The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 23, July 1919 - April, 1920 Page: 233
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Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
amply furnished with that equivalent-and to all necessary extent
with the actual metallic deposit itself."
The directors were to be chosen from the best qualified men of
the country without reference to their political opinions. The
whole number of directors was to be divided into three sections,
one section to retire every year without reeligibility until after three
years. The Congress was to elect the directors by joint ballot,
and the Senate was to appoint the president of the bank on the
nomination of the President of the Republic. He ended by say-
ing that he had spent so much time on it because he felt strongly
its importance. Notwithstanding the time spent in thinking out
such a scheme, and the large proportion of the message applied
to it, no effort was made to follow it up with legislation. It is
only an instance of Lamar's inability to follow out in practice the
schemes he was able to suggest.46
I. Education
Next to the plan for a national bank, Lamar devoted the greater
part of his message to a discussion of the need of public education,
and to an outline of a policy. The people of Texas had been too
busy to attend to the establishment of an educational system. Un-
der the administration of Houston various schools and colleges
had been chartered, but this in no sense constituted the establish-
ment of a system of public education aided by the State. Hence,
Lamar can be credited with initiating and carrying through a
school system which was to become permanent, and is the founda-
tion of the public school system in Texas today.
He had given a hint of his attitude toward public education
in his address to the Senate on November 5. In his message of
December 21, he said that if it was desired to establish republican
government upon a broad and permanent basis, it would be the
duty of Congress to adopt a comprehensive and well regulated
system of moral and mental culture. Every person had an inter-
"His advocacy of a national bank is probably an echo of the struggle
for a recharter of the Second United States Bank. During the Nullifi-
cation struggle Lamar became definitely estranged from Jackson to the
extent of adopting some of the principles of the other party. The train-
ing he received in Georgia from 1825 to 1835 is constantly showing itself
in his Texas activities. It is interesting to note that Houston, who was
an ardent admirer of Jackson throughout, ridiculed Lamar's idea of a
national bank.233
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