The true Democrat., 1855-07-24

ever beset an institution before. Fear not that 1t will ever be school of politics. Your sons graduate in politics before they come to the University.
 It is now in it's palmest days, and this you see is one of the objects of know-nothing van- dalism. It has, already, fear, thrown a fire- band into its peaceful halls. appeal to you to come to the rescue. Rise up as one man against 1t, when it invades the sanctuary of literature, instead of requiring your professors to kncel in It's presence. l am sure there are vet more than ten nhousand christians in and about the State acho have not get bo,oed the Knee to Booz call them to its help! Honest yeomanry, and farmers of the land, who always mean right; and, when not deceived, will always do right, come ye to its succor. Honest well-meaning know. no- things, who in thoughtless moment have been drawn into the Order, come out of it, and rally to the support of your University. I regret having been constrained to an attitude which may, perchance, injure the University for a time; but be the fault on the head of know nothlngs not mine. Look at their fruits al- ready scattered through the land, and surely you will approve of my opposition to it. If you do not, your children will. By their fruits ye shall know them.'' What are they? Most desperate and dangerous agitation churches rending asunder-pastors and focks at varance-chrstains loosing all confidence in each other-saints and sinners in close embrace ~-preachers of the same church getting but half congregations and half support-one looking on approvingly, while another is abused-teachers totterlng-their pupils in midnight cliques- friendship severing-rage taking the place of love-father against son-brother against broth er These things now are; and they proclaim pat uo1 ;n 4l,a ster be not crushed at once. And all for what? In honest truth, to get in the outs and get out the ans This is the true object of the order Well 1t must take its course till reason resumes her seat.
 Nations, like men, run mad at times and noth- ing but time and lood-letting can cure them.- Still while there is hope, all good men should strive to relieve them. My course is taken-care fully, thoughtfully taken. am no Catholic Put Methodsm and Romanism on the field of fair argument and will stake my all upon the issue; but 1 am not such coward as to flee the field of honorable warfare for savage ambush fighting; or such fool as to believe, that a mans religion is to be reformed by harrassing his person. Nor am 1 quite 50 blind as not to see, that when the work of crushing churches Is begun in the country, it is not going to stop with the overthrow of one. All professionalism almost will be against me--two- thirds of my own church q judge) will be against me--the trustees will be alarmed for the interests of the college-my colleagues of the faculty will be uneasy-my best friends will be pained but l have an abiding confidence that nothing will be lost by my course in the end. It will he madness Tn men to withdraw their sons from the able teaching of my colleagues, for my fault ito attack the college to injure me; but these are days of madness, and this is the way which obnoxious professors are commonly attacked Be 1t so. l have done my duty, and 1 leave the consequences with God And here sign my name to what l deem the best legacy that could leave to my children; record proof that neither place, nor policy, nor temporal in terest, nor friendship, nor church. nor threaten. ing storms from every quarter could move their father for an instant from principle, or awe him into silence when the cause of God and his country required him to speak.
 AUGUSTUS B. LONGSTEET.