To James Madison from Littleton Dennis Teackle, 22 March 1826
From Littleton Dennis Teackle
Baltimore, 22d March 1826
Dear Sir,
I have taken the liberty of addressing to you a News-paper, containing An Act of the General Assembly of this State, passed at its late Session.1 This is a part of the plan which you were pleased to approve of some years ago.2 After repeated attempts, to carry the whole in one System, I was induced to limit the scheme to the elementary, or primary schools. Hereafter, it is my intention to introduce the higher branches in succession, with Agricultural Institutions and Pattern farms, in several bills; and I shall not despair of eventual success. The fundamental seminaries are certainly of primary consideration. Such a System has long been a favorite hobby, and I entertain very high hopes from its operation. With great respect and esteem I am, Dear sir, Your Obedient Servant
Littleton Dennis Teackle
RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.
1. “An Act to Provide for the Public Instruction of Youth, in Primary Schools, throughout This State,” 28 Feb. 1826. Teackle sent JM a newspaper clipping from the Commercial Chronicle and Baltimore Advertiser, 22 Mar. 1826 (DLC, series 7, OV 1).
2. For Teackle’s initial plan for public schools and JM’s comments thereon, see Teackle to JM, 4 Feb. 1823, and JM to Teackle, 12 Feb. 1823, , 2:642–43, 647–49.