Weekly conservative. (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1854-1860, 1855-06-09
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LOngstreet in the FieId!

''Somc books are lies frae end to end.
And some great lies were never pcnn'd;
, Ev'n ministers they haze been kcnn'd,
In holy rapture,
Accusing Wild at times to vend
And nail't wi scripture. \
BURNS.
1t is but short time since a Professor Of orr
State University let his zeal get. the better of
his discretion and destendcd nom his classic
.s;. 49, to publialy wAyle in tho arena of party
politics BY his Incorporate letter denouncinG
,unc of Americas nohlest Statesmen, Prof. Har-
per won for himself universal notoriety with
out greatly benc1ting the University. We had
hoped however that some good might result
from his course. and that he would stand Us a
beacon to warn others of those breakers upon
which the University might he driven to pieces
by the partizan prciudiccs of those to whom ii
has been entrusted But it appears We have
been mistaken. President Longstrcct has
thrown aside his Moral Science for the pen of
the partzan; has suspended his lectures to the
young gentlemen, to deliver himself of his i'll
dgested bile upon the Know NothinGs; has left
the classic halls of Oxford, to attack the Amer
Jean party through the pulpit and the press.
We witness this indiscreton with sorrow and
regret, and we can only plead in cxtenuation,
the fact that the President is ycrging upon sec
ond CHILDHOOD" a fact, which if other evidences
were wanting, is ahundantly proved by his let
ter tselt'-and the further truth that he has al
ways been an eccentric and crratic individual,
a truth fully evinced by his early career, as an
unsuccessful lawyer, a defeated old Federal pol
itician, restless editor, author Of that literary
wonder the Georgia Scenes the vadc-mccum
of grecu-hOrns and the delight of wild school
boys, later an occasional expoundcr of Gods
Holy word and still later n teacher, and finally
Professor and President. As the dog returns
to his vomit, so it appears that the defeated
Federal Adams candidate of Georgia, is deter
mined, under the ant-Amcrican banner in Mf
sissipp, to retrieve those laures so uncercmoni1
ously snatched from his grasp in his congrcssj
ional race in his old State, against backwoo@s
Jackson Republican.
We publish the letter of the Reyd Gentle
man and would also notify the trustees that
there is another State institution, just opened
for the reception Of inmates; and we would sug-
gcst that any one who should pen such docu-
mcnt is much better qualified for u residence in
the last mentioned institution, than in the class
ic Halls of the State University. Wccan well
imagine such letteSto come from the chroniclcI
'S.ot the Georgia Scenes but that it should
- 'monate from that SeNentifc Luminary, chosen
ms ,,,5 II Il. Iiesthf tho Teaple pf Eaogl.dgc
is prcpostcrous-" it not in Gath publish
it not in the streets of Askalon,' for ii is
rather ridiculous If some ambitious "Soph
swelling with the pomposity of a first attempt
should. in either literary society of the Univcr
sity. deliver himself of such an extraordinary
production, as has burst upon tie astonishe(
world from the brain of the orndte President
We feel very sure that his fellows would pre-
snt him with QeatiG) medal, elaborated,
carved, with elegant device, as testimonial o
his extraordinary intellectual power.
y The President has written his letter and pub
! llshed il that the public might read tive hop,
I hhc public will do him this favor, and that the,
viii note the p,rity of his style as ILLUSTRATED
whcrc he eto7qculy eyclaims ''Why. Samuel m!
san | knew You were sworn 90 fiji when askc,
iSon belonged to the Know Nothings Hi
taknions powers of illustration, which h
shows in his beautiful aluslon to ''thc Kentuck
ia 1who ,'hrokc his hoe-hclvc' and made anoth
cr cf of a LITTLE green popular saping hi
,oundJogic, swhcrc he declares sit was no
,o7dnaE amc Nothiegs, but against christians il
general and chisiap Ministers in particula
ioininghe Know Nothngs"-is not that nic
disiinctia? IAN ounce Of civet good apohecary;
Next hAskill as a prophet by abiding to tn
acknowledgements on the stih-necked and per
vtrse gen1 ton, of Mssss;pp-such for in
stance as re years 'of drought "since
game to VA sppi chad his coming any thinl
totlo with tAdrougli?) his admirable group
inv-.for ins;.aA "EpscoPalans l'resbyttrians
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