Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-10
of the south, - and Frank

At meeting of a large number of the citi-
zens of Franklin county, Tenn. at the Court
house in Winchester,
On motion of John Frizzell. Esq, DR.. Wal
lace Estill was called to the CHAIR, and hugh
Francis appointed Secretary.
The object of the meeting was explained by
the Chairman: after Whieh.-on motion of A.
s. CoIvar. ESQ., a committee of six-consist-
ing of A. s. Colyar, Esq, Arthur NJ. Rutledge,
John B. Hawkins, John f. Anderson, John
FrizzeI, Esq, and DR.. ]. G. Shapard, Were APP
pointed by the Chairman, for the purpose of
drafting resolutions expressive OF the object
and sentiments of the meeting.
Said Committee reported the following
which was unanimously adopted by the meet
ing, and signed by the following gentlemen
that is to say:
Whereas, the Episcopal College of Bishops
have located the university of the South" at
Sewanee in Franklin county; and whereas,
as citizens of said county, duly approaching
the worth Of this institution, and feeling that
our continued silence might he regarded as an
acquiescence in the truth of some newspaper
articles lately pubIishcd-we feel it to be our
duty as well on account of the interests of
this great enterprise, as from motives of self
respect, as community and as individuals,
to make public in some form, by way of answer
to the several newspaper articles alluded to,
few facts.
We are not apprized that the citizens of
Franklin county have ever done the authors
of those articles any great wrong, or in any
way given them any excuse for writing and
publishing the calumnies which those articles
contain.
We say calurngaies with the full conviction of
the import of that term-because, first. it is
whoily untrue, and 40 arouse for the assertion,
that our community does not appreciate the
Institution.
Secondly, the impression sought to be made
among strangers by the charge of 'milk-sick;"
the spirit manifested in the articles, upon that
subject, and the enormous eXaggeration of that,
as disease of this country, by men who must
know the fdctS-is an outrage upon us to which
we cannot silently submit.
We feel that is not every attack that justi
fies a community, such, in even giving it a
passing notice, but whenever deadly thrust
is made at our persons, our property, or our
character-or, we might add orr social position
in the country-we feel it to be our duty to
meet it in some form.
If our homes are surrounded by "'that most
deadly -milk-sick," and if we live in
continual dread of that terrible malady,' i'm
pioring and beseeching the civil authorities to
come to our aid; with our roads and by-wayS
placarded to warn men Of the danger ahead
then does it become us, as honorable men,
though it should depOpulate our county, and
render our lands valueleSs, To notify the
stranger of these facts-so that, when lie
pitches his tent, it may not be among the
'plagues Of Egypt"
But if these charges have been made to our
prejudice, by men who are either ignorant of
the facts or envious of our good fortune in
having this great enterprise located among us,
then does it become us, like men, to publish to
the world (as these charges have been publish
ed our emphatical denial of their truth.
Therefore, we, as men, pledge honor to
the truth of the following statements-tO wit:
While we cOncede that in the settlement of
this country at two or three different points,
(nOt near Sewannee,) there was ''milk-sick-
ness" yet. take the whole country, we have
known of but one single case among the citi-
zens or transient people, in the last twenty
years-and that was some Is or II years ago.
We have always heard and believed the
fact to bc, that as the country is opened, this
disease disappeared, and we do not regard
this at present as one of the diseases of the
country.
1t has never been known or believed to eX
list in the neighbOrhOOd of ROwe's Spring,
where the University is located. And we en-
rhqticai{y asset that there is not place on the
iglobe where we would regard ourselves as be-
beg safer and more clearly above and beyond
the reach of diseases or sickness of any KIND.
than at Rowe's Spring-and at that point, we
should make free use of BEET, hitter and milk
A. :. COLYAR.
\. NJ. RUTLEDGE,
j. b. HAWKINS,
). F. ANDERSON,
j. FRIZZEL,
j. &. SIIAPARD,
Committee.