...Our young Republic has been framed by a Spartan spirit. Let it progress and ripen into Romanfirmness and Athenian gracefulness and wisdom. * * * The present...public domain shall have passed from our hands, and the uneducated youths of Texas will constitute the living monument of our neglect and remissness." * In...

...freemen desire. * * * Let me, therefore, urge upon you, gentlemen, not to postpone the matter too long ; the present is a propitious moment to lay the foundation...without inconvenience to the Government or the people; hut defer it until the public domain shall have passed from our hands, and the uneducated youths of...

...chain of free States which will some day encircle and unite in harmony the American continent . * * * "The present is a propitious moment to lay the foundation of a cat moral and intellectual edifice which will in after ages be hailed as the chief ornament and blessing...

...landed provision for the promotion of public education, while the domain was ample for the purpose. "The present is a propitious moment to lay the foundation...inconvenience to the government or the people; but defer it till the public domain shall have passed from our hands, and the uneducated youths of Texas will constitute...

...Republic on the 20th of December, 1838, said : "The present is a propitious moment to lay the foundations of a great moral and intellectual edifice, which will in after ages be hailed as the' chief monument and blessing of Texas." This seat of learning is the fruition of the hopes of the patriots...

...moral fruits as are the labors of the husbandman to bring forth the valuable product out of the earth. The present is a propitious moment to lay the foundation...moral and intellectual edifice, which will in after years be hailed as the chief ornament and blessing of Texas." And the moment was propitious and the...

...freemen desire . . . Let me, therefore, urge it upon you, gentlemen, not to postpone the matter too long. The present is a propitious moment to lay the foundation...public domain shall have passed from our hands, and the uneducated youths of Texas will constitute the living monuments of our neglect and remissness. To commence...

...public education. In 1838 President Lamar in a message to the Third Congress of the Republic said: "The present is a propitious moment to lay the foundation...this time without inconvenience to the government or to the people; but defer it till the public domain shall have passed from our hands, and the uneducated...

...reference to creating a perpetual endowment for public school purposes by reservations of public land:1 "The present is a propitious moment to lay the foundation...public domain shall have passed from our hands, and the uneducated youths of Texas will constitute the living monuments of our neglect and remissness. A liberal...

...happiness of peace. Let me therefore urge it upon you, Gentlemen, not to postpone this matter too long. The present is a propitious moment, to lay the foundation...and blessing of Texas. A suitable appropriation of land to the purpose of general Education, can be made at this time without inconvenience to the Government...