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that I cannot all at once become indifferent to them. The Constitution imposes upon the legislature the duty of appropriating funds for the support of seminaries of learning whenever it is in their power, or in other words when they have public land to dispose of. How they have obeyed this injunction in the years 1803 and 1806 you will Know. How they will discharge this duty at this time, I am afraid I Know full as well. The obligation is of the highest nature which the framers of the Constitution were able to impose upon those, to whom its execution should be from time to time committed, by the people. If the moral obligation of an oath is too weak to induce the members to provide for the education of youth by the proper endowments of Seminaries for that Purpose, nothing which I could urge, would be likely to meet with success. I think however the injunctions of the constitution should be brought distinctly under their consideration. A special message to this effect might produce a salutary pause, and stay the wanton waste of the Public property which can be applied to such various