From the Rev. Henry Beecher, of Indianapolis, Indiana.

by Catharine Esther Beecher October 8th, 2023

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Much can be done in Indiana, much ought to be done, and speedily; for, It will be a more densely-populated state than Ohio or Illinois, because its land is uniformly good. It has been grievously neglected. Its settlers[136] were originally from Kentucky, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Such do better for flocks and farms than for mental and moral improvement. We have a good system of common school education, which, for purposes of Church and State ambition, some sectarians are disposed to break down; and they are of the dominant sect in the state. Those sects that foster education are in the minority, and struggling up through many embarrassments. We have a school fund of more than two millions, which is in such neglect as threatens its entire loss. An agent should be supported to lecture through the state, in every county town, to secure workers to defend our school system, to protect our school fund from depredators, to secure an annual Education Convention, and otherwise exert influence. The right man for such an agent I know. It is a Dr. Cornett, of Versailles, Ripley Co., Ia. He is a member of our Senate, and chairman of their Committee on Education: a man prudent, cool, sagacious, interested in the cause, and of great weight in the community.

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FROM THE REV. HENRY BEECHER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

Much can be done in Indiana, much ought to be done, and speedily; for,

It will be a more densely-populated state than Ohio or Illinois, because its land is uniformly good.
It has been grievously neglected. Its settlers were originally from Kentucky, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Such do better for flocks and farms than for mental and moral improvement.
We have a good system of common school education, which, for purposes of Church and State ambition, some sectarians are disposed to break down; and they are of the dominant sect in the state. Those sects that foster education are in the minority, and struggling up through many embarrassments.
We have a school fund of more than two millions, which is in such neglect as threatens its entire loss.

An agent should be supported to lecture through the state, in every county town, to secure workers to defend our school system, to protect our school fund from depredators, to secure an annual Education Convention, and otherwise exert influence. The right man for such an agent I know. It is a Dr. Cornett, of Versailles, Ripley Co., Ia. He is a member of our Senate, and chairman of their Committee on Education: a man prudent, cool, sagacious, interested in the cause, and of great weight in the community.

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