Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-09-11
LETTER FROM GEN. HASKELL.
The following letter from Gen. Haskell
TO the Memphis Bulletin, explains itself
MEMPHIS. Monday. Sept. 2, 1857.

The following letter from Gen. Haskell
TO the Memphis Bulletin, explains itself:
MEMPHIS Monday, Sept. 2, 1857.
10 The Editor of Me Morning. Balletin
l have abandoned politics I shall be.
come student, and devote my life to law
and literature-writing more and speaking
less. can scarcely hope ever to leave a
fortune to my children. will try to give
them the legacy of an honest fame, and a
good example to initiate
intend to eschew idleness, strong
drink, tobacco in all its forms, live vir-
tuously and labor assiduously. 1 have
reached the period of life when a man
would not deserve Heaven if he did not
think prayerfully and proftably of these
things. Recently I have thought much
of the Gland of the Hereafter.
l propose on Thursday night next TO
deliver a lecture at Odd Fellows Hall, if
it can be procured, of which due notice
will be given. My lecture is intended as
an Art Picture, and is written principally
for the ladies.
My object is to institute Literary
Club" with suitable rooms, library of
5000 or 5000 volumes, and to subscribe
for the leading papers and magazines of
the United States and England, which are
to be kept carefully on file. Let this be
done, and it will have powerful effect to
wean our best young men from the haunts
of vice, idleness and dissipation, where SO
many are hopelessly ruined, and make in
telligent and useful citizens of them
Poor as l am, will head the subscription
with a cash payment of one hundred dol
lars, if the rich men of Memphis will back
me.
IF am successful here, l intend to
write, during the fall, serieE of lectures
on the following subjects: "Tho Charac-
ter of Jesus Christ" "The Career of Ma
homet," "The Religion of Confucius,"
"The Glory of Washington, "The Genius
of Napoleon" "The Sturdy Qualities of
of Cromwell" "The Campaigns of Alex
ander the Great" ''The Heroism of Charlie
magne," and "The Story of Hannibal"
These lectures I will first deliver here.
IF encouraged, with travelling compan-
ion l will visit the principal cities Of the
United States. 1t is my intention, out of
wv PlVISSuo VI ehSSc lSCUureS, 10 contrib
ute literally toward the Inauguration of
+ the enterprise | desire to establish in
Memphis-to the completion of the Wash
ington Monument, and the purchase OF
Mount Vernon. IF successful in the Uni
ted States, contemplate visiting England,
South Australia, the Sandwich Islands,
California, Oregon, and Washington Ter.
ritory. 1t may be thought that this is a
vain and extravagant, programme. 1t is
not so; it pays as it goes, and may be aban-
doned, if it threatens to fail, without the
loss Of cent. IF I make at Louisville
$50, 1 can reach st. Louis-if make a
guinea at Birmingham, can get to Man
chester, aud pay all expenses. OF course,
on my return, will publish the story OF
my "wanderings.
Tickets fifty cents; gentleman and lady
one dollar. Seats for Board of Mayor
and Aldermen, the teachers and children
of Public schools. Editors and attaches Of
the Memphis press, and other towns, who
may be here, and clergymcn of the city
and families, free
Let me be encouraged, and judge wheth,
er can do justice to these subjects
Will the papers Of Getty please copy
Respectfully,
VIM. 7. HASKELL,