Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-07-02
EDUCATION.

The bounty of Congress has set apart the l6tl
Section OF every township in the State for tn,
support and maintenance of common Schools
From this source, nearly 100000 acres will &c
crue TO the State, the proceeds of the sales o
which are to constitute permanent fund, the in
come OF which IS to be annually devoted to the
great purpose of the grant
This magnificent foundation has been wisely
enlarged by Constitutional provisions, giving the
same direction 10 the donation of 100000 acres
under the act of 1871, and the FIVE per cent. re-
served on all sales of Government lands within
the State. y still larger addition will accrue
from the grant OF the Swamp and overlooked
lands, which the settlement of the country, the
lapse OF time, the easy processes of reclamation
viii convert INTO the best meadow land in the
word, and large portion, ultimately, into ara
BE.
For the support Of State University seven,
ty-two Section of choice land, comprising 49,.
go acres, have been already granted, and it is
not improbable that this provision may be also
enlarged by subsequent grants. Ifthese trusts
are admir- is.ered with ordinary wisdom, the edu-
cational fund of Wisconsin, cannot be less ulti-
matcly than $33 100000 and may reach $5,O0O,-
600.
The University is already chartered and in
successful operation The school system has
been wisely designed, and the progress of or
ganization, under the law, keeps race with the
progress of settlement There are already not
far from two thousand five hundred school dis
trlct9 in the State. The annual income to be
divided, has already reached S70,000 and will
be greatly increased from year to year
The system contemplates, by the introduction
OF union schools, to extend academic instruction
10 each town in the State.
In addition 10 this munihccnt public provision
for common and liberal education, there are in
different parts of the State educational incorDo-
raions, both academic and collegiate founded on
private subscription. The most promisinr of
these are the College at Deloit, well endowed
and in successful operation and similar Iasti-
tntions at Milwaukee, Racine and Waukesha in
Eastern Wisconsin, and at Appleton, in the
North
indeed, in noIe ofthe new States, even in the
Northwest, will the means of education be more
ample and in none is there more rational ao-
probation OF the importance of this paramount
public interest
In Wisconsin, as in the other States of this
Union, there is, and ever will be, an entire free
dom OF ecclesiastical organization, and an equal
protection Of every religious institution and mr.
rangment, conservative Of good morals, and pro.
tectivo of the highest and mos: enduring inter.
est G! man.
In consideration ali taeso elements or pros
parjty, economical and social, such as have never
I'll. now, gathered around the opening career OF
a new political community, there is little ground
for wonder HAT the early growth of Wisconsin
has been without parallel in the history of
States; and it may BE- very safely assumed, tia,
the advent men and capital to that favored por-
ton of the Northwest, will continue, in incrtas-
ing volume, for many years to come.