Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-07-16


Southern people themselves. Apart from
this loading object, the founding and tho
maintenance of schools will not come
within his plan. ~
2. UsualIy, appropriations In moderate
| amounts will be m ade where such schools
are languishing or nre liable to be aus
pended, for want of the means of support.
Similar aid, If necessary, will be given In
| places unsuppled with schools, whonover
! The citizens shall introduce them, and I'M
dertake their support. All such aid, how
[ eyer, Is TO be regarded as temporary;
8. In selecting schools TO DO aided, o,
places to bs supplied with thom, those Will
DO preferred in which tho destitntlon IL
greatest and tho number TO be oeneh'ed
largest.
4. Normal schools, or schools having
normal departments, will receive particn-
lar attention. small number of these,
furnishing tho most perfect models Of in
struction, will BIO considered MS moro i'm
portant than a larger number of an inferior
| character. Here, also, it IL tho purpose OF
tho Agent to aid others in their work, and
| not to assume the support OF such scho6ls.
| s. Funds will not be given TO literary or
| professional schools, AS such. Special ar
rangements may sometimes be mado with
those, for tho purpose Of encouraging the
industrial arts, or for tho education oil
teachers.
6. Tho agent will not identify his efforts
with those of any other organizations by
placing funds at the disposal OF It's man.
| ayers. but, in any connection he may hold
with benevolent or religious societies, no
| will pursue his own specific object by such
means and appliances as he shall select.
| T. At present, there will be no agencies,
except n few, In which the ser vices rom
dered will be gratutous.
s. Tho agent will not, except in a fow
special, exceptional cases, have occasion to
employ teachers. He can therefore aid
such in obtaining places, only by giving
their names to school committees.
b. SEARS, General Agent.
"Resolged, That for tho present the pro-
motion of primary or common school odu-
cation by such means or agencies as now
exist or may need TO DO created, DO the
leading object Of the Board in tho use Of
the funds placed at it's disposal "-Resota-
ton Of the Trustees.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., May 20, 1867
| Hon. L. M. LUsHER
Dear SIR Nothing that has reached mo
from tho various Southern States has given
mo such unmingled satisfaction as the pc
|
in most respects, just such a document as
the Trustees Of the Peabody Education
| Fund, in like circumstances, would havo
written. We have already determined
that all our efforts shall BIO to secure the
objects you advocate. -z.
We propose to limit our aid to such
modes as shall tend to the establishment
of n pystcm OF public schools. We desire
that tho whole system and its administra-
lion BIO in the hands Of the people. Tho
only condition that we shall insist on will
be that the schools shall be, or tend to be-
come, public free schools. By "free
schools" do not mean schools equally
open to whites and blacks. The ednea
ton of these together or apart and all
such matters we propose TO leave to the
people themselves
intend to visit your State next winter
when shall desire very much to see you,
and confer with You about the best way OF
distributing our aid. The enclosed cireu-
lar will show that our policy will BIO to
co. operate, as far as possible, with State
and municipal authorities.
We wish to act exclusively through
school organizations in existence among
the people, and TO have &c schools of our
own. We do not desire to own school
houses, to employ teachers, nor TO superin
tend schools. This would involve toe
much labor and expense, and, what is still
worse, would be introducing foreign Gle
ment which would work badly in every
respect.
TO say word Of your systemit APP
pears to be best and more congenial to oul
forms of government to have the schools
supported, in part from q State fund, but
chiefly by local taxation. municipalities
always administer funds raised by them
selves better than those that belong to the
State.
The people boar local tax imposed
by them olives Tor their own benefit, mucf
more patiently than a State Tax fol
: the schools Of tho State generally. So, a
least, have found it, as far as my obser-
walton extended. But State school fund
, Ia necessary in order 70 attach the citie
and townships to the State System; for thu
benefits Of the fund can be limited to those
, who fulfil all the conditions imposed BY
the State.
Pardon this incidental remark, which
, was suggested DO reading your report
You, of course, know better than stran
ger what is adapted to your own State, ant
need no moro advice from me.
My object in writing WAS to express tt
you my strong sympathy with the spirit o
your admirable report.
Very respectfully your obt. seryt.
b. SEARS,
General Agent OF the Peabody Education Fund
7 PROVIDENCE, r. l., June IL, 1867.
Hon. X. M. LUsnER, New Orleans:
O Mn Dear Sir Your letter dated Ma,
18th did not reach me till o-day. Had
received it with tho Report, | should hav
! added some things TO my letter. You viii
q see that the promotion of primary or com
O mon school education ID the leading objec
of the Trus'ces, aud that normal schoo
training II but means to that end. q
course tho common schools must receiv
!. the largcr share of the money in oil thos
4 places here good teachers are to be had
n Now, if you remember that our neon
f il but $50 900 and that not more thai
' 800 900, or, at IN ost, $50 900, (about one
half what the city ofBaltimore alone pay
r for its schools is to be expended annual
: in all the South and Southwestern States
= 1t will plainly appear that funds are to b
i dealt out to single schools and single cit
}, les with sparing hand. We can only en-
r courage those who can provide for tn