The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-04-29

and hopefully, and now he is able to make a
saeable mat Once or twice in year he is
led to our store where he disposes Of his work,
takes new materials, receives the little bal
ance of his profits in money, and goes away
again to his lone home in the almshouse with
a glad and grateful heart.
The first man, by the possession Of light
enough to guide himself in the day time, is
spared the expense of leader, and by his
early training has acquired dexterity at his
work; and he can, by strict industry and
economy, enjoy the greatest of human luxu-
ries the relation Of husband and father, and,
blessing others, be himself blessed. Not so
the second; he was suddenly struck blind, as
any of us may be, in mid life, and in full
strength, and became as helpless as a little
child, and, being poorhe was led away to the
alnshouse, and left in darkness, dependence,
and despair. But religion came to his aid,
and hope revived as the prospects of another
life opened to his mental gaze and now comes
the means of employment, and trihing gain,
and the rest of his journey will be compare
lively easy and pleasant These are real, land
not imaginary cases.
Now what we earnestly desire is the estab-
lishment of fund, by means of which blind
persons who are in the condition of the Sec
ond may be placed in the condition ofthe first
of those we have mentioned.
There should be large workshop, that
would cost perhaps $4,000; and fund, the
income of which would pay for warming it,
and keeping it in order. The only other eX-
penscs would be the salary of a seeing master
workman, and the rent Of a saesroom in the
city. These expenses betrayed the profits on
the work would be sufficient to pay all the
others, and to allow the workmen wages suf-
fcent to enable them to board in families in
the neighborhood, or, what would in many
cases be infinitely better, to support families
of their own. The whole of these expenses
would not exceed s 900, and would soon be
diminished. Such an establishment would
not necessarily be connected with this lnsti-
tuition.
If a plan such as is here sketched were car
ried into execution, it would constitute an
Institution supplementary to,but Independent
of ours one that would be exceedingly sim
pie and practical in its operation, and that
would be useful through all time for there
always will be a considerable proportion of
those who leave this school, who, though they
can nearly support themselves, cannot quite
do so, and for the want of little aid must
come upon the parish; step which is always
humiliating, and often demoralizing, Such
an establishment, too, would relieve this In
stitution from an embarrassing charge, and
enable it to confne its efforts strictly to its
proper sphere, that of teaching and training
the young blind. We earnestly recommend
this pan to the consideration of those chart
table persons who may desire to secure the
continuous application Of their means to works
of bcneficence long after they have ceased to
be their own almoners,
During the first part of the past year, our
press was in active operation; the second and
third volumes of the Cyclop@da were finish
ed and now constitute very valuable additions
to the library for the blind. We regret to
say, however, that the work is suspended for
the present ON account of want of funds
The American Bible Society has printed
second edition of the bible from the plates
made here. There is some prospect, also, that
the work Of printing will be taken up in the
New York Institution for the blind, and still
carried on. This is the more desirable, since
the Glasgow press, the only one in Great
Britain which made any considerable contrl-
buttons to the library for the blind, was stop
ped some time ago,and there is reason to fear
that, in consequence of the lamented death of
MIR AllSton, its most active and able friend, it
will not for long time be put in operation
again. In reality, nothing is doing for the Ii
brary of the blind, in the English language,at
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anu M, DfiS'ol are now directed 70 PrinI,
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PRESSING to the CORPORATION our sense Of the
eryiccs Of those Of our BODY who have signi-
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