Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-11-25

| lions of honor and trust and who will command
their admiration and regard; and they will be
| associated with many of the best young men of
their own section of country.
As IN painting ana sculpture the most perfect
models are placed before the student so in
moulding the character of your sons you should
keep constantly before their minds the best
| models of character The people of the South
are fortunate In having, in Washington and Lee
University, an institution of learning with two
of the nobest characters this continent has ever
produced, SO Intimately connected with its his
tory. Gen. Washington gave it its first endow
| ment of $4,000, and General Lee devoted the
last years of his life to adding to its usefulness
and renown. These silent influences are the
most effective you can bring to bear upon your
| sons in inspiring them with sentiments Of honor
and integrity, and in impressing upon them the
| lesson that they must make of themselves good
and useful men, whatever their condition or po-
| sition in life may be.
| While walking through the beautiful grounds
| of South Carolina College-an institution which
| in other years was the pride of the State and
| presided over by Hon. VIM. c. Preston, the ac-
complished orator and statesman, an alumnus of
| Washington and Lee University heart was
made sad, indeed, at viewing it's extensive build
| ings and libraries now almost desolate and for
saken.
| Now that the Carolinians have to look beyond
their State for institution at which to educate
their sons there issnone that so attracts them as
| Washington and Lee University. It has history
| such no other institution of learning IN this
land can claim. Founded as it was, by the Of
cers and soldiers of the first revolution: with its
long list of distinguished alumni its freedom
from State and sectarian control; the liberal basis
upon which it is conducted; its able faculty. the
| gentemanly bearing and scholarly attainments
4 of its graduates the precious memories connect
| ed with it since the war the refining and emo
| bling influences which cluster around it, COM
mend it to the friends of sound learning in your
State as well as throughout the South.
| The interest IN its success is growing among
| fha thorn how o4o nod 70
make it Grand Temple of Learning-a repre-
| sentative Southern university, worthy their ad-
miration and affection, worthy of patronage from
| all parts of the world,
officers shows the deep interest felt in this uni
versity by the Confederate soldiers and they
are power in our Southern land.
| To oar Friends IN the United States:
! The undersigned fully concur in cordially ex-
pressing deep interest in the growth of Wash
ington and Lee University, and especially in its
| plans for practical instruction in applied science
| and the arts.
The singularly beautiful country and healthy
climate where it is located, secure to it UNUSUAL
advantages. 1t is specially halowed in histor-
cal associations in earlier times the recipient
for their generous endowments, by George Wash
ington and his fellow soldiers of the Revolution,
and is consecrated In our times, as the scene OF
| the latest labors of the life of Robert %. Lee.
| Its present president Gen. G. W. Gusts Lee,
is peculiarly fitted to carry forward the unfnish-
| ed work OF his 1lluStrlOuS father.
The constitution of the university leaves it free
from the control of any particular sect, State or
| section of the country.
To secure an endowment sufficient to establish
| university on the very broadest basis of useful
ness and renown, by contributions from the citi-
zens of the several States for special professor
ships therein, we regard as a scheme practical.
| highly advantageous, and entirely feasible, and
we earnestly commend it to our friends, not only
| in the South but throughout the United States
| Iono r6 Now
leans, March 49, 1871, Braxton Bragg, Mobile,
| Raphael Semmes, Mobile. j. G. Breckenridge
Lexington, KY, R. Taylor New Orleans, J. B.
| Hood, New Orleans, W: }. Hardee Selma, Ala,
hill, w ade Hampton, s. c., John Echols, Va,
| NJ. f. Maury, Franklin Buchanan, Jno c.
| Brown, Tenn, Jas. E. Harrison. Waco, Texas,
J. G. Walker, Tevas, |, N. St John. louisville,
II. Hill, Charlotte N c., j. B Gordon Atlanta,
Ga, Alex Stewart, ST Louis, Mo-, c. NJ Will
| cox, N. O., w. n. Pendleton, Lex. Va, W.
Preston, Lex, Ky, IDabney H. Maurry, Va, R..
Harry /. Hays, n. O., W. 4. Quarles, Ciarks'
VILE Tenn, c. E. Hooker, Jackson, Miss, J. D.
| Imboden. Richmond, Va. 10. O. Shelby, Mo-,
S. D. Lee, Miss, Jno, S: Marmaduke, Mo, A.
| Z. Lawton Savannah, p B. Starke, Miss, w.
| 81. Jackson Nashville Tenn, Basil w. Duke,
| Louisville, NJ. G. Butler, S. @.
In a few years each Southern State will have a
| chair we'll endowed and bearing the State name
suitable buildings will be erected, and the en-
dowment will be ample to provide the appliances
for imparting thorough instruction in all the de-
| partments of learning
Then bearing as it is peculiarly entitled to do,
the names of two of our noblest model Southern
Washington and Lee-as long as the
mountains stand where Ashby fell as long as the
rivers flow where Lee and jackson fought as
| long as blood and ashes consecrate the soil of
liberty, so long will Washington and Lee Uni
versity stand, a monument to the character and
| npOnln
| The address was heard with much pleasure by
| the immense cOncOurSe present