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enjoyments of the professional man, and is an essential 

 accomplishment to the architect, the machinist, the arti- 

 zan, and the mechanic. It ought to be taught in our 

 common schools ; and every mechanic should be able 

 to sketch with accuracy his own plans, and to copy 

 those of others, so as to be able to profit by every im- 

 provement that comes under his observation. 



The science of Music, although not so manifestly 

 useful, exercises great influence over the moral and 

 social condition of society. It is taught in the common 

 schools in Germany, and there music constitutes the 

 chief amusement of the people. Instead of hearing in 

 their streets the indistinct roaring of senseless rhymes, 

 out of time and tune, the Germans may be seen assem- 

 bled in groups, after the labors of the day, singing in 

 parts the delightful music of their inspired composers, 

 elevating their voices in grateful adoration to their 

 Maker, or chanting some of the spirited patriotic songs 

 for which the father land of the Teutonic race is so 

 celebrated. Whoever has witnessed this contrast 

 whoever has been startled with the discordant sounds 

 of the one, and enraptured with the exquisite harmony 

 of the other, will understand the advantages that are 

 likely to accrue to the cause of temperance, of morality, 

 and of religion, by cultivating the science of music, and 

 making it a part of the education of the people. 



I have thus endeavored to explain the objects and im- 

 portance of the Institution we have established at Wash- 

 ington, so far as the limits of an address will permit, 

 but have been necessarily compelled to omit many topics 

 of nearly equal interest with those which have been 

 treated. Enough, however, has been said, I trust, to 

 impress upon you the important advantages which the 



