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Memorial to the Sixth Convention DOCUMENT NUMBEB 14 Prairie Farmer, June 20, 1863. Sixth Convention MEMORIAL. 473 The following is a memorial to the legislature of the state, prepared by the committee of the agricultural convention: To the Senate and the House of Representatives of the State of Illinois, The undersigned would respectfully represent that they were appointed a committee, by the state convention of the friends of agricultural and. mechanical education of the State of Illinois, to memorialize your honorable body in respect to the prospective use of the lands or funds granted by congress to the State of Illinois. It is well known to your honorable body that one chief motive urged from time to time upon congress, to induce them to make this grant to the states, was the fact that the industrial interests of this great country have under their special care and control no great educational institutions; that such institutes, thus placed under their special care, and devoted to their special uses, not excluding such, other uses or ends as they might see fit incidentally and collaterally to attach to them, were needful not only to the highest practical development of the industrial resources of the states, and the highest national efficiency, but that the responsibility of their proper control and use was equally needful to the best and highest mental and social development of the people themselves. In the opinion of this committee, and a majority of the convention whom they represent, therefore, any appropriation of these funds which would relieve the masses of the people of the state of their responsibility and care, or relieve the states themselves of such care, by attaching them in any secondary position to any other educational institution whatever and however good in itself, would to that extent be, in fact, a real perversion of the trust conferred; as it is plain from the terms of the grant that
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