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352 And when we came to look into the working of the American School system in the Cities, we see that nothing could be done without the motives I have spoken of as never failing to bring about one uniform result in the country. The artisans, & tradesmen, & unclear professional men know that this is the best & cheapest way for them to get the kind of education they desire for their children. They are the great majority & so of course the thing is done. There is a general tax, & Common Schools are established. And as they have some advantages besides that of cheapness, they are used by many of the upper class, I mean Merchants, Bankers, & successful professional men, especially those who wish to stand well with the democracy. None can be excluded from the Schools (indeed no one wishes it) & so they are open to the lowest class of the town population, with which there is nothing to correspond in the country. In truth so far from wishing for any exclusion, great efforts are made to get hold of the children of ignorant & vicious parents, both from Philanthropic & from self-interested motives, because in Cities where every man has the suffrage, a vicious & ignorant population is doubly inconvenient, & dangerous. Hitherto, however, the Americans have hardly succeeded in the towns better than we have, in their efforts to bring these children into their school. At New York they have supplemented the Common School with a system of Industrial School intended especially...