MY DEAR SIR, —I am
glad to hear from you, and that you think of putting on the harness again. I
guess the "old clock-work" will go well yet. Whatever I can do for
you, I shall do with great alacrity. I doubt the expediency of establishing another
Normal school yet a while in Massachusetts. Those already in existence must be
filled and crowded before another will prosper. I do not know what sphere you
intend to fill: the one you talked of with A would open a noble field for
usefulness, though I should struggle against all secondary causes that should
threaten to remove you from Massachusetts.
My journey to
Washington was in some respects pleasant. I was greeted all along the way by
many persons known and unknown to me; and, on arriving here, I found the
controversy between myself and Mr. Webster had really assumed a national
notoriety and conspicuousness. Whigs and Democrats had a common exultation,
though it was probably more for his defeat than for my victory. . . .
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 341
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