Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-06
by corporation organized under the laws

by corporation organized under the law
of Virginia.
Mr.. Lee. AS understand, this institu
ton WAS corporation, and these gentlemen
who were the corporstors and trustees were
ministers Of the Gospel.
Mr.. Allen. Was it g public or private
corporation
Mr.. Lee. Public, suppose.
Mr.. O'Ferrall. No; private.
MIR. Allen. A private corporation, like
other private schools.
Mr.. Lee No, sir; it was theological
seminary of the Episcopal Church. I am
not aware that Confederate soldier ever
crossed the grounds of THE theological sem
mary and I am confident that no Confed
crate soldier ever did so from the 9th OF
May, the day after the secession Of Virginia,
until the institution sag returned to the
trustees.
Mr. Cutcbeon Would rot Confederate
soldiers have crossed those grounds but for
a line Of federai troops which prevented
them ?
Mr.. Lee. Certainly and but for such o
Zine Of federal troops" they would have
crossed into Pennsylvania, into New York,
into Illinois Nothing but that Zine of
federal troops" prevented then from DO
ing go.
Mr. Jackson. supposed that the Conrederates
'only asked to be LEI slone"
Mr. Lee That was the theory of secession; but
when the war was carried into our territory, we
carried the war into Africa"
Member. You did tho best you could
Mr.. Lee. The Government has al. eady paid for
the use Of other property which it occupied in the
city of Alexandria; and recall an instance in ny
own neighbortood, 8 miles west of Alexandria,
where a farmer named Armes, who, believe YVES
afterwa-d distinguished soldier III The United
States army. wGs paid for damage Gone upon his
farm by United States troops
1t seems to mo this Institution occupies y pecu-
liar position from tho fact that it YVES not section
al. that tbero was no politics in it. The statistics
will show that It's alumni have come from every
portion of this Union; and that, iu point OF TACT
SINCE the inauguration of the institution
more oil its eradTatea haye come from olthcrn
States than from Southern.
Mr.. Allen. Where were The faculty Of this col
lego, whero werc the trustees during the entire
war? Wero they on the Union side, or were they
on the side of the Coafederacy If hey were on
the other side want to bDcw il.
Mr.. Lee. How do yGI want 10 know it,
Mr.. Allen. If they were Oh the side cf the re-
aelioa want to know it.
Mr.. Lee. Why, sir, theT werq ministers Of tho
gospel.
Mr.. Burrows. How cid they pray tGrest
MT. Lee. They prayed to God for al sinners
MIR. Allen. l believe those gentlemen who were
ministers prayed, and prayed as they thought
right. But the question l wish 10 ask, is, did
thes go into active hostlities against the Govern
ment, and did the trustees of this college 90 in
to active hostilites sgainct the Government?
Mr.. Leo. wish to say these trustees, so far as
krow, were within the Federal lines-a great
majority of them-during the war and that their
prayers were offered for al! sinners and for those
Who had spitefully used them. daughter
Mr.. Burrows. did not understand the gentle
mans last remark
Mr.. Lee. They prayed for all sinners and those
who had spitefully used them. laughter
Mr.. Grosvenor What is it that brings such an
int, restT crowd as is collected around the gen
tleman from Virginia while he is advocating the
adoption of this amendment?
Mr.. Lee. Suppose this college had been on the
north side of the Potomac, would thc gentleman
have objected 2
Mr.. Grosvenor. From ole end Of tie country
to the Other, right through the district in which
live, school-houses and churches, were .aS en- in
the summer of 1883, and occupied by the Govern
ment for qusrterng its troops and for the care of
its sick. They were seized by the rebels under
General Morgan, and no one was paid single
cent, or thought of such a thing. That was in
Ohio State which did not go out of the Union.
1t is not worth while to talk of these men being
ministers of the Gospel and wit out politics The
preachers in the South during the war had some
thing, some influence, call it what you will, that
put more develtry into the minds and the hearts
of the people of that country than any other ono
single agency or all other agencies combined a d
it is not worth while to institution over
which ministers presided by throwing over it the
halo of their priestly or ghostly character
was sorry to hear the distinguished gentleman
from Virginia says he thought and hoped that the
time had now come when the animosities of the
war had SO far passed away that such questions
would have no weight, and that money considera
tions would be granted noT in such cases that
would not have been granted in years gone by.
Mr.. Lee. Will the gentleman permit me?
Mr.. Grosvenor. If that is all that is to be gain
ed by the passing away of tho apimosities of the
war; is hardly worth while to argue tho question
further Questions of patriotism and love of country
are to have no weight But 1t seems to me that
that is IL remark so sordid in character that the
gentleman could scarcely have deliberated upon
its force, and must have unintentonally delivered
it.
Mr.. Lee. Will the gentleman permit me?
Mr.. Grosvenor. Certainly.
Mr. Lee. The money consideration involves an
act of justice. I said thought it was an act of
Justice.
Mr. Grosyenor. And yet the act of Justice is
worked out through an appropriation bill.
Mr. Lee. Well let the gentleman from Ohio
construe his own actions and not impugn those of
others.
Mr.. Grosvenor do not; and the declaration
of the gentleman relieves the amendment of the
gentleman from the imputation that he was hope.
full that the time had come when the animosites
of war have so far passed away-
Mr. Lee. That we could now do an acs of
Justice. Mr. Chairman, I shall content myself
with calling the attention of the gentleman to
few cases where the same principle has been re-
cognized by the Government. hold in my hands
l.. t1,oEo o1o;rn fNrn cotin
were paid for damages for the use and occupancy
by the government of the United States of the
property of Joseph Segar, near Fortress Monroe,
Va. The University of kentucky was paid for in
the same way, as well as the University OF East
Tennessee There is also the case that called at
tention to little while ago, the property of J. g.
Armos, for which the Government paid S9, 500 for
damages, near Anandsle, about miles west of
Alexandria.
Mr.. Grosyenor. Was not Joseph Segar to whom