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Excerpt from The History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837: Being an Account of Its Origin, Its Distribution Among the States, and the Uses to Which It Was Applied
IN the following pages I have endeavored to present a complete and impartial history of the origin and growth of the Surplus Revenue of 1837, and more especially of its disposition by the States among which it was divided.
The work may seem to the general reader more like a collection of facts than the story of an important incident in our history. Of this defect, if it be a defect, I am as well aware as one can be; but if I am not mistaken this is the natural function of first works in a new field. Some one must clear the ground, loosen the soil, and raise a plain but useful crop before the finer growths can ¿ourish.
Until after most of my material had been collected I supposed I was an absolute pioneer in making a thorough investigation of the history of the surplus in the States. I was then informed that Mr. Eaton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, had touched upon the subject in an address delivered in 1877. Some ten pages of this address were devoted to the appropriations for education which thirteen of the States had made from portions of the sur plus that had been deposited with them.
Mr. Eaton, however, studied the matter only in its relation to the question of national aid to education, and so took note of only such appropriations of the money as were made for schools; be merely looked in upon the field rather than explored it.
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