Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-10

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OF aud debauchery will be seldom heard in
| your streets, and your Executive will escape
the constant annoyance of parents, wives
aud children, for some ignorant aud disara.
ced, but still cherished object, who has for
ieted his liberty TO satisfy the claims Of Just
! tice
! My predecessor, in his last annual mes
sage, among other things, recommended n
thorough revision Of the school laws. lie
remarks: "The law which now processes to
regulate this system, has been in force for
many years. II has undergone many nltera-
tions; is printed in many different volumes
OF the Statutes, aud is thus made difficult to
and still more difficult to be understood hy
Tue great majority of persons whose duty it
PROCESSES to point out"
fully concur with him in opinion, and the
entire subject is earnestly and respectfully
recommended TO the early aud deliberate con-
slderUtion of the General Assembly, with the
illll conviction that the people of Ohio will
cheerililly submit TO any reasonable burihems
That may he imposed, in aid of the school
innd, and which shall be faithfully applied
TO the purposes of common schools, believ.
ing ms they justly do, that it would relieve
theni from other burthcns, in n measure,
which are now levied TO secure the faithful
ana prompt administration of penal laws.
Another subject of very great consdera
ton md regard in every humane and sensi-
tive community, is that Of suitable nccommo-
datlon for the insone, blind, deaf aud dumb.
The Constitution declares that institutions
Tor these unfortunate classes in society shall
always be iostered and supported by the
state. Ol the management of these insiitu.
llons the past year, there is no complaint
lhey have been conducted with ability, in
tegry, and skill. For full particulars. |
must refer you to the several reports which
have caused TO he laid before you, mud re-
commend them TO your consideration, aud
the institutions to your liberal support
Neither is believed 10y any means. to he nde-
quite for tie accommodation of all that com.
mon justice requires should become its in.
mates. Accommodations for the insane are
tCOejidiy deficient! IL is certain that but n
smnll portion of those equally entitled, can he
received into the Lunnlic Asylum for want
of room. For this cause alone, numerous
applications and not unirequcnily attended
with distressing circumstances, are rejected
II is believed 10y those who hive paid atten-
ton to the subject, that insanity has increas-
ed over previously existing periods, within
the last few years; the reason for this in
crensc does not appear to be well ascertain
ed, but when it is known, by the most in
controvcrtible statistical tables, that so large
a proportion of those who are received at an
early stage of the disease, at the Asyums.
provided with suitable accommodations, aud
treated with Kindness and care, ure entirely
restored, every feeling of humanity, and GER
tOinly, obligations OF duty to this unfortunate
class of our people, should prompt us to ear
ly aciiOn IN their belIalf-ihey should he
supported AT the expense of the State, and il
is worthy, at least, of serious enquiry, wheih-
or any one should be turned out, as incurn-
bic, for confinement in private dungeons, or
the annoyance of friends. There may be
hope while there is life This is proved by
the reports of every institution for the insane,
OF long aud respectable standing, throughout
the entire Union. But ii cure or improve
ment is wholly out of the questionable maniac
is, nevertheless, human being, and the
community is under Il moral duty, MS far as
practicable, TO relieve the evils of his condi-
lion.
Experience, il is said, has shown, that
large numbers of the insane should not be
confined together, not even upon the same
location, that il is neither economical, nor the
tendencies beneficial to the patients. II is
believed by those of intimate acquaintance
with Lnnnlic Asylum, that they should he To-
Gated in pleasant situations, with extensive
fields or grounds attached, susceptible of be-
ing adorned, cultivated, rendered pleasant to
the eye, aud calculated to divert the diseas-
ed mind from the malady with which il is
bcset.
Dungeons, jnils, and private cabins, are by
no means the locations suited to the recove-
ry of disordercd intellect, and, while they are
repugnant to our feelings, their tendency to
gloom aud sadness is rather to confirm than
remove the disease.
1t is supposed from tile best inf rmaiion
which could be obtained that there can be
but little less than thirteen hundred insane
persons in Ohio utterly unprovided for.
IL is submitted to the General Assembly,
whether steps should not Immediately he Ia
ken for the erection of Two additional Asy-
luins, in other sections of the State, and TO
he so constructed that they may be enlarged,
from time to time, as necessity may require.
know Of no appropriation more to he justi-
fed by every feeling huma0ily, and of OBJ
legation TO our fellOw-men.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
ever foremost in acts of charity and benevo-
lence to the unfortunate, has, within the last
year, created stock to the amount of one
hundred thousand dollars, and pledged the
one half the public lands for its redemp-
ton, to raise the means to provide for the in
sane, and This in addition TO heavy, previous
appropriations.
Our young, but noble sister, the State of
Indiana, with only one half Our population,
less than half our wealth and resources, with
but limited commerce, and more limited in
manufactures, is entirely ahead of us in in
stitutions for the mute and blind, and has n
wel-conducted Lunalic AsJ lum, nearly as
large, and with the grounds attached to it,
more than equal to our own. Here, people
do not complain. They support their inst-
tutions liberally, though the means, for that
purpose, must, in great measure, be dug
from the soil.
Ii is reproach to our State, and stain
upon previous legislation, that some steps
have not long since heen taken for the mr.