Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina: May 31st, 1854
Their eminent success in every profession and pursuit in life, ought to remove every doubt which at any time may have crossed your minds, as to the Institution you have selected. You have heard much of Princeton, of Yale and Harvard, and in moments of gloom and despondence you may have doubted, whether some one of these would not have-been better, or might not have Opened to you an easier or more certain passport to the honors and emoluments of life. The Presidential mansion, the Halls of both Houses of Congress, the courts and legislatures of half the States of the Union, all unite in quiet-ing every such apprehension.
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