The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-05-03

cling to, and cherish the present exclusive
plan, should Be held largely responsible
for repelling the masses from the Sanctu-
ary.
A southern University.
From the New York Tribune.
The foundation Of seat Of learning, in
which for many successive generations the
youth of nation may learn their Greek and
Latin languages, with sprinkling OF comic
sections and mild flavor OF Campbells Rhe-
toric, is a matter which occupied the minds
Of our fathers, and not seldom appeals to the
rockets of US their degenerate descendants,
inasmuch 40 it is the fashion, upon all pos
sible occasions, in all proper and in all
improper spots, to find what 10 called a Uni.
versity, snd to invite juvenile aspirants to
enter for the purpose Of induction, deduction
and seduction. within it's thrice consecrated
walls. We are, therefore, not oil astonished
to find The Louisiana Democrat declaring
that the subject of "a Southern University
10 now ''engrossing the master minds OF the
South" which means, of course, what it
modestly declines to express, that it is uni
versally engrossing the attention ofthe whole
Southern intellect, inasmuch as all Southern
minds are we'll know to be master minds
Harvard is to be riyalcd and Yale is to be
knocked into hedge-school "The South,
saws The Democrat. Unjust establish a Uni
versity, where our sons can drink deeply. -
We believe that they have not drunk sparing-
" in those institutions of learning already
established. But The Democrat does not
allude to cocktails and punches When it
speaks of drinking deeply" it refers to the
"pure streams Of learning" and 1t is in favor
of that particular tipple that the Democrat
say, may drink deeply from the pure
streams Of Learning, without imblbing the
poisonous waters of Bigotry and Fanaticism
where the heightened, chivalrous youth of
this sunny land can receive the highest col
legiate degrees, without submitting to the
CALLING restraints forced upon them in North
ern institutions by men who are at variance
with their principles, and envious of their
beautiful, luxurious and wealthy homes" OF
course, it is necessary to have College
where there shall be no sunrise prayers and
subsequent Rotations Where the Common
Table shall be adorned by early turtle and
late lamb. Where it is the prescribed priv
ilege of Freshman and Sophomore to pull
the Presidential nose or to vaccocually as
sault an offending Tutor 1t is College
in which every Freshman may be called to
recitation by his private and personal Sambo
and may even employ learned "nigger," il
he can find one, to coach" him through
Euripides and Cicero. This is the college
which is to knock into a sort of classical aud
mathematical Carthage dear cid Harvard
and always respectable Yale, Dartmouth
which produced Rufus Choate, and the
Providence Institution, which was produced
by Nicholas Brown. No wonder The Louis
lana Democrat looks forward to such /,
foundation with pleasant emotions, ane
anticipates "a new impetus to the science
'learning and literature ola great country.
| A University at the South! What a pleas
ing notion How suggestive Of exegesis
cumulative and irresistible, concernin:
Joseph, Abraham and Moses, Paul and Onesi
mus illustrating the true significance o
"doulous," and historically, critically ant
classically dispoying that a ''nigger' is
white. mana position which, considerin!
| that nobody has taken it, our southern phil
osophers seem to be over eager to controyer
bursting upon us with rekindled ethnologi
cal light and sweetly and sagely conductin!
| us to serene acquiescence in the sancity OIL
slaveholding. That is why Southern
University should be established. That il
why our contribution to the scheme-ont
brass nt-may be had by any person
bringing the proper certificate, upon call, a
the countjng-rOOm OF this paper.
How Sermons are Made.
There are probably ten thousands persons
in these United States whose chief occupa-
ton is that of sermon making, as the.periot
of the week for going forth to battle come,
the minister begins to feel like a man await
q sergical operation; come to it he must
however his reluctance may cause tempo
rary delay. lie enters his study, takes u.
his Bible, turns over its pages, and reads On,
text here and another there, but all are alike
sealed up or unsuited either to his mood OF
to his idea Of his peoples need, and henc,
he rises and takes two or three rounds in hi
study-then he stands, and looks out of tn,
window and feels anew the attraction OF thi
great book of nature, walks out, looks at tn,
leaves, the flowers, the meadows, the cattle
and with unconcentrated thoughts gaze
int the boundless expanse.
But still those two sermons for next Sab
BATH where are they to come from He goo
back to house, plays little with the children
talks moment with his wife, fumbles tn,
news papers, looking here and there on, it
columns while his eyes with his mind i
wandering to the ends of the earth in search
for those two next Sabbath sermons which
are still non est, but calling louder and loud
er for place among the actual and expert
mental He huns tune, drums with hi
| fingers, and does q variety of unconsiou
| things SO absorbed Ia the intricate machiner,
OF his mind in the vain indeavor to work GU
the problem After these various turns, lik
the gyrations of q hawk before he pounce
90 his prey, the minister rushes back to hi
study, seizes his bible convulsively, as if t
forse it to yield up text, and to make sur
Of no failure this time, he falls foul of the frs
that comes to hand as a sort of Hobson'
choice, and at it he goes with might an,
main.-[New York Chronicle.
doctor said q disagreeable person to tn
venerable Spooner" can you prescribe for me
I'm troubled with the queerest feelings