The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-02-10

as a rattIesnnke bite, or a spider sting
. But il always goes out with popula
L. ton and cultivation, and Physicians
of the highest standing, assert tina
they have not seen a case for the las
twenty years, although their practice
lies all through the coves in which il
is said to exist. Since the Board have
come upon the spot, nobody has dared
to mention it.. 1t did very well for a
war.cry at Montgomery, but at Sc
wane and Bershcba, not Il word is
said about it. And for the very best
reason, because gentlemen Of the
highest rcspectability are cultivating
those very coves and living in them
with their families, because all the
cattle ofthc valleys are sent into these
coves and upon these mountains du-
ring the summer months, and because
nobody h~esltates to eat freely Of the
beef and Lu ter which are offered in
here and to drink the rich milk as lift
was water. At Beerslcba Springs,
at Altamont, at Tracy City, at Cow.
an, at Winchester, (Which places sur.
round the University site J everybody
partakes, without scruplc, of any food
that is set before him, and tho resi-
dents would as soon expect to find
arsenic in their water as poison in
their milk and beef. The charge is
simply ridiculous, and the students Of
the University would have about as
much to dread from milk sickness as
from tho Indians who once roamcd
over these hills and swarmed in these
valleys.
All these advantages of climate,
accessibility, healthiulncss, proximity
to the Cotton growing region, offer to
the friends Of the students strong in.
duccments to settle around the Uni
vcrsIty, and form, for the summer
months at least, II fine society for the
Professors and Students. These FAM.
lies will attract others, and very soon
rs much society will be gathered about
the University as shall be advanta-
seous to the young men. Every IA
,ility will be afforded by sale and
for the building Of ornamen-
tal cottages and villas around the
University, audit will exhibit the same
az West Poin, does in the sum
mer, with this superiority that besides
the transient visitors who will take
this place en- route for tho Southern
Springs and the Northern Cities, there
will be a much larger settled popula-
ion spending the summer months
.mong the mountains. Tho chances
lrc that there will be too much, rather
han too little eociety.
Such are the reasons which have
Induced tho Board of Trustees to ad-
ere to their choice OF Sowanec as the
site for the University. They
ave but n object in view, the best
interests OF the Institution which they
re cndcavoring to create for the ben
fit and blessing of the Southern
Could they have been sway
d by any m%crcenary or short sighted
l%otives, inducements Of & %pecuniary
ind would have directed their atten-
on elsewhere. But they were act
* under a solemn sense Of the deep
,sponsibility which rested upon them ,
this matter. They iclt that they ,
nd volunteered to perform for the .
Duth II work which was to bless it for
yes to come, which WAS to mould its !
erals and its learning, which was to :
Use its trailing banner from the dust =
I'd plant it upon an equal height I
those Of other civilized people. !,
they failed, the scheme was likely =,
fall with them. Its very magnitude ,
ould prevent others from undertake
Z it, and there would be no hope Of I
gh scholarship cngcndcred among q,
lrselves. We should continue to be I
'pcndents in this AS in every thing n
Sc. We should continue to import :
,achcrS, Clergymen, Professors, and I
terary men from other lands. We q
ould return nothing to tho common
Dck of literature and science, and
ould DO aliens from the common
of letters. We should leave s
r institutions with the stigma resting Il
them of degrading instead of ell !,
ating our social condition. All p
SO consequences were before us
zen wo made our choice, and in full
" Of them, with n holy pride for ;.
elevation of our homes. with a v
zeal for tho moral culture :,
our people, with a love, passing the =,
Of woman, for tho land Of the
and the slaYn. we Wcrn willing 10