Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-22

he should prefer it ION account Of the
accidents which have befallen him
and which have rendered him incap
able of walking or of any active EN-
ployment) to remain in the situation
he now is, it shall be optional in hi1.7
to do so; in either case, however,
allow him an annuity Of thirty dollars
during his natural life, which shall be
independent of the victuals anC
clothes he has been accustomed to re
ceivc if he chooses the last alterna
tive; but in full with his freedom, II
he prefers the first; and this give
him as testimony of my sense 0;
his attachment TO me. and for his
faithful services during the revolu
tionary war.
Item To the trustees governors, OF
by whatsoever other name they may be
designated) of the academy, in the
town of Alexandria,, I give and be-
queath, in trust, four thousand dol
lars, or, in other words, twenty Of the
shares which | hold in the bank OF
Alexandria. toward the support of a
free school established at. and an
nexed to, the said academy, for the
purpose of educating such orphan
children, or the children of such other
poor and INDECENT persons as are un-
able to accomplish it with their own
means; and who, in the judgment of
the trustees of the seminary, are best
entitled to the benefit of the donation.
The aforesaid twenty shares | give
and bequeath in perpetuity; the divi-
, dends only of which are to be drawn
for, and applied by the said trustees,
for the time being, for the uses above
mentioned; the stock to remain en-
tire and untouched, unless indications
OF failure of the bank should be SO
apparent, or a discontinuance thereof
should render a removal OF the funds
necessary In either of these cases,
the amount Of the stock here devised
is to be vested in some other bank,
or public institution, whereby the in
terest may with regularity and GER
tainty be drawn, and applied as above;
And, to prevent misconcept1on, my
meaning is. and is hereby declared to
be, that these twenty shares are II
lieu of, and not in addition to, the
thousand pounds given by mlss1ve
letter some years ago; in consequence
whereof, an annuity of fifty pounds
has since been paid towards tle sup
port Of this institution.
Item. Whereas by a law of the COM
monwealth Of Virginia. enacted IN
the year 1885. the legislature thereof
was pleased las an evidence OF Its
appreciation of the services hac rem"
dered the public during the
revolution, and partly. be-
lieve in consideration Of my
having suggested the vast advantages
which the community would derive
from the extension OF it's inland navl-
cation under Legislative patronage) TO
present me with one hundred shares
OF one hundred dollars each, in the
company established for
the purpose of extending the nav1gd-
ton Of James river from tide water
to the mountains-and DISC with hfty
shares of one hundred pounds ster.
ling each, in the corporation OF an
other company likewise established for
the similar purpose of opecinC the
navigation of the river Potomac from
tide water to Ftrt Cumberland: the
acceptance of which, although the of.
fer was highly honorable and grateful
to my feelings, was refused as moon
sistent with a principle which bad
adopted, and had never departed from
to receive pecurlafy
compensation for any services could
render my country in its arduous
struggle with Great Britain for its
rights; and because had evaded sim
liar propositions from other states in
the union. Adding to this refusal, how
ever. an intimation that, if 1t should
be the pleasure of the legislature to
permit me to appropriate the said
shares to public uses, l would receive
them on those terms with due sensl- |
bility; and this it having consented
to, in fattering terms, as will appear
by subsequent law and sundry res !
olutions. in the most ample and hon. |
orable manner. l proceed after this
recital. for the more correct under
standing of the case, to declare-that
as always been source OF serious re-
gret with me to see the youth OF the
United States sent to foreign coun' !
tries for the purpose of education,
often before their minds were formed, |
or they had imbbed any adequate
ideas of the happiness of their own;
contracting too frequently not only
habits of dissipation and extrava-
gance but principles unfriendly to re-
publican government, and to the true
and genuine liberties of mankind;
which thereafter, are rarely over
come.-For these reasons, it has been
my ardent wish to see plan devised |
on a liberal scale which would have
a tendency to spread systematic
ideas through all parts of this rising |
empire, thereby to do away local at
tachments and state prejudices. as
far as the nature of things would, or
indeed ought to admit, from our ma |
tional councils. anxiously |
forward to the accomplishment of so
desirable an object as this is Tin my |
my mind has not been
able to contemplate any plan more
likely to effect the measure than the
of university in a cen !
trail part of the United States, TO !
which the youths of fortune and tai |
ents from all parts thereof might be |
sent for the completion of their edu-
cation in all the branches of polite