran unhappily linked to the name of the
unfortunate Mr. Emmett was the youngest daughter
of Mr. Curran--her name Sarah, afterwards mar-
ried to Major Sturgeon. She has been dead nearly
thirty years. I have not Washington Irving's book
by me; but having read it some years ago, my im-
pression remains that the statement was correct."-
Athenœum.

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