Its funds were bestowed upon the faith of the charter, and those funds consisted entirely of private donations.

It is true that the uses were in some sense public, that is, for the general benefit, and not for the mere benefit of the corporators; but this did not make the corporation a public corporation.

It was a private institution for general charity.

It was not distinguishable in principle from a private donation, vested in private trustees, for a public charity, or for a particular purpose of beneficence.

And the State itself, if it had bestowed funds upon a charity of the same nature, could not resume those funds."] This provision appears to me to be the most serious attack upon the independence of the States.