New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-14
Or. MOTT AND UNION COLLEGE.

T. tie Editor Of Tae ~ T. Tas1s
SIR The reply in your poper OF the 9TH inst, by Just
ice to my former communication takes some just e1
cepors the ac.uracy of my catemonis The fault do
not however admit TO be altogether mine but TO BE- charge
able rather to your proOfIesd unless indeed case N
be made against Ike what IS re ated IN the Comics
".ions Of an llcgible Writ
The error. the printing Of my communication were nfs
so nun, rous that thou any attempt correction would
b. use the explorations might met with the same fate
a. a or ginal and a series Of eryatq ery,0rHI or
corrections corrected, would he Involved
On or particulars however viii venture TO notice
Ny the funds received by the College tom
H. thHt they amounted TO S6lAsi5 crcifstfe
OF what has been recently appropriated by DE- iit TO the
ne of tie College The sprint by which this sum 10
made TO inciude the endov melt by Dr. Mott, think
obvious and need MT have been m understood From
TIL should be deducted S9iiis which was paid back
90 aits & Mcintyre the groun of an alleged mistake
and lere would be left S5l 97 the aggregate OF the
of she State not including the proceeds of the
lotteries viii, went TO Or Mott ard now bestowed by
Inn upon the College ot his sum stated tnat mere
remains in productive property only sl3j36j Was
tLeEe any thing unfair in this satenent IL matters little
no,r il Las been disposed oftbe material fact il that all
the resduum above nlion.d has been absorbed
and 10 longer EXITS tor future
An endowment according 10 the generally received
opinion should have perpetuity and It Is dee med
inn rovdei exhaust more than the income OF tho fund
Ii If Place thereffe, tn go into the Inquiry how
this fund had b. absorbed IL would hardly have been
assuu.d that it in the college buildings the
institution poss ssed of buildings AMI property eX;u
five of this fund from The sales of which have boen
Glized upwaId OF $4,000 besides which there should
have been current receipts for tuition which would 70 some
extent have been applicable for this purpose. But il, as
claimed by usc the greater part Of the fund reee ed
f. III the State has been thus applied it is the psra
lei of which be found only in DR. Matthews invest
m,nt OF the furds Of the University of this Ciiy-by
which profo sorsps and scholarships put
into the walls of the buildng-he revenue whereof
found what scany the Professors have had
sion to kUow by baId experience
As 10 the mural influence of lotteries whether il be true
or that ablc opinion is divided the subject trust
that Dr. Mott IN his lecture to the seuor class does not in
oulcaie that il il a doubtful question To do would IN
my Judgment be about sound indocdnation in m rails
would be in political science to adiuce the character
If Aaron Burr tit ustraiiOn of what young man
should admire and initiate.
Such being my view OF the question supposed that
might have the liberty of expressing without being
cessary subject the charge OF sinister combn alton
with Messrs BeekmaD, NaDderheydeD, Yates &c. IL is
low standard of moral that makes it necessary To
suppose the opinion of men 10 be always rceRary II
belongs that school of morals by which all that be
gain The foes and weaknesses OF il held 10
be lawful But this being my theory, but believing
do that generally inclined TO the right if NOT
reverted by malgn influence that suspenls By
magnetic power their natural judgment, concede 20
others the liberty of thinking for themselves without i'm
peaclment of their honesty. | also claim the right of
having opinion of my upon moral question with
out IFS being made the occasion of exorcsm TO develop
some impure motive. FIAT JCsTIrIA.