The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-06-25
J.F. MCCLELLAN, Printer.

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/ During the year "The Complete Pho.
geographic Class>Book, "a revised and ems
Iarged edition of the "~Phonographic Read.
err" set Of photographic Charts" and
"The American Photographic Journal"
engraved on coprer~plote, have been pub
lished from the Photographic Institution,
Ia Boston. The demand for these and for
the numerous English Photographic and
Phonotypic publications has been steadily
increasing. More than 5000 copies Of
instruction books have been put in circus
lation during the last six months. The
Council have published and distributed
1000 copies of the constitution of the So
ciety, with the names of more than seven
hundred members annexed.
The public press is becoming daily
more favorable to the reform. The Chro>
notypc. published at Boston, presents 10
its readers, from day to day, one or more
columns in the phonetic dress. The Lib
orator has given occasional specimens OF
the same, and The directors Of several 9th.
er public journals in the city of N. York.
are delayed only by the want of proper
type. In the West, some papers are en-
deavoring TO exhibit the phonetic princi>
pie so far as practicable by the use of the
old u alphabet and type.
MI. Boyle has taught personally mors
than 1000 individuals, during the past
winter, and the Council have received
great numbers of letters, from teachers s.
others, from Maine TO Texas, and from
Georgia TO Wisconsin, asking for informa-
tlon, or reporting the incipient triumph of
phonetic truth. Through The exertions
of one lady alone, the elements of Pho~
biography have been explained to more
than 1000 persons in the interior Of Mass.
and Rhode Island.
Fifty teachers and members of school
committees, in and about Boston, have
issued a card recommending %Phonogra~
ply and certifying lis claims 10 the public
confidence. The executive Council have
also issued an address To- the American
people, which has been copied 10 their
knowledge, into more than fifty newspa-
pers, and has produced q very happy ef
feet.
The Report ofa highly Influential com.
mi!tee in Boston, upon the progress Ola
class Of colored adults previously ignorant
OF reading, presented for examination by
Messrs Andrews and Boyle, has likewise
been published in more than a hundred
newspapers and periodicals, and is doing
engaged in teaching several classes Of COLI
ored adults, in Boston, TO read fiuently by
The same process. A Sabbath school at
tdched 10 one OF the most influential
churches in the same city is making ar
engagements for the introduction of Pho.
notypy, as a mean Of conveying biblicat
instruction to those who are unable 10
read the ordinary print, and also for the
publication Of suitable books for that pur-
pose.
The Council would also mention as
one of the most striking indications of
progress, that Phonography, after having
been taught for about a year in the Stale
Normal School Of Massachusetts, at West
Newton, has recently been presented un-
der the most favorable auspices at the
State Normal School of The State Of New
York at Albany, and that the school COM
mittee of that city, which is regarded as
The educational head quarters of the State,
have likewise introduced it into all the
grammar schools under their superintend-
ence. Ii is now taught also at The Alba
ny Female Academy, an institution sus-
talning a high reputation throughout the
country. 1t is another important fact, for
which the Council are grateful 10 their
liberal minded conductors that the two
educational Journals of that great
State are freely open 10 the advocates of
Phonetic reform.
Finally, the Academy Of Arts and Sci-
ences has appointed "a special committee to
investigate the claims OF Photography &,
Phonotypy. They have invited Mr.. Ans
lrews, the President of your Society, to
appear before them and make an exhibi-
ion ollhe principles and objects of these
arts. Several sessions have already been
to the subject, and the investiga-
ion is still progressing. Photographers
nay be assured that no misgivings need
De felt as 10 the result.
In conclusion, the Council would certis
y to the society their strong conviction
hat the certainty of final and speedy
of the great reformatory enter.
rise in which we are engaged, has been
secured. It is becoming daily
more and more obvious that the directors
If education cannot long refrain from in
reducing both Photography and Phono,-
ypy into the schools and public institutions
If learning generally. May an %cnlight-
med and judicious discrimination govern
heir action to that end. and the grateful
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ng generations will be their reward.
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