Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-02-18
PEABODYS PHILANTHROPY
THE EDUCATIONAL FUND
MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD

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eeedinEs Of tue Board Of Trustees Of tho
Peabody Educational Fund, which have Just
concluded their sessions at the Arlington
House
first Day's Proceedings.
On opening tho meeting, the president,
Hon. r, O. Winthrop, made announcement
Of thadsath Of MrsPeabody, In the follow.
REMARKs or Mr.. WINTHROP.
Mr.. Winthrop said that when the day Of
the annual meeting was fixed at Baltimore |
10 January Of the last year, I" We were not |
without some hope that our munincent |
founder might be personally present here |
with us, and we were encouraged 10 this
hope when so many of US met him last sum.
mer at Newport. But God has ordered II
otherwise, aud my first duty, In taking the
chair to-day, Is to announce to the board,
officially, an event OF which you arc all but
too we'll Informed"
The full term of three years has Jnst expired
since this board was originally organized.
The letter Of Mr.. Peabody announcing the
endowment and creating the trust bears date
Washington, Feb. Z, 1861"
That memorable and noble letter, after
referring TO "the educational needs Of those
portions Of our beloved and common coun-
(which have suffered from the destructive
rayRges, and the not less disastrous conse-
quences, of civil war;" contained a passage
winch FURNISHES tue kCN =liONe VI NuN "huib
design, and which must ever give con-
trolling direction 10 all orr Proesedings.
On the day following the date Of this lot
ter ten of our number-whom, Rt Mt. Pea
body's request, had invited to meot him 10
this oity-assembled at Wizards hotel, and
there, In presence OF Mr.. Peabody himself,
accepted the obligations prescribed by his
letter, and inaugurated the work committed
to US. Our proceedings on that occasion,
however, were purely preliminary and
formal. '-
on the 10Th Of March following the board
held their frst business meeting In the city
OF New York, and devoted four days, In COM
pany with Mr.. Peabody, to the consideration
and adoption Of the plans which have since
been carried out.
Under q resolution adopted ut that meat
ing, DR.. Sears, then president OF Brown
University, Rhode Island, was unanimously |
appointed the general agent OF the board; d
and his letter accepting the appointment a
bears date the 80th Of the same month. 9
With that acceptance, the practical work a
committed to us may fairly be considered as h
having commenced. 81
Mr.. Winthrop, In detailing the work since s,
performed BY DR.. Sears, says chat We have a
enjoyed no adequate opportunity for fully In
approaching the labors which have thus far A.
been performed, and the results which have h
thus far been accomplished, by our general
agent, until the1e three reports, In eounec. p
tlon with all the proceedings OF the board, II
were recently printed together Tor tho use n
Of the trustees. And should be wanting Of
to my own feelings, and TO my responslblli- pl
ties both to the living and the dead-as the Of
organ at once OF Mr.. Peabody and of the m
board-if failed to give some formal and
public expression to the qualification, and,
must say, the astoniShment, have ex- q
perienced, on a deliberate examination Of Il
those reports" is
Ths common school education Of the chill Of
dren Of the South, "without other dlstinc- Il
ton than their needs and the opportunities o.
OF usefulness to thcm," and with such incl s
dental encouragement aud support Of normal p
schools as might secure an adequate supply "
Of competent toaehers-thls was the simple e
but grand deslgn OF Mr.. Peabody In estab- N
fishing the trust committed TO us; and he did
not fan to enforce that design upon us In Ii
his latest conversations, a. we'll as In his Y
earlier public letters.
Mr.. Peabody understood perfectly that Il
this design was not TO be carried out by buy 4
Ing anything, or by building anything. He
saw clearly that the purchase of lots and '
the erection Of sehool-houses for the children /
Of so many States would exhaust our funds "
long before our legitimate work could be n
He was fully persuaded that the best way Z
In which his munlaceut donation could be p
employed, under cIisting circumstances, for v
the greatest good Of the greatest number, q
was BY sending out our agent as a sort OF A
Interest Of our fund at his command, to help Of
those who were willing TO help themselves b
to exc out the insuficeneles OF local appro- "
priationsi TO provide In succession for the II
Immediate temporary wants OF particular Al
communities and, above all that mere n
money could do, To give them the advantage
OF the largest Information, the highest prac- II
teal wisdom, aud the longest experience In b.
the Sork OF education. lie perceived that
this was precisely what We had done, aud
he was more than satlsilcd.
And now, gentlemen, having had tho h,
benefit OF his advice, his cheering assIstahce n
and encouragement, for those three militia ar
tory years Of our work, we arc called TO in
enter upon a new term with him. II 10 q an
loss which we shall all deeply feel, and m,
which will be felt hardly less deeply, think, he
by those who shall succeed us when our tIn
places shall In tum become vacant. His 90
wise counsels, his LOFTY aud generous aims, IN,
his genial and magnetic presence eau never Nv
be forgotten by those Of US who have per. tIo
,onally enjoyed them; nor VIM they ever tav
Iail TO Inspire us with a determination to ~
discharge the obligations we have assumed In,
1t his hands 10 the spirit In which they were for
imposed upon us. .-r Su
Let us hope that his memory, and hIs ID
,roat commission, may be held equally TO
aered by all who shall come after US; and All
noble trust, as long Us 1t shall last, may IN
'ulhl all those wishes. which, living and
lying, he 80 Rrdently cherished for the in,
aud welfare Of the Southern
states, and for tho harmony and happiness OF IN,
Dur whole beloved country.
Wheh he had concluded, the following by
resolutions were presented by committee wo
Of MessrS. McIlysine, Graham
and EatOni -r..-E enl
REVOLUTIONS.
OF "a By our iansntsd Sna bsioVsd friend, The m'
late George Peabody, with tho EreateAt Of hil 10
profound yeneratIon for hls character and his
s@ineat philanthropy, With our painful sense to
to the utmost 10 that appreciation bel
of his worth, and works which hAS united two
ributsS 70 his asSory as we're never paid be- ny ny
ore to Individual merit, y 10 the privilege OF I
hose who knew him In me CONFIDENTIAL rela; tor
sstimony Of that shining purity Of nature cat
md OF that careful confederation OF duty 70 j
bod and man which gave birth from aud d. 81
eotion TO all his bountiful glts, We take = scu
nourntul pleasure in recording our loving Is :
. In deed, so Wise and comprehensive In the cot
hOles OF Its objects too thouEhtful to b. tIn,
To- Eaa %1,sa'' syRo sG9H's to Ss t
rAteTnal boundarle II has created a Pre-
.ns,, Of peace s9. between the North and am
9th ~ one nation and their VeueFated han
aotherlAnd, which we pray may never be OUn
rokeh: His native country, which he go app
sarly loved, win proudly remember the son II
az so adorned her history, whose institution on
asd, ana liz sSHId SHuGa'ion ne 20 co. fair
exampis her innsxibie 3pts@ritv All mG! II
n enterprise may AeoumuIGte wealth Sdssd haA
10 more needed Lesson how Ia their own lie. 90, 3
me and BY their own hand u may be wisely Ii
nd nobly dihpenaedi who by Tlches so Oh. no.,
lined aud used, because the benafActoF OF ~
Atlons In both hemispheTes, and taught the qua
Dor IL each to call him bl0saedj whose mOIt 7
lduring monument will be found In cOuutleaA for
lhoola for the poor and ignorant, and Ia Sen
lseIlul comfortable homes for the destitute MN
ID wretehedi who, amidst all the natterHg "u ~
1maEe Of the great and the GppiauaeH OF the
altitude, preserved unsullied 10 the end Of repC
nG career the modest simplicity Of life and llTI
! @artaI IsmSipa ~ sHch ~ was nt mat pres
"a attended BY dlEnitarIes OF ths Chnrob int