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be voters twenty years hence, even according to
the Native theory-who are to fill some of our
important offices and probably more of the cells
OF our prisonsi left to grow up in ignorance and
vicc-are wandering about our streets. They DIS
like to 60 to our Public Schools, where many Of
them couldhardl speaka word that would beintel
ligible, and where their strange and ragged
garments, their uncouth manners, odd ways and
pecuaritics of creed and country would subject
them to ridicule and badgering from the great ma
jority. Many of them are shy, too, of our rell-
uous notions-our reading daily from version
of the Holy Scriptures which their Church con
deunS as corrupt and schSmatlcal. Well: we cam
not change our arrangements 20 suit the fancicS
OF every new comer-what is to be done Gov.
Seward Suggests Constitute Schools expressly
for then-eStabiish, for instance, a school for the
Catholic Germans; employ Catholic German
teachers; cali or the leading and trusted men OF
that class to take interest IN and manage it let the
pupils read from the Catholic version Of the Scrip
lures OF none, as they think propcI-and 50 with
the Irish immigrants among US Let our own
system of Education be preserved, with only such





notifications as conform it to their views and
creed just so far as in our Schools it is conform
ed to ours. 1t is not violation of Religious Free
dom that in our Public Schools Difference is paid
to the Religious convictions Of the majority of our
People, neither would it be if conceded to mi
nority in the schools provided for them Wehayc
not a doubt that Gov. Stewards suggestion, II
promptly carried into effect, would have resulted
in gathering into three or four schools as many
thousand poor, stranger children from our streets,
educating them for lives OF industry, virtue and
usefulness, while many OF them, in default OF 1t,
will now be doomed to ignorance, dissipation and
crime.


But camor was raised against the recon-
mendation-The Plebeian and other Loco,Foco
journals saw ft to assail it then religious preju-
dccs were called into action, and any harmonious
and benefcent adjustment Of the matter soon be-