The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-14
PURCHASE OF THE HERMITAGE.-PR0P0sED
BRANCH OF THE WEST POINT MILITARY
ACADEMY


ACADEMY.
bill as many of our readers aware has passed the
lower branch Of the legislature of Tennessee and
before the senate of that State for the purchase by the
State of the Hermitage communication appears in a
late number of the Nashville Union in which the writer
proposes that the Hermitage becomes thus
ed it should be offered to Congress site for branch
of the West Point Academy, for the South and West
This proposition urged by the writer with much force
proprey aud eoquence that we are tempted to make
few OF the necessity of an additional academy
and Of the peculiar adaptation the proposed site for the
purpose intended, he says
As nation We must rely upon citizen soldiery and no
nation relied upon better but give them their
greatest efficiency, they be under command Of officers
wbo thoroughly understand their character How is this
be best accomplished By sending eda-
Gated by patting them in mid at the Hermitage
under Instructors who understand southern characters and
southern institutions There distinct southern ehsrac-
ter brave brilliant and daring, the effect Of climate aud
stutions which requires study and proper instruction
comprehend This instruction should be part the educs-
ton Of cadets, whilst thus preparing command this
citizen sodiery when danger calls.
The Southern Atlantic and Pacific the Gulf Of Mexico
the valley of the great Mississippi contribute their
specve porions the treasury for this and other Purposes
and there not decided proPriety in asking Congress
pass law permitting these sections Of the country have
their officers educated the Hermitage instead Of sending
them TO the banks OF The Hudson:
Tbs disbursements from the national treasury have been
in favor Of end Of the Union always we have
been nation and hence The ss Of having this disburse-
eut made the Hermitage This Ia intended
urb West Point the military school for the North. We
think the Institution founded in wisdom and we wish
to see il extended BY the location Of branch the Hermit
age.
The policy Of the South is, to ssT money
taken from the national treasury TO build os for protec-
ton. Give officers educated and trained around the
u Gen Jackson who understand the fiery u South
and railroads carry then the field Of battle we bid
deaABea any foe who BSy dare invade soil. We
Command such onrs be made upon the walks that
familiar The departed hero, where the merpoty
Of his ehiTse spirit would give The FcuBg soldiers
receiving the impress u sducaSion."
Again:
ala e the fame Of the hero uf New Orleans was eoneen-
ate upOa his brow and liz gp every besrtstoBs u the
land from the mountain the sezshore When be sleeps
in death IL becomes the Tennessee into whose his
tory bis deeds trSnsed purchase and hold sacred the
home Of his hospitality and his last resting place.
More than half century bAs passed b. since the Cuifed
States Military Academy established and located IN
New York which thea the eeare o territory and
population. But Florida Alabama, Mississippi Lou
anA aud Texas famed b. the soh hreere Of The ul
tempered bT tropical sun and the wide spreading Car.
mia. with her mineral wealth. b. the breath Of the mild
cbc The southern and western empires have been since
added, and thus constitute cngrpt for CnitsI
States Military Academy al the Hermitage"