Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-04-27

Congress ol the United States, in such manner as they may deem expedient for the benefit of the peO- pie The true wealth of a nation is not to be esti- matedby the amount of money in the National Trea- surer but consists in the healthy and prosperous con ditlOn Of its cllzens hence lt has been the policy ot own government, and one to which we most hear tlly subscribe, 10 better the condition of the citizen by making hlaI the sole owner of portion of hls soil and with the view To ellecuate this great ob- ject, the Government have from time to time when the debt became Oner0us. granted relief 10 the land purchasers to enable them to retain their lands. This was just exercise of power vested in the Congress of the Unlt,d States. But may we not ask to whom does the University lands belongl do they belong to the Statel No. Do they belong to the Trustees individually, or in their corporate capaci- ty They assuredy as individuals have no interest Ill the iunds of the lnstituton but they do belong to them in their corporate character; and for what ob- ject were they thus vested, that the grant from the General Government might he carried into effect, and what was that grant A donation to the people oi Alabama, Of large quantity Of lands for the pur- pose of endowing seminary of learning By the terms of the grant who interested the purtlas- CTS of University lands alone No. The Trustees No; but the people of Alabama from the humbest cottage to the pr6udes mansion are alike interested
 The terms of the grant makes no distinction. The rights of the rich and poor alike protected and are all entitled m the same way 10 the benefits to be derived from State University. Again, what were the objects of the donation We answer that useful knowledge might be speedily imparted to the youths of Alabama without distinction. We have that the Congress of the United States in gran ling relief to the government debtors acted under d deigated power for the benefit ol the citizen without
 injury any one, hut not in relation 10 the subject
 under consideration. Every dollar that take from this fund injury done to the many for the hcne- fit of the few. We are diyestng fund that should be held sacred by every lover o his species. We doing anirreparable injury to country, by dimin- ishing the of educating the poorer class ofour citizens. We are taking from the orphan and un- fortunate poor the means of acquiring that kind of knowledge which would enable him 10 take an hon
 orable stand among his countrymen. and putting it oten, fear, into the pockets of the less stors portion of cnr citizens Should we not pause and seriously reflect before proceed further in d
 yesting the funds of our infant instimtion Have not
 some four sister States furnished us an admonlory lesson on the subject of nsappication of school funds Have not seen the youths olthose States grow up in ignorance, for the want of the proper means of education; and shall not profit by tlier example? We the minority of the board of Trus- tees of the University of Alabama, feel ourselves constrained by considerations Of paramount charac- ter, to set faces against precedent in urious in its tendancics We therefore submit the forego- ing as our solemn protest against the passage of the ordinance. SAML. w. MARDIS. VIM. ACKLEN, Jr.
 TuscALoosA, April 15, 1881.