The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-03-05

TUESDAY. ss... \ kRCH 8. 1883.
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Eaacasioas I'm she s0uys a. nor
meaningless COLLEGE Ya.
A meeting % raise 40 sd0cktio sa5 iild
for Washing College 9s
General Lee. ID presidents the 3nn& 10 HUI
,,sed 10 encourages eaacat ioE Ia sSle Sutht
WAS held on Monday night 3n ne hfx6
hall Of Cooper Inst itnta, 6r Y ma
wss attended by sbcus 500 peoples ae
call for the meeting WA siKnea by tfshNU
Potter, Revs Henry w ard Baechtr. ssSs
aader Vinton, GharieA Ed kNrl,edly,
p. Tvns, SRI, 81. J.Prime, John 2Ici III.
.ocE John Cotton smith. d. III yhSfaSss
r. S. Sterrs. aud Oh We Morrill, Is essSss
y. E. Dodge, Retsr Cooper. a ! a. Inv,
John e. Hoffman. James 81 Brady kEd
about twenty ether prominent ecu iemsn.
Mr.. Driscol presided. ~ ss - 4 81
Letters from Govsrnor Eentcn. Horsce
Greeley, George w Custis. Cert Smith.
and James Z. Brady, we're read, and re-
ceived with much applause. The writer's
all expressed their warnnest sympathy with
the objects OF the meeting, Mr. Gerrit
Smith adding te bis good words q cash de-
nation Of $500. Mr.. Dawson, theaecretary.
met with sone difficulty ID rsading the
latter document, and was interrupted by
Mt. Beenher with the remark ssI guess
You are not sused soss BOLTON writing Let
me try it,, ID &c was then finished by Mr.
Beecher, who Explained that Mr. Dawson,
being q Georgian, could hardly be- ex-
pected 10 manage the peculiar ahirogrSphy
Of the old oaitioniss until fully secIl.s
mated. ~ ss 81 4 8 So ,s,s
Resolutions By Mr.. Beecber were read
and adopted lin substance: tiatsiti Is At
once the duty and the. privilege Of those
who maintained the unity Of this nation
BY war to be foremost In works. OF loveand
restoration In peace, and TO see that no
part of the Republic suffers for want of the
proper moral and Intellectual trainings0f
its people, since universal education IS an
indispensable condition OF lasting union.
That while the most ignorant classes Of the
South should be educated, duesattAntiun
should be given TO cell gss for ans abundant
supply Of teachers for thes people Ehst
Washington College having heen in q man
ner founded by one whose name belongs
not TO Virginia, but TO America, We cor
daily recommend II to the lndly consi-
Iteration Dc all who honor the nasmory of
WashiDgto Il ss &c Sesisi
Professor Hitchcock followed imam earn
est appeal for the support Of Washington
College, Virgins. BE said this college,
founded by The Father Of his 0Intry, is
now greatly in need OF money. Il is doing
q noble work, and requires all, The cause
of education in the Sonth appeals MOTTO
the prejudices Of men, but to the patriot
ism of the people. OF General Lee, who
led the armies OF the .rebeI lion, he had no.
thing to say. OF Robert d. Lee he conld
say that since the war. he has acted the
part of the gentleman, the patriot, and the
scholar, sedulonsly keeping himself ses
cIuded from the public gaze; and ls5orirg
now at the head Of the institution first
named, he was entitled to all shonor. 81
AS matter of course: Mr.. Beecher'
spoke, and his address closed the proceed-
ipgs, and made some very sensible re-.
marks. He said education is the right
hand of religion, and never was there a
better time for labor in that sfeld,s Assist
her in Virginia, and you minister to multi.
tudes beyond. Virginia is destined in
timeto be again the firstof tho States Of the
Union. Fer soil is sacred as long as she is
the urn which holds. the dGst Of the great
patriot. Let us begin with Virginia.
He pleaded for Washington College be-
cause General Lee was its president. They
might as well face the music. No one re-
gretted the course which General Leehad
chosen in former days than he lthe
spesker) did. He had been accustomed
to think General Johnston the best soldier
of the South, but he thought Lee might
stand next, and while they had worked to-
gether in bad cause, he did not know
buff he mad been born in Virginia, brought
up amid her institutions, educated in 3
southern college, he might have been
prompted to take course just as bad or
cratic rs did Lee or Johnstons s. He who
would study Gettysburg most would find
that but for a Divine Providence General
Lee would have stood in New York or
Philadelphia, and might have been dicta-
ting terms for the whole North, while We
would have been conquered. sss4s ~