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Revie,o of Mr BePs Address, delicered before the

 Alumni Society ofhe Unirersity cf Tennessee, Octo-

 Der 5th, 1880.

 We have in this address the most melancholy proofs of the venaty and carelessness of the Legs- ture of Tennessee, and the preudces of the people at large against education Can it be believed that in this free and enighed nation, whose very existence depends upon general intelligence, there are men who will advocate the cause of ignorence, flown down liberal institutions, and persuade their fellow citizens to neglect not only collegiate learning but learning altogetherl We can read without surprise of the Roman Catholic priesthood of the twelfth century throwing impediments in the way of moral improvement, but we never expected to find that there politicians in this neghboring State, who have systematically, for series of years, been in fusing into the public mind the most absurd doctrines and the worst poison; who have done all in their powerto paralyze the State University, by cutting away and deteriorang its funds at every opportuni