Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1815-10-18
IN Powell on Mortgages l4s.
no TuE cI-rIzENs OF RIcHuoND.

A very tin meeting at the Washington Tavern
on Saturday evening, did us the honor to appoint
Committee to address you the Institution of g
Lancastrian School in this city.
The subject is plain one.--Your hearts are
open to receive it. few words therefore will be
sufficient to comply with the duty which is laid upon
US.
There are few of you, who need to be told of the
benefits of Education. Yet how many are there
in this city, to whom the door of knowledge is shut
Why should it be SOL Is it because have not
the means to let them in Is it because the edu-
cation of four five hundred children IN the ee-
ments Of learning sso very eTpensiUe, that we can
not, or will not afford it !
LANCASTER removes every difficulty of this
sort. He has made the road so smooth and EASY
that il may be travelled with very little expense
From what we have understood, the result OF the
experiments in other towns, we venture tn say,
that in no other method so many children be
taught the first branches tor so small of
ney, as in devised by HIM We are told by tlio.e
who have seen his 81 stem in operation, tbat they
learn FAST if not faster, than when instructed IN
the common way that in the common way, one
Preceptor cannot do justice TO more than thirty pu
pills but in this, he can do equal justice to .,iUe
hundred"
But let us take the above estimate at only one
haf--Lct us suppose that teacher can do JUS
tee to no more than f4vo injured 81 .Gfy.--ilow
great IS the benefit obtain .iftor twelve kundred
doll rs, one ofthe teachers in the old mode will
educate thirty ehillrenat thirty dollars each per
snpum for the same sum proficient in tlie Lam
castrian method will teach two hundred and fifty
that IS, lac will charge only fUe dollars ayear ard
this puts it in every parents power, who spare
five dollars year, to see his child taught the ee-
ments Of learning If we suppose that half on
w Of those who attend the school able To fee the
teacher; then each Of these will have to pay but
nine or ten dollars, while htHned and fTpeHiy
fUe boor children, who would otherwise, be thrown
AdIift upon the wide world are taken by the hand,
and led into the vcstib4le Of knowledge. We ask
YOU, ifhs is not object worthy Of your exerons
For three thousand dollars VIC may perhaps TT
up school, in all It's parts and support teacher the
first wear we NAV educate three hundred children,
who are now royng orr streets in idleuess and g-
have reasons 10 hope that the school will support
itself.
And will you, Citizens Of Richmond, turn deaf
ear to these suggestions will you, who have ne
yer turned your backsupOn any generous PROPOSE
ton, turn away frsrn this viii you shut your
purses, or an occasion which appeals % the best
feelings Of your hearts aud to the dearcst reDuts
ton OF our City, when many other ocessiqns
your purses have opened TO the claims Of huinani-
" and patriotism Will you see Georgetown aud
Norfolk outstripping us in the race Of utility, while
the way -laring man and stranger viii point 10 os
with scOrR w viii not believeh
In the name, thoa, Of our beloved city in the
name Of Humanity in the name ofour children we
beseeeh you to take these matters to your hearts
70 weigh them we'll 10 consider in what way the
object IN view, at which we have only gsneel, can
best be obtained.
J We therefore respectfully invite so1 70 general