Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-03-09

RI rur pR Rrsr,rSr AND VISITORS or LIE l&SlllTltCN
FOR TIE DEAF. AND DUMB AND I HE "L'Hp.
Gcnemen-We noticed come time age ihe coiImhs Q!
the ENQUIRER an anuny tide addieSsed To you, IN
which lie claims Of Rev s. Houston to hn ifnpIf"h o.
ce this institution, enumerated, hni IN "h''h !'G"e
kindly reminded of hu deep responsibility you incur bro!e
The State in making election for this Office i,"uons
very uc whether iis mocc OF presenting W" ct'S 20
your notice. would prove be The best Calculated 10 Sc
his c!econ had intended 10 await; oe"'e 'N res
sing preference, that you should nave n'eI 10 ''
We understand however lha thcro Is some danger oi o
public looking upon the silence ot IN" friends n "h'r C'h
dates as tacit acknuw cdgmen that hc!t Claims "! nt
oear comparison with those OF the reverend gth'"!'
named To dlSabnse the public, and not VIII! te PEE
sumpuous intention OF telling you how 10 dscha'&e "'
ties have requested he editors OF th der 10 e'e L:
10 the puoilc.
Or Ihe Rev Mr. Houston We know nothing !tHn
tina, he has had the misfortune BE dragged before tie pub
lie BY some intriguing restless spirit who seems determined
that the Institutions shall Gc deprived oi ~" tefe-
fiji of his vice. simply because the State authorities rave
mol the sagacity ask for even accept his services
understand however that snow eighteen years s!nce no
Rev. Mr. Houston has been connected win an lns''a'h "
tre education of unfortunate brethren. Daring inhl
lime the benevolent minds Of Galaudtt Pet, "t'c,
and host of Others have been idle; and the syse {" ~
instruction which their ,bors Inns rrobih' n" n'
resemblance pursued in tho days oi The Kew 'l!
Houston the swift rail road car o modern !n'chu" aa
TO The pack Saddle OF 'ulden times" ,
Now if "Yirginiln" will that the driver Of the oi
fashioncd long cared conveyance would be tin very ma"
for place. OF enginec. our ocnm0ii'cs we WI! p'e
tnt he really intended supply the oice with man and
nut the mat with Office. Again, w UNDERSTAND h' NE
Rev. Mr. Houston, though IL" what som" persons ""h1
call an old mar has long ago passed the pe" cl HE "'
change OF pru :sion is practicable, when re" nsSs
are readily acquired when cciics hre usch'isci WIN
ease when difficulties met almost WIN pichS"t' h-
f,re We take our uf the Rev. Mr. H'ns"n "n "i-i
amin 1, repcnt that unkinh fe"rs ior ina 2e:-
Ismau On the contrary feel gaieiu! 10 HIM w!;a' We
did ir our Pennsylvania bTehn in "Aud Lang ,! ne "ha
, f,r the Kind intentions which V!T.'nau Esc1rs 20
aim towards ourselves, but %c chnno help itcra ~
his warm sympathy for the destitute in iorcgn nc9 hI'
tak.a home direction we would not havchla 10 wa. i.
long years for Northern gentleman to found our ihA"u
! INN To think otherwise is libel upon our atis!s
The gentleman whom you should think It necessary 10
increase Your present "udmabc corps OF INSTRUCTORS "c
would be delighted 10 occupying prominent io7.'.ta
IN our olma mater is Rev. Thumas G.uadct, q" mo
New York institution "Ey birh, friend ol nc dca'.
nules by education scholar and teacher her OF ms @o5
with us by tho most sacred and the dearest m 'ie3
The seems 10 be pointed the very man for The
SIC need hardly say you that for nearly ~ years ne mas
.abnrrd accepaby und usefuly in the New York lnsu:
ton that he has usl arrived the age when the arcor OF
youth is tempered with the prudence which experience has
engerdered and that his appointment will be hailed with
acclama,ion by ALL THE DEAF MrTEs OF FIRoiHih.