The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-12-25
From ths relodo Blade.
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Nasty.
Mn NkShY AND qHE CmcIE or FnWSns of
WHICH nG Is rAr MENgoR, ORSAmrNT
ASp GUpE fEELSo THE NEEp 81 as Is
srrruTroS or LEtRNfNG ron rHE YOUTH
OF kESrUcgY, rRoJEcr 4 CoIrEaE
(CoNFEnBq Y RoAns,
(wich is in the Siait uy kentucky +
December 9, 1866 J
square Gayitt, Deekin Pogram, Capt.
McPelter and myself wuz in the Post
Oflis last mite, Wieh next to Bascoms
hcz got 10 be the chcef resortuy the leo-
din intellex uY the Corners, q taliih over
matters and things, when Che Deelin
happened to menshun that next week
his second son, Elper, who hez intelleck
into him, wuz q goin To start FOR Mich
igan TO enter a college.
WAT sed j, edo yoo perpose to send
that noble yooth, Eljcr Poglam, to a
Ablishen State, to enter a Abhshen coli
lege, to suck his knollegc from a ABB
hshen mother2 Good Heavens l--
Fraility, thy name is woman.
hedn't any ice that this last re-
mark wuz appropos, but it sounds well,
and / hey notist that it don't make
much difference wat the cotashun is SO
ez 700 end remark with cotashun, ]
The Deelin remarked that it wuz
painful, but the fact wuz Eliier must
hey a eiueashen He didn't believe in
edjncashen, generally speokin The
common people wu2 better off without
it, ez edjucashen he'd tendency to un-
settle their minds. He he'd seen the
evil eliex NV it in niggers and poor
whites. SO soon ez a nigger masters
the spellin book and gets into noospa-
pers, he becomes dissatisfied with his
eondishun, and hankers after a better
cabin and more wages. He to wunst
begins to insist onto owuin land llisself
and giyin his children edjucashen, and,
ez a nigger, for our purposes. .aint worth
a 500 markee. Jes so with the poor
whites, He knowd one melloncolly in
instance. A poor cuss up toards Gar
rittstown, named Ramsey, learnt to read
afore the war, and then conmenst de-
terioratin. For two years he refoozed
to vote the Dimocratlc ticket, then he
blossomed out into Abilishnist and
tried to make the others NV his class
discontented by telhn NV um That slave
~ wuz wat kept them down, and fnelly,
after pashense ceased to be a yirchoo,
and we tarred and feathered him one
night for a incendiary, lie went to IDii-
any. That cuss cum back here doorin
the late onpleasantnis, kernel Of a rigi-
ment, which be cgnpt on my farm and
subsisted EN- off it.
"Sum edlucashen is, however nessary.
/ design Elijer for Conress, and he
must hey it, He's n true Pogram, and
nothin will strike in wich kin hurt him
"Why not, seq |, that the Southern
yooth may be properly trained start a
College NY our own? Why, Deekin, we
run risks uy heyin the minds NY our
young men tainted with heresy
The entire company was struck with
the idea, and itwuz earnestly canyassed
and finally decided upon; and Iwuz dep
pytized to start it, wich / immeiitly did
The name by wich the new college is to
be known IS
"THE SOUTHERN CLAssIKLE, THEoLoGIcLE
MILITARY INsTIrooT, " CoHFEDmT X
RoADs,
(wich is in the State Of Kentucky
The college grounds is to comprise one
hundred akers taken from corners NV
the farms nv Deeldn Pogram, Elder Sla-
theirs and Capt McPelter, wich ground
they sell the college, seem it's for that
purpose, for $500 per aker.
The faculty viii be, ef we can sekoor
'em, composed Of these trooly great
minds
Genril Forrest, late c. S. A., Profess
OF uy Moral Philosophy.
Kernel Mosby, late G. S. a., Profess
or Rhetoric and Bellies Letters.
Capt. McGee, late G. S. A., Professor
NV Natural Sciences.
Genril Magruder, late G. s. A., Pro
fcssor nv wateycr is understood by them
e. is posted in college matters, ez Clas-
sizes, wich | shel look up ez soon ez / hoy
time.
This is a KILN two birds with one
stun We not only peryide ediucashen,
wich is safe for our young men, but We
peryide comfortable places for the heroes
uy the late onpleasautniss
In addition to these, Deekin Pogram,
Square Gayit and myself, each pledged
ourselves TO endow Profcssorship III
the Theological Department be known
bY our names, and We to hey the appint-
ia az the Professors.
The Pogram Chair Of Biblical Theo-
logy VIII be offered to Rev Henry Clay
Dean, uy Iowa, provided he viii stipu-
late to wash his feet wunst per quarter
and change his shirt at least twice per
annum
The Gayitt Chair Of Biblical Litera-
toor viii be offered to Rev. Chauncey
Burr, uv Moo York and, :
The Nasty Chair az Biblical Politcks
will be fsled by Rev Petroleum Eesoo-
wins Nasby, whose eminent fitness for
the place is undispooted.
Ia the Scientific aud Classikle Dep
artments, the text books will be keerful-
II revised and everything nv a North
ern or leyelin tendency viii scroopulous-
ly expcrgated IN the Theolojikle De-
partment gpeshl attenshun viii be gwen
Is tic highly ncssary work as prcparin