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Publick Education.
The following Report was submitted to the Gen
eral Assembly of this State at its present session,
by D. G. Campbell, Esq. Chairman of the Com
mittee on Publick Education and Free Schools.
Tbe committee on publick education and
free schools, to whom was referred a por
tion of the Governour’s message, and vari
ous communications from county academies,
have found themselves engaged in the in
vestigation of a subject of the first magni
tude, involving the best interests of individ
uals, and tbe highest destinies of the repub
lic!!. In a government like oiirs, which de
rives its moving impulse, and its sustaining
and restrictive energies from publick opin
ion in all its process through after time, it
is impossible not to see, and seeing, not to
fSel, that publick measures are to be con
ducted by enlightened wisdom, or abandon
ed to the profoundest errour. These prin
ciples, too obvious and important ever to
have been overlooked, and perhaps too trite
to need remark, naturally presented them
selves to the minds of those who shaped the
.gutline of our system of government. Our
statute hook bears testimony, that for forty
years, the subject of education has engaged
the attention of the legislature. It was not
to be expected that a work of such magni
tude, could be accomplished in a day, even
under the most favourable auspices—but
independently of inherent difficulties, Geor
gia lias been embarrassed and retarded by
obstacles peculiar to herself. But instead
of repining that we have done no more,
may we not find cause of congratulation,
Ghat we have done so much. The original
eituieyvment of a principal seminary and of
subordinate branches, consisting of county
academies, was a scheme, splendid in theo
ry, and reflecting lasting honour on the
stale. If the enlarged aod profound policy
in which these measures originated, has not
been carried “fully into effect—if the patri
ot ick views of its authors have not been
completely realized, it will be seen that
much, very much, has been accomplished,
and that the deficiency is to be ascribed, in
part, to that imperfection which is the com
mon"lot of all human contrivances, and, in
part, to adventitious events, which could
net be foreseen or controlled. Os the acarl
, emies thus originally, but imperfectly en
dowed, by a thousand pounds each, in con
fiscaiedproperty,it is found that a very large
majority are without funds. This ha 9 pro
ceeded, in some instances, from the appear
ance. of better titles’to the lands so granted
in endowment, aud, in others, from the ex
penditure of the fund in the erection of
buildings which have gone into decay for
want of exertion and patronage, and, in oth
‘ ers again, from the sparseness of the sur
rounding population. Under these circum
stances, it has been a result of mere moral
necessity that while a few have prospered,
the la rarer number have ceased to be use
THE MISSIONARY.
ful. This, now, is the least promising; part
of our system of instruction. But who shall
say that even from this, great benefits have
not resulted to the people of this state —
who shall say that these academies, though
they may now be practically inoperative,
have not been tributary to tbe counsels of
the country, and assisted in kindling the
flame by the light of which we are march
ing to high and commanding destinies. A
deep sense of the necessity of education
pervades the whole state : Speculative cu
riosity may inquire further into the causes,
if she will—The fact stands confessed, and
offers gratulations to the mind of every
statesman, and the heart of every patriot.
Sure of her gains, learning must now in
crease her stock, and being no longer liable
to interruption, her advances must be pro
gressive. The difficulties and delays which
have been heretofore encountered, are re
tiring before the new and increasing resour
ces of the country, and the invigorated in
fluences of liberality and patriotism—The
great work was commenced in the year
1817, by the appropriation of the sum of
$250,000 for the encouragement and sup
port of free schools. This is the corner
stone of an edifice, which the people by
their representatives will hereafter finish.
In examining the means which may be
made subservient to the purposes of educa
tion, your committee are of opinion that at
the present, they are not sufficient to carry
into operation a regular system of schools.
To provide for the enlargement of those
means, and to bring them into due propor
tion to the number and necessities of the
population they are intended to benefit, will
be all that can, or ought to be attempted.
Tbe original appropriation was directed to
be vested in safe and profitable stock. An
investment of $50,000 has been made in
stock of tbe Bank of Augusta, and of
SIOO,OOO instock of the Bank of Darien.
These investments have yielded an interest
of $33,Q6G, G 6 ; so that this fund may be
now estimated at $283,060 66.
That this may be advanced to the sum of
$500,000 is a measure which your commit
tee most earnestly recommend.
They are the more importunate, believ
ing as they do, that the means are already
within legislative control, sufficient for the
effectuation of so important an object. But
for greater certainty in this regard, your
committee beg leave to furnish the estim
ates from which their conclusions have
been drawn.
The fractions in the late acquired terri
tory, at a reasonable estimate of quantity
will amount to 70.000 acres, and upon a
like estimation of value will yield $250,000.
The Fort Hawkins reserves are estimated
at 20,000 acres, and at $200,000. The
fractions directed to be sold by act of the
last annual session (including the amount of
sales at Jefferson) are rated at SIOO,OOO.
Lots 10 and 100, reserved for purposes of
education, are rated at $20,000, and land
which may be disposed of at the Milledge
ville reserve at $20,000. Your committee
are aware that the fund for the internal im
provement of this state, maintains a claim
upon a portion of these resources, which
cannot, and ought not to be resisted. Your
committee will not attempt to resist it. On
the contrary (although not entirely within
their province) they recommend the ad
vancement of this fund also to-the sum of
$500,000. Insisting, then, for the purpo
ses of education upon but the one half of
the fraction fund ; the one half of the Fort
Hawkins and Milledgeville reserves, and
upon the whole of the reserved lots, your
committee fill up their contemplated appro
priation and furnish an excess of 88,000.
With this excess, your committee pro
pose to commence the regular endow
ment of county academies. Many of these
have not, as yet, received the imperfect
aid which was derived by some from the
appropriation of confiscated property.
Your committee consider it proper that tbe
most destitute should be first provided for,
but that every exertion and every resource
should be directed to the suitable endow
ment and aifl of all academies dispensing
their benefits within our borders, wheth
er they be incorporated or not.
When the means herein before adverted
to shall be realized, and the original appro
priation advanced to the sum of an half mil
lion of dollars, the fund will in its character
and object be measurably changed. In
stead of being directed exclusively to the
support and encouragement of free schools,
it will embrace the encouragement of eve
ry instilution within the state, which names
the name of literature.
Your committee, therefore, beg leave to
recommend the adoption of the following
resolution :
Resolved, That it is expedient to advance
the school fund to the sum of $500,000, and
that tbe means and resources herein before
adverted to, be, and they are hereby set
apart and directed to be applied to that
purpose.
No benefaction is superiour to that of in
structing and cultivating the mind of oth
ers ; and every person who ip that way has
contribnted any thing towards making us
wiser, better and happier, has the strong
est claim to our everlasting gratitude.
, . . • -y- v —? ———
GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EFERY CREATURE.— Jbsus Christ.
MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. GA.) MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, .1821.
From the New-York Christian Herald.
THE BOX OPENED, OR FIVE HUN
DRED YEARS HENCE.
The publick have been informed that a
leaden box , containing medalions, cAins,
books, newspapers, &c. has been formally
deposited in one of the four pillars, jst
erected at the gateway of the Park in this
city—(New York) deposited as a legacy to
a distant posterity. Sublime and solemn
act! -how many ages may roll away before
those solid pillars tottering by the band of
time, shall be removed, and the legacy be
found!
When all our present citizens have long
—long been buried in the earth ; when all
that is now great or honourable of our pop
ulation shall be lost in the qkght of antiqui
ty,; when our never-dying spirits shall have
been happy in heaven or wretched in hell;
when the city of New long a “ city
of the Lord,” shall overspread the Island
of Manhattan, and the milliens of her popu
lation shall be of one heart ijnd of one mind ;
when the Bible shall be thb dearest treas
ure of every individual, and the voice of
prayer and praise, and the sacrifice of obe
dience shall ascend from every bouse;
when “ her people shall be all righteous,”
her “ walls salvation, and her gates praise;”
when the eye surveying the crowds up and
down our Present Broadway, shall not see
one who is not a friend and brother in Je
sus Christ; when her thousand temples
shall be filled with devout and joyful wor
shippers, and her Sabbaths be a heaven
below; —
When the forests of the West, subdued
by the hand of Christian industry, shall
have become a fruitful field, and a Chris
tian people shall spread from the Atlantjck
to the Pacifick—from Mexico to Labrador ;
when from a million of temples, shall as
cend the joyful homage of the American
church “ in spirit and in truth ;” wheh the
Gospel shall have been preached in all na
tions; when war shall have ceased under
the mild reign of the Prince of Peace, and
“ every knee shall bow and every tongue
confess”—when
“ °ne song employs all nations, and all cry,
“ Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us
When the church, having perhaps for cen
turies embraced the whole earth, remem
bers no more the reproach of her widow
hood;—when the tradition of a sinful age
has ceased, and only on the page of history
can be learnt, the folly and vice, and impie
ty of ancient times;
THEN, since ruin is inscribed upon the
strongest monuments; since massy columns
cannot stand forever— then, if itself survive”
the wreck of time, will this long unknown
memorial of ancient days be discovered by
a generation so remote that they cannot
trace back their line of ancestry to us; be
inherited by anew and holy population:—
a memorial of the arts and sciences, the
heroes and statesmen, not only, but of cus
toms and follies, and vices, which have long
passed from the memory Sz tradition of men.
Methinks, as the men of ojher times shall
cluster around the spot whqre these pillars
stand, and listen to some venerable and
holy sage, while he describes the manners
of the Ancients from their bequeathed mem
orials, that regret, and shame, and astonish
ment, will awhile trouble every bosom.
“ There,” he may say, “ stood the Theatre,
where the mouldered dead, as says the page
of ancient story, trifled their short lives
away, met the votaries of vice, and drown
ed their souls in perdition. Yonder stood
tbe Debtor’s Prison; —yonder the Bride
well, receptacle of crime :—there stands
the ancient Hall of Justice, now the seat of
mercy. Here, on the Park, met and
mingled on many a<!ay of dissipation, the
vicious and profane. All along dodfb
Broadway were the lottery offices, the id
ler’s hope, the country’s ruinous tar.
There poured an unceasing tide of dress,
and fashion and parade—of vanity and
pride. Gain was the people’s god. Strong
locks and bars guarded every house, and
were trafficked in every street.—Drunken
ness was an article of commerce, was
bought and sold in every block—the buyer’s
and the seller’s ruin. The sword and
spear, the musket and the cannon, which
history describes as murderous weapons of
warfare ; and as beaten, centuries ago into
ploughshares and pruning hooks, were sold
in enormous quantities, and stored in mighty
Magazines.” Here he will hold up to the
wondering crowd ; a decaying spear and
sword; the rusty relicks of ancient murder.
“ Even here, often poured the parade of
soldiery ; here roared the thunder of arms,
in mimick warfare while rnusick, made for
heaven’s praise pealed insultingly in mar
tial strains to Heaven. In all the earth
pride and ambition filled the minds of men,
and even tarnished the purity of believers.
Tbe daily news revealed thefts, and con
tentions, and murders, from the cottage to
the throne ; and piracies, and man-stealing,
and nation warring against nation.” Awful
exhibitions of antiquity to men whose hearts
are love; when.lust, and hate, and war,
are known no more, but lie forgotten like
the barbarous rites of our heathen ancestry.
Yet they will dwell upon whatever of
great and good . they find in the Memorial.
When all that this world admires ceases to
be admired, the record of the Bible Society
will consecrate the Daily Advertiser, which
transmits one of the most glorious of all
our institutions to the admiration of a dis
tant posterity:—The Bible Society, swel
ling as it flows, turning the desert into a
fruitful field, the wilderness into a garden
of tbe Lord.
It was an oversight, in sending down the
doings of our age to a posterity, who will
love the Bible and the Saviour, cot to add
the religious publications of our city:—The
Christian Herald, the Christian Journal,
the Methodist Magazine, and the Missionary
Register, little known indeed to our present
generation, but worthy to transmit along
with memorials of our Arts and Sciences,
our follies and our vices, the general efforts
which are making to bring to pass among
all natioits, the dominion of the Saviour of
the world. Then might the assembled
crowd which I imagine gathered around
the ancient dilapidated pillars at the Park,
See that even in our iron age, there is a lit
tle of the tear of God, of the love of Jesus,
of the taitb of good things to come.
Such an assembly our eyes-never saw.
An assembly of which the present dwellers
in our city are unworthy to be the ancestry.
What emotions of holy gratitude would fill
their souls, while looking back upon sinful
posterity ! And, assembled on a spot once
the arena of folly and sin, would they
not spontaneously pour forth a song of
praise to the Giver of all good. The writ
er of this article is far too feeble in genius,
too low in holy feeliog to conceive the
strain. He can conceive thousands of voi
ces from ground once polluted, would send
up to heaven a song of praise, in a far high
er, holier, more heavenly strain than this—
MILLENNIAL HYMN.
Oh blessed day, when all is love!
When sense and sin prevail no more ;
When men, as Angels do above,
Obey, enjoy, behold, adore,
In all our streets they love thy name ;
To thee in every house they bow ;
A thousand temples sound thy praiie,
Our Sabbaths are a heaven below.
The locks and bars are all removed
Thioughout our city family ;
The prisons now are known no more ;
There’s nought but Christian harmony.
Christ is our King, he reigns below,
We yield ourselves to thee alone :
Redeem’d from sin, redeem’d from wo,
We cleave entirely to thy throne.
The sword, the spear, the wrath and pride,
The battle field, the victor’s mirth,
A country’s joy at groans and death,
Are known no more in all the earth.
The tribes of men are all the Lord’s ;
Earth is his wide and fair abode ;
The sun in all his daily course
Shines only on the Sons of God.
— •aozo:x-:ozo** —
Late Missionary Intelligence.
MISSION TO THE SANDWICH ISLADS.
From the Missionary Herald for December.
Since our last number was issued, we
have received a letter from Mr. Bingham,
dated Woahoo, Jan. 31,1821. It was hast
ily written, and sent by way of Calcutta, in
a vessel which touched but a few-hours.
The intelligence from the mission is thus
brought down two moDths and ten days lat
er than we had heard before.
This letter mentions the distressing fact,
that the church had felt itself obliged to
adopt the last measure with Dr. Holman ;
and to cut him off from its communion, on
tbe charges of walking disorderly, slander
and railing, and covetousness. Mr. Bingham
states, that ‘ Mr. Thurston and himself
were then preparing what they hoped
would be an impartial history of the case.’
The missionaries were writing at large,
and about to send the continuation of their
journal, by a Boston ship then in port,
which would proceed by the way of Can
ton. These letters may be expected by
the next arrival from that port; but we
believe no arrivals are expected for some
months.
The close of Mr. Bingham’s letter is as
follows: “ We think an excellent spirit ap
pears in the members of the church gener
ally.
“By the Cleopatra’s Barge, the Tartar
and Lascar, we were happy to receive the
communications, supplies, house-frame, &c.
which you sent us. Accept our cordial
thanks; and have the goodness to tender
to the owners, Messrs. Bryant and Sturges,
the grateful acknowledgements of this mis
sion for the very great favour they have so
generously bestowed on us.*
“ Our schools are making desirable
progress; the mission still prospers, not
withstanding its afflictions ; the family is in
health ; our Sabbaths are pleasant; and the
favour of the people, and the smiles of Pro
vidence, encouraging.”
In a postscript Mr. B. says, that the fund
for the support of orphan children, raised
by subscription at the islands, amounts to
S6OO and that the plan is going on well.
OBITUARY.
Departed this life, the Rev. Samuel New
ell, missionary at Bombay, of the cholera
* These gentlemen kindlV took the articles
above-nnnied, for the *e of ffie niissipnaries, with
out freight.
Price, oT 'l
7 ( $3,00 in advance. J
morbus after an illness of only twelve hours.
This sorrowful event took place on the
30th of May. No other particulars’ were
communicated to Mr. Bardwell.
The death of Mr. Newell will be felt
very tenderly by many friends of missions,
in all parts of the world. He was one of
the first, who offered themselves, for the
service of Christ among the heathen.
Soon after the Board of Foreign Missions
was formed, he was received as a missiona
ry, and, after various preparatory studies,
embarked for the east iu Feb. 18P2. Not
being permitted to stay in Bengal, he took
passage for the Isle of France, where his
beloved wife expired in Nov. of the same
year. lie afterwards spent some time in
Ceylon, and prepared the way for the
American mission there. After the mis
sionaries became established at Bombay,he
joined them, and there remained, as a faith
ful labourer, tilt summoned away from this
world of sin and toil.
Died, in the island of Ceylon, on the 7th
of May, Mrs. Susan Poor, wife of the Rev.
Daniel Poor, missionary at Tillipally. No
particulars of her decease were known to
Mr. Bardwell, except that she departed
“in the triumph of faith.” She was an ex
cellent woman, and her loss will be deeply
felt by the mission.
EAST INDIES.
BENARES. ■
Extract of a Letter from Mr. Matt. T. Adam,
Missionary at Benares, dated 27 Aug. 1820.
A few days after bis arrival at Benares,
Air. Adam accompanied Messrs. Adington
and Bojvley, Missionaries of the Church
Society, to a Fair held in the suburbs of
Benares, for the purpose of distributing
Tracts among the people. The following
is Mr. Adam’s account of this visit:—
There was assembled a great concourse
of people, of all descriptions, men, women,
and children, rich and poor. At this fair,
‘■A temple, devoted to the worship of the
goddess Doorga, is particularly frequented
by the multitude, whose sacrifices and offer
ings are presented to this fancied divinity.
To this strong.hold of Satan we directed
our course. The temple, a beautiful spe
cimen of architecture, is surrounded by a
very high wall, with two entrances to it.
On the outside of this is the place where
the victims are slain. It is worthy of par
ticular notice, as exemplifying a singular
feature of ‘the present state of Mohamme
danism in this part of India, that the follow
ersofthe false Prophet are also the wor
shippers of Doorga ; and although prohibit
ed by their fellow worshippers, the Hin
doos, from slaying their victims on the
same block, yet they are so bent on their
idolatry, as to withdraw only a few yards
distance, where they have erected one,
appropriated exclusively to themselves.
Thus the main point in which the superior
ity of Mohammedanism to Paganism consists
viz. the unity of the Supreme Being is de- - ’
stroyed; and though tbe Mohammedans are
in name the followers of tbe false Prophet,
they now worship with the heathen, “gods
many and lords many.” By far the great
est number of tbe worshippers presented
nothing but a few flowers before the idol in
the temple.
Afier viewing the exterior of the build
ing, we ventured to walk within the wall
which surrounded it, not without apprehen
sions that we should be refused admittance.
To our great surprise, no opposition what
ever was made to us. Acquiring fresh
zeal from this unexpected occurrence, we
took our stand close by the temple. Here
we could see the Priest, seated on the
ground, receiving the gifts, and presenting
them before tbe idol, and giving; a flower,
or chaplet, or some otherYriflmg token of
respect, to the devotees, who came in such
numbers as to keep him iucessantly engag
ed. Our appearance attracted general
notice ; so that many came round ns, won
dering what could be our object. We now
begun the distribution of our Tracts, and
to our surprise they were received with the
greatest readiness. The officiating Priest,
marvelliDg at the sight, forsook his post, to
see what was going on. Stern and forbid
ing in his looks, he approached, looked on,
but said nothiog. On onr walking round
the exteriour of the building, one of the
devotees cried out, that he would clear tha
way that we might look in and see tbe
god., Mr. Bowley, desirous that we should
view the interiour of tbe temple, made an
attempt to walk in ; hut the Priest stopped
him, saying, that there was no admittance,
unless we put off our shoes. At this we
withdrew. As we stood by the temple,
proud of our station, but indignant at be
holding almost innumerable insult* offered
to Jehovah, I could not help bewailing the
degradation of man, adoring the long suffer
ings and patience of the Ahnighiy, and
longing for the period when this people
shall “cast their idols to the moles and to
the bats,” and become living stones in the
temple of mercy, which the Lord is erect
ing from our ruiued and polluted race.
During the whole of our visit to the tem
ple, the peoplp conducted themselves re
spectfully towards us, and we retired with
out the smallest molestation. We aftcr
.vards distributed a considerable number of
Tracts, and copies of portions pf the New
Testament ip the Rtfr,
