New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-22
"A SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY"

The foundation of seat of learning, in which for
many successive generations the youth OF a nation
may learn their Greek and Latin languages, with
sprinkling of comic sections and a mid favor Of
Campbell Rhetoric, is matter which occupied the
minds of our fathers, and not seldom appeals to the
pockets of US their degenerate descendants, inas-
much as it is the fashion, upon all possible occs-
sOns in all proper and in all improper spots, 70
found what is called University, and to invite
juvenile aspraDts to enter for the purposes of IN
ducton deduction and seduction, within its thrice
consecrated walls. We are, therefore, not at all
astonished to find The Louisiana Democrat decar-
ing that the subject Of "a Southern University Is
now "ensrossing the msster minds Of the South"
which means, of course, what it mcdestly declines
TO express that it is universally engrosslng the at
tention Of the whole Southern intellect, mas
much as all Southern minds are well
known to be master minds Harvard
is to be ryaIed, and Yale is to be knocked into
hedge school. 1.-The South" says The Democrat
must establish University, where our sons can
drink deeply" We believe that they have not
drunk sparipgly in those institutions OF learning
already established. But The Democrat does not
sllude TO cock. tails and punches. When it speaks
of drinking deeply" it refers to the pure
streams of learning" and it is in favor OF that
particular tipple that The Democrat is arguing.
" Where our sons" it goes on to say, "may drink
" deeply from the pure streams of Learning, with
" out imbibing the poisonous waters of BigOtry
and Fsnaticism-where the high. toned, chlval
" rous youth of this sunny land can receive the
" highest collegiate degrees, without submitting to
" the CALLING restraints forced upon them in North
a" ern institutions by men who are at variance with
n" their principles, and en7ious Of their beautiful,
" luxurious and wealthy home," OF course. 1t i'
neoe sssry to have College where there shall be no
sun-ri,e prayers and subsequent rectation'. Where
the Commons Table shall be adorned by early
turtle and late lamb. Where it is the prescribed
privilege Of Freshman and Of Sophomore to pun
the Presidential nose or to vaccOcutcauy assault
an offending Tutor. 1t is College in which
every Freedman may be called 10 recitation by bis
private and personal Sambo, aud may even employ
a learned niger" if he can find one, to
~ coach him through Euripides and Cicero. This
is the college which is to KIOSK into sort Of CLASH
cal and mathematical Carthage deaf old Harvard
aud always respectable Yale, Dartmouth, which
produced Rufus Choate, and the Providence lnsti-
tuition, which wa, produced BY Nicholas Brown.
No wonder The Louisiana Democrat looks forward
to such o foundation with pleasant emotions,
and anticipates ga new impetus to the science,
- learning and literature Of q great country"
University at the South What a pleasing notion
How suggestive Of eIegesis, cumulative and IRE
sistble, concerning Joseph, Abraham and Moses,
Paul and Onesimus, Illustrating the true signih-
canoe of doulo," and historically, critically and
clas.ically disproving that "a nigser is white
man-a position which, considering that nobody
has taken it, our Southern philosophers seem to be
over eager to ontroyert-burstiDs upon US with
reminding chronological Light, and sEeetly and
sssely conducting US TO q serene acquiescence in
The ,anctity of saveholding. That is what
Southern University would do. That is why
Southern University should be established. That
s why our contribution to the scheme-one brass
be had by any per,on bringing the
proper certificate, upon CALL at the counllng-roon
Of this paper.