PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR 391 inadequate; and that [no impor] tant benefits can result to the Country from attempting either - [Endorsed]
A Communication to Congress touching the transmission &c of the Letter of L A Carlos, & suggesting an appropriation
No. 974 [1838 or 1839], P. [L. JACKSON, COLUMBUS? GEORGIA?], TO [MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE] LAMAR, [HOUSTON? TEXAS] Introducing George T. Wood. A. N. S. 1 p. No. 975 [1838?], JAMES KERR AND JOrJ-IlN P. LINN, [MATAGORDA? TEXAS], TO [MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, HOUSTON? TEXAS] Endorsing Thomas M. Duke for appointment as collector of the port of l\fatagord·a,. L. S. 1 p. No. 976 [1838?], AKONYMOUS. ESSAY ON EDUCATION It is highly deserving of notice that while the Republican theory is '•.eld in such great admiration at this moment throughout a large por- tion of Europe, we- the sons and descendants of those who perilled every thing for freedom are too frequently found emulating the man- riers of the monarchical governments of the Old World- It is im- · possible not to see that this arises from a radically defective system of Education which addressing itself along to the mind leaves the morals of a people at the mercy of those chances and caprices which principles of public virtue, early and assiduously inculcated can alone enable them to rise superior to- It is in my mind an error too prevalent to consider education as having reference to the intellectual to the exclu [s] ion of the moral improvement of the species. Such however was not the nature of that discipline which by rejecting the embellishments of the understanding and nourishing the severer virtues enabled the little republic of Sacedenmon [ ?l peacibly to preserve its liberties while the rest of Greece had fallen a prey to civil discord- Those common schools which are emphatically the boast of this age had their origin at Sparta- but very different were the lessons which they will be found respectively to have inculcated- The Knowledge diffused among the people there comprised the duties of religion obedience to the laws, inflexible honor, contempt of danger and Superior to all; the love of country- when they proceeded to ex-
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