Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-09-21
From Our Lebanon Correspondent.
LEBANON, Tern Sept. ., 1850.

3D.
LEBANON, Tern Sept. Q, 1856.
MEssRs. EDITORS The golden sunlight
falls upon us with all the fervor Of tropic
cline, yet your correspondent remembering
the promise made you, is constrained to
burst the bonds of sloth, and post you as to
events in this "the Athens Of the South"
Lebanon presents to the observer Of external
appearances most doleful and !orlorn as
pect. The red hand of fiery war has borne
heavily upon this good old town, and deep
and ineffaceable are the scars by which we
will remember the days of the revolution.
The towering, tottering ruins Of the once
splendid and spacious buildings Of the Cum
berlsnd University-stand as ever present
monitors, to bid US remember the desecration
Of our affairs and the prostration of our
country. ...-
Fit types are these ivy.twined, crumbling
walls, Of our crushed hopes and departed
power. But we shall rise again Already
have the trustees Of the University gone to
work with an energy most commendable,
to reconstruct the College buildings. A
sufficient sum has been subscribed, and in
the spring work will be commenced. At
present temporary buildings are being used,
and even now the University in all its de-
partments--literary-law and theological
Is in full operation. The venerable and
distinguished President Anderson, has re-
signed his position, and the trustees have
elected Lieut.. Gen. Stewart to succeed him.
1t is to be hoped that the General will &C.
cept the position as his name alone will be q
tower of strength. The law department is
in most successful operation. The senior
professorshIp 50 lately vacated by the death
of the lamented Judge Green, ST., is now
filled by the distinguished jurist, Judgs R.
l.. Caruthers. The middle class is under the
instruction of Judge Henry Cooper, late of
Shelbyville-a gentleman most learned in
the law. The junior chair is most ably filled
by that accomplished gentleman and schol-
ar, Judge Nathan Green, jr.
The exercises of the coming collegiate
year were commenced by an address deliv-
cred by DR.. Mcdonald, to the students He
took the position that we, the people of the
South, had an independence to win, different,
yet as great in Importance as the liberty for
which we had battled under the red banner
Of the South--an independence in literature,
in science and in the arts. That we had too
long worn the iron collar of commercial and
manufacturing dependence, that now we
must commence to file of this evidence Of
our scrfdom. should like to follow him
through his earnest practical address, but
knowing the crowded state of your columns
| will refrain. 1t is sufficient to say that |,
opened new channel for our thoughts, and
caused many to determine that we would no
longer like Wanda, the son of Witless
wear the iron collar of Cedric the Saxon
Teppessec should feel State pride in Gum.
berland University. Her alumni have ever
honored the positions they have occupied in
life. The habit Of sending our young men
away to other States, and often to Northern
schools, has become too common, and is O
practice pernicious in a high degree. Lei
us build up home institutional let us cherish
State pride in having the means of educa.
tion in our own limits. Never were there
assembled a more earnest body of young
men than the present law class. They art
not Of the lily-handed kind, who study Q
profession because it is honorable to b
known as men having professional educa
ton. But they are in earnest and ar
resolved that
In the worlds great battle,
In the bivUuac Of life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle,
Be hero in the strife"
Again, they have no reserves to fall bacl
upon. Success at the bar is stern necessity
and they know that disgrace and failur
await the sluggard. But more on this an
other subjects anon. CLIO.