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   Welcome then, most welcome, to the land of your birth.
 Thrice welcome when coming to fill the high and responsible of-
 fice to which you have been invited, the duties of which you are
 so peculiarly and eminently qualified to discharge. May your
 inauguration on this day be also the inauguration of a sys-
 tem which, with each revolving year, shall advance the cause
 of education until its diftused blessings shall pervade every
 hamlet in our land.
   As Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Transylvania
University, in their name and by their authority, I do here-
by invest you with the office of President of said Universi-
ty, with all the authority, rights, and franchises appertaining
thereto.








   ADDRESS OF DR. LEWIS W. GREEN.



Mr. President, and gentlemen of the Board of Trustees:
  I had not intended, sir, to allude at all to any of those
feelings which would of course be natural to me on the pres-
ent occasion, but your own kind allusion, and your hearty
and manly welcome, have broken up the fountains of those
emotions which I had designed to stifle. I have been, for
more than sixteen years, an exile from my native State-in
no dishonorable exile, I hope, yet amidst the uniform kind-
ness and generous confidence which I have everywhere ex-
peTienced, it was an exile still; for they were not the friends
of my boyhood; it was not my home.