Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-12-29
From the iuledo Blade.

From the oledo Blade.
CoSFEDRIT X ROADS, State of Kentucky.
Dec. 9th, 1866.
Square Gavitt, Deekin Pogram, Capt
McPclter and myself wuz in the Post-Of
got to be the cheef resort of the leadin in
leilex NV the Corners, a talkin over mat
ters and things, when the Deekin hap
pened to menshun that next week his sec
ond son, Elijer, who has intelleek into him,
was goin to start for Michigan to enter
a college. u,f ,i;+,,,
what 7 said I, do you propose to send
that noble yooth, ElIer Pogram, to a Alb
lishn State, to enter Ablishn college, to
suck his knollege from Ablishn source :?
Good Heavens! Frailty, thy name is wo-
man.
l hedn't any ijec that this last remark
wuz appropos, but it sounds well, and |
hev notist that it don't make much differ
ence wat the cotashun is so ez 700 end a
remark with a cotashun.
The Deekin remarked that it wuz pain
fnl, but the fact Wuz Elijer must hev a
edjucashen. He didn't bleeve in edjuca-
shen, generally speakin. The common
people wuz better off without it, ez edju-
cashen he'd tendency to unsettle their
minds. lie he'd seen the evil effex NV it
in niggers and poor whites. SO soon as a
nigger masters the spellin book and gifts
into noosepapers, he becomes dissatisfied
with his condishn, and, bankers after
better cabin and more wages. He to-
wunst begins to insist onto ownin land
hisself and givin his children edjucashen,
and, ez nigger, for our purposes, aint
worth 500 markee. Jes so with the
poor whites. He knowd one melloncolly
instance. A poor cuss up toards Garaitts-
town, named Ramsey, learntto read afore
the war, and then commenst deterioratin.
For two years he rofoozed to vote the
Dimocratic ticket, then he blossomed in
to Ablishnist and tried to make the 9TH
ers NV his class discontentedb tellin NV
EN- that Slavery wuz wat kept EN- down,
and finally, after pashens ceased to be a
virchoo, and we tarred and fsathered him
one night for incendiary, he went to In
jianny. That cuss cum back here doorin
the late onpleasantnis, kernel NV rigi-
ment, which he campt on my farm and
subsisted EN- off it.. Sum eGucashcn is,
however, nessary. i design Elijer for
Congress, and he must hev it. He's
true Pogram, and nothin will strike in
which kin hurt him.
why not sez /, that tie Southern
yooth may be properly trained, start Col
lege Nv our own Why, Deekin, run the
risk NV hevin the minds NV our young men
tainted with heresy?'
The entire company wuz struck with
the idea, and 1t wuz earnestly canvassed,
and finally decided upon ard wuz dep
ytized to start it, which / immeiitly did
The name by which the new college is to
be known isliFty - 01rs
The Southern C1assiKYe, 7Heologicle
and Military Lnstitoot, Nv CoNFEDRIr X
QoAps, Stait NV Kentucky. ~
The college grounds is to comprise one
hundred akers taken from corners NY the
farms NV Deekin Pogram, Skuare Gavitt,
and Capt. McPelter, wich ground they
sell the college seein it's for that purpose,
for $4,000 per aker.
The faculty will be, eff we kin sekoor
en-, composed of these trooly great minds:
Genril Forrest, late G. S. A., Professor
NV Moral Philosophy.
Kernel Mosby, late c. s. A., Professor
NV Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
Capt. MoGee, late G. S. A., Gin COM
mand at Salisbury Professor Nv Natural
Sciences. .S4
Genril Magruder, late G. S. A., Profes-
sor NY wateyer is understood by them ez
is posted in college matters, ez Classics,
wich shel look up cz soon ez l hev time.
q This is KILN two birds with one stun.
We not only pervide educashen wich is
safe for our young men, but We pervide
comfortable places for the heroes Nv the
late unpieasastpis, hs.n,orr Hqy