. A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents. re too narrow to command the ablest professors in the differentdepartments of liberal knowledge for the institution contemplated,though they would be excellent auxiliaries. Amongst the motives to such an institution, the assimilation of theprinciples, opinions, and manners of our countrymen by the commoneducation of a portion of our youth from everj quarter well deservesattention. The more homogeneous our citizens can be made in theseparticulars the greater will be our prospect of permanent union; and aprimar> object of such a na


. A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents. re too narrow to command the ablest professors in the differentdepartments of liberal knowledge for the institution contemplated,though they would be excellent auxiliaries. Amongst the motives to such an institution, the assimilation of theprinciples, opinions, and manners of our countrymen by the commoneducation of a portion of our youth from everj quarter well deservesattention. The more homogeneous our citizens can be made in theseparticulars the greater will be our prospect of permanent union; and aprimar> object of such a national institution should be the education ofour youth in the science of governnicjit. In a republic what speces ofknowledge can be equally important and what duty more pressing on itslegislature than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those n-hoare to be the future guardians cf the liberties of the country? The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogentreasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it -?^r^f\].


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