The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-02-27
NUMBER 8.


nony Of Mr.. Naron, with whom am
personally acquainted; and know to
be a very clever man; but the facts
are just these: Mr.. Naron has very
slight acquaintance with the surround
ings of Sewance; he lives in Bedford
county, near forty miles from that
place; he is carpenter by trade. and
came to Mr.. Elkin's some time last
fall to work on that gentleman's house,
and the reader will remember that
was about the time the enemies Of
Sewanee raised the cry of milk-sick'
ness against it, and that was the cause
of Mr.. Naron's unnecessary alarm!
Any amount of testimony can be pro-
cured to rebuilt that of Mr.. Naron in
regard to the danger Of milk.sickness
in the neighborhood in which he SO.
journed last fall.
may further remark that Martin
Taylor, Of whom he spoke in his last
article, did not die in Roark's cove,
and furthermore that he died from a
very different disease from milk.sck-
ness. And the statement, by whom
soever made, that those who live in
the surroundings Of Sewanee consid.
err themselves as living in land of
lepers, is falsehood, to be convinced
of which the utterer of it need but
make a short pilgrimage to Sewanee
or any of its surroundings
will but remark that Doctor Wal.
lace Estill reitcrates in the most EN-.
phatic manner that no French gentle
man ever came to him with letters
from any house in Nashville, and that
he gave no such advice as he is rep
resented to have given in regard to-
the purchase of land in this county.
And in regard to the cove which
Newman's bill was intended to pro.
tect. it is twenty miles in direct limo
from Sewanee, and it only wants time
to get it's lands into cultivation to-
make protection of any kind unnec-
cssary.
The danger from sickness in
the surroundings of Sewanee, never
was of enough Importance to attract
public attention, and whatever danger
there might have been in an early day,
it has long since been forgotten. For
citizens themselves not only make free
use of milk, butter and beef, but these
articles have constituted a part of the
regular commerce of the country so
far back that the memory ofman run
meth not to the contrary--the farmers
sending their butter to Nashville, and
Traders taking beef cattle to Charles
ton and elsewhere. And these arti.
cles are brought indiscriminately from
all the coves surrounding Sewanee.
as my own personal observation for
many years will attest.
And defy the writer of those arti-
cles to point out a single location on
the Globe so suitable for great Uni
versity as is Sewanee-more magnifi-'
cent scenery never met tho gaze Of
man than is beheld from its summit
, Its air is as pure as ever refreshed
mountain, ocean, or desert-and purer
water than its crystal streams never
slaked the thirst of mortal mana 10.
cation that is absolutely free from dis
: ease, removed from the vices and
temptations of cities, and yet perfect
ly accessible to every city, and every
section Of our great country. Suoh q
| location IS SeWanee.
, And he has the efrontery to say
, that he entertains none but the kind
r est feelings for his Franklin county
, friends, and has no desire to misrepres-
{ ent, them.
. God deliver Franklin county from
the kind intentions of man so devoid
+ ofState- pride as to desire to drive the
grandest enterprise of modern times
/, from his own State.
And finally, man who has so little
refinement, and so much of the churl--
who isso much like the dog that would