Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-02-27
Tha Agricul,nrnI College.

Under this head The 'Ctrcleville Union has
a long article, from which the following
paragraphs are taken:
The Congressional grant expressly pro-
Nides that no portion of said fund shall be
applied to the psirchase, erection, preservation
or repair Of any building or buildings OF SAID
college. ~
The friends of Athens and Oxford are
making strenuous efforts to secure the in
stitution permanently, or to divide the
scrip, with the understanding that agricul-
tural and mechanical departments be es-
tablished in connection with them. Farm
ers' College, which is located in Hamilton
county, offers to surrender their property
and their franchise to the State, without
pecuniary consideration, If the State will
establish there College and make. it re-
cipient of portion OF the Congressional
grant of lands. 1t has farm, with botanic
garden, buildings, libraries, and apparatus
worth, 1t is said, $l5i,OOO, and is free from
debt.
AS usual, all Hamilton, county is besieg-
ing the Legislature in behalf of Farmers
College, LOCATED NEAR THE INDIANA LINE
| A vast committee is now at Columbus, WI
ming and dining the members in order 10 con-
vince them that no place on earth IS SO SUIT
able for the College as the proposed loca-
| ton. -,
We trust, that the Legislature will be
proof against all such influences. The Col
| iege should be established at or near the
center of the State, and ought to be en-
tirely disconnected with any existing in
stitution. The law of Congress says, that
the '.leading object of the College shall be
| to teach such branches of learning as are
related to agriculture and the mechanic
arts" and hence, we concur with Governor
Brouoh in the opinion, that this ''canpot be
subordinated to any other species OF gem
| eral education. 1t must become q College
within the meaning of the law, where all
other classes of education become subordin-
ate to instruction in agriculture and the
mechanic arts"
Oxford and Athens, with rich endow-
ments in land, which the lessees refuse TO
have appraised, come forth as beggars Tor
aid to enrich these same parsimonious
land -holders; and the sixteen hundred
stockholders of Farmers College are glad
to dispose of THEIR VALUABLE PRoPERTYFoR
NOTHING! And why? That their own
lands NAV be increased in value at the eX-
pense of all the other counties in the State
The public interest demands, that the
College be located in Franklin or one of the
adjoining counties, provided the citizens
subscribe money enough to erect the neces-
sary BUILDINGS, which cannot be properly
charged to the fund provided by Congress.
1t is in the power of the Legislature to
create one of the grandest institutions of
the age; but, in order to accomplish the
trust committed to its hands by Congress.
the College must be entirely disconnected
with any existing College.
The Senators and Representatives from
the Scioto Valley, we hope, will steadily
vote against all propositions tor dove-tail-
ing. We want an Independent College, to
sinstitute new and distinct species Of edu-
cation; I" or, as the Governor says, "where
the instruction shall be sui generes-of its
own kind-and adapted especially to the
benefit of the industrial classes"