Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-01-26

J able body is already fullyin possession of the views of the Board in relation to these very interesting topics.
 The Board of Trustees would be doing vio- lence to their own feelings, and manifest an unpafdonable indifference to the important tiust delegated to them, were they at this time to refrain from indulging in a few reAec- tcns on the hattering prospects of our infant institution, and on the great moral influence it is destined to exercise over our State
 The period is rapidly approaching when its advantages will be felt and seen, in our Legs- lative Halls, at the Bar, on the Bench, and in the Pulpit. With buildings erected on a scale commensurate with it's means, which, for convenience of arrangement, purity and chasteness of design, will not suffer by Il com parison with similar edihces in any part of the Union. Amply endowed by the munif- cence of the General Government, with a President and Professors whose present re- putation bespeak their future zeal and ability, what may we not reasonably expect from this oh Id of our hopes The sun of science will soon be seen rising in the wilderness, darting his rays through the forest to every cottage and with their genial warmth, diss!patng the clouds of ignorance and prejudice which have so long ovcrshadowed and darkened the face cf cur land. The streams of learning which Will flow from this fountain of Knowledge, are not to be monopolized and expressed by the privileged few, to the exclusion of the many
 By a wise legislative provision, it is intend cd fer the general good, to infuse new life and vigor through the moral and D itical body. The hlendiess and unprotected child of ge- mus and misfortune, will here drink at the Castlian tount, with the pampered sons cf luxury and aitluence It would be an act of presumption in the Board, (nor is it here in- tended, to attempt to adduce any new argu- nent in favor of the system projected for the admission and education of these, the narrow ness ot whose means would otherwise exclude them for ever from the benefits of edncatlcn The superior blessings and advantages of an enlarged and liberal education, none will have the hardihood, in this age of improvement, to doubt or deny. And upon the general dlffu- sen ct Knowledge through the great mass of the population, will, in all ages and in all countries, depend, in no small degree, the health and vigor of the b. dy polite. The more you improve and enlighten the public mind, the more secure you render it against insideous and inflammatory machnations of the factious demagogues.
 Convinced of the truth of these remarks, would we be acting in good faith towards those who have placed us upon the watch towers ct the State, that we should, with a vlgilant and unsleeping eye, guard their rights and'lloerues, II we neglected to provide for the general body of the people the means of obtaining that information by which those rights and liberties are secured and protect ed l he mdiscriminate saving of money is neither wisdom nor economy. There are other gods more worthy of adoraton than Mammon. There are cases when expendi- ture itself IS economy. Who would applaud the wisdom ot that commander who, when a fortressis about to be besieged, should provide neither ammunition nor provisions, lest they should cost money How wise would be the conduct ot that Government which should neglect to provide those advantages the i'm provements ot the age afford ; which should neglect to place its country, in science in arts, in peace as well as in war, upon an equality with all surrounding or with all rival nations! Measures, however purely pacific CT mtellectual-measures calculated to enrol our cltizens among the benefactors of human society, among those who have improved and elevated the human mind, seem generally to be the objects of vigilance and suspicion, eau tlously investigated, slowly adopted. How readily have millions been lavished by almost every nation, every form of government, to desolate and destroy How reluctantly have WI hi'Shl osty HulltllSuS Cl tHCu- sands, been given to secure those acquisitions far more important than foreign conquests or military triumphs-those principles which can alone render conquest ortrumph of any value
 Fer, what creates national happiness? what Constitutes national glory? Is it the mere exer- tlons of physical force; the struggles of the ani- mal man; the waste of human life Alas if these are the elements of glory, what family of the savage Indian, what horde of the wan dering Tartar, what tribe of the children of lsmael, what kraal or village of the Hoten- tot or the Ethiope, would not be illumned by lts beams 7 When has man been found, and permitted regulated passions, tempered am- bitlon, and intellectual dictates to guide his footsteps' And it is only in proportion as these powers which distinguish him from the rest ct the animal creation are exercised, that he manfests his high station, that he assumes the rank allotted to him in the scale of crea- tlcn. It IS rational, net physical man, that guides, and governs, and elevates, and digni- hes the human race Itis rational, not physi- Cal, that aspires to Heaven.
 It was not Salamis-t was not Marathon CT flatea, that has pcrpetuated the name cf Athens. What were the conquests CT victo- res Of Republ can Greece, to these of Attila, CT Zengis, CT Tlmour.e It was that illustri- ous race whom she reared in, or attracted to her schools, her temples, her academic groves these who gave to immortality the breathinss of poetry, the spcculations of phi lcsephy, the martial deeds of themselves, of their ancestors, and compatriots sages who extended the powers of the human intell, ct, and threw shadowy, yet enduring halo of gl " around their country, that endears her name, her language, her fortunes, even to the present hs UT. How greatly, then, should we feel indebted to these who, having tie means, almost the destnes of the nation un- der their control, with true patriotism and wise economy, unmindful of llcal or tempo