The Port Gibson reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 185?-1857, 1854-07-26

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a thousand so full Of expedients. so restlessly
busy in bis great work. Of such undyng en-.
ierey, that while he took care the college re-
ceived no harm. its friends felt that all was
safe. Endowment was ever the burthen Of
his discourse. for It be waived the securing Of
bis own salary. for it ne labored and prayed
ever, with indomitable hope. He viewed it
as the fywheei in machinery to carry the la
boring engine over the dead point. Eve
nv college Of euinence in the Union has felt
the need Of this safety fund Yale, with her
costly buildings, library and apparatus, her
lofty position and her Ats students, has found
it necessity. She has recently called on
her friends for onother 100000 dollars. and
promptly have they responded. PRINCETON
sought and found it--Harvard has long en-
joyed it, If we pay respectable income to
our Professors without refereuceto 10 the nun
! Der of students. when n vacancy occurs. we
will not be compelled to accept or entreat the
services of the first man that drifts along. as a
favor and sacrifice. Our Offices will then
be sought BY men who propose to follow the
business of teaching for life, and come here
to live and die amongst US. Our President
should have $1,000. and each professor 81
900, TO live comfortably and to exercise the
hospitality imposed by our retired location -
1t will take this to tempt men, Of the kind we
need to embark in new enterprise, away
I from the comforts and order Of an older state
Of society.
The college cannot 90 on with less than
$4,000; it should have 100000. Does
the amount startle you? | doubt not the
lesser amount is paid oct annually. to foreign
institutions for education by our citizens.-
It is mere nothing if our men Of wealth or
our people will see its Importance and make
anything like a united effort. The French
Emperor recently requiring an enormous loan
determined to show the world that his throne
rested on the confidence Of his people. He
turned from (the usual resort in such matters)
the great bankers. ard applied to the artizans
and men Of moderate means. The result
was an overfowing treasury. more than he
called for. The labors of myriads Of polyps
built the coral reefs. on which rest the fertile
islands Of the South Seas. The widow s
mite was more blessed than the golden heaps
Of the rich.
DO you say, We stand ready to patronize the
college with our children Yes, doubtless. if
it is the cheapest and most convenient place
you can find to educate them. You must do
more. or you will soon have no cheap and
convenient Oakland. Fold your arms little
longer button up your pockets. cry hard times
let wealthier men supply the means, and the
deed will be accomplished silence will sit
where now we congregate. the serpent will
crawl undisturbed over these rotting floors.
aud the lurking spider will fcstoOn these halls
with her web Of desolation. A by.word and
a Kissing will be the name Of Oakland. a
warning TO all future college builders, a
shame TO the chivalry. the religion. the educa-
ton. and the public spirit Of the South. Our
cons, exles In distant land, strangers when
they return home. will curse the meanness
and ihe folly Of their fathers. whose penny
wisdom and pound foolishuess suffered the
golden moment to pass unimproved.
When this work Of destruction is done,
talk not to me of preserving our peculiar III
stitutious. our Southern manners and habits.
Give me your youth to educate, and | will
soon reduce you to subsection. Southern
rights men. DO ye see nothing for you to do
in this NATTER Do you not hear the taunt-
ing cry of the AbolitiOnist. exclaiming, as he
points to your dying college, Nothing great
or good can flourish or live in the U pas breath
Of slavery"
You clamor for commercial AMI manu-
featuring independence do you see nothing
attractive IN intellectual independence Tell
me not in glowing numbers Of ships, aud fac
tories, and railroads, and mines, aud sea-ports.
and capitols 10 be walked to life. If We will
not build halls of learning or suffer those al
ready built to crumble, AL your other enter.
prises must come to naught or fail to yield the
rich harvest you dream of Take down the
bravo inscription on your banners and write
there 20 gold-hunters, might.make-right ghtmen,
slavery propogandists. Fillibusters. anything
but friends Of The South, if you refuse to
contribute out of your abundance. and that
freely TO the education Of the South. Pile
up for your Ignorant and ha'f educated sons
"The wealth OF ormus or Of Ind,7
Il will only make them pray the more earnest
y for the old mans departure, that they may
waste it in riotous living or. still worse. de-
vote their lives, the slaves Of avarice, TO igno-
bic saving
These sons are to be toe Joy or sorrow Of
your declining days. the stay or disturbers Of
the State. Do you wish TO protect them in
youth from petty tyranny? Have you any
principles to impress on them. any results Of
your experience TO impart! Would you have
them resemble and Tore you ? Would you
witness their trial trips. aud enjoy each stage
of their development! Then educate them
at home in Institutions Of your own.
| speak for the poor of our State. Where
are they to get an education, unless you bring
il to their doors OF what avail is 1t to them.
that there are great Northern. or distant
Southern Universities where their rich neigh
Dor can educate his son at less money expense,
than BY building up homo college Tier !
children must grow up in ignorance. unless
zlou offer them the means. They make the I
laws, give the character. and control the des-
tiny Of our State. Think you by retaining
the keys of knowledge in your pockets. to
wieid these masses 10 your own purposes =
Some demugogue Catalina. or Marius, or