The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-07-29
VOL. II, NO. 70.

unwarly led to testify to the entire cred
ibiliy and competence OF two gentlomen
in our vicinity, from whom member Of
the Convention received letters, solemnly
declaring Sewanee and the country,
around, cminently healthy.
After the decision Of the Convention at
I Montgomery, in favor Of Sewanee, it was
assaled, through the public prints, by a
friend! OF Ben Lommond, styling himself
"Warren;' md the most unfounded and
injurious statements made in relation to
It's being infested viii. nilksckness and
other maadics.
The people oI franklin county mel
publicly, and fully rcIuled these charges,
And now, that the Convention at Ber.
sheba have solemnly ratified the decision
made at Montgomery, thai they have &C.
ceped the charter granted them at the
last session Of our Legislature, that this
greatest and most benign Of modern en-.
lcrprises has, guided by Providence.
through the counsels Of wise and righteous
men, chosen her abode in our own State..
amidst the heaIthinspiring influences Of
our mountain climate now, that oppo
sition cannot benefit McMinvile, | am
totally unable to divine worthy, or even
a reasonable motive for the malignant
attacks Of the "Mc MinvilIe New Era"
upon this University and its founders.
The people e Franklin county, togeth.
er with the Sewanee Mining Company
have secured to the University nine thou.
sand acres OF land.
Bv means Of the Sewanee Railroad,
the Nashville and Chattanooga road, tho
Huntsville and Winchester road, and tho
Tennessee and Alabama road, the whole
Of the great limestone basin Of Middle
Tennessee is tapped for the supply Of Sc.
vance: No section Of the same extent
better able to supply all demands in the
way Of provisions.
The citizens of Franklin county are
interested and pleged to build two good
turnpike roads leading from two large
adjacent vallies up the mountain to Sc
vance.
The Scwanee r. r. passes within
half mile Of the proposed site, leading
from Cowan to Tracy City where on up.
parentIy inexhausable supply Of coaI is
being mined, and thence passes a com
modous stage road TO Bersheba, dis
tance Of seventeen and a half miles.
And the whole plateau of country
along the top of the Cumberland range,
is of such character that fields may be
cleared, extending for miles, and capable,
as we know from trial, Of yielding un-
surpassed fruits, melons and garden veg
etabIes generally.
Franklin county generally, is health
(ul---more so, | am prepared TO say, from
personal acquaintance, than most parts
of Middle Tennessee. Yet such is tho
superiority, in point Of climate, water and
the absence Of miasma, Of the noun.
tain summit, over the valley adjacent,
that our physicians constantly send
chronic invaIids to the summit for res.
loration. With reference 10 milk sick.
ness, it is sufficient to say, that about l8
years have elapsed since case of that
malady occurred in Franklin county
that Of Is or 20 physicians practising
medicine in our county, only two are
living who ever saw milk sickness, and
thoy are above sixty yearsoId-and that
within the last s or 10 years, hundreds
Of hands have been employed upon the
Nashville & Chattanooga Rail Road,
upon the Sewanee Rail Road end,
upon the Sewanee coa mines, living up.
on the beef, milk and butter raised in
Franklin county, and no symptom of
milk Sickness has appeared amongst
them.
And now, sir, emitting, for the sake Of
brevity, very much that might be said
equally favorable TO the claims Of Sc.
vance; and leaving you 10 form, for
yourself, some adequate conception Of
the necessity-the vast magnitude, and
importance OF this enterprise, in which
ten Of the Southern States cooperate,
renlecting credit, as | humbly conceive
not only upon its founders, but upon the
country and age in which we have the
happiness to live-l submit it 10 your
sense of fairness, if the Union & Amer.
lean, standing, perhaps, peerless as po.
ltical newspaper in Tennessee, does not
owe 10 Sewanee the anende honorable.
Yours, truly,