436 HISTORY OF 



CHAPTER XI. 



EiivrATK.N: — Preliminary remarks; Importance of general cilupalion— 

 Vicr.s cf tlio coIoiiiKls — Mcnnonilrs' views of education — Scotrli-Irish 

 settlers, made at first liltic preiaraiion, &c. till 179S — First schools in the 

 town of Lancaster — Lutheran and Germnn Kcformed churches have 

 schools under their ausjjiccs — Rev. M. Schlatter indefatigahle in his efforts to 

 establish schools — Extract from Coctuale proceedings of 1760 — Tnibtees 

 and managers of public sc'.ioois — Germans patriotic, modest and unas- 

 suming, &c. — Ludwig Hacker establishes a Sabbath school at Ephrata— 

 German ela.'.-sical school at Ephrata — Academy at Ephrata — A«ideniy at 

 Liti:; — Select Academy at J.ancaster — Franklin college, &c. — Private 

 schools and aradamies in various reclics^.s of tlic counly — A.n act for tbo 

 education of children in the borough of Lancaster^-The Mechanics' So- 

 ciety — Classical Academy ; Lancaster (Jounty Aradcmy ; Classical Acad- 

 emics in the counly — Seminaries; Common Schools; Sabbath Schools, 

 Lyceums, &c. 



The permanency of all Rcprvblics, depends upon the en- 

 lightenment of the people. As education is therefore encour- 

 aged or neglected, so will their foundations be sure and stable, 

 or loose and unsettled ; and it is diiricult to say, ■whether in 

 Uieir moral relations or political privileges, this truth is most 

 self-evident. The certainty, stability and perpetuity of a re- 

 publican government, with all its vast machinery of offices and 

 officers, such as the efficient administration of the government 

 by the Executive, the judicious and wholesome e.\ercise of its 

 powers by the Legislature, the j)ron)pt and energetic adminis- 

 tration of justice by faitiiful Judges, and above all, the just de- 

 termination of the rights of parties by impartial Jurors, must 

 depend alone upon tiic people. There is no otlicr foundation 

 upon wliich the structure can rest. Tiiis constitutes its chief 

 excellence, its greatest strcngih. 



In a government then such as ours, based as it is upon ac- 

 knowledged democratic principles, in the theory and practice 

 of which, it is admitted that the peoj)le arc the source of all 

 power, making and unmaking at stated intervals all their func- 

 tionaries, from the Chief magistrate of the nation, down to tho 



