for existence;
inscribe upon their records, and promulgate the following Resolutions:

"'First. We recognize and acknowledge with grateful pride, the heroic
sacrifices and valiant deeds of many of the sons of Dartmouth, in
their endeavors to defend and sustain the Government against the
present wicked and remorseless rebellion; and we announce to the
living now on the battlefields, to the sick and the maimed in the
hospitals and among their friends, and to the relatives of such of
them as have fallen in defense of their country, that Dartmouth
College rejoices to do them honor, and will inscribe their names and
their brave deeds upon her enduring records.

"'Second. We commend the cause of our beloved country to all the
Alumni of this Institution; and we invoke from them, and pledge our
own most efficient and cordial support, and that of Dartmouth College,
to the Government, which is the only power by which the rebellion can
be subdued. We hail with joy and with grateful acknowledgments to the
God of our fathers, the cheering hope that the dark cloud which has
heretofore obscured the vision and depressed the hearts of patriots
and statesmen, in all attempts to scan the future, may in time
disappear entirely from our horizon; and that American slavery, with
all its sin and shame, and the alienations, jealousies, and
hostilities between the people of different sections, of which it has
been the fruitful source, may find its merited doom in the consequence
of the war which it has evoked.

"'Third. The Trustees bespeak for the College in the future the same
cordial support and patronage of the Clergy and Churches of New
England, as well as other friends of sound learning, which they have
given to it in time past, reminding them of the obligations which the
cause of education, science, and religion seem to lay upon them, to
stand by this venerable Institution, in evil report and in good
report, in view of its past history and great service to the Church
and the State, entertaining an abiding faith that it will triumph over
all obstacles, and go down to posterity with its powers of usefulness
unimpaired.'

"It was moved by Dr. Barstow that the foregoing Report and Resolutions
be accepted and adopted.

"On the question of adopting the report, two voted in the negative and
five in the affirmative. On the adoption of the preamble and second
resolution, two voted in the negative and five in the affirmative, for
the first