Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-06-19
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
College in Richmond.
THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 10. ists.


Of tho RevH Mr.. Ryland, President Of the Rich
mond or ms ii is moro Familiarity called, the Bap.
tist College. We were in full recollection Of the
existence of that Seminary and Of its high claims
to support /; and we had proposed in succeeding
numbers TO suggest the very incorporation which
DIR. Ryland has anticipated us in proposing
With the Richmond College and the Medical
School as a nucleus, the way is opened at a com.
paratively small cost for the establishment Of
Richmond University in which the whole circle of
Science can DO taught, and at cost we venture
to say, so per cent under what is now paid at the
University of Virginia.
And here we canno, but pause to address few
words TO different classes of citizens; and
l. To the wealthy owners of real estate: Phil.
anthrophy will no doubt urge many of you to con-
tribute aid TO this really and easily practicable,
and noble design: But when that fails, m
terest will produce the same end. Whatever
improves Richmond, improves your estate, and
few single circumstances would exert more in
Simultaneous influence that way, than the institu-
ton here of a University, the celebrity of whose
Professors the cheapness of the education at
which, and the salubrity of our City, unequalled
on the continent. would unquestionably attract
I'd. But our emphatic appeal is 10 the poor
men of Richmond Which among Us does not de-
sire TO educate his son thoroughly To qualify
him to run the careers of life prcsperously and
honorably; or, if he fail in that, 10 forfy his mind
by knowledge TO bear its ills resgnedly, and amidst
all its vicissitudes still TO find within himself
sources which none can take away, and possess
ed of which he can never be wholly unhappy
Can we effect this nowl The University-erect-
ed by the People at an expense of hundreds of
thousands, and sustained since its commencement
at the cost of additional hundreds Of thousands
the University is inaccessible TO US: Other lnsti
tu,ions are scarcely less beyond our reach With
University at our door, we could completely edu-
cate our sons 1t cost within the limits of
means. We should have them still under the pa.
rental eve. We could continue at the most dan
gerous period Of life to watch their morals, instead
of at the most susceptible age, precipitating them
| into new scenes without Mentor, where vice
presents itself in the attractive forms TO those
wholly unprepared by experience to resist it, and
where, in majority of cases, habits are contract.
ed which yield only to time, if they do to that
How many hundreds of boys are there in Rich
mond, who, If we had now such an institution,
could receive learned education, and with il the
power and qualification to attain emincnce and
advance the honor of their countryl Why should
they be debarred ola privilege and blessing which
might be So easily extended to them!
Men Of Richmond take these reflections 10
heart. If your chi!drcns' happiness and advance
urs'Su, 81 isisiU'o SeI'.sIu SUCCESS, 50 ac-
vaniageous to Richmond in a pecuniary view,
and SO fraush with unnumberod blessings, any
other reasoning in its favor would be thrown
| away.
We do not, like hr. Ryland, at all despair ofthe
consent of William & Mary to remove to Rich.
mond. The causes 1--WE were quorum pars fui)
which defeated the former attempt TO translate
that Institution TO Richmond, or rather the cause,
was the apprehension Of injury 10 the University,
| then just commenced or about 10 Commence
That cause we know was the controlling cause.
and that cause can no longer exert any influence.
The people of Virginia are more disposed at pre-.
sent. TO abate tina. expensive and comparatively
Improbable pet, that squanderer of her muni6cept
beneiactons, than to permit the interests of other
Institutions to be sacrificed to hers She is, and
no! wholly undeseryedly, at low point Of public
favor, and we presume would be coerced by shame.
she and her friends, fnot by justice and proprie.
ty' not to oppose measures for cheapening and
expanding education, which she has so totally fail.
ed to accomplish: Nor we hope would any fan.
tastc difference to the shade Of Jefferson. be al
lowed to intercept good to the people
We recommend Mr. Ryland's whole liberal LET.
ter to the consideration Of The people Of Richmond.
II the Legislature would extend the city iurisdic
ton 10 include the College, the Richmond Col.
lege might not be too far; though We should pre-
fer it nearer-in jhxta position 20 the Medical
school-under the observation of the city, as well
subject to the City Police. We do not regard the
Richmond College as Sectarian because il was
established by the society Of Bapiiss, but Mr.. Ry
lands experience has taught him the mistake, of
ignorance, ard the inPassibiliiy Of prejudice.
Neither would we have too many Colleges, and
impair their efficiency by excess of competition;
but we would at least have one, at which the
poor youth of Richmond If none other, could ac.
qure learned education.
a CONVENTION.
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