2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. _The following is extracted from a letter from the Dr. Cornett spoken of above._ Strange it is, that while the benevolent among our people are exerting themselves so much at home and abroad, that the thousands and millions _in our own country_ who cannot so much as read one word in the Book of Life, should be overlooked, and no organization effected in their behalf. It is absurd to think of a Republic being long sustained without the people generally being educated. To talk of their maintaining _their rights_ when denied the means of knowing what their rights are, is to talk nonsense. If our whole people could be educated by _the right sort of teachers_, there would be little need of temperance societies, and temperance newspapers, and lectures, and other means now so properly employed for _moral reformation_. Our children would enter on the practical duties of life with pure minds, well fortified against vice in all shapes. In Indiana we are in deplorable want of _good teachers_ for our common schools. Why cannot some plan be devised for educating intelligent boys and girls for these duties, and then finding them situations? In reference to the school fund, he says,