The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-25

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the Post Offs last mite, witch, next tt
kBaseem' s hezggt tn hegfhe ycheeft re
sortsaF' theleedin intellex NV the Cor
ners, talkln over matters and things
when the Deekin happened to men
chun that next week his second son
Elljer, who hez intelleck into him wui
goin tn start for Michigan to enter {
college.
Watt sed I, sdo yoo psrpose tn
send that noble yooth-Elijer Pogram
tn Abllshn Staff, tn enter Ablishn
college, tn suck his knollege from a
Ablishn source? Good Heavens
Frallty, thy name liz woman
L hedn't any ice that this last re-
mark wuz appropos, but it sounds
well and -heF noticeda that it, don I
make much difference wat the Gotta
shun IL so ez 700 end remark with a
cotashun.
The Deekin remarked that it wuz
painful, but the fact wuz, Eliier must
hev. a edjucashen, He. didn't bleeve
In edjncashen generally speekin. The
common people wuz better off with
out it, ez edjucashen had tendency
to unsettle their minds. He he'd seen
the evil etfex Nv it in niggersand poor
whites. So soon ez the niger mas
ters the ;spellinr book aud gifts into
neosepapers, he becomes dissatisfied
with his condishun, and bankers after
a better cabin and more wages. He
to-wunst begins to insist onto ownin
land hisself and givin his children
edlucashen, and, ez a niger. for, our
purposes, amt worth a 500 markee.
Jes so with the poor whites. He
knowed one melloncolly instance. A
poor cuss up toards Garrittstown,
named Ramsey, learnt to read afore
the war, and then, commenst deterio-
ratln. For two years he refoozed to
vote the Dlmocratic ticket, then he
lblossomed out into a Ablishnist and
tried to make the others NV his class;
discontented by teflfn Nv them that
Slavery wuz wat kept them down. and
finally, after pashense ceased to be a
virchoo, and we tarred and fethered
him one gnight0 for fRl incendiary, he
went to Injiany. That cuss cum back
here, doorin the late onpleasantnis.
kernel of regiment, which he campt
on my farm and subsisted EN- off it.
Sum educashen is, however, nessary.
/ igmTElijera for Congress, ana he
must hev it. He's true Pogram,
and nothin will strike in witch kin
hurt him.
Southern yooth may be properly train
ed, start College Nv our own? Why,
Deekin, run risks Nv hevin the minds
Nv our young men tainted with
heresy?"
The entire company wuz struck
with the idea, and it wuz earnestly
canvassed, and finally, decided upeni-
and L wuz deppStized to start it, wich
/ immejitly did The name by witch
the new college is to be known is
! HE SOUTHERN CLAssIKLE. THEO-
LOGIKLE AND MILITARY INsTITOoT.
,HhEUV CoNFEDRIf x ROADS.
(Which is in the Staff Nv Kentucky.C
The college grounds is to comprise
one hundred akere taken from corn
ers Nv the farms NV Deekin Pogram.
Square Gavitt and Capt. ,McPelter,
which ground they sell the college.
seein it's for that purpose, for $500
per aker.
The faculty will be, eff we kin Sc
koor em, composed Nv these, trooly
great minls:sST onG la9ilyhQ Tor
Genril Forrest, late G. s. A., Pro-
fessor NV Moral Philosophy.
Kernel Mosby, late G. s. A., Pro-
lessor Nv Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
Capt. McGee,, late G. 8. A., Tin
command at Salisbury Professor NV
Natural Sciences. .
Genrif Magruder, late @. s. A., Pro-
fessor Nv whatever is understood by
them ez is posted in college matters, ez
Classics, witch | shell look up ez soon
ez | hev time.
ThisSis killing two birds with one
stun. We not only pervide educa-
shun, wich is safe for our young men.
but we pervide comfortable places for
the heroes Nv the late unpleasantniss. |
In addition to these, Deekin Po- |
gram, Square Gavitt, land myself each |
pledged ourselves to endow Profess |
sorship in the Theologikle Depart
ment, to be known by our names, and |
we to hev the appintin of the Pro-
Gessors. III sngi4eQ fnng9lH
The Pogram Chair of Biblical The
ology will be offered to Rev. Henry
Clay Dean, Nv Iowa, provided he will |
stipulated to wash his feet winst per
quarter and change his shirt at least |
twice per annum.
The Gavitt Chair of Biblical Lite |
ratoor will be offered to Rev. G. |
tRhauncey Burr, Nv Moo York; and,
!! The Nasty Chair NY Biblical Poll
ticks will be filed by Rev.PetroIeum
Vesoovlus Nasty whose eminent fit.
Miss for the place is undispooted.
In the Scientific and Classikle De-
ke s. and everything Nv
scroopu ously be expergated. In the
Theolojikle Department speshl atten- !
shun with be given to the highly mes
sary work Nv preparing the stoodents
for comm out strong on the holinis