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soul of man and the throne of the Infinite, is left free to impress the individual 

 conscience with all the sanction of its supreme behests, and of its celestial 

 teachings." 



Not less truthful are these quotations than their eloquence. In them are 

 pictured that political condition which exists nowhere else than among an in- 

 telligent industrial class. Look on this picture and then on the following — the 

 one redolent with intelligence, the other shrouded in the gloom of ignorance;- 

 the one self-crovernins:, the other but the blind tool of desnotic ambition. 



The intelligent correspondent of the New York Evening Post, describing the 

 incidents of General Sherman's march through Georgia, thus speaks of the 

 people there : 



" Frequent occasions occur for conversation with the people. In the upper 

 part of the State, not meeting with any but the poorer, more ignorant class, I 

 wished to believe that the rich and refined class had fled further south ; but, 

 although I have made diligent search for the intelligent, intellectual aristocracy,. 

 I have met only with failure and disappointment. Rich men there are, whose 

 plantations line the roads for miles; men and women who own, or did own, 

 hundreds of slaves, and raised every year their thousand bales of cotton, but 

 their ignorance is only equalled by that twin sister of ignorance, intolerance. 

 I can understand, as I never did before, why it was that a few persons, who 

 every year represented the south in Congress, were able to wield that influence 

 as a unit. To be sure the interest of slavery was all-controlling, yet it never 

 would have brought this people to the pitch of civil war, had they received the 

 most common benefits of education. The solemn truth is, that the southern 

 people have never had any conception of the nation as I did. They do not 

 know what it is to be an American." 



These pictures teach us a lesson — made solemn by our national calamities- 

 And nowhere is this lesson better enforced than in the following language of 

 Governor Andrew : 



" Schools, colleges, books, the free press, the culture of the individual every- 

 where, the policy of attracting, encouraging, and developing all the great qual- 

 ities of the head and heart — in a word, the production and diff"usion of ideas — 

 in these shall rest forever the secret of your strength to maintain your true po- 

 siti(3n. I implore you to unite and not divide in your policy. W//cnerer you can 

 create a i^reat school, or find a great jjrofe.ssor, unite to strengthen the scJionl, and 

 to make sure of the man. Our system of diffusing knowledge through the local 

 schools, our plan of distributing elementary instruction, are things of which we 

 are sure. But your district schools will themselves go to seed, your knowledge 

 will become bigoted and mean, unless you remember that the encouragement of 

 these higher institutions from which they are fed, and where their teachers are 

 themselves taught, is as needful as the creation of the head of water above the 

 dam is to the spindle's point. Your greatness must be found hereafter where it 

 has been found hitherto, in the highest development and cultivation of the 

 faculties of men'' 



THE PROFITS OF WOOL-GROWING, AND THE FUTURE WOOL ?JARKET. 



We give below a most valuable communication on the profits of wool-grow- 

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