From thc National IntelIigsucer.

 10 he Peofte cf Ae United Stofes-On Po- hular Education.
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 On this subject MT Jefferson has expressed his opinion in strong terms, in his correspond ence with distinguished citizens of Virginia = To Gen. Breckenridge he writes thus, on the subject of schools in that State sNobody can doubt my zeal for the general instruction ct the people. Who first started that idea. may surely say myself. Turn to the bill in the revised code, which drew more than forty years ago, and before which, plan for the education of the people generally, had never been suggested in this State." Again, he writes thus to J. C. Cabell ssSurely Governor Clinton's display of the gigantic eff forts of New-York towards the education of her citizens, will stimulate the pride, as well as the patriotism of our Legislature to look to the reputation and safety of their own country; to rescue it from the degradation of becoming the Barbary of the Union, and of falling into the ranks of our own negroes To that condi- ton 1t IS fast sinking. We shall be, in the hands ot the other States. what cur indigo nous predecessors were when invaded by the science and aits of Europe. The mass of education in Virginia, before the revolution, placed her with the foremost of her sister colonies. What is her education now ?- " here is it! The little we have we import, like beggars, from other States" Again, he adds, in this letter dated 1920, the following spirited appeal to rouse Virginia to increas-