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3. The mortifying and alarming [-line?] of educa-
tion in Virginia, previous to the erection of the University, as at-
tested by Rev Dr Rivce, (Jeff. & Cab. [Coresp.?]157, note *), & Mr Jefferson,
(Jd. 185, 201), and by our own recollections.

4. That the bulk of the Literacy fund is not pledged
to primary education, more than to the University. The first ap-
propriations, of $45000 to one, & $15000 to the other, were made by
the same Act. The former has been increased as the fund has
increased, the latter remains as at first. Now that the fund is
diminished, the reduction should surely fall on that interest
which has profited by its enlargement.

5. The Literacy fund does not seem to be wholly wasted,
and initially extinct, as has been assumed. With certain ex-
ceptions acknowledged to be lost, it is believed to depend on the
same securities, and the same faith as for more than 30 years
prior to 1860.

6. The necessary expenditures of the University cannot
practically be met otherwise than by {the upper} continuing the ap-
propriation hitherto accorded to it. If that be witheld it must,
so far as can be seen, cease to exist, with the present session.

7. The inestimably usefulness of the University in educa-
ting the youth of Virginia, and of the South, in the largest sense of the
word,- morally, as well as intellectually,- a work in which the ef-
fective co-operation of other seminaries of the State, collegiate & Aca-
demic, is warmly acknowledged, but in which the University may
without annoyance, claim, not only the first place, but a place
which no existing institution can supply.