Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-09-26
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|tanrht you it but you do not know,
believe, the reason why 1 have come to
Boston with Mr.. Gallaudet and DR.. Cogs.
we'll, and why we have invited you ta
|honort this meeting. with your presence. !
Jam going to tell you.
1t is to speak to yeu more convenient
|ly o; the Deaf and Dumb, Of those unior.
tunates, who deprived Of the sense o. ,,
hearing, and cons equently of that speech
would be condemned all their life, TO tho
most sad Vegetation, # nobods came u
their succour but ~ho intrnsted TO oal
regenerative hands, will pass frem tht
class OF Brutcs to the class of Men.
1t IS to affect yonr hearts, with regard
to their unhappy fate (; to.exGIte the sen
lsibiIity and solicit the charity ut you'
generous souls in their favour respect
fully to intreat ysa to occupy yoursetve'
lin promoting their future happiness.
The celebi ated and immortal Able dt
|i'Epee invented The art OF restoring then
Isosiety and religion. 1t is according t,
This method that the instructions in Eu
srepe have been formed sit is consequent
tIy to him that all the Deaf and Dumb
who know how to write and read, owe
their temporal and spiritual happiness.
The Able Sicard, my respectable and
beloved master was the most distinguish
ed among'the disciples of the Able d'
l'Epee, whom he succeeded The latter
had left some things to be designed, the
! Able Sicard has Supplied them; but d
the had rot been the Able de fEpee,
there would not have been the Aboe
.Scard, thus, glory, honour and eternal
gratitude are due to those two friends OF
humanity. r.
was about 1e years old when ar.
rived at the Able Sicard's school. was
endowed with considerable intelligence,
but nevertheless had no idea Of intel
Ile.tual things. | had, if i,f,ue. a mind ;
but it did net think IhaI a neart ;but il
did not feel.
: My mother affected at my misfortune.
had endeavoured to show me the hea.
vens, and to make me know God, ina.
CHING that I understood her :: but her
attempts were vain, Icould comprehend
nothing. believed that God was tall
big and strong man, and that Jesus Christ
having come to kill us, had been killed
'lby us and placed on cross as one OF
:, our triumphs.
J believed many other droll and ridi-
acufous things /; but as one cannot recoI-
',lect what passed in his infancy, | cannot
describe thsm i am sure that TIE Deaf
tand Dumb, who are in your country,
;. think as | once did. You must be so
kind as to aid US to unGeceive them. We
: shall cultivate their minds and form their
hearts, but as the mind and the heart
}; cannot live without the body, you will
have the goodness to charge yourselves
with your other countrymen, with the
support of their bodies. In Europe
each nation however small, has an insti,
tuition for the Deaf and Dumb and
most of the Institutions are at the ex-
pense OF the Government. VIII Anne
trica remain the only nation which is in.
sensible to the cry ofnumanity {? | hope
mot. and that YOU will busy yourselves
with the same zeal as. your neighbours.
the good inhabitants Of Connecticut. IF
the Deaf and Dumb become happy, it
will become yourjey to see that it is
the effect of your pure generosity, and
they will preserve the remembrance of til
as long as they lave.
MIR. GaIlaudet and Dir. Cogswef will
'siveycu more ample details (if desired)
on this subject: as to myself, | am rea-
dy to answer to all that you would wish
Ito know concerning the Deaf and
Dumb"
Among various questions proposed to-
NJ. CIerc was this: {" What is the dis
tiuction between memory and imagine
ton"
He answered as follows rs Memory is
the faculty or power OF the soul to recol-
|Iect the things which have been seen or
learned. Memory continues longer than
remembrance,
But not being able to explain imagi-
nation in English, he was obliged to give
"a defuition in the French language ::
L. Imagination est la facelte de rssprit
ID inventor &c torger, d'embelihet de pro-
DUE de bellies chooses, ct 81 bellies qu-
'elIes frappent l'esprit ct charment lie
ooer."
Imagination is the faculty Of the mind
to invent, frame, embclIish and produce
beautiful things, and so beautiful as to-
strike the understanding and charm the
heart.
Some doubt having been expressed in