Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-10-14

hiSu iepuaIiVn' uut W urlHS ueT III re-
turn, rich and extensive trade in that
branch of her industry
The Legislature at its last SESSION pass
ed an act providing for the appointment
of agents to receive and dispose of the
land scrip to which this State may be ell;
titled under the Act of Congress, approx
ed July 2, 1862"
The act of Congress donates to each
State land to the amount of thirty thous-
and acres to each Senator and Represent
alive in Congress, the proceeds of the
sale of which, or of the land scrip to be
issued therefor, is to be invested in stocks
of the United States, or of the States, or
some other safe stocks, yielding not less
than five per cent upon the par value Of
said stocks, and to constitute perpetual
fund the interest of which is to be invio-
lably appropriated to the endowment, sup
port and maintenance of at. least one
College in each State '" .'
The remains now but little more than
three years, within which the State must
comply with the provisions of the act of
Congress, and establish college for the
purpose specified, OF the grant, as to this
State is to cease. L..
The shortness of the time, the impor.
lance and magnitude of the enterprise,
its effects upon the educational interests
of the State, and the. great variety of
questions involved, justify me in calling
your special attention to the subject at
this time. .',... ..........
By the terms of the grant, there will
fall to the share of Vermont one hundred
and fifty thousand acres of land, which,
at the minimum valuation of government
lands, is equivalent to one hundred and
eighty seven thousand five hundred dol
lars. .,...I.E, .e sE. y.u.. . us.
would earnestly Recommend the pas
sage of law securing to the soldiers
who are now already, or who may hereaf.
ter be called into the service of the Uni
ted States, from this State, the right to
exercise the franchise, as guaranteed and
secured to the freemen of this State by its
Consti tution; and | would respectfully
urge this measure upon your consideration
as an act of justice to the brave sons and
freemen of Vermont, who are so nobly
doing battle in the cause of the country,
and as fitting testimonial of the appre.
citation in which those services are held
by the people of the State .. Ill.,.
In no doubtful sense, is Vermont the
uncompromising foe of tyranny and OPP
preston, in whatever form or wherever it
exists. Free, as the air of her native
hills, in all her own institutions and pol
icies, she has ever advocated the great
principles of Constitutional Liberty, in
their broadcast sense. and maintained them
with unwavering fidelity, yet adhering
steadfastly to the Union in all its integ.
rity. 1t was this that actuated her, when
at the outbreak of the war, the first of all
the States, she threw off the shackles of
party, and declared herself unqualifedly
for the Union, and for sustaining the Ad-
ministration in all its efforts to suppress
the rebellion, applying no test of politi'
cal faith, but loyalty to the government,
and yet. in all this, yielding up none of
the great cardinal principles for which
she has for years so faithfully contened.
Hence it was, that when the proclama-
ton for the emancipation of the slaves
was promulgated, she hailed the measure
with extreme satisfaction, not only as a
military necessity but as a harbinger of
the great work of ultimate destruction to
that institution, which has been the ori-
gin and cause of all our national troub.
les. ..........
Senators and Gentlemen of the House.
Upon you as the opponents of free
and sovereign people will devolve the high
duties of contributing in legislative
form to the further and more efficient
support of the national government. As
one of the great sisterhood of States
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