Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-18
TO ALL WHO FEEL INTERESTED IN
EDUCATION.

DAVENPORT, Iowa, July Sth, 1857.
In tho last number of the Bugle an obscure
hint was given that something of importance was
antici pated. The time has come when it can be-
realized. All who know, or care about the
writer of this are aware that the establishment
of a Model Manual Labor School has been his
highest aspiration for half a life time. Not an
institution where those who have means, can OBJ
tain as good an education as is afforded to those
called High schools and those who are hungry
for learning, and sometimes for bread. will be
furni shed with employment when the institution
has work to do, and with the proceeds buy as
much learning as such proceeds will pay for.
This arrangement has not been satisfactory in
promise, or result. 1t is one means resorted to,
to reconcile men to ~unnatur nj classification in
which merit is not an essential element.
Such a school would long since have been in
operation, but for the want Of land to begin with.
Those who had lands knew their money value too
well to risk a farm for the experiment without
hope of profit, other than that which is the only
remuneration of a door of good.
A munifcent offer is now made. DIR. ~Ignatius
LANCER who held the rank of Major in Kossuth's
medical staff, who remained in Hun gary to attend
the Governors sick mother when he went into
exile. That duly ended, he came to this country,
his property (not largc) confscated, and he COM
menced six or seven years since in Davenport OH
a capital Of ten dollars. by foresight, or good
guessing he has possessed himself of wide spread
lands so that this season he has planted 300 acres
of corn, 300 bushels Of potatoes, and he has
probably well nigh n thousand acres of oats, bar
ley and wheat growing. He owns of great and
small between three and four hundred head of
cattle colts and grown horses between 70 and 80.
But better than all this, unless I greatly mistake,
he is a genuine pbilanthropist; and who will
doubt that he is an efficient friend of education
who sees the interest he takes in the rising gener-
alton, though a bachelor, and hears the offer he
now makes to give a title in fee simple for any
half section Of his unimproved THAT is unfenced,
unploughea) lands all within ten miles west of
this city. There is but little variety of quality ;
in price, the lands are changing value daily.
Spectators are raising the prices 80 that lands at
government rates ten years ago,now sell from SIS
to $50 per acre without Improvement; well fenced
and plowed, from S25 to $50.
DIR. LANCER makes this free gift offering with
ono condition, namely, that if the school does not
sustain itself, and is therefore discontinued, the
land must revert back to him. He gives il solely
ftr educational purposes. If not thus applied no
simply reserves the right to reclaim it. like his
thoughts, and have no fear that the ownership will
continue to be vested in the occupants of any and
all times being. | entertain no doubt that after
the land is fenced and plowed, q hundred students
may feed clotho and pay teacher, for five
hours study through summer, more in spring and
autumn and most Of their working time during
winter; nor will they be under the necessity tn
labor to WEAKNESS when at work just enough to
make study pleasant and profitable. As many as
may wish further information may address me at
Davenport, not forgetting to enclose postage stampa
il they desire answers. | expect to receive many
letters which will be attended to if the little red
Franklins show their faces but being neither
banker nor broker | cannot pay postage.
AMOS GILBERT.
?. S. Will not Papers friendly to education
notice DR.. Langer's generous proposal and for
ward to me a number containing the notice,
marked? A. G..
AT the late COMMENCEMENT at the Western Re-
serve College, the degree of LII. d. was conferred
Oh the Hon. Thomas Ewing.
Degrees of honor are wonderfully cheapensd
when conferred on such political hacks