Many of our state legislators seem more disposed to favour the borrowing of school money than to promote education. If competent lecturers were sent among the people, urging the value of education, both in a _pecuniary_ and _political_ view, these same demagogues would find it for their interest to become clamorous for the cause. I have been at the head of the Senate’s Committee on Education, and have had great difficulty in sustaining the integrity of our school fund. The term of my services has expired, and I cannot resume them. From what I know of our Legislature, I believe there is great need of a stir being made among the people in reference to this matter and the cause in general. My isolated condition, laborious profession, and poor health forbid my following my feelings in going forth as a voluntary lecturer; but let some organization be effected, and numerous and efficient lecturers would rise up to do _gratuitous_ work. _The following is from Judge Lane, of the Supreme Court of Ohio._ I believe our Legislature, if left to itself, would permit the Common Schools to sink and perish in their hands. That body possesses at all times individuals of great worth, but the larger part have very little intelligence, and their motives of action are entirely different from those which would subserve this cause. I believe that an _association of gentlemen_ in this state is the only mode of leading the Legislature into the necessary measures, and that, through them, this might be accomplished _by the press_ and by _public lectures_ (if the right man and measures are employed). I believe that a change of public opinion on this subject _cannot_ be secured, _indirectly_, through the elevation of the minds of a few, nor by the dissemination of good principles by the circulation of Bibles and tracts, or the settlement of ministers, or the cultivation of young men in colleges, or in any other speedy mode except that of an association acting on a specific plan, and pursuing it with perseverance, and by expedient means. I deem the employment of some _agent_ indispensable to give form and intensity to such an association; and a man for this work would require a rare combination of qualities. _The following is from one of the leading Lawyers of Ohio._ The more I think of this subject of national education, the more I feel anxious to be up and doing. I do not think that any other field of labour now presents itself in which so much good can be done, and it is not the least important consideration, certainly, that while thus engaged in doing good to others, we shall be, in the highest sense, _educating ourselves_. All that I can do, I feel anxious to do in this great work; and as soon as any plan is definitely arranged, I will go to work, and if I can get time in no other way, will diminish my business for the purpose. _The following is from E. C. Delavan, Esq., who has devoted so much of his time for several years to the cause of Temperance._