Essays by “The Free Republican,” 1784–1786. Benjamin Lincoln, Jr.

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СКАЧАТЬ of these melancholy events shall take place,” warned Lincoln, “liberty, with all her attendant blessings, must take her flight to some happier clime, and leave the government to anarchy and ruin!”⁴⁹

      A college like Harvard was a fine thing, but not sufficient for educating “the greater part of the community, men of small property, whose subsistence requires their and their children’s utmost industry.”⁵⁰ These poor and middling people needed instruction in public schools that were easily

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      and cheaply available. All the villages, towns, parishes, and precincts ought to have schools and seminaries of instruction for all the ordinary people in the society.

      It was on this matter of supporting widespread public education that the aristocratic Lincoln finally joined hands posthumously with his middling opponent William Manning—a linkage between the few and the many that has resonated through the whole of American history. In his “Key of Liberty” of 1799 Manning rightly understood that “learning and knowledge among the Many is the only support of liberty,” but he was wrong in assuming that the genteel few like Lincoln were opposed to public schooling and were bent on keeping the many in ignorance and superstition. Despite all their social and intellectual differences, both Lincoln and Manning ultimately agreed on what was really essential for the sustaining of republican government.⁵¹

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      Essays by “The Free Republican,” 1784–1786

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