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LETTER CLXXVIII.--TO JOSEPH C CABELL, February 3, 1824
TO JOSEPH C CABELL.
Monticello, February 3, 1824.
Dear Sir,
I am favored with your two letters of January the 26th and 29th, and
am glad that yourself and the friends of the University are so well
satisfied, that the provisos amendatory of the University Act are mere
nullities. I had not been able to put out of my head the Algebraical
equation, which was among the first of my college lessons, that a--a = 0.
Yet I cheerfully arrange myself to your opinions. I did not suppose, nor
do I now suppose it possible, that both Houses of the legislature should
ever consent, for an additional fifteen thousand dollars of revenue,
to set all the Professors and students of the University adrift: and
if foreigners will have the same confidence which we have in our
legislature, no harm will have been done by the provisos.
You recollect that we had agreed that the Visitors who are of the
legislature should fix on a certain day of meeting, after the rising of
the Assembly, to put into immediate motion the measures which this act
was expected to call for. You will of course remind the Governor that
a re-appointment of Visitors is to be made on the day following Sunday,
the 29th of this month; and as he is to appoint the day of their first
meeting, it would be well to recommend to him that which our brethren
there shall fix on.
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