Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-30

1'issrs. Editors of ase Patriot:
GENTs:-I have neither the desire, nor design to
ter into a newspaper controversy, yet pray
} q, Of your courtesy" to grant me space Tor a
Ltief reply to the very hypothetical and unneces-
serily vindictive "repy TO Warren which sp-
RI AIRED in your issue of the 22d inst II is not my
Intention to "olIow in the footsteps OF my illus-
i'ous predecessor" in suppesing evil motives sno
ltndying epithets,-apy one can do that. bo'
Limitations not facts,-epthets are not argu-
J. ents. However, l am quite content to pocket
u hard names, and sundry little personal "smart-
ssesn of the writer, since he has done me the Ia
,r not to directly deny of my facts, or satis-
ajctoriIy answer one of my preceding arguments.
'lere is but one of his little "smartnesses" to
,hich will alude, and that is not relevant to my
Ii.bject. He speaks of "cld women's stories, and
i.gue rumors." He will see that do not deal in
d e atter,-but had he and /, both, listened more
Earnestly to the former would, doubtless, have
I, zen better men. l see the sense in which he
es the term,-it is, to say the least, in bad taste,
nd will CRATE barshy upon the heart of any man
. 40 has either mothers presence to love, or a
.hother's memory to revere. Has he, or |, moth
t. now living, they are "old women" and it is no
art of to place their "stories," in such a
,nnection. The man WHO can thus be-litte him :
alf, becomes unworthy of mother, and as son,
u no honor to her hoary hairs.
But to return. In supposipg me actuated by Inc
,nrested motives your correspondent is all wrong;
perhaps he may be convinced of this, when
ssure him that the people of Warren CO., have
sow, no desire to that University located among
hem, and were personally to express any prefer
nee, for any location it would be with the lights
..ow before me-" in favor of Huntsville, although
chattanooga and Atlanta, both possess many claims
10 consideration. Equally foreign to my mind is
iIe idea of wishing to iDjure the prospects OF the
university of the South intending to asperse
he honor of the Montgomery Convention, or of
ssiring to assail the interests of the good citizens
IF Franklin. think, however, that your corres-
iondent has, (unintenonally no doubt been guilty
# all three. He would injure the prospects of
his Institution, by placing it at point where its
1ccess is impractcable, he asperses the honor OF
ne Convention, by insinuations of bribery,-and
lie directly attacks the interests of his own county,
~ his abortive attempt to defend them. OF such
defence (?)as his, Franklin CO., may well exclaim
Another such victory q and am losil" He re-
marks, eff Warren had received the location,
houd have bowed in silent submission to the de-
ison of the convention" might here put to
i'm one interrogatorY,-Had you been fully salts
ed in your own mind that this Institution would
ever succeed in Warren, would it have been your
ity to have "bowed in silent submission" will
Ut presume to dictate to him his course, when in
mical to any cause, but do earnestly recommend
him when favorable to any enterprise to practice
be virtue of silence.
Your correspondent announces that "the other
ocalities" brought forward their claims the Local
ion 'backed by large sums of money, for the pur.
,ose, if possible, of brbing the convention, Jim
aaculnte Sewannee presenting ouly her intrinsic
merits. 10 those three lines there three errors.
irst, he commits the grave mistake of insinuating
uspcious of the honor of those gentlemen who
ontributed to the getting up of those "large sums
MONEY" and also the members of the Conven.
on who were to receive it,-second, he is pleased
regard that as q tribe which was in truth free
ill offering from public spirited men, TO noble
ause, and thirdly he asserts that "Sewannee
dso presented her claims, but without Offering any
Their indncement than her superior advantages"
quote from a late number of the "Winchester
Home Journal" your enlightened correspondents
ocn county paper, refutaton OF this third error.
You will see that Sewannee, too poor to come
backed by large sums of money" comes up with
er "barter," or what she considers money : equiv
lent:
REPORT ON SEWANEE.
4ns'0er to the EDqui, les propoundcd to the Com
mission appointed By The Committee Location
of tie proposed SO''theSn University
A. 0pfnr Al
ewanee Coal Company for the University, nearly
all Of which can be made available, &c
No. s. The Sewlnee Company having engaged |
0 transport a certain quantity not less than 20,~
90 tons of building material, free of cost, &c. |
And in addition to this l may add that tn ''Se-
b aimee Coal Co." have further engaged to furnish
or the of the University $4,000 tons of Coal
" thin ten years." and also ito grant to the Uni
ersty the privilege of cutting Pine timber on their
her property latter the exhaustion of the pines on
ne land donated to the amount of 100000, of
set" wide Nashville News of Dec. Goth 1857
But to proceed. You will please to 'make
pte of it," that your correspondent does not
lrecty deny the eriStence of "Miksick" poison in
be vicinity of Sewannee. He palavers over il, it
true, but straight forward, confident, and manly
miaE Of the fact. is not there. He ''bss never
a of milk-sickness, "-he 'never heard
{ one among"..the Sewsnnee empoyees,-but he
Des not say IL is not here,-nay, he even admits,
hat at earlier day it did exist there! He does
IT deny that there is an infected district of five
lies under fence and that there other portions
18th protection at all, he does deny that the
rmers in the habit OF running down their
title in order to detect if possible the presence
the disease does not deny that the poison
lists in Csperton's Cove, two and half miles from
le Tunnel. he ''has never seen" any 'placards"
warning,-I would ask him then if his vision is
.ute enough to discern the hundreds of whitening
Ieletons which line the margin and the ''branch"
a never failing spring to which the cattle resort
summer monthe, and which is situated one and
half miles east of the Tunnel hAf a mile from
ie n. & c. Il. r. and near the place formely &C.
lpied by Jesse Pelham? His statement that the
ipplies of beef, etc, for the employees the
,wannee Coal road were drawn from the ''coves
the mountain" cannot but deem exceedingly
oubtfuL have this day conversed with gentle
an, tMr. Reuben Drake,) who resided for three
ears at the Tunnel, and curing the time il was
aing exeavated. His statement is that the great.
4 portion of the beef for the usa of the han5a |