in accordance with the principles

“Those who sneer say that the Jesuit fathers who left Spain under Martin Garcia formed this colony in the River Plate entirely in accordance with the principles their egotism and love of power dictated.”

Sketches From My Life

“Resolved by the General Assembly of North-Carolina, That each of the United States has an equal right to participate in the benefit of the public lands as the common property of the Union; and that the States in whose favour Congress has not made appropriations of land for the purposes of education, are entitled to such appropriations as will be in just proportion with those already made in favor of other states, and in accordance with the principles upon which cessions have been made by States to the United States.”

The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I