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friends of liberty being insensible to danger; and that the citadel of liberty has already been insiduously attacked by the yotaries of despotism in the United States. Witness colonel A. B's conspiracy, and the assurance and temerity of a certain christian denomination, who even petitioned the legislature to have their church established by law, in preference to all others, as in England. Witness, finally, the thousands of aristocratical, clerical and scholastic teachers, as well as authors, in the bowels of our happy republic. One primary cause I would assign for the many corps of aristocratical young men to be found in our country, is legislative negligence relative to the education of our youth. I beg leave to subjoin a paragraph from my last publication relative to this subject, utility more than method being my object.

“ One thing I have often thought would be extremely beneficial to our solitary republic, and that is, for each individual state to establish a public seminary to be supported at the public expence, where republican principles might be inculcated upon the juvenile mind, and where a polite as well as patriotic education might be gained at a very moderate expence. The most central part of the state should be chosen for establishing such a seminary, and above all, republican teachers should be chosen by the legislature; for it is a lamentable fact, that most of our celebrated scholastic, as well as ecclesiastic teachers are rank tories, and too often both by precept and example, teach their pupils and cor.gregations to be such. Was such a patriotic institution organized upon an economical plan, our citizens might give their boys a finished education at one hundred dollars per annum, boarding, washing, &c. included. The samous 'Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, considered this part of the duty of a patriotic legislature, of the last importance; and it would be well for them to have his plan of public education in their view, when they deliberate upon the importance of the present proposition. In a particular manner I would humbly take the liberty, with distinguished deference, to suggest to his excellency governor Snyder, the great utility of the present plan: I am emboldened to take this liberty, from the view I have of his recent message to the legislature of Pennsylvania. The public prints have been for a long time teeming with invectives and vulgar

abuse of their patriotic first magistrate, while slander with her hundred mouths, and a trumpet at each mouth, have exulted in the degeneracy of disappointed office hunters, who reprobate even the man of their choice, because he will not be their dupe; however, his late message gave the lie in form to these political calumniators, and shows in the most distinguished point of view, the ingenuity of his head, as well as the generosity and patriotism of his heart. The sentiments of the president of the U.

States, are in unison with mine on this iniportant subject. I will take the liberty to subjoin a quotation from his recept message to Congress, which will elucidate as well as give force to the present proposition, viz.

" Whilst it is universally admitted that a well instructed people alone can be permanently a free people; and whilst it is evident that the means of diffusing and improving useful knowledge form so small a proportion of the expenditures for national purposes, I cannot presume it to be unrea. sonable, to invite your attention to the advantages of super-adding to the means of education provided by the several states, a seminary of learning, instituted by the national legislature, within the limits of their exclusive jurisdiction; the expence of which might be defrayed, or reimbursed out of the vacant grounds which have accrued to the nation within those limits.

Such an institution, though local in its legal character, would be universal in its

beneficial effects.

By enlightening the. opinions, by expanding the patriotism, and by assimilating the principles, the sentiments and the manners of those who might resort to this temple of science, to be redistributed, in due time, through every part of the community; sources of jealousy and prejudice would be diminished, the features of national character would be multiplied, and greater extent given to social harmony. But above all, a well continued seminary, in the center of the nation, is recommended by the consideration, that the additional instruction emanating from it, would contribute no less to strengthen the foundations, than to adorn the structure, of our free and happy system of government."

It is a lamentable consideration, that too many infantile tories are manufactured in our colleges, where they receive anti-republican impressions, which time can never erase. Should not our state legislature at