Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-03-07
70 Me editors Of fhe Enanirer

SENTLEMES: As you have always been the
warm friends OF state internal Improvement, you
wiz opiise subscriber by publishing in the En-
quirer the following Address:
we understand that the General Assembly il
about drawing to close, but we uust, rha, they
VIII not ADJOURN, without an appropriation of mo-
ney that may be required to finish the University
AND II the General Assembly should choose to lie,
the people rest on their oais at MIaiden's A,iyen-
'"re' untp the mex, session of the Legislature they
VIII IN the mean time, authorse, we hope, the
most skIliul survey on James River, with a com
Parstive view OF the independent canal, and the
siuce, or dam system.
we trust that the enlightened and patriotic Lee
gisia'ure OF Virginia will not now, after expending
so much money abandon the system of internal
Improvement, ii they do, damper will be thrown
on all improvements in Virginia for years; and we
shaI see The slow finger OF scorn pointed at us by
! our sister states throughout the Union The Cri-
ucai and Quarterly Reviews, will take us in hand
then we shall hear great deal about tie chaneea-
ole weather and climate of Virginia, and that we
The people, are as changeable as our weather.
hek4e as the wind siill chaneing;" that we are
perfectly weather cocks; that we nut our hands
to the plough but look back; that we undertake
Things, but do not go through with them; that we
nave nearly completed University which is The
ornament oil The Commonwealth of Virginia and
that has cost us immense sums of money but now
we are about to abandon il ONLY Tor the want of the
appropriation OF few thousand dollars; tina, we
rear up superb edifces, but for want of underpn-
ming they are tottering 10 the earth, these and a
great many other coarse structures viii be made on
US: III we stop now in our internal improvements,
oar sistsr states will get the start of US that the
poor Oid Dominion will never overiake ihem-
| About tour weeks ago, on my way 10 the city of
Richmond, was informed that although the Lee
sisiature had been IN session nearly two months
Trey 'iad not done any thing decisvely except the
laying OF taxes, aud that they ould rise il was
thought, without doing any thing further of conse
Iuence, except the eXpendns OF about one hundr ed
ana twenty thousand dollars, thei eabou,s. But
oeinS myself no naiconent on any occasion, and
having always the highest respect for the General
Assembly of Virginia, as soon as / arrived in the
city and could have my clothes brushed, (for there
Is always prodisious quantity of dust or mud
Nicked up on the Manchester turnpike, (I went
immediately, as always do, an the first instance
TO pay my respects 10 the Legislature AS soon
as got into the lobby OF the House, began re-
view oil the members of the Gen. Assembly, and |
must confess glow OF pride and pleasure arose in
my heaii, as 1t always does at looking at lhe i'm
mediate replesentatiss Of my county The i'm
preston was so favorable that | could not helm
"usurihS iavorably OF the proceedings of tie PEE
| sent Heneral 4 ssemby, and as | repaired 10 nv
lodgings asked myself, who was i, that instituted
The Literary Fund OF hundreds OF thousands of dol
lars, by taxing vice, and immediately for The pro
so'ioh OF science, and virtue in the education of
the poor youth of the country? The General As
sembly OF Virginia? Who ordered the University
OF Virginia, bur that is not only the ornament OF
virginia but ofihe y States, that will not only
soon vie with Oxford, and Cambridge, but the most
celebrated Universities in the wordS | answered
the General Assembly of Virginia? and it is to be
hoped that If will be slways under the nurture, and
fostering care oil the Legislature. For TWO centu-
RES me youth, had been sent out of Virginia to
all parts OF the u. States and to Europe az an i'm,
mehse expense where they contracted habits of ex-
pense and dissipation together with sentiments so
uhcoYeenia 10 the republican institutions of their
own country. But now, the youth of Virginia.
and those of the u. States, and some from South
america and fsom England have come. and others
are coming from The East, and from the West from
.he North, and from the South, 10 set down at the
base OF Monticello and at the feet of the Urea,
Gamalia TO lissk in the full sunshine of science
and 10 be taught the pure principles OF mild NH
iosophy Our gratitude ought to make US soiici-
tous that the University should go into complete
operation during the life OF that great patriot
statesman and philosopher, Thos Jefferson, who
has done so much for his own country: his own
SCIENTIFIC and enlightened mind impresses his heart,
win The incalculable advantage of Science and
literature 10 'he youth OF his native state and
that internal Improvement OF every kind will fol-
low, oil course TO beautfy the face of his beloved
country; being IN perfect peace with all the world
we nave become rich and opuient by agriculture
manufactures, trade, and commerce. We have
TioO ,oOO In the Literary Fund wy should il lie
there idle! Why not establish Coeees5 be-
iieve not cent has been ever given to the Col
/ lege OF Hampden Sydney, which is under the most
excellent management any in the IT, States; bu,
above all let US finish the University 1t will re-
/ qnire but few thousand dollars more let ms I'M,
cultivate the arts aud sciences, and i've shall con-
tnue to be happy in peace, we have been glori-
| Gus in war:
One Of your Constituents
| March 4b, 1926.
! FOR THE EMO UIRER,
| 10 the General assembly Of Vuginia
| There is no subject befnre you Of -. -;