American State Papers, Vol. 4 Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, from the First Session of the Fourteenth to the First Session of the Seventeenth Congress, Inclusive; Commencing March 4, 1915, and Ending May 8, 19

Excerpt from American State Papers, Vol. 4: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, From the First Session of the Fourteenth to the First Session of the Seventeenth Congress, Inclusive; Commencing March 4, 1915, and Ending May 8, 1922

The present is a favorable season, also, for bringing again into view the establishment of a national seminary of learning within the District of Columbia, and with means drawn from the property therein, subject to the authority of the General Government. Such an institution claims the patronage of Congress, as a monument of their solicitude for the advancement of knowledge, without which the blessings of liberty cannot be fully enjoyed or long preserved; as a model instructive in the formation of other seminaries; as a' nursery of enlightened preceptors; and as a central resort of youth and genius from every part of their country, diffusing on their return examples of those national feelings, those liberal sentiments, and those congenial manners, which contribute cement to our Union, and strength to the great political fabric of which that is the foundation: In closing this communication, I ought not to repress a sensibility, in which you will unite, to the happy lot of our country, and the goodness of a superintending Providence to whom we are indebted for it. Whilst other portions of mankind are laboring under the distresses of war, or struggling with adversity 1n other forms, the United States are in the tranquil enjoyment of prosperous and honorable peace. In reviewing the scenes through which it has been attained, we can rejoice in the proofs given that our political institutions, founded m human rights, and'

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