The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-08-23
From the Loulsville Ti1nea.

your columns, the Southern patrons Of this
Institution, as well as its Southern graduates.
My attention was attracted few days
since by an article in your paper, in reference.
to the position which Yale College bears to
the South, and the propfiety of Southern pa
rents stunning it as place of education for
their children. Ihave for some time desired
to direct particular attention to the state Of
feeling which the faculty Of Yale entertain
towards the South, aud 1 embrace this as the
best opportunity of carrying out my design.
When I.left New Haven on graduating
brought with me an attachment for the Col
lege which a course agreeably spent could
not fail to engender, and feeling Of devo
tionto Yale as my alma mater, which | then
thought nothing could efface. | have there
fore, as you may imagine, looked on with
some solicitude at the progress of the Abo-
lition sentiments at the North, fondly hoping
that in the wreck of honest opinion and true
patriotism, Yale would still maintain the high
national position which has hitherto so justly
entitled her to the large share of Southern
patronage she has enjoyed, The State Of af-
fairs which exist there now, in the exact re-
yersal of her principles, has annihilated every
feeling of attachment and filled me with dis
gust at the very thought of holding a diplo-
ma from such vile organ of Abolitionism
and treason. Every association of pleasant
nature has been tinged with bitter regret, and
what was once before love and respect, flows
back iu one long stream of curses against
the perjury and base prostitution of a once
untarnished name.
The deyelopements of abolitionism have
been rapid, though it began to show evidence
of foothold year ago, when President
Woolsey gave expression of very unjust SEN
timents against the South. His structures
were, in fact, so unjust that a membersof the
senior class, James Hamilton, of Georgia, adj
dressed a letter to the President, denouncing
his course, and7charging him being an ultra
i Abolitionist. AT the same time he with
drew han- College. when wifhin-a short time
lof graduating. The example of Hamilton
was noble one, and, although he stood
alone, doubtless many of the Southern stu
dents there at Yale have since regretted that
they did not leave with him.
More recently, the faculty committed it
self on the occasion Of an anti n Nebraska
meeting in New Haven, at which several of
the professors made addresses, containing
sentiments as vile as ever were uttered in the
halls of an abolition Convention Even the
venerable Professor silliman, hitherto the
warm friend Of the South and the able op
ponent of fanaticism, forfeited the respect
which he has 50 long held, by alluding to the
i great forbearance which has been exhibited,
and saying, that as for him he was tired of
] yielding longer to Southern aggression and
believed an appeal to arms the only. course
left for the North. Professor Walker wed
Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker in
his fanaticisn1, and said that he spoke the
sentiments of the faculty. which would be
Expressed if the halls of Yale were made as
silent as in vacation by it.
This no exaggeration; it is case made
more mild than it really is, by the absence
Of the detail, which, if could lay before
your readers, would startle and horrify the
Southern patrons of Yale, and every true
lover of his country.
There are about sixty students from the
Southern States at present at Yale. They
spend annually $4,000, at a low calculation
How far this sum goes to benefit the College,
A I viii not say; but when the large number
! Eof abenefciaries which 90 to make up the
inumber Of Northern students Is taken INTO
consideration, It is easy to. see how much Of
revenue is supplied by slave labor; This
view of the matter should of itself command
attention; though it is not for the matter Of
the money thus spent, that alIude to the
number Of students from the South 1t is to
call attention to the moral effect Of patroni
zing an institution presided over and direct
q eddy men who are avowed enemies Of the
i South and traitors to our common country.
+ IS there true Southern Alumnus Of Yale,
whose bfa3d has not been. reused BY the dis
!, graceful course of the faculty in joining the
lmad fanaiicIsm and notification Of the
! North, and especially Of the Insignificant
Legislature Df Connecticut. Are they wiling
to acknowledge allegiance to an institution,
the faculty Of which, in the language Of
j Professor Goodrich, a unit Ii their hostility
to slayar5. and tired Of Southern patronage