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as well as the military affairs of our State, and, I am well aware, appreciates the importance of sustaining our Institutions of Learning. You will therefore be able to decide where my influence is most needed.

    But, I fear, this war, so costly of blood and treasure, will not cease until the men of the North are willing to leave good positions, and sacrifice the dearest personal interests, to rescue our Country from Desolation, and defend the National Existence against treachery at home and [?] abroad. This war must be ended, with a swift and strong hand; and every man ought to come forward and ask to be placed at his proper post.

    Nearly a hundred of those who have been my pupils, are now officers in our army: but there are many more all over our state, who I believe, would respond with enthusiasm, if summoned by me, and who would bring forward men enough to fill up a Regiment at once. I can not free myself from my obligations here, until the first week in August, but I do not