Excerpt from The Relations Between Religion and Academic Education
Gentlemen of the Board
of Trustees and Follow-Citizens:
There is not in the history of this great Commonwealth a prouder page, than that which records the fact, that there was laid down in the fundamental law of the land,-the Ordinance of Congress of 1787,-while, as yet it was not a state,-and was incorporated in her constitution at her first organization as a state, the principle, that " Religion, morality and knowledge being essentially necessary to the ends for which states arc established, schools and means of education shall forever be encouraged." It was in conformity to this principle, that the Legislature, at an early period of the Commonwealth, laid the foundations of this University.
There are few institutions in which there ought to be felt by a people an interest deeper and more earnest,than in a University established by a great, state, and endowed by the public munificence, for the education of her own sons and of such others as may resort to it.
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