The Origin of the Land Grant Act of 1862 (the So-Called Morrill Act), Vol. 4

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Excerpt from The Origin of the Land Grant Act of 1862 (the So-Called Morrill Act), Vol. 4: And Some Account of Its Author, Jonathan B. Turner There is no desire to detract one iota from the credit due Mr. Morrill for his earnest, wise and persistent advocacy of the policy of Federal Aid to education. By his action on this subject he gained and deserved the name of statesman and his glory and reputation will wax with the passing years while that of many of his colleagues who were more prominent at the time will wane and pass away, because they did not recognize the really important things and he did. All honor to him for his early work and above all for his continued support of this policy once begun! On the other hand, the credit for having first devised and formulated the original plan and of having worked up the public interest in the measure so that it could be passed belongs clearly to Professor Turner and should be accorded him. The federal act, signed by Abraham Lincoln July 2, 1862, by which a grant was made to each state in the Union of thirty thousand acres of land for each senator and representative to which it was entitled in the federal congress for the purpose of promoting the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life, has turned out to be, in the course of time, the greatest endowment of higher education ever made at one time by the act of any legislature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.