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1867 November 12 . W[illiam] G[annaway] Brownlow Ms. speech to W[illia]m Bosson; State of Tennessee, Executive Department, Nashville Tennessee.

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Manuscript speech by Brownlow, prepared for the Tennessee Teacher's State Association. Brownlow addressed the speech to Bosson, intending that he deliver it on his behalf (on account of the condition of Brownlow's voice). On the reconstruction of Tennessee, with an emphasis on the importance of training children. The education of children is a social service and cost that will eventually benefit everyone in terms of reduced crime and more domestic product. Conveys the importance of spreading values about "public virtue and good" and participating in shaping the culture of Tennessee. "We can afford to be indifferent to no child, however humbly born. His brains are not measured by the poverty of his father's purse. He will grow up either to produce public virtue and wealth or to destroy them. If he is not trained in your schools, he will be trained elsewhere and be specially likely to tax the state for his trial in the courts and his punishment in the prison." "We must not expect our schools to be better than our teachers. And their quickening and shaping of the minds of our youth must determine the character of our citizens for the observance of law and the production of wealth in the various pursuits of life."
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