“the validity of this appropriation under that section of the Constitution.”  The Protectory, he says, “appears to be local in its purposes and operations.”  And being a sectarian charity, he adds, “Public funds should not be contributed to its support.  A violation of this principle in this case would tend to subject the state treasury to demands in behalf of all sorts of sectarian institutions, which a due care for the money of the State, and a just economy, could not concede.”

In the higher and broader field of public service—­“the grandest throne on earth”—­as the Presidency which he is about to enter, has been grandiloquently called, let us hope that he will display the same honesty, capability, and fidelity to the Constitution.  We shall then be assured that the interests of the Republic will suffer no detriment at his hands.