ve, by their
memorial, represented to the Senate and Assembly of this State
that a letter has been received by them from JOHN F. SLATER, of
Norwich, in the State of Connecticut, of which the following is a
copy:

To Messrs. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, of Ohio; MORRISON R. WAITE,
of the District of Columbia; WILLIAM E. DODGE, of New York;
PHILLIPS BROOKS, of Massachusetts; DANIEL C. GILMAN, of
Maryland; JOHN A. STEWART, of New York; ALFRED H. COLQUITT,
of Georgia; MORRIS K. JESUP, of New York; JAMES P. BOYCE, of
Kentucky; and WILLIAM A. SLATER, of Connecticut:

GENTLEMEN.--It has pleased God to grant me prosperity in my
business, and to put it into my power to apply to charitable
uses a sum of money so considerable as to require the
counsel of wise men for the administration of it.

It is my desire at this time to appropriate to such uses the
sum of one million of dollars ($1,000,000 00); and I hereby
invite you to procure a charter of incorporation under which
a charitable fund may be held exempt from taxation, and
under which you shall organize; and I intend that the
corporation, as soon as formed, shall receive this sum in
trust to apply the income of it according to the
instructions contained in this letter.

The general object which I desire to have exclusively
pursued, is the uplifting of the lately emancipated
population of the Southern States, and their posterity, by
conferring on them the blessings of Christian education. The
disabilities formerly suffered by these people, and their
singular patience and fidelity in the great crisis of the
nation, establish a just claim on the sympathy and good will
of humane and patriotic men. I cannot but feel the
compassion that is due in view of their prevailing ignorance
which exists by no fault of their own.

But it is not only for their own sake, but also for the
safety of our common country, in which they have been
invested with equal political rights, that I am desirous to
aid in providing them with the means of such education as
shall tend to make them good men and good
citizens--education in which the instruction of