Continuing to reach out to blind students outside of New England, Howe travelled to Ohio, Kentucky, New Orleans, and even to the halls of Congress in Washington. During his conversations with people as he toured the country, he was asked his opinion of asylums. His response reflected the evolving Dr. Samuel Howe:
The more I reflect upon the subject, the more I see objections in principle and practice to asylums. What right have we to pack off the poor, the old, the blind into asylums? They are of us, our brothers, our sisters –they belong in families; they are deprived of the dearest relations of life in being put away in masses in asylums. Asylums generally are the offspring of a low order of feeling; their chief recommendation often is that
The more I reflect upon the subject, the more I see objections in principle and practice to asylums. What right have we to pack off the poor, the old, the blind into asylums? They are of us, our brothers, our sisters –they belong in families; they are deprived of the dearest relations of life in being put away in masses in asylums. Asylums generally are the offspring of a low order of feeling; their chief recommendation often is that