New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-24

PpSCkifS lhStSoHc VI TIC tlty iLsGiIi Iu4h SJSStJ
should posseas the means OF establishing a branch
Of the Library on each side Of the City 80 Al TO be
accessible TO The workshops which are sprlDgng
up in every direction for mlles on the borders OF
our rivers To accomplish this most important
movement application should be made 70 the
Legislature OF the State, for that aid which has
been for 20 many years literally offered TO our Lit
erary Institutions The munifcent donations to our
Colleges and Schools, amount to & sum honorable to
the State, and to the great OF education some
ofour collegiate inIttutonsh ayereceivedu Upward of
500 600 from the State and all more or less have
participated in lts bounty. We do not complain OF
THE bernity when our colleges send forth educated
gentlemen OF family aud fortune, but We want
something to be done for the poor children Of this
City Of that city into which all the trade and COM
merce of the State is received, aold and the not
proceeds returned to every own and village of the
State. We shall be told that our noble Free
Schools will accomplish this desirable result, but
they DO not; part OF their great work Is lefl undone
boy is Apprenticed at 10 Ia years OF age, there
erds bs education, his time belongs 80 his
pioyer and from that moment he msst commence
to educate himself by employing his leisure time
in improving his mind IN reading the best authors,
ip acquiring a knowledge OF the world It's Iitera-
tute, arts end Improvements. That can only be
accomplished in the Apprentices Library. Surely
ouch al institution is worthy the patronage of our
State, and | feel confident " i'll receive II annually
itapplicston is PROV erly made and the Legislature
becomes familiar with all the benefits OF this nsti
t .tion Our Free Schools afford the elements OF
an education in them the rough iron is shaped
and bel out here it is polished and finished.
TIE great mass Of the American people can do but
tu things for their children-give them educa.
ton and give them trade-wtth these two great
gifts they may send them out on the great ocean OF
the world, they are sher sails and rudder.
father may give g fortune to bis son. and be may
soon wAsse it al; but he never can lose that for.
Oh ~ 1,b Cf hn,,J na
tune may be s1on expended in folly, extravaganza
and vice. but thorough know edge OF the mechan-
Csl arts cannot be lost or wasted 1t ia centered
in the lead ard the haads and cannot be lost or
traded away it is q sure investment for the in
dustrioOs and the temperate sgainst deness and
want
have long urged wealthy parents TO throw
aside false pride, and max their SONS Mechanics
iDstesd of Lawyers, Physicians and p!yines the
bar is Gro " ded, aud Improbable, medicine is also
ovsraocbed with practitioners aud the pulpit has
many lRoorious and poorly paid pastors. If we
improve hereafter rapidly as we heretofore have
done these professions and pursuits viii be simpi-
fed, and We shall find tia. every man can be his
own lawy en- bis own doctor, and in his own dones-
tic circle with that great and good book, the Btbe,
he can become his, In pertown preacher; but
know edge of the Mechanical Arts steadily AMI iu-
dustrious carried ont, must in this great and In.
creasing country be for the source of prJ and
the Lub TUHu W Iuu6p6uuStlNS' AIus Ltul n y
therefore, ia the great platform, on which a high
moral ard intellectual character may be formed.
When the labor OF the day s over, instead OF the
apprentice securing the ssreets, visiting barrOOms
or thesters, mingllng with idie vicious compan'
lone, he takes his seat In this Library Hlth rlcn
intellectu repast before him. or, being privileged
to take book hons with him. he trims his lamp
and reads aloud TO hs little brothers and ss-
sers, scattering the good seeda among them
to take root hereafter To highs he Invites
hinosef TO pass the evening with the elegant
Addison, TO morrow night he spends with Cod
smith, or Doctor johnson, or Smolet, or Glib
Dor, tbs sacisty of eminent end lusSrious men
whom it is MS pride TO kEGa ftom lle rich en-
Rust0na Of their genua. II he wishes TO travel
he sets out with Arson and Captain Cook and
makes VOYAGE around the world II he is foGd of
antiquities, he vista with Deuen Shaw, Pacoke
and Others, the magnificent ruins OF Thebes and
Memphis, the Pyramids OF Z 3ypt and the cities OF
praraoh-he crossea the Red Sea over which the
lsraeIiles passed, and his gazes in Imagination on
Mount Sinai, where the great and Divine Lag was
given to he world Tbich even at this day 10 our
guide 10 happneas. fhis spirita flag he enligens
Them with the rich wit of Don Quixo.e, or the hu.
mors OF Gil Blas ifhe would like to dip li.'le in
fiction. he takes up That delightful Rohuano ilc1i
be peruses that charming compilation, the Araoan
Nights, and walks through Grand Cairo with ID a
roun 81 Raschid. In severe and serlouS studloa ne
learns from practical chemists how 10 mix colors
re pores OF6C W az. anu hIduSl w h"Cp~oili VIZ
formation and working OF the steam engine, and II
he wishes to know how the Liberties OF bis own
country have been acquired he reads the battles OF
Lexington, Bunker Hill and Saratoga
You have gentlemen, by yoor liberellty, your
benevolence your good feeling, taken the poor,
probably the ragged apprentice by the hano, ana
through the medium OF the Library which you
have established have introduced him to she
familiar Acquaintance of tho great men VINO
have adorned the world and the age in which
they lived by their genius snd talent. Inc
apprentice thus employed at night reads until
sleep places its taden fingers on hla eyellds, ne
sinks into a cain, refreshing slumber aud eWaEens
et the dawn Of day refreshed ard invlgorated,
with his head cesr his mind CAIN and ready tor
the days occupation Just rs the twig is bent
the tree inclines' We lead on the boy by de
grees until reading and study become passion
with him, and when in later times as he advances
TO character and fortune he looks back 10 the days
of bis apprenticeship and hG nights OF study with
prlde and satis acti0D, and he honors 70 the iss.
hour OF bis existence, the benevolent founders OF
this Institution. Persevere then, gentlemen, IN the
good work which you have commenced, and have
30 long cherished, and when you have something
to bequeatb, when the sands of lie have run our
remember in your wills thG excellent valued lnstl
tuition, aud have your nsmea recorded among lss
beat Of benefactors.
JOSEPH HOME, Esq another member OF the
Association, WAS then introduced, and spoke for
about fifteen minutes, principally for the purpose
of contrasting the advantages DOW enjoyed by the
young, with those which were within his reach, in
the days Of his childhood, and for the purpose OF
showing the Importance of improving these ad
vsnssges.
When Mr. Hoxie had concluded the eide rooms
were opened, and the audience invited to parsake
OF neat cold collation., of character we'll suited
to the occasion. We left the company enjoying
themselves in the most agreeable manner.
At the close Of Mr.. Hoxies address, the Chair
man announced that course OF historical lectures
rrnnld ha Haliuarad IL The assarnhlu rnnmE OF The