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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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Editorial from Salem Gazette emphasizes importance of public free-schools and newspapers in New-England for preserving liberty against tyranny, notes increased support for education in eastern states, and calls neglecting children's education treason.
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All governments tend to tyranny. Constitutions and Declarations of Rights, are a feeble barrier against aspiring aristocrats, unless strengthened by a general diffusion of knowledge, and guarded by an enlightened people. Public Free-Schools, the institution of New-England, and the free circulation of newspapers, are the ground-work and the grand preservative of liberty, equality, and the rights of man, in a social state. It is therefore a pleasing reflection, that these are now, more than ever fostered in the eastern states. Travel through any part of the country, and you behold new school-houses erecting, and old ones repairing. In most of the New townships, appropriations are wisely made of some of the best lots for the support of schools and public worship. This is true republicanism, which chains down the monster of despotism to the ground.
In a country like this, a man who neglects the education of his children, commits treason against the state.
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All governments tend to tyranny unless strengthened by general diffusion of knowledge and guarded by an enlightened people. Public Free-Schools of New-England and free circulation of newspapers are the ground-work and preservative of liberty, equality, and rights of man. These are fostered more than ever in eastern states, with new school-houses erecting, old ones repairing, and appropriations in new townships for schools and public worship. This is true republicanism that chains down despotism. Neglecting children's education is treason against the state.