The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-12-12
(Advcrtisement.)
WINCHESTER, Dec. 8, 1857.

we have read in your issue OF to-day
q communication from James r. Graves
addressed to the citizens of Wncheste
and Franklin county, accounting in tht
reverend gentleman's way for the motive
which prompted those three or four of the
Trustees for Mary Sharp College to re-
tire from the Board of Trustees; and al
though we knowJ. R. Graves to have been
from the beginning small, unscrupulous
animal, and now grown beautifully less
by reason of a stormy passage through
the hands ofthe Rev. w. G.. Brownlow -
still we feel it due to ourselves, that we
may not be misunderstood in places
where the gentleman is not so we'll known
as here, to briefly notice his communica.
ton, and then let him in the future. as
he is thereby more properly noticed, pass
unnotlced. And we now wish it plainly
understood that this anywer is not in.
tended to paralyze any influence his com
municaton may have in this community.
His reputation is sufficient answer for us
here. But printed matter sometimes
reaches points where the author is un.
known, and it is for those We write.
In the Introduction, he says that he is
prompted to submit q plain statement of
facts by the sole desire Of removing the
disaffecton Of those members of the
Board who have sent in their resignation,
&C.; correct Misrepresentation, &c. To
this part Of the article wo have only to
say what is we'll known in this communi.
ty, that we have ever been the constant
and consistent friends of the school,
Some of us have been its patrons from
the begInnlng-others OF US have never
patronized any other; and if any mis-.
representations are ahoat, we have no
knowledge Of them previous to Jas. r.
Graves article. When that was pub.
lished, misrepresentation did commence.
Jas. R. Graves has made misrepresenta.
tions, as we believe, knowingly and de.
liberately, and when we say this. we use
the mildest Language at our command to
convey our meaning. Now for the proof:
The reverend gentleman says, all can see
that the school in its inception and found.
ing was a Baptist school, to be under the
direction Of Baptists,.. ,..assisted by those
who were friends Of Baptist school in
Winchester. Let us look to the facts
AMI see who are Inc founders and original
Of the school. We will com.
monce with the purchase Of the property
for the school in September 1850 By
examination Of the records it is ascer.
tanned tha, fifteen gentlemen purchased
the property and gave their note for nine.
teen hundred and fifty dollars, one Of
them having paid fifty dollars in cash.
1t farther appears that, of that fifteen,
one is a warm Methodist, one a warm
Presbyterian, six are members of no
church, three Of the six inclined to Meth.
odist or Presbyterian church, and the
other three with no preference, so far as
we know, for any particular denomina.
ton. The others are members of the
Baptist church, but not all Of them of
Mr.. Graves sort Of Baptist. We will
here remark that one Of them, who does
belong to Mr.. Grares' church, seriously
the obligations he was
himself under by putting his
name to the note, and relieved himself
from paying anything thereon by assert.
ing that he thought he was only going
the security Of an old, fashioned Baptist,
mot ]. r. Grves' sort, and an unlinch.
ing Methodist. So you see that fourteen
had the burton to bear, eight ci them
are not Baptists Of any sort, and yet Mr..
Graves says the school was and is Bap.
list school, under the direction of Bap.
lists. Now right here see how beauti.
fully Jimmy lies, and in the same breath
forms the loop by which to escape its
force-by adding those who were friends
Of Baptist school in Winchester-and
he is ingenious enough to use this Ian.
guagc more than once. This is an am.
biguity, Mr.. Graves, not cxcusable in one
Of your pre;ensions, in using it. You
surely forget very important part Of the
decalogue. We mean the 7th command.
ment. This dodge, however, with all Of
intelligence who know the men, fails of
its object; for all who know the men.