Education a factor in the happiness 1. GOV. ALEXANDER'S MESSAGE ON EDUCATION. The common objects of legislation may be comprised of the community. under the following heads: Education, Internal Improve ment, the Security of Property, and the Punishment of Crimes. Your attention has often been awakened to these several subjects; therefore it is unnecessary for me, at this time, to comment upon them; yet they are worthy of your consideration; for on the manner in which they are accomplished, eventually must depend the happiness of the community. -House Journal, 1807. Education and internal improve importance. 1. GOV. BENJAMIN WILLIAMS' MESSAGE ON EDUCATION. I will trespass no longer on your patience, but will close ments of primary this communication by wishing you a happy session, and by observing that the proper Education of the Youth of our Country, and the improvement of our internal Navigation, are objects of such primary importance as justly to have a first claim to your attention. -House Journal, 1808. Importance of education. University and subordinate schools 1. GOV. DAVID STONE'S MESSAGE ON EDUCATION. Next, and second only, to the support of our independent Republican Government, in purity of principle and undiminished rights, is the importance of such provisions for the education of our Youth, as will afford, in certain prospect, the grateful anticipation, that independence gained by the toil, the blood and treasure of our fathers and brothers confirmed and supported by our own best efforts, will be transmitted to our sons, prepared by their education to manage its concerns with dignity and skill, and, when required by just occasion, to support it with firmness and valour. The liberality of your predecessors has done much for should be fostered, the cause of letters and science, by the establishment of a Seminary for giving instruction in the higher branches thereof, within our State. But much remains to be done, as well for the perfecting of the Seminary, as for the more extensive establishment and distribution of subordinate schools. Nor will it be forgotten in your labors upon this subject, that letters and science, though useful as lights to enable a sound heart to shape a safe and beneficial course through the voyage of life, are mere delusions when not controlled and directed by correct moral principle, chastened and purified by the precepts of our holy Religion. ** Advantages of education. While it is equally unnecessary and impracticable to enumerate all the advantages which may be confidently hoped from judicious establishments and plans of education among ourselves, it may not be improper to give a transient view of some. They afford our country a more extensive choice and general command of virtues and talents, for the direction. of her affairs, by more extensively unfolding and displaying the germs of excellence in the minds of her youth. They impress upon the more advanced and elderly, the propriety and necessity of exemplary deportment. |