New-York daily tribune., 1843-03-30
The American HnstItute.

The American HEstituae.
The American Institute has grown up in this
city in the full view of our rich men, and has been
for IS years, most successfully encouraging the
Agriculture and Arts Of cur Country, and yet
they have contributed scarcely cent to its aid.
It has moved the whole surrounding country
Contributions of Skill, Genius and Industry were
exhibited in competitor at the late Fair from,
about ;wo-thirds Of the States in the Union.
More than seventeen thousand articles--some sin
gle articles Commencing with the preparations of
the raw materials) employing 80 or 40 hands to
complete them i'm the aggregate no doubt,
equaling one hundred and fifty thousand. Think
you if means have been devised to interest 10000
of our most industrious and skiful fellow citizens
10 fabricate articles of necessity and comfort and
every individual through every grade of workman
ship, working for prize, that the improvements
of our country have stood still
Ender such indictments they have not and will
not stand STILL But our wealthy people should no
longer hold back from such an institution. A gem
eral contribution frem our rich men is due to this
Institute; the wealth they possess has, to some ex
tent, grown out of its influences; and now is fit
ting opportunity to enable this Institute TO esab-
aish Reading Room, embracing the best period
icals of Agriculture and the Arts published in this
erousy giventhe use Of sufficient room in the build
ing now in the occupation of the Institute for ten
years) to afford, when fitted up, all the accommo-
dations required. The design is to concentrate al
this place all tho best periodicals of this country
and Europe, and to open it free strangers, from
whatever part Of the world they may come. To
those most coAversant with the periodicals now
publishing in the world, it is known that they em.
brace the essence of all modern discoveries and i'm
provements, which are multiplying with unprece-
dented rapidty.
Those in other languages than our own it is the
design of the Institute TO translate least such
as are most important; and to spread drawings
and also procure models of new and useful con-
structions and machines ameng our ingenious art
fists and inventors. That country which FIRST OBJ
'ains and puts into operation newly invented and
useful laborsaving machines, and avails itself of
asei@i discoveries and improvements, will be
triumphant IN the competition of nations. The ex-
uaoroinary aptitude of our countrymen in the use
OF OF new lnyehsons and in the application OF newly
discovered principles, forms distinctive trait of
national cnafac'er' and these inventive powers uni
TED win tns apttude acting the varied and vast
materials which our country affords, is destined,
with proper encouragement, to multiply our pro-
ductions and wealth 90 an extent beyond apv other
country. Let every one IN compssen. circnm
his own sake for the sake of his children for the
honor of the city where he has gathered his wealth,
contribute something TO an ns,i,ation modelled
upon the far-famed Institute OF Paris where every
stranger who visits our city win be Informed, and
where every spare hour may afford him at once
recreation and improvement. w.
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