om the Allegheny Mountains to the sea..."
             Ethos: "The senator from Michigan says he must have this (more land). Why, my worthy
             Christian brother; on what principle of justice?"
             Pathos: Invokes a sense of pity on behalf of Mexico: "There I bled for liberty! and shall I
             surrender that consecrated home of my affections to the Anglo-Saxon invaders? What do
             they want with it? They have Texas already."
             Logos: "Sir, look at this pretense of want of room. With twenty millions of people, you
             have about one thousand millions of acres of land, inviting settlement by every conceivable
             argument, bring them down to a quarter of a dollar an acre, and allowing every man to
             This essay is an attempt by Horace Mann to enlighten the public on the fact that
             the lack of public education is one of the greatest problems faced by the country at that
             time. Mann points out the fact that the uneducated will suffer oppression both in society
             and by economic stand points from the educated. He also points out that public education
             would be beneficent to society in that the education of more people would instigate the
             architecture of new technological inventions as well as the formations of new thoughts and
             ideas. He also states that a man's intellectual ability will not be put to use if it is deprived
             of the essential tool of education. Another belief Mann holds is that with out better public
             education our nation would descend on a downward gradient towards total barbarism and
             lack of social and economic improvements. Mann feels that the greatest of all economic
             concerns with the country is the lack of wide-spread public education which would change
             consumers into producers which in-turn would greatly improve the worldly economic
             status of the United States. Mann holds the view that every man should have the
             opportunity to create his own wealth and become financially pros...