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gathered together for the Institution at scarcely any cost, and Q
which, for want of proper rooms and care, are rapidly going to ·.
‘ destruction, and are of little practical use to the student in
consequence of being boxed up for preservation. Such is the
case largely, also, with the other collections which have come I ,· {
from 'l`ransylvania. Accommodations also will soon be neces— lf "
sary for the reception of the large and valuable collection which
will no doubt come to the A. Sz iVI. College from the State I
A Geological Survey under a special act of the Legislature. i
` So hir as my own official duties and labors are concerned, I ,
‘ have but to say, that I have endeavored with all diligence to
_ keep the Institution properly before the public. by correspond-  
· ence, by travel, and otherwise, and to cherish its interests with ‘ ·
unfaltering devotion in whatever direction I could. I have not "
` for one moment abated my zeal for its greatest success, nor
abandoned the tix purpose of my life to do all in my power to ·
enlarge its resources for usefulness as, in the providence of God, ‘, f rl
a field for work may be opened up. In my report nineteen I
- years ago to the hrst meeting of donors, I looked to the recur- 1 A
ing of not less than a half million of dollars as the founsiation I y ,
merely ofa great Institution, which should be a blessing to the E
Church, to the State, and to the world; and though we secured A  
more than this sum in money and property years ago, yet our  
present necessities and those of advanced education show us
that we are absolutely poor and straightened in our meansi  
l \\`ith this view I have spent much of the past winter at the ,
National Capital urging, as at previous sessions, a bill fora  
l plan of National lfducation, which will not only lay a substaii- A 1 l
tial foundation for a system of public schools in all the States, ( i
| and especially in those of the South, and for the benelit of all l r
i their people, but which, it passed, will eventually more tlian l »
; double the entire assets of our University, placing the State  
I t\Ql`lCtllitil'fll and Nlechanical College upon a bri ad basis of use- I
fulness, and making it a means of incidental support to the I  
other Colleges of the University. .
The great principle of setting apart the actual proceeds of
the sales of the twelve hundred millions of acres of the public ·
domain yet undisposed of in this country for the education of
the whole people, is so just and benehcent that it is daily grow- i