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62 History University of Illinois going back in principle, they had better assume the name with full honors. I \ Well, you seem to express alarm at the work I have been about, when there is really no occasion for any whatever. I knew that the only way to get at our object, was to bring the subject right up in the Legislature—have it discussed and let it be referred to some committee. But you need not fear but what I had all the matter in my mind. The rough outline was passed straight through the House—the amendment stuck on to it in the Senate, and had it been adopted & gone into the House, I should have had it there made perfect, and just to our notion. The discussion alone was worth all the trouble and pains I spent in the matter. In fact it was primarily for no other object than this,— and to have its title go out among the proceedings of the House and Senate. This would make the Sinners in Zion quake with very fear! And, I tell you, I have had my own sport over the long and wry faces manifested by those 'Presidential Collegemen. ' (Prest. Wood has 'looked daggers' at me more than a dozen times. He spent over two weeks here, & was back & forth the best part of four weeks. This is the key to the whole story.) "The 'Northern Industrial College9 is the title of that Charter. I t was amended on its passage. I t is a good & liberal Charter & will incite to a greater attention on the subject. 'My BUI9 was referred to the Judiciary Committee (Senate) and was reported back & laid on table, for want of time to give it that consideration the subject merited. Mr. Judd attended to it for me, & did with it as I requested, as it would be all right. But I 'don't intend to give it up so, Mr. Brown'. Year in & year out shall we make appeals to the people, and to the Assembly in their behalf. Next time we shall have a good Bill—fully submitted to all the friends—and with this [cut from letter] mendation of the Governor. I have written to Messrs. Yates, Seward, Giddings, Shields and Douglas, besides to the Patent office and Secretary of the Interior—& sent them Circulars. Also to Govs. Seymour, N. Y. & Wright, Ind., to many Agri. Mech. and general papers, etc. "We wish every impediment removed, and the best educational facilities free to the people; free as the sunlight that fall-
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