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Page 251 - It shall be the duty of the general assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 200 - Latin, Greek, French and English languages, mathematics, natural philosophy, ancient and modern history, moral philosophy, logic, rhetoric, and the law of nature and nations.
Page 445 - No law or resolution shall ever be passed by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana that shall recognize any liability of this State to pay or redeem any certificate of stock issued in pursuance of an act entitled "An act to provide for the funded debt of the State of Indiana, and for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal to Evansville...
Page 330 - We present almost the only example of a state professing to have in force a system of common school education, which does not know the amount or condition of its school funds, the number of schools and scholars to be taught and to receive a distribution of those funds.
Page 430 - We regard the slightest breach of plighted faith, public or private, as an evidence of a want of that moral principle upon which all obligations depend : that when any State in this Union shall refuse to recognize her great seal as the sufficient evidence of her obligation she will have forfeited her station in the sisterhood of States and will no longer be worthy of their respect and confidence.
Page 402 - The party of Clay and Adams, driven from power in the nation, thus, on the eve of dissolution, bequeathed its principles and its policy to the State of Indiana. This act granted to the State, for the purpose of aiding to build a canal, uniting at navigable points the waters of the Maumee and those of the Wabash, a strip of land one-half of five sections wide, on either side of the canal, reserving alternate sections to be selected by a land commissioner under the direction of the President.
Page 265 - The Madison Bank, called the Farmers and Mechanics', was promptly organized by John Paul, John Ritchie, Christopher Harrison, Henry Ristine, N. Hurst and Dawson Blackmore.
Page 200 - Heavenborn prerogative of the right to elect and to reject is retained and secured to the citizens, the knowledge which is requisite for a magistrate and elector should be widely diffused...
Page 532 - Fearless, generous, humane, it rebukes the arrogant, cherishes honor, and sympathises with the humble. It asks nothing it will not concede. It concedes nothing it does not demand. Destructive only to despotism, it is the only preserver of liberty, labor and prosperity. It is the sentiment of freedom, equal rights, and equal obligations.
Page 245 - April 15, the House concurred in the Senate amendments and the bill went to the President, by whom it was approved, April 19.