Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-03-17

lie Lands discharged from Tie iurtHer consdera
ton OF all the resolutions and petitions referred 10 u
upon the SUBJECT Of the issue and location of Virgins
Military Land Warrants, and they referred to the
Committee on Military Affairs
On motion of Mr. BARROW, it was
Ecsoircd That the Committee on Naval Affairs be
instructed TO inquire into the eXpcdlency OF an imme
diae appropriation by Congress Tor the construction oil
n war steamer the most improved plan, for the de-
fence of New Orleans, he constructed Mt some suit
able point the waters of the Mississippi river.
Mr.. YOUNG submitted the following resolution:
Resolrcd That the Committee Public Lands be
instructed to inquire the expedency Of granting
township OF land to the Stale of Illinois, for the pur
pose of aiding the establishment OF an institutions char
tered by the Legislature of the State for the education
Of the deaf end dumb within lis Limits.
Mr. YOUNG said in presenting this resolution, he
was requested 10 state that the General Assembly o
Illinois had seine three four years ago granted a
charter or passed act Of incorporation for The
education of the deaf and dumb in that State That
board of trustees Ind been appointed Tor It's manage
ment, and small appropriation made by way OF be-
ginning, but totally inadequate TO place The institution
on permanent basis. He sad IL had been ascerained
by the late census tina, this unfortunate class of our
ieow-beings in the State of Illinois alone, numbered
three hundred souls. The question now iorcibly
presents itself to the Senate and to the country whe
Their they shall be suffered 10 remain in their pre-
sent dark and benghted condition, shall they be
elevated by system of education now known TO be
PRACTICAL intellectual enjoyment, and such OF their
faculties as lie dormant for the want of proper nstruc
ten, brought into active being, and made subsevent
to many Of the useful empoymen,s in life, concerning
which they probably in their uneducated condition
have little or no conception. Congress has already
made liberal grants of land in all the States and
Territories for the purposes of ordinary education in
our common schools, ard for the higher branches ofn
struction colleges, academies, and universities,
bu, no provision has been made yet for the
fortunate of our youth, who deprived of two of the
most important useful and interesting of the faculties
with which mankind usually blessed, and for whose
benefit the resolution under consideration has been pre-
sented He concluded by hoping that the Committee
Public Lands would give TO the subject all the consde
ration its Importance demanded and that liberal grant
of land would not be withheld FOR humane and chart
table purpose.
The resolution then adopted, and referred 10 he
Committee on Public Lands.
Mr. SMITH of Indiana remarked that the Commit
tee on Public Lands had the whole subject before it, and
said that he had doubt that that committee would
port general bill the subject, inasmnch two of
The States Connecticut and Kentucky, had already
ceived donations for that laudable object.
The resolution adopted.
Numerous bills from the House Of Representatives.,
of private nature were read twice and appropriated
referred TO the Standing Committees