Litchfield enquirer., 1830-04-15
MANUAL Lkhok HIGH acnoot.

~ oS WWn p'easaro giEe place to long cuut- mnu!eafioa explanatory Of ihe views of committee aPpOin'ed by te two CoasocatiOns of this county up on the prOpriesy and expediency Of establishing Manual Labor High School within this county; and would ca the aenliOn of our readers particularly it. Net protesting to be intimately acquainted with the plan upon which these institutions cOnducGed cannot Ofcourre speak of ilscm as we might other wise desire. That maaual labor combined whh inen- s exercise is calculated to benefit the scholar and the professional man, is proposition we believe too self evident to require labored elucidaIion; and that school essnblished aPOn such principle in our imme- date vicinity would be of essential service to the com muni,y cannot be doubted. Correspondents who may favor us wiIh Iheir views upon the subject will meet vsish ready inaestioD.
 TIt is requested by the committee that gentlemen in different parts Of this county to whom the paper cOntaning she Report is sent, would circulate t as widely s possible, tha, the plan and objects of the inc SsitU.iOn may be extensively known.
 ~ FOR TnE ENQUIRER.
 The iNcreasng of the country in regard to reI-
 goua tearherp and qualified Rchoo-maSters, and the
 innny failures from health destroyed, and morals
 corrpsed in the present plan of education, together
 with the expcnee incurred, has forced upon many
 minds the importance of some efficient system that
 sught combiMe the advantages without the d'sad.
 Vantagce, of tho present course of preparatory and
 academic studies. In reference to this object, the
 plan o School within this county that should com-
 nsct Manual Labor with Study, was suggested, a'
 nearly the saa,e time, Co tue two ConsociNons tn
 L,eck6eld county; and, aGer suitable aiIcnion tO
 the autiect it appeared o each body to he an object
 of plarh importance and promise, joint commit,
 tee of six, from each Consociation, was appointed
 to take the subject into full consideration, and
 repprt to each hody The following is the Report
 a prcaented and adopted by the two CoNsocia'ions:
 The joint committee of the North and South Con- socia.ions of Lhch6eld County, appointed to take ;nao consideration the expediency of establishing within the County EllGR SCHOOL connected with MANUAL LABOR, respectfully REPORT:
 That ,hey have availed themselves as far as in their power of the information and experience furnished hy similar iust,uons and of the opinions of manyju. ticious, literary, and pious men, and have become fully satisfied that the measure is not only exped'en' and practicable, hut imperiously demanded by the present exigencies Of rapidly increasing country. So obvious s the truth of this remHrk, that a" almost s;nul,aasous impulse has directed different and dist ant parts of community to the same object. There are now Manual Labour Academies commencing, or in successful operation, in the North, 'n the W est and in the South; and uniform experience 70 far a they have gone into operation, presents new and promising field of benevolent enterprise. Your committee are enabled to state, that those who have had the rest opportunity to test the Pr'ncP'es of such an institution, manifest settled convcto" of entire and most happy success.
 Among the reasons for this conviction, your commit tee submit the iOIowing:- ... ..s.
 l. The increasing demand Jor sOeH edIc0eed G"d Ps ous Mipissers and Teachers of SchOOls.
 
 portions of our rapidly pOpulang country' and roll back the tide ot errUr aud ignorance and vice which threatens to inundaie the farest portions of our new settlements, s admitted hy all judicoas friends of civil aad religious liberty. The charitable education of pious young with direct reference to this ob- jsc has engaged the attention and enlisted the char ties and prayers of small portion of the chr'sta" community lor several years. It seems 10 have been admitted by general consent, that pions young men, educated for lhe Gospel Ministry and for Teachers ot Schools, mast be sent into the West and South-Wess of our extensive republics or in less than fifty years shs greater par. of our population will be under the deadly influence of principles hostile to the Reorma- ,ion and all the yrtuoos and civil institutions of free and enlightened people. in many portions, especial iv of our new settlements, there is more immediate opening and more favorable prospects to well educa' ed and vir,uous School Masters, than Preachers Of ehe Gospel; and thus introduced, their prospects of usesulness, and an advantageous establishment should they setle is the country, are very inviting.
 lI. Nspin De sduiag cf expense.
 It is believed ha. in educating pious and ind'ge"' young men for these objects in the manneS proposed a, least one halfofhe expense Ofthe pressn. charta ble institutions may De saved, and vastly greater number brought into the feid of usefulness. The ex- periencc Of the Oneida Academy, and similar i"su- lions, has shown, that the burden ot support s sus ,aiued by the labor of the Student. without at all n- ter(ering win hs studies. In this way. young men desgned for College, may be carried to an advanced s.asding with ns expense to pabc charity, and will render the same means efficient to the education of doub,e the number of bene6ciaries. The present svstem of charitable education, however excellent soever n may be- s sokOiy inadsqsats to the increas iee wants of our country. While it in part supplies the waat of Spiritual Teachers. it does sot cOniem- plaae the soppy Oi we'll qualified and pious School Masters which in many portions of our new settles snenss are even ove immediatey necessary as Pion- eers in the cause of science sud christian morals. where Preachers of the Gospel would not have suc- eess. Besides the present system of charitable edu- caaon is a sn expense which must limit the number of well educaled Ministers to an entire fnadequacy, sl tise whole 6eld will be everrsa with Popery. In6 ael;sv. and Crime. Were the funds of Education
 Al .l.