Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-12-28
Prom the Toledo Blade.
Massey III a NEW ROLE


lWjch Is Ia the StaIt nv KentUeky.) y
December 8. 1866
Square Gavitt, Deekin Pogram. Cap
tam DC Pelter and myself, Tuz IN the
post offs last mite, Wich next to Bas
com S, heZ got to be the cheef resort of
the leeden InteieX Nv the Corners, a
Ia KIN over matters and things, when
the Deekin happened to menshun that
next week his second son, Eiijer, who
hez intellek into him WuZ a goin to
start for Michigan TO enter college.
Watt sed I. do 700 perpose to
send that noble yoOth, Elijer POgTam
10 an Abhshin State to enter an Alb
lishin college, to suck his knollege
from a Ablshn source ? Good Heav
ems. tTaIlty. thy name Is woman.
| hedB any ice that this last re
mark wuz appTopOs, but il sounds well .
and hev nOtist that it don't make .
much difference wat the cOtashun Is so .
ez 700 eud a remark with a cotashun-I (
The Deekin remarked that IL WuZ
painful, hut the fact wuz Eliier must
bev edjUcashen. He didn't bleeve !
IN edjucashen. generally speekiu. The
common people WUz better off without
it, ez edjucashen he'd a tendency to Ut
settle their minds. He he'd seen the
evil effex Nv Ii in nFggers and poor +
whites. So soon eZ Niger masters I
the spellin book and gifts into DOose- +
pa peTs, he soon becomes dissatisfied 1
with his cOndishn, and bankers after I
better c.. bin and more wages. He to I
Wunst begins to insist onto OWuin land /
bisself and givin his children educa- /
shen, and, ez a niggeF, for our purpO- +
ses. amt worth a 500 a markee. Jes so I
with the poor whites. He knoWd one
meifOneolly instance. A poor cuss up
tOards GarrittsiOWn, named IA usey, /
/ learnt to read afOre the war, and then
I eOmmeDst deteriOratiu. For two years
| he refoozed to vote the DimOeratlc
/ ticket. then be bl0sOmed out into a
Ablishnist and tried to make the 9th
I ers Nv his class discOntentid by tellIn
uv them that Slavery wuz wat kept EN-
down. aud, finally, after pashense- Gees
ed to be a virchOO, and we tarTed and
fethered him one night for q incendla-
ry, be went to Ipliany. That cuss
cum back here doorln the late uupleas-
antnis, kernel Of regiment, wich he
campt on my farm, and subsisted en-
off it. Sum educashen is however.
I necessary. | desine Elijer fur Con-
greSs, an he must hev it. He's a true
PugTam, an nOthin will strike in Wich
kin hHFt him.
Why not, sez I, ssthat the South
( ern yooth may be properly framed,
start a college Nv our OWn2 Why,
DeekIn, run risks Nv bevin the minds
Nv our young men tainted with heTesy?
The entire company wuz struck with
the dea, and it Wuz earnestly canvass
ed, and finally decided upon and [
/ wUz deppylized to start it, Wich | i'm
mejitly did. The name by wich the
new college Is to be known is
THE SOUTHERN CLAssIKLE, THEo-
LOGIcLE AND MILITARY INsTITooF,
Nv CONFIDENT X ROADS,
(wioh is in the Stait Nv Kenrucky.)
The college grounds is to comprise
one hundred akers taken fromthe cor
uers Nv the farms nv Deekin Pogram,
Square GaVitt aud Captain McPeter,
wich ground they sell the college seein
/ it's for that purpose, for s 300 per
aker.
The faculty will be, eff we ken Sc
koor EN-, composed Nv these troolY
great minds
Generil Forrest. late C. S. A, Pro
| fessor nv Moral Philosophy.
Kernell Mosby, late Q. S. A., Pro-
fessor nv Rhetoric and Bellies Lettrcs.
/ Captain McGee, late @. S. A, Gn
command at Salisbury, Professor of
4 Natural Sciences.
Generil Magruder. late G. S. a.,
/ Professor nv watever is understood by
them ez IS posted In college matters,
ez classics, Wich shell look up ez soon
ez [ hev time
We not only pervide educashen wich
4 is safe for our young men, but we per-
vide comfortable places for the heroes /
NV the late unpleasantniss.
In addition to these, DeeKin POgram
Square Gavitt, and myself each pledg- /
ed ourselves to eBdOw a Professorship I
IN the The0logikle Department, to be !
known by our names, and We hev the I
appintin NV the Professors.
The POgram Chair Nv Biblical The /
Ology will be offered to Rev. Henry /
Clay Dean, Nv Iowa, provided be will I
stipulate to wash his feet Wunst per /
quarter, and change his shirt at least
twice per anuum.
The Gavitt Chair Nv Biblical Litra-
toOr will be offered TO Rev. @. Chaun-
cey Burr, uv Moo York; and
The Nasty Chair of Biblical Poll
ticks will be filed by Rev. Petroleum
Vesonvius Nasby. whose eminent ft-
ness for the place is Undispooted.
In the Scientific and Classikle De-
partments. the text books will be keer-
fully revised and every thing Nv a
Northern or levelin tendency will be
scroopulusly expurgated.
In the TheoIoiikle DeparmentspeshI
attenshun will be given to the highly
DessaTy work Nv preDarin the st0o-
dents for comiu cut strong on the hO-
illness Nv slavery, and to this end the
three years course will be d vOtid thus:
1st year-To the cuss Of Noer.
q year-Io provin that the Afri-
kin niger wuz reeliy the descendants
NV Ham.
Sd year-Considerin the various
texts wieh go to show that Afrikin
slavery is not only permitted by the
skripters, but especially eniuined.
/ shell myself lectur from time to
time, on Ham, HaRer and Onesimus.
that the beaTins of these individooals
upon our system may be fully under ]
stood anu also Oh sicL subiec5 IS hev the
luhOOence Nv stimulafiD foods upoB
the human system, the cato nine tails
ez evangclIzer, and sich other topics
ez may from time to time sejest them
selves.
The young men confded to our care
will receive not only a solid COLLEGIATE t
6uuCdLtUu Gh IL Is UNDERSTOOD at the '
North, but careful attention will be
paid to the accomplishments so neces-
sary to the troo Southern gentleman.
They will be taught draw poker, pitch
in dollars. (real Spanish dollars will
be provided for the purpose) spittin at =
at a mark, revolver and bowie knife !
practice, tournament riding at rings.
lreal injy rubber rings will be provid-
ed) Jhis'l be extra, and cat o. nine q
tails. The morals Nv the stoodents I'
will be scroopulously looked after. n
No card playin will be allowed afore z
;erVis on Sunday, and none whatever 81
With the servants. They will be r
.nuRht TO resDeck themselves