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"Resolved, That whereas the true principles of education like the true principles of civil government, every where require the greatest practicable union, co-operation and concentration in all its higher departments, combined with the utmost practicable diffusion in the lower departments, Therefore, "Resolved, That the State of Illinois should, at present attempt to build only one university of the highest order, and that the energies and resources of our people should now be directed to that one end, and the undivided funds of our congressional grant be appropriated thereto. "Resolved, That we approve of the principles of location adopted by former State conventions, and presented to the State Legislature at its last session by the committee of the State Agricultural Society. "Resolved, That we approve of the general principles adopted and approved by all parties at the last session of the Legislature, that in preparing the charter for the University all mere details of organization and government should be left to the future necessities of the institution, the direction of the people, and the existing Board of Trustees, and that the charter of the University should limit their freedom only on those points indispensable to a fundamental law. "Resolved, That a committee be appointed to urge these views upon the next Legislature. "Resolved, That we urge upon the people the necessity of keeping the principles embodied in these resolutions before aspirants to office, and that they emphatically reprobate any man as a candidate for the Legislature who is unfavorable to these views. "Resolved, That we request the Chicago and Springfield papers, and all others in the State, to publish the proceedings of this Convention. \9 Jonathan Turner, in presenting the above resolutions stated that the committee emphatically endorsed the action taken by the agricultural committee last winter, and approved the bill which it presented for the action of the legislature, but which was defeated by combinations which were familiar to the readers of the Tribune and other papers.

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