Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 25 February 1822
From Joseph C. Cabell
Richmond 25 Feb: 1822.
Dear Sir,
I am very sorry to inform you that the Resolution of the Committee of Schools & Colleges in favor of a suspension of the Interest of the University debt was this day called up & postponed in the House of Delegates by a vote of 86 to 66. The poor-school or arrearage bill is on the table of the Senate & we shall send them down an amendment. I fear we shall be compelled to vote for a modification going to put off the Library for the present. I am very much opposed to Mr Johnson on this point; but I fear I must give way. I wish I could have your advice on this point, but it will come too late. Never have we had such a set of Goths as we have this year. Mr Watson & Mr Bowyer are gone. It has been utterly out of my power to hasten Mr Morris & others. Mr Watson retires. But you would do well to get his friends in Louisa to open a poll for him. He would be a great loss indeed. He cannot now come unless the people chuse to send him, as he is committed. Could you not get Mr Taylor of Chesterfield to come. I have tried in vain. Six clever men in addition to our present friends would turn the tide. Morris retires also. Faithfully yours
Joseph C. Cabell
RC (ViU: TJP-PC); endorsed by TJ as received 28 Feb. 1822 and so recorded in SJL. RC (MHi); address cover only; with FC of TJ to Bernard Peyton, 3 July 1824, and Dft of TJ to Peyton, 4 July 1824, on verso; addressed: “Mr Jefferson Monticello”; franked; postmarked Richmond, 25 Feb.
On this day the Virginia House of Delegates considered a report from its Committee of Schools and Colleges. The committee recommended against a proposal to cancel the University of Virginia’s bonds to the state, but it offered a resolution that “it is expedient to postpone the payment of the interest due and growing due, on the bonds of the rector and visitors of the university of Virginia, for a period of years.” The House effectively killed this proposal by voting to defer its consideration to 31 Mar., well after the session would end ( [1821–22 sess.], 200).
Index Entries
- An act to amend the act, entitled, ‘an act to reduce into one act, the several acts concerning the Literary Fund’ (1822) search
- Bowyer, John (d.1851); as Va. legislator search
- Cabell, Joseph Carrington; as Va. state senator search
- Cabell, Joseph Carrington; letters from search
- education; of the poor search
- Johnson, Chapman; as Va. state senator search
- Literary Fund; and education of the poor search
- Literary Fund; and loans for University of Virginia search
- Morris, Richard; as Va. legislator search
- Taylor, Samuel (1781–1853); as Va. legislator search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; funding for search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Rotunda (library) search
- Virginia, University of; Establishment; and General Assembly search
- Virginia; House of Delegates search
- Virginia; Senate of search
- Watson, David (1773–1830); as Va. legislator search