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Address to the Citizens of Morgan County 573 no comparison to what would be the consequence in the case of the proposed University, with its ample endowments, its wide scope of instruction, and its large and varied interests, a part of which we have considered. Who can deny that, under these views, the contemplated institution assumes a proportion, and a prospective power for good, to which it is not easy to set a limit? It will establish the supremacy of labor—labor made a hundred-fold more potent by being educated and skilled by an ever-advancing science. These and similar considerations will of course have their discussion and settlement at another stage in the progress of this design. They are only introduced here to show the magnitude and importance of the work thus begun by government, and the high advantages accruing from its location. In most, if not all the States which have maintained their loyalty since the act of Congress was passed establishing these institutions, the gift has been accepted, and in several of them the institutions are now in full operation. The strife for their location has been most animated, and in many of the States, the counties obtaining the location have pledged amounts of money in aid of the institution, as a bonus given in consideration of the local advantage derived from it when established. A single individual in the State of New York has given, in money and lands, nearly three-fourths of a million of dollars to secure the location of the institution of that State in his neighborhood, so convinced was he of its immense advantages to the vicinity of its location. SHALL THIS INSTITUTION BE LOCATED IN MORGAN COUNTY? In no State in the Union is the competition likely to be so active as in Illinois. Already several of the counties are mustering their strength, in money and influence, and will urge t h | # | claims with the utmost force at their command. The locatil§| will not fail them through any default of action. Liberal offe^L will be made by them, and plausible reasons given in their f a v ^ | But the question is, Shall the County of Morgan, alreadfcjso con*. spicuous, not only for the advantages of centrality an^acil^^^ of access, but also as being the location of other Stat&^titife
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