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Rh illustrious champions of freedom have always preached,&mdash;the education of their people. They humbly crave leave to remind the American people that the State should take charge of the education of the people; that the first admonition of Penn, addressed to the colony which he founded, was, "Educate the people;" the unceasing exhortation of Jefferson was, "Educate the people," and the dying legacy which Washington bequeathed to the nation he had saved was, "Educate the people."