Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-12-18
Making n total for five years,
Sl01.l37 l6

A nd an annual average oil, S-l,f-f 10 -"
The cost to the State OF each regular Cadet, AT Lex
;nc,on is fraction under hundred and thirty dol
lars Spposlng the cost of each to the State at Rich
mond should the change be made, be twenty dollars
more or one hundred and fifty dollars; then eighty Re-
rular Cadets would annually cost The State Sl2,Ooo
Allowing $1,000 for Officers salaries the whole e.
nense would be $4,000, which sum is less by more
bnn six Thousand dollars, than the State has paid to
tho Public Guard either of the last two years 1t IS
believe that the present expense of the Public Guard
would be enough to maintain The institution, should The
change be made. Irregular Cadets, paying their own
expenses, could be admitted ana many appiIca''ons
would no doubt be made Last June there were some
hundreds Of such applications the file at the Inst
into ~ LEXINGTON and more than kali OF the present
corps is of that class
The committee even think themselves justified in
going further, and saying, that not only Will not one
cent additional be drawn from the Treasury to sustain
Tho expenses of the contemplated change but that
We raj thousands will be snved to the Commonwealth
and made available for the benefit OF our Literary Fund
It's earnestly recommended that provision be made
at both the military Institutes Tor taxing Tie cade's ron
the great mass OF the INDECENT in the commonwealth, to
be recommended for their peculiar merits by the school
commissioners to board for their selection thus taking
so much ra,r material from the great body oil The people,
TO be manufactured into ttachcrS and sent back 10 the
ucope 10 manufacture the mass OF the raw material IT,
self.
Details in this statement are Intentionally avoided,
unsuitable for present purposes But your committee
feel assured that every step investigation of details
will confirm the general views here presented
SPEECH o. Ma. 4. ". vENABT.E Or MrcSlEssrrc
On tic Report of the Committee on Military Schools
and academies
Mr.. President In presenting myself before the
Convention, must ask their indulgence Tor iew mo-
ments, whilst express my cordial concurrence in the
repor, now before you. am induced to do so at the
present time, because this Committee have embraced
the same subjects which have been presented by lie
Committee on Academies 10 which | belong, and
whose report is on your table, and by pursuing the
subject still farther ! shall be enabled TO say now
what may not be called on to say at future time ;
and if shall aid in establishing the principles of this
report, and commencing them 10 the favor of the Con-
vention, the object which consider of paramount i'm
portance in the results of our lnbors will be accomplish
ed 1t was with peculiar pleasure that observed tie
provision in this report corresponding with that sub
mi,ted by the Chairman ofthe Committee on Academies
which looked 10 the Of afording supply ofteach
competent for the duties they were called 10 per-
form. am under deep and solemn conviction that the
failure of system of primary education has its origin
in want Of suitable instructors, and that unless this evil
be removed, 81! efo,ts will 30 in vain The substu