The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-22

point o. resgning IT, but by entrey was indue
% retain H. BE assured gentlemen after hlng Ave char
in that time IL viii sigh 10 rsin
qush Ii Never viii hold Il upon condition thar uus
treat know-nothiagism with respect
As the insnuAton II that vermouier chat students a.,
encouraged to deolam politics II he ps6lc Il 4
The very eohtery 81 fslsehood every who has Al
tended commencement viii prove As 70 their prt4is
defamation et them speak What they please eacaErag
avg nothing yes, there Is subject which allow then
discuss publicly and that is what may have knded n,
Hillyers ireyiz atoloNissa Being from Vermont H.
Is priBa faois abolitionist Hc admits his htbe,
20 BE- one, understand and thousand to one il IN.
father has grapes the teeth on elss
suppose the ia6del traitor T. Parker viii take 81
university under his care.
A word 70 the good people Of Mississippi and han,
done You have university Of which You may be us,y
proud For harmony and kindly feeling among The faculty.
for good order good morals, genemaniy domeanoT STUDY
and progress among The Students and for ardent attach
nent between preoeptors and pupils Jon may fearless,
challenge comparison with any other kindred institution
o. hs rerld For It's age Il has not IDS equal IN point d
patronage aud rank ia the United States Ia hese ~
speets It stands at the head Of 02 out OF Is colleges
the United States; aud Of those above II large majority
forty years older than itself and three han
dTed years older And this rank Il has attained hr0u
adverse fortune than probably ever beseI an aat
institution before Fear not that i viii We = scho2
Of politics Your graduate Ia politics before thsy
como 10 the university
1t is now in it's palmiest days and this YOU see Is one
object Of know-no,hing vandalism. II has already fa
thrown hrehrand into lis peaceful halls appeal 70 YOU
70 10 The rescue. kse up against
when il nyades the sanctuary o. literature instead ot ~
qutring your professors 10 knec IN lbs presence sate
there yet Btars haa tN h0asana CArisaas Ia aEd
about the State cho hdpe net vet bosred fst knes h Bal
call them its help. Honest yeomanry and farmers 81
the land who always right and when not deceived
will always do rightcome SO 10 IT'S suecur loncst well
meaning know nothings, who IN thoughtIoss moment
have been drawn into the order, OF H. and rails
70 the support Of your university grr, having been con
strained to attitude which may pcrchanev niure III,
university for imo but be The isalt on the head
of know nnth min thutV fr,ttg
ready scattered through the and, and surely you vii
approve OF my opposition 70 IL II you do not your
children will BY their fruits ye shall know them'
What are they Most desperate and dangerous agnr
ton churches rending assunder pastors and locks
variance Christians losing all confidence in each either
saints and sinners in close embrace preachers Of the
church getting bat half congregations and half support
one looking approyngly while another Is abused
teachers lettering their pupils ia midnight elique friend
ship severing rage taking the place OF love father against
son brother against brother These things aud
they proclaim rumpet-tongued, what is coming, II tho
monster he not crushed at Aud AL for whatR II
honest truth 10 get IN the outs and to get out the ms This
is the true object OF the order WELL Il take p
course till her seat Nations like mcu run
mad at times, aud nothing but time and bood-e,tng can
cure them. Still, While there Is hope all good men
should strive to relieve them My Is takencare
fully thougLtfully prayerfully taken am no Catholic
Pat Iehodsm aud Remanisn on the field Of fair aTgu
ment and viii stake my ai upon the issue; but
such coward flee the field OF honorable war
fare for savage ambush-6ghting, such fool as 70
believe that mans religion is to be reformed by har
assing his person. Nor am quite blind see
that when the work of crushing churches begun Ia the
country it Is going stop with the overthrow Of
All Professionalism almost will be against Of
my church, Judge, will be against me-the trustees
win be alarmed for the interest Of the college my col
leagues of the faculty will be uneasy, my best friends will
be pained but have abiding confidence that nothing
win be lost by in the end. Il will be madness
in withdraw their from the able teaching Of
my colleagues for taultto attack the college 20 inu
but these days of madness and this IL the way In
which obnoxious PROFESSORS are ennnionly attacked Do
it have done my duty, and leave the consequences
with God And here sign my name to what deem the
best legacy that could leave TO my chilrena record
proof that neither place, policy temporal interest
nor friendships nor church. nor threatening from
every quarter could their father for instant from
principle, or him into silence when the cause OF God
and his country required him to speak.
AUGUSTUS b LONGSTREEF