[The State Seminary] is to be conducted upon a plan similar
to that of the Virginia Institute at Lexington. . . This is a move in the right
direction. Our legislators have, for once, at least, acted with a view of
promoting the moral as well as the intellectual advancement of the people of
the state.
Every father in the Parish of Madison, who has a son over
fifteen years of age, that can read and write well, and can perform with
facility and accuracy the various operations of the four general rules of
arithmetic . . . should at once send him to the Louisiana Seminary of Learning,
even if he should be compelled to mortgage his plantation to pay the annual
expense of four hundred dollars. . .
We heartily rejoice that a military school of a high grade
has been established in our state, because we know that military discipline
only can make a school effective for good in this, our perverted age, when
almost every youth scarcely out of his teens considers himself independent of
all moral restraint, and at liberty to do as he pleases.
Military schools make the pupil not only a soldier, ready to
defend our rights and our institutions, but they impart, by the principle of
subordination upon which they are conducted, a moral training, which will
impress him with the conviction that in order to be able, at some future day,
to command, it is indispensably necessary to learn first how to obey.
SOURCES: The article is abstracted in Walter L.
Fleming’s, General W.T. Sherman as College President, p. 65-6
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