Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-08-15
Abslition at Yale College

FOR he R.c1u nd 2 quirri
MEssRs EDtroEs: / am a member Of a fam
ily uhich las lived m the Scush "a far back as
we can trace our lineage. ! vas educated Ia
be belief thst African slavery was rght; and
some study and ref cLioa upon the ,bIsct
turing the last few years, has confirmed me in
hat belief. ! graduated a Yale Coli &c il
1917 and, il acCondSnre wnh a time honored
CUSTOM, and one which does honor to lumaa
nature, ! recently Undertook a long aud ia
iguing iogrney, wi d great inconvenience 10
Hyself 10 regard 20 my pecuniary matters, and
when in LIE ~eijDymeut Of but feeble health,
IRON tennessee 10 New Haven, there 10 meet
my classmates sftet an absence Of ten YEAR,.
md % r-HeE friendships contracted In the
spring timsof nv life, which car iryer be Ell
laced fromniy memory aad which, IN nv case.
are c~ertaihis warner than those 60 tractei a.
ans subsequent period. I had been looking
foTwdr tolhis meeting with pleasing antici-
~qaiicR', fer years, and had determined, IT 1
possibly could to be present. Judge thea Of my
deep regret, HorihcatIon aud disgust, when,
on my arrival at New Haven, | learned that
Charles Samrer lad been invited 10 deliver an
1ration noninaiiy before The Phi Beta Kama
Society, be- 10 reality, before The public Al
large, ard hat upon bis declension, Wendell
Philips had been invited, aud had accepted.
/ presume there is no doubt that the Facul 8
" 4nAt NAN4AA lIFr NArHrl 60 kut-- put ENeE MOI
only failed - do ;bat, but so far as lam aSare.
never uttered a word ia opposition to u. I am
Informed that It was done principally through
,ne instrGmentslity OF the Rev. SIC. DuttoL.
pastor OF the Norh Church. rendered famous
9th himself and his Church BY the S~harpe's
rife meeting.
IL sddiltoL to this, on the night succeeding
he day on which Wendell Phillips Grafton
Fss delivered, at a class sP7er partaken OF
bg my class, 20 which President WoolseY was
invited as a special compliment, 10 consequence
y ours being he fret class which graduated
otter he was made President, he president
Wooisey) even, on such occasion a. that.
could not RETAIN from expressing bis hostility
70 southern slavery. He said, mat although
1e vas a Conservative, yet be nus. scknosi-
edge that be was an ahti-slavery nan, AID
tnat having been led recently In the peff5r-
nance OF bis duties as an instructor to exam
rue the history Of The decline OF the Romaa
EmptTe, he was satisfied from tie diFeful e.
fects OF slavery he bad there seen, that in fu-
tui be would ne more auti-slavery. NOtwith-
Standing BE- ssid that he dad not suffer this sub
Ject to BE- Introduced In College. vet It seems
strange that he could bauish It from College
and could not keep silent on it on such an o.
casion as that, and that, too, when every one
seemed DESTROYS Of avoiding that and all o hsr
subjects that could ruff the overlooking feel
mss OF JOY natur lly engendered by he meet
ing ct frierds after ten years absence. Not
the slightest slusion to slavery WAS made dur
lug the whole evening by any one else. As for
myself, 1 was afraid 70 mention the subject al
al, foe fear that / should discover that some
Of nv classmates were Black Republicans, aud
that The discovery would alter my feelings TO-
wards ihem.
thousands Of Sou,herners have graduated AZ
Yale, and "a uraliy cherish an s~fsction for The
institution aHd for their classmal e.. and whei
they retura, after the lapse Of long wears, IL
old friendships and tors-visst toe scenes
80 many OF the happy days OF youth
passed, Il is an insult and an outrage, thai
they sh0old Be compelled TO see their Alma
Mater brs,owing her honcrs upon men who
have been IN The constant habit Of heaping
them and their country the West epithet.
ne langusge contai a.. Yale cannot be other
" Sc ttan national. without Insult 10 her Sou b.
-ru graduates. Had she not Southern gradu-
ates he case Womb b dif rent, but she h.
- % TIE Ssuth, when we were slave
as well as now. and she has no righ
10 cast rs q to say 70 US: I" Ny eradua-es
of Mss7n and Dxon's line ste nv chill
iren, bat you, SOn'h OF that line, have broughi
on me BY holding slaves, ven are lot
M childfe7, 1 bfow Yon not"
We shall now be compelled, in sslf-defsnse.
10 ID hat which We ought 20 have done Ion
edu, ate or sons exclusively at southern
Colleges aud if the parents Of the fes South
,rn Budeats was are low az Yale, can s4f-I
hen 20 remain there now, they have diferen
notions from myself Of what Il due 70 ~self-re.
speet. TENNESSEE.
How rBE KAxsAs REvoLU rIoxrsrs Evap,