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ed efforts "The truth is, the want of com mon education with us is not from our pover- ty, but from want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of part, than would be paid for that of the whole, if systematically arranged. Six thousand com mon schools in New York, fifty pupils in each, three hundred thousand in all-one hun dred and sixty thousand dollars annually paid to the masters-forty established academies, with two thousand two hundred and eight pu- tils-and five colleges, with seven hundred and eighty students-to which last classes ot institutions, seven hundred and twenty thou sand dollars have been given and the whole appropriations for education estimated at ONE AND HvLF MILLION OF DOLLARS What pigmy to this is Virginia become, with po- pulation almost equal to that of New-York And whence this difference !-FRoM THE DIFFERENCE THEIR RULERS SET ON THE VALUE OF KNOWLEDGE, AND THE PRosPERI- TY IT PRODUCES"

 This is language, such as ought to be sound ed in the ears of the rulers of the States, and of the Union, until this great duty cf provi- ding for the general instruction ct the people is more faithfully regarded. Let this be the test-word, by which the people try every candidate for office Is he friendly to free schools to popular education? If not, ] whould mark him as an enemy to the people to their rights as freemen. l would mark him :s anti-republican in his principles, and unworthy of the confidence of those for whose benefit this government was instituted. The example of NewYork merits the applause oi the Republic. Massachusetts supports hei schools on a different plan the spirit of edu, cation in that State is unbounded, and hel seminaries of learning are not excelled b, those of any State. Connecticut has distin guished herself in the same laudable career Other States are awaking, to be blessed b, the light, and freedom, and general improve. ment of the age. An ignorant population Could a heavier reproach fall upon fret State !! To be elected, elevated to power by those who blindly and ignorantly exercise ths right of suffrage, one of the most glorious rights exercised by man-c;n this be dis tinction after which an enlightened patrio would aspires

 Plutarch tells us that ssCssar could boas that he had slain million of men, gave a mil lion their liberty, and made million prison ers." In giving million their liberty, there was something of true glory. But in assisting the many millions in this Republic to appre ciate, enjoy, and perpetuate their liberty, { glory still more exalted may be acheved.- This is work of moral, as well as of politica grandeur, that will endure and be admired when the monuments of conquest by force. shall be swept from the world.

 Give to the people the means of knowledge lest the ambitious, through their ignorance, beguile them lest the people blindly ''suffei fraud to talk them cut of freedom"

 MONITOR.