Excerpt from Occasional Addresses: And the Letters of Mr. Ambrose on the Rebellion
The citizens of Baltimore have been lately invited to the consideration of a plan, submitted to them by the trustees of the university, for carrying into effect the design of the Legislature in reference to that institution.
It is more a matter of surprise that this undertaking should not before have been brought into the public view, than that it should, at this time, begin to excite an interest among our citizens. The inducements which might be expected to urge and promote such an establishment have, for some years past, been sufficiently apparent to render it a natural inquiry, why this scheme has been delayed so long.
The present age is characterized by a powerful impulse towards a reform of the institutions of society. Men have been made more conversant with the principles of free government; they have been taught to discard ancient prejudices; and to investigate those subjects, upon a knowledge of which depends the capacity to multiply and diffuse the conveniences of life.
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