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Activity Illinois Industrial League 61 pose such a bill without due reflection and consultation among the friends of the cause. The bill alluded to by Turner was in good hands as it proved. George Lumsden immediately explained his motive in introducing the bill in the legislature at that time in a letter to Murray which reveals his own interest and activity as well as much of the general feeling of the time. g Springfield, 111., Feb. 16,1853. B. Murray, Esq. My Dear friend: Yours of the 12th reached me today. I have just finished writing some dozen letters, and mailing some forty circulars. I intend to forward them to all the states and territories, even that of Utah! I called upon Gov. Matteson today, and gave him some forty or fifty to send into the several states. I asked his opinion of the project of an Industrial University. He is quite favorable. He is likewise disposed to examine a plan for an * Industrial University'—similar in its government to our Military Schools and under the control of the State. My object is to have him report a synopsis of it in his next message, and have the posts well guarded in House and Senate. I have examined the plan of the Cambridge—'Harvard Uni.' and Va. University, also the Military Schools. The funds in the hands of this State obtained from the sales of lands appropriated by U. S. expressly for the use of a College or University, and the 2 townships for the establishment of a Seminary of Learning, cannot, by the law & compact of the grant, be ultimately used for any other purpose. The State can loan the funds to any purpose, but cannot apply them for any other purpose than for what they were given. The law is imperative on this point, & is similar in Missouri and other States. But the latest notion which the •Priests of Baal' have deigned to utter—is, that 'the State is incompetent to control the subject of education'! 'Where it has been tried, it has signally failed'! 'That the Church alone is competent to educate the people'!!!! I told the Protestant Priest who said this to me, that he had better keep such thoughts to himself, or else we should know where to place him. This is the very argument of the papists. If our modern protestants are
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