The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-01
fFoR THE REPURLIc.l
The School and school District American
Institute.

The attention Of the people of the United States
is respectfully invited to the subject OF establishing
the School and School District American Institute,
including a teachers residence, an experimental
and model farm, garden Of plants, with such inn
proyements on the American Institute Of the city Of
New York, the National and Smithsonian Institutes
of the city of Washington, as may seem appropri
ate with rooms for public meetings, for chemical,
electrical and other philosophical apparatus for a
free library, such those Of Massachusetts and
New York. for the reception and preservation Of
the newspapers and Reviews of the great parties
which divide our country such as the National
Inteligncer, the Republic, tho Union the Congress
,ional Globe &c, the Democratic and Wing Re.
views, the State and county papers Of the rcspec-
tive schools, the Presidents annual message, with
the accompanying documents, the Patent Office
reports, and such others TO Congress may seem
appropriate co that each voter may examine tho
roughly tho great questions which agilate our
country.
In leisure hours, or il thrown out Of employment,
access may always be had 10 valuable library,
philosophical apparatus, and 70 pleasant place Of
resort for social enjoyment we'll for political
physical, intellectual, and moral improvement.
A Mothers and Daughters American Institute,
an American, Maternal, Patcrnal, and Juvenile
Code of Laws, may also be established for mutual
Improvement 10 aid in sclf-culture. where the old
and the young may become successful learners and
teachers Of truth. And 40 the mothers and daugh-
ters Of our country will have facilities for higher
sttainments than at present.
A number of andholders in Maryland, Virginia,
District Of Columbia, &c, have offered TO give from
one acre 10 two hundred acres Of good land to aid
in establishing State and County Normal Schools,
School and School District Experimental and
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the most choice fruits, vegetables, flowers &c, and
the use of each others labor, books, money, sc.
Estimating tho cost Of each school al ten thou
sand dollars, and eighty thousand common schools
in the Union-thc whole cost would be eight hun.
drcd millions Of dollars. This seems TO be a largo
amount; but is not the object sufficient 10 induce
fathers, mothers, and the youth OF our country TO
dispense with some of the luxuries and tinsel OF
the day TO accomplish iG
BY introducing good libraries, philosophical ap-
parstus, experimental and model farms, much
valuable knowledge may be acquired by the chill.
dren and youth Of our country between the ages OF
four years and twenty one, with the advantage OF
pursuing Investigations and experiments in the
School and School District American Institute in af.
ter hfe-greaty facilitating the means Of adding to
human knowledge and Of difTusing It..
If government be great political, social, intel
lectua, and moral partnership, will not tho sdop-
ton Of the proposed measure greatly advance it's
objcctl JOSEPH L. SMITH.
p. s.-The attention of the people Of the District
Of Columbia is respectfully invited to the fact that
the people Of Scotland, Of the Presbyterian church,
are greatly benefited by access to the valuable
libraries appended TO each church, for the free use
of each member. Will not the appendagc Of valu-
able libraries to each church in the District Of Co.
lumbia be greatly beneficial To the members of said
churches, and promote the establishment Of such
libraries in each church throughout our wide
spread Union j. l.. S.
! Perhaps the most successful example Of the capa
bilities ofland undcrproper management in Ireland
and Of tho immense crops which can be raised
may be seen on the National Model Farm. unde
the Board Of education at Glcsneyin, near Dublin