True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-01-21


sed them, and which is herewith transmit
ted. 1t will be seen that all have not res
pended, but enough has been collected TO
show the manner in which the school
lands have been treated, and to make it
apparent that a radical change is demand
ed.
After devoting as much time as | could
spare to the subject of schools, consistent
with other official duties, ! feel prepared IN
a spirit of the utmost confidence as 10 It's
success, to make the following recommcn-
dalton. The State ought to assume the
$4,000 90 lost in the Planters bank and
place it at once on the same footing win
the S1O3,2S7 90 now inthe Treasury, The
fund would then amount IN round mum
bers to two hundred aud fifty Thousand
dollars. Two hundred thousand dollars
of this should be retained as permanent
fund, and the residue appropriated to the
erection ofcolIege buildings at Oxford, as
heretofore suggested.
This permanent fund should be kept IN
the Treasury, and an annual interest OF
of eight per cent. paid on it. This interest
10000 dollars should be set apart in the
Treasury at the beginning of every year
and kept sacred and Inviolabe for the pur
poses hereafter to be named; and here let
me remark that theveXatlon and expense
which has attended first collection ofthiS
fund, and the heavy and lulnouS losses
which it has sustained in the hands from
which it has been slowly wrung, should
admonish the Legislature to take charge OF
it and keep it secure ia future. OF The SIX
teen thousand dollars interest, recon-
mend that eight thousand dollars be appro-
prialed to the annual purposes OF the Col
lege There should be then established
ter academies or high schools at as many
different points in the State, TO be designa
ated by the Legislature, having reference
to geographical divisions. To each oftbese
there should bean annual payment OF eight
hundred dollars out of the remaining eight !
thousand. Nothing is clearer to my mind |
than that the College will not succeed, /
withoutthe aid ofauXIIary schools. These
schools need not, and indeed should not.
be in the immediate vicinity Of the College,
but at such points rs to give 1t the most
efficient aid, and at The same time TO dii.use
the greatest amount Of intelligence among
the people. The language Of the Act of
Congress in making the grant ollund from
which we derive this fund is that "It shall
be vested in the Legislature of the State
in trust for the support Of Seminary OF
learning This language, "a Seminary
of leaning" has been thought 10 limit the
legislature TO the establishment Of one
school, and to negative the IDEA that that
school could have auxiliary departments.
1t has seemed 10 me so paIpable that the
Trustees could so act as to carry out the !
great object of the trust which was the tit-
uSion ofknowleaSo, that have not talien
INTO what IS to my mind a constrained idea
If the law OF Congress. Ii does not nee
,Ssarily follow, that because the Act of
congress said IA Seminary" lhat il meant
here should be one school under one roof
II that the SEMINARY and ell its auxiliary
departments should cin the same encio- {
IRE, or even in the same city or town. The
pirlt Of the Act ofCouggcsS is carried out
Y the establishment OF one Seminary, I'm
7erSty or College with such auxiliary
apartments as arc necessary to Its success.
these should be under the same general
upervision and couuo and be located at
uch points as TO be Of the greatest adyan-
lge 10 the main College, aud to the cause
feducation.
There mast vet be another and still
lore useful class Of schools mean the
)mmou or free school. The 10Th section
land in each township, set apart by
'ise enactment OF Congress for this pur-
ose, have been most Suamciuliynuglgc,Cd.
he iuattentlon with which these lands
ave, in many Instances been treated,
akes It very apparent, 20 my mind, that
hatever system ofSchoolS we adopt, must
, taken under the supervisory control Of
Ulcers who shall be responsible to the
tate. There must be some general head,
I'd there must be an immediate RESPONSE
lily of that head 10 the State laws. The
,ople in mass will never require reSpon-
bility, and they will never act unitodly
I'd constantly as one man for the common
bod; each one will content himself with
ting for himself, and the general good S
al 90 unattended 20. OF the ten or twelve /
lndrcd sections ofschoo, lands heretofore. {
I'd now under the control of the citizens 1
the township, have not been enabled 20
,certain that one hundred have been well {
ianaged. Some OF them have been Tres !
lSSed on and denudcd Of their valuable &
mbcr; in other instances they have hcen q
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