Indiana American., 1867-01-04

/ Guide, feeling fhe need OF an iaaitufion
Of Learning for The Youth Of Kentucky
project a Coiiege s aat
/ CcNFEDRIT Y RoAps, y
(wich is in the Stait NV Kentucky :
81 December o, 1866. J
Square Gavitt, Deekin Pogram, Captain
McPelter and myself wuz In the post oflis
/ last mite, wict, next to Bascom's, hez got
to be the cheef resort Of the luedin intel.
lex NV the Corners, talkin over matters
aud things, when the Deekin happened to
menshun that next week his second SON
ElUer, who bez intelleck into him, wuz q
goin to start for Michigan to enter col.
lege.
"Watl'' sed ], "do you perpose to send
that noble yooth, Elijer Poeram, 70 a Al
lishn State, to enter Ablishn college, Ia
suck his .knolledge FROM Ablishn sourcei
Good Hcavcnsl Frailty, thy name is wo-
man.
+ / hedn't any lice that this las remark
wuz appropos, but it sounds well, and
hey notist that it don't make much differ
ence wat the cotashun is soles 700 end a
remark with a cotashun
The Deekin remarked that it wuz pain
ful, but the fact wuz Elijer must hev ed
jucashen. Ho didn't bleeve in edjuca,
shen. generally spcekin, The common
people .wuz better off without il. ez ediu.
cashen bed a tendency TO unsettle their
minds. lie he'd seen the evil effex NV il
in niggers and poor whites So soon ez
a niger masters the spellin book aud gifts
into noosepapers, be soon becomes dissat-
isfed with his condishn, and bankers nf.
ter better cabin and more wages. lie
to-wunst begins to insist onto ownin land
hissef and giyin his children djucashep
and, ez nigger for our purposes, aini
worth 500 markoe. Jes so with the poor
whites. He knowd one melloneolly in.
sance. A poor cuss.up toards Garritts.
town, named Ramsey, learnt TO read atore
the war, and then cnnmenst detorioratin
For two years he resoozed 10 vote the
Dimocraiie ticket, then he blossomed oul
Into Ablishaist aud tried to make the
Others uyahis class discontentid byltelIin
NV em that Slavery wuz wat kept em down
and, finally, after pashense ceesed 10 be a
yirchoo, and we tarred aud iethered him
one night for incendiary, he went to In.
jiany. That cusse cum back here dooriu
the late onpleasantnis, kernel Of rigi
ment. wich he oampt on my farm, and sub
sisted EN- off it. Sum educashen is, how.
ever, necessary. desine Efjer fur Con.
gress, an he must hev it. He's true Po.
gram, an nothin will strike in wich kin
hurt him. n.b
"Why not" sez |, ''that the Southern
yooth may be properly trained, start col
lege NV our ownY Why, Deekin, run risks
Nv hevn, the minds uv our young mer
tainted with hercsy2" a .sBil
The entire company wuz struck with the
idea, and il wuz earnestly canvassed. and
finally decided upon; aud Iwuz deppy
tized TO start it. wich immejitly did
The namo by wieh the new college is tC
be known Is af ..t
"TnE SOUTHERN CLAssrKLE, THEoLoCf.
Gle AND MfLIrARY INsTIToor, -
/ ist.a, Wv CoSFEpERIT X ROADS,
(wich Is in the Stait NV Kentacky.)"
The college grounds is TO comprise ono
hundred akers taken from tho corners Nv
the farms uy Deokin Pogmm, Square Cav.
1T aud Captain AlcPelter, wich ground
they sell the college, seein it's for thai
purpose, for S300. per aker.
The faculty will DO, ef We kin sekooi
en-, composed NV these trooly great minds
Genorl Forrest, late q. s. A., Professor
NV Moral philosophy. ,ssl
Kernel Mosoby. late G. S. A., Professor
NV Rhetoric aud Bellies totlres.
Captin MoGee. late @. s. a., Gin com
mand at Salisbury Professor Of Natura
Sciences.
l. Genril Magrudor, late c. s.. A., Profes
sor NY watever is understood by them ei
is posted in college matters, ez Classics
wich shell look up ez soon ez hey time
This is a killing two birds with op'
stun. We not only peryide cducasheI
wich is safe for our young men, but w
peryide comfortable places for the heroes
I, Nv the late unpleasantniss. - "a.
4 In addition TO these, Deekin Pogram
Square Gavitt and myself, each pledge,
ourselves to endow Professorship in th
Theologikle Department, to be known b,
our names, and we hey the appintin NV tn
Professors. tfs
The Pogram Chair NV Biblical Theolog,
will be offered to Rev. Henry Clay Dean
} Nv Iowa, provided he will stipulate to was
} bis feetwunst per quarter, and change hi
shirt at least twice per annum.
The Gavitt Chair Nv Biblical Literatoo
, will be offered to Rev. Z. Chauncey Barr
Nv Moo York and
The Nasby Chair Nv Biblical Pollitick
i will be filed by Rev. Petroleum Vesoosiu
! Nasby, whose eminent iitniss for tho plac
} is undispooted.
In the Scientific aud Classiklc Depart