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482 History University of Illinois The influence of such institutions on all our mercantile agricultural mining and mechanical pursuits, in evolving and developing the resources of our mines and soils, perfecting our material products and arts—relieving elevating and refining our toil, swelling the amount of our national wealth and resources, securing to our people intelligence and virtue at home, respect and confidence abroad, can best be seen and felt by every intelligent mind—It is an object in all respects most worthy of, and urgently demanding the united effort of our national strength. We would therefore respectfully petition your honorable body to authorise an appropriation of Public lands to each of the several states of the Union to an amount of not less than 500 thousand dollars for the liberal endorsement of a system of Industrial Universities cooperating with each other and with the Smithsonian Institute at Washington in each State in the Union; for the liberal, practical education of our industrial classes, in their various pursuits for producing the knowledge and literature, needfully adapted to those pursuits, and developing to the fullest and most perfect extent the resources of our soil and our arts, and especially the intelligence refinement and virtue of our people, and the true glory of our common country— Aug. C. French, Chair, D. L. Gregg L. S. Pennington (The above signatures are apparently in their own hand writing.)
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