436 HISTORY oy 



CHAPTER XI. 



Education: — Preliminary remarks; Importance of general education — 

 Viev\"s of the colonists — Mennonites' -views of education — Scotch-Irish 

 settlers, made at first little preparation, &c. till 1798 — First schools in the 

 town of Lancaster — TiUtheran and German Reformed churches have 

 schools under their au&pices — Rer. M. Schlatter iKdefatigable in his efforts tcr 

 establish schools — Extract from Coetuale proceedings of 1760 — Trustees 

 and managers of public schools — Germans patriotic, modest and unas- 

 suming, &c. — Ludwig Kacker establishes a Sabbath school ut Ephrata — 

 German classical school at Ephrata — Academy at Ephrata — ^Academy at 

 Litiz — Select Academy at Lancaster — Franklin college, &c. — Private 

 schools and acadamics in various sections of the counfv — An act for tlie 

 education of children in the borough of Lrocaster — The Mechanics' So-- 

 ciety —Classical Academy ; Lancaster County Academy ; Classical Acad- 

 emics in the county — Seminaries; Comaion Schools: Sabbath Schools, 

 Lvceums, &c. 



The permanency of all Republics, depends t:ipon 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 difficult to say, whether in 

 their 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 exercise of its 

 powers by the Legislature, the })rompt and energetic adminis- 

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

 termination of the rights of parties by impartial Jurors, must 

 depend alone upon the people. There is no other foundation 

 upon which the structure can rest. This constitutes its chief 

 excellence, its greatest strengih. 



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 people are the source of all 

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

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



