Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-01-17

ton be laid in YOUTH every one of either Sex,
as general rule, and in any ordinary condition
may be come possessed of common English
education. may be intelligent and intellectual.
There is leisure sufficient from the employment
of all if the disposition exist. The General AS
sembly might do much to improve our common
! schools, and to promote the cause of education,
by providing for suitabl libraries in every sehoo.
district, such as would be adapted to the ca
pacties and tastes Of youth
! In Massachusetts every school is furnishe,
| by the state with Webster's Dictionary, as the
standard work of photography and pronuncia-
tion. The same is recommended by commit
tee of the New York Legislature for the EN-
pirc State.
1t is admitted to be the most valuable work
Of the kind extant, by the learned men both
here and in Europe; and IT'S general use in ours
would break down all provincialisms so to speak
and produce uniformity and elegance in the use
of our language. Words would then be used
I by every one in the same sense in which they
are defined by that able photographer.
Much might be done by the General Assem-
bly, to encourage literary taste, by small aid,
from time to time, for the purchase of books.
periodicals and newspapers for pei manept lit
erary associations lyceums and clubs, in our cit
les and towns. 1t would certainly have ten
deDcy to prevent dissipation by the deserIion
Of places tending to immoralities, ard cause
young men to store their minds with useful
knowledge and elevate themselves in their own
self-dignity and self-respect.
Again l would say, let the masses be educa-
ted. Send information and the means of in
struction among all classes of our people una
BILE to provide it, and your jails viii become
tenantless, and Jour penitentiary will greatly
diminish in its occupants. The songs of riot
and debauchery will be seldom heard in your
streets, and your Executive viii escape the
constant annoyance of parents, wives and chill
dren, for some ignorant and disgraced but still
cherished object, who has forfeited his liberty
to satisfy the claims of justice.
My predecessor, in his last annual message,
among other things recommended thorough
revision of the school laws. He remarks: The
law which now processes to regulate this sys
tenn has been in force for many years. 1t has
undergone many alterations is printed in many
different volumes of the Statutes. and is thus
made difficult to be found and still more diff
cult to be understood by the great majority of
persons whose duty it is to profess to point
OUT
fully concur with him in opinion, and the
entire subject is earnestly and respectfully re-
commended to the early and deliberate consid-
sideration of the General Assembly, with full
conviction that the people Of Ohio will cheer
fully submit to any reasonable burthens that
may be imposed, in aid of the school fund, and
which shall be faithfully applied TO the purpose
of common schools, believingas they justly do.
that it would relieve them from other burthens,
in measure. which are now levied to secure
the faithful and prompt administrations of pen
al laws
Another subject of great consideration and
regard in every humane and sensitive commu-
nifty is that of suitable accommodation for the
insane, blind, deaf and dumb The Constitu-
ton declares that institutions for these unfertu-
nate classes in society shall always be fostered
and supported by the State. OF the manage
ment ofthese institutions, the past year there is
no complaint. They have been conducted with
ability, integrity and skill For full particulars
must refer you to the several reports Which
have caused to be laid before you, and recon-
mend them to your liberal support. Neither
is believed, by any means, to be adequate for
the accommodation of all that common Justice
requires should become its inmates Accom-
modations for the insane are Doefaliy deficient!
1t is certain that but small portion of those
equeally entitled, can be received into the Lu-
natic ASYLUM for want of room For this
cause, alone, numerous applications, and not
unfrequently attended with distressing circum-
stances, are rejected. 1t is believed BY those
who have paid attention to the subject, that
Insanity has increased over previously existing
Il s.,
for this increasesfor this increase does not ap-
pear to be well ascertaned, but when il is
shown, bo the most incontrvertable statistical
tables, that so large a portion of those who
are received at an early stage of the disease.
at the AsoyluHls, provided with suitable ac
commodations, and treated with kindness and
care, are entirely restored. every feeling of hu
manity, and, certainly, obligations of duty to
this unfortunate class of our people. should
prompt us 20 early action IN their behalf
they should be supported at the expense of the
State and it is worthy at leaStof serious iRqui-
ry whether any one should be turned out in
curable, 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 crery institution for the insane, Of
long and respectable standing throughout the
entire Union. But If cure or improvement is
wholly out OF the question, the maniac is new,
ertheless. a human being, and the community
is under moral duty as far as practicable, to
relieve the evils of his condition
Experience, it is said, has shown that large
numbers of the insane should not be confn-
ed togetheH not even upon the same location.
that it is neither economical, nor the tenden-
cies beneficial to the patients. 1t is believed.
by those ofintimatel acquaintance with LUNA.
tic Asylums, that they should be located in
pleasant situations, with extensive fields or
grounds attached. susceptible Of being adorn-
ed, cultivated, rendered pleasant to the eye.
and calculated to divert the diseased mind
from the malady with which 1t Is best
Dungeons, jaiIs and private cabins are by
no means the locations suited to the recovery
of disordered intellect, and while they are re
pugnant to our feelings, their tendency to
gloom and sadness is rather to con6rm than
remove the disease