THE N ORTH-C AROLIM
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION
Vol. II. NOVEMBER, 1859. No. II.
TIIE WAR OF TIIE REGULATION.
(coxci.
Governor Try
о
u Lacl thus far
been emicnlly successful in secur¬
ing the adoption of the measures
he hud most at heart. He was
from principle and policy a high-
churchman. He believed that
the Church and the State must
stand or fall together. During
I he brief period which he permit-
',-ted the General Assembly of May,
1665, to exist, he had secured the
permanent establishment of an
orthodox clergy, with comparative¬
ly ample provision for their sup¬
port, and unexpectedly proroguing
the Assembly, had smothered
ebullition of feeling in relation to
the Stamp Act.
Ilis second Assembly met him
with spirits chafed and irritated
by the manner in which the pre¬
vious session terminated, and the
long delay in again calling them
together. lie seems to have suc¬
ceeded in not merely soothing, but
in moulding them to his will, with
admirable facility and celerity. An
appropriation of sufficient amount
today the foundation of the pal¬
ace-, and coerce its subsequent com¬
pletion, was, as wo have seen,
readily obtained. He-v.-u.s enabled
to make a royal progress through
the Province and meet the Chero-
kees on the border of their hunt¬
ing grounds in all the pride, pomp,
and circumstance of glorious war.
That he should have accomplished
such purposes, by the annihila¬
tion of the common-pehonl fund,
and replenishing his exhausted
exchequer with money burrowed
at usurious interest, is as little
creditable to bis statesmanship as
his philanthropy.
lie was not unmindful of the
imnortancc of education, neverthe¬
less ; but education, in his esti¬
mation, was only expedient when
in subordination to the Church,
and religion. was ouly to be patron¬
ized when .subservient to the Slato.
TJutil this time, no seminary of
learning had been incorporated in
the Province. “ An Act for es¬
tablishing a school- house in the
town of New-Borne," discloses,
iu (he third section, the Govern¬
or’s views in relation to the true
theory of government, religion,
and education, “ provided,- always,
that no person shall be admitted
to bo master of the -said school,
but who is of the Established
Church of England, and who at
the recommendation of the trn-s-