This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter lxxvi. subject of the preceding chapter continued failure of the bill its cause what had been gained by the effort. "Washington, Jpril 10th. "dear Wife, "I find the opposition of Mr. Wood and Mr. Vinton is very strong and violent against the Kenyon College Bill. As I sat in the gallery this ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter lxxvi. subject of the preceding chapter continued failure of the bill its cause what had been gained by the effort. "Washington, Jpril 10th. "dear Wife, "I find the opposition of Mr. Wood and Mr. Vinton is very strong and violent against the Kenyon College Bill. As I sat in the gallery this day, listening to the debates, Mr. Wood came up and sat himself down by the side of me. He directly entered into a very free discussion of the merits of my application, and condemned it in Mo. I observed to him, that if it were so bad a thing as he represented, it was rather singular that the Ohio Legislature should have approved of my college and object, and actually have sent me here on the errand which he so condemned. He replied, that the Ohio Legislature did strange things, and could be made to do almost anything, however foolish and inconsistent. I replied, that if their deed in the respect of recommending an application for a township of land for Kenyon College, were to be ranked among the foolish and inconsistent things which he mentioned, it was rather singular that the Senate of the United States should have approved and adopted this child of folly and inconsistency so readily; they had passed the bill by a respectable majority in favor of Kenyon College, doing the very thing after mature deliberation, which the Ohio Legislature recommended. To this remark Mr. Wood said something which, to the best of my recollection, was to
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