public in a higher sense. Let the knowledge and sentiments necessary to a good citizen be made a part of each school course. Let each pupil be taught the history of his country, the principles and framework of its government, the rights and duties of the people in a republic, the obligations of public law and the principles of civil and religious liberty. All this may be accomplished in the common school by a simple course of reading and oral instruction, and in the higher schools by a more extended and systematic course of study. And to this let there be added a profound reverence for the Constitution and the laws of the land, an intelligent love of country, and a passion for liberty inculcated by a frequent rehearsal of our national struggles, and of the heroic endurance and noble achievments of patriot soldiers and citizens. Let story and song be invoked to fill the souls of our children with the grand and useful sentiments of national honor and national defence. Let childhood in all the land be taught to reverence the memories of the noble · dead who on the great battle-fields, as at Gettysburg, Chattanooga, and a hundred more, bared their bosoms and offered their lives for their country. Thus let the State care for its children, providing them a culture which may give them sound bodies, intelligent minds, and pure hearts; and in their manhood, it will not lack for loyal citizens and valient defenders.

JOHN M. GREGORY,

Superintendent of Public Instruction.

APPENDIX.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.

HON. J. M. GREGORY, Supt. of Public Instruction:

DEAR SIR: I herewith present to you the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863.

Very respectfully,

D. L. WOOD,

Sec. Board of Regents.

Ann Arbor, Nov. 21, 1863.