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important interest in a new country, in com-
munities wherein prevailed the widest divers
ity of opinion and feeling, among a people
embracing every nationality under the sun, is
to be seen every religion and form of faith,
to organize a system of public schooling upon
such a basis that all shall in some degree
partake of its advantages -- that at least shall
secure the greatest good for the greatest number, has been a
task to tax and require that clearest most enlightened fragment
from hearts, good will to men. faith in God

These gentlemen have been obliged to act
hastily in their brief term of authority, amid
excitement change, often conscious that what
was done this year, was pretty sure to be un-
done next. The public mind has been like
a seething pot ---

It is not surprising that
the action of Boards has been at times feeble
unsound, fearful, as of men assuming solemn
responsibilities. pledged to perform high duties,
who saw their duty. knew well the right from
the wrong, yet evaded the right, shrunk
from the duty for fear offending passionate
partozans [partisans], arousing the prejudice and oppo-