The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-03-09

The three colleges Of Massachusetts, having
petitioned the Legislature that when the school
fund had reached the limit of one million Of
dollars, prescribed by law, another fund Of one
half a million should be allowed to accumu-
late for the benefit of the colleges, the subject
was referred to a joint committee, which APP
pointed a meeting on the 7th inst, for a public
hearing Of the friends of the measure in sup
port Of it. President Hopkins of Williams,
Hitchcock OF Amherst, and Sparks, of Harvard,
appeared in behalf Of their several institutions
and the Hon Edward Everett was invited to
address the committee in their behalf, which
he did with Characteristic force and eIo-
quence. From a report, occupying some four
columns Of the Boston Daily Advertiser, we
make the following extracts. The policy that
would Confine the care of the State to the COM
mon schools is most successfully rebuked.
Mr.. Everett regards the whole circle Of educa-
tional institutions as one interest. Hear him.
PicayUne.
''Formyself, | admit, if the admission is de-
sired, that a good system of common school
education is, next to religious influences, the
great and solid foundation of a prosperous
State. To build on anything else is to build
on straw and stubble. ! honor, beyond all COM
mon names of respect, the distinguished gen.
tleman (Horace Mann) who, for twelve years
has devoted the uncommon powers Of his mind
and indomitable energy Of his character to this
noble State. He will be remembered till the
history Of Massachusetts is forgotten as one Of
ner greatest benefactors.'
l owe myself a large debt of gratitude to the
public schools, although Fifty years ago they
were in a very different condition from what
they are now. My education began at the
free schools of my native village of Dorchester,
(for village it was then,) and of this, the be-
loved city of my adoption. The first diStinc-
ton which crowned my humble career was the
Franklin medal at the reading school in North
Denmark street, when ! was not much higher
than the table; and if my tongue is ever silent,
when it ought to speak the praises of the ccm-
mon schools Of Massachusetts, may it never be
heard with favor in any other cause.
BIT can it be necessary? know Mr.. Chair
man, before this audience it cannot be neces-
sary to argue the cause Of highet education,
scientific and literary, forming as it does the
best preparation for all the departments of
professional life; for enlightened statesman
ship, and for a sufficient application Of philO-
sophieal principles to the great financial inter-
ests of the community. Who does not know,
sir, that there is not yard Of cotton cloth
bleached or printed in the commonwealth with
out assistance from the last reinements Of
chemical research; that you cannot construct
a turbine water wheel but by the aid Of the
highest mathematics, nor establish a uniform
standard Of weights and measures without
building upon a series Of geOmetrical opera
lions, which began with Hipparchus.
The tables by which the navigator-perhaps
the i~lliterate nayigator--fnds the ships place
at sea-,are written in The very depths of the
starry heavens; and the most learned eyes fol
ages have strained themselves dim, through
glasses of wondrous mechanism, in decipherlne
the mysterious characters. The electric tele'
graph which brings you the daily news, is the
} last achievement Of a department Of physical
science, in which some Of the brightest intel
lects of the last hundred years, from franklin
down, have concentrated their powers Of OBJ