Excerpt from An Address Upon Education and Common Schools Dear Sir: - I need not say that I listened to your address on Popular Education, delivered at the Court-House in Cooperstown last Thursday evening, with high gratification. I trouble you with this note for the purpose of expressing my deep regret, that, when the numerous and respectable audience before whom it was delivered, by their resolution unanimously requested you to furnish a copy for publication, you intimated some hesitation and doubt of the propriety of granting that request. I am quite sure that the resolution was not adopted by the meeting, merely as a compliment to the Orator, but that it was elicited from a decided conviction that its publication would be extensively and permanently useful. I assure you, my dear sir, that I have seldom heard or read a more excellent compendium of our Common School Laws than was contained in your address. You pointed out, distinctly and clearly, the duties of the various school officers; you also exhibited, in a manner able and lucid, the principles which ought, to govern in the selection of Text Books, the qualifications which Teachers ought to possess, and the high duties they are required to perform, accompanied with an impressive and eloquent appeal to the public, and especially to the philanthropist, the patriot and the Christian, in behalf of those seminaries which you denominate with peculiar propriety. The People's Schools. I am fully aware of the ardent zeal with which you, for a long time, have indefatigably devoted yourself to improve and perfect these institutions; a zeal which has been, and which I trust will be hereafter attended with signal success; and I earnestly hope that you will furnish another evidence of your attachment to the great and good cause by giving to the public this address. Having heard a portion of Mr. Henry's address read, and being acquainted with his views on on the subject of Common Schools, I cheerfully unite with the Hon. Mr. Hammond in expressing the hope that it may be given to the public. I have listened with great pleasure to the whole of Mr. Henry's address, and fully concur in the opinion expressed by Judge Hammond and Professor Potter, that it ought to be given to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.