PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
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1t is nearly two hundred years since
school funds were established by that abo.
|riginal and immortal hive of intelligence,
piety and self-government, the Plymouth
colony. These inestimable appropria-
|tions are now incorporated with all our
fundamental institutions. BY the Con-
of the United States, it is the duty
|of government to promote the progress OF
lscieuce and the useful arts. Not one OF
the eleven new States has been admitted
into the Union without provision III its
lConstitution for Schools, Academies, Col
lleges and Universities. In most of the
Original States large sums in money are ap-
|proprated to education, and they claim a
share in the great landed investments
whichare mortgaged to il in the new States.
-Reckoning all these contributions tede-
raj and local. it may be asserted that near
Iy as much as the whole national expen-
diture of the United States, is set apart to
enlghten the people. 3" In one State
alone, with but $4,000 inhabitants, more
than forty thousand pupils are instructed
at the public schools. believe we may
: compute the number of such pupils
E e|throughout the United States, at more
othan half million. In the city of Phila
: delphia, without counting the private Oh
S the charity schools, there are about nv,
Y Thousand pupils in the Commonwealth
eISeminaries, taught reading, writing, ant
u arithmetic, at an expense to the public o
elittle more than three dollars year, eac'
8 one.