Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-09-05

INtnktHCal DENOMINATIONS Inc doors OF
this School are open TO INDECENT young men
Of every Evangelical sect az Christians,
free Of charge, who design studying for the
ministry. In this light, you can compare
II with Emory and Henry College, or any
other Institution Of learning, and is there
any one Of them that proposes 70 do as
much ?
What is your last resort kftor telling
you this, cannot you unite with us, without
doing violence to what you may call rel-
gious diiterencesH And then, be sure that
such differences are not another name for
bigotry, the despcable and implacable ty-
rant of weak minds. Alter your reason Is
convinced, take care that petty and mean
feelings of envy and Jealousy do not re-
strain your action. Do not stay from our
meetings, with the base feelings of self
shame Tor it, from the fear that you may be
asked for a little money, 1t is little worse
than the man who deprives his soul Sunday
after Sunday Of the benefits Of preaching,
for fear of being esked for ten cents.
Is there in Bristol man SO basely sell
fish that, whilst he wishes to see the Bristol
High School succeed, he wants Il TO do so,
by the eHorts Of bis friends and neigbors
alone, and then he will reap bis share of the
benefits II there be such a man among
those we address, let him for his owp sake,
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keep this deep in bis own sordid heart.
We hope that none Of you, gentlemen,
are holding back from this worthy enter
prise from such motives. Yet, if Won do
not now eemc up aud aid in this great mat
ter, the conclusion is irresistible that you
do not appreciate the cause of Education,
or that you are inau 'nced by some one of
the unmanly motives presented above. It
awaits to be seen whether the people
of Bristol are proof of the saying
that education is only appreciated by edu-
Gated people, and whether their obsti-
nate inaction is to convince the friends of
| education here that they are not yet ready
| for this great blessing. Then will tho
| speech of one of our generous townsman
be verified that the highest aspirations of
our merchants for themselves and their
sons are TO "stand in their shop-doors, wait
ing TO catch the first glimpse Of the old
/ country man, riding on his poor horse, with
| two or three old ducks behind him, when
all rush out-one to seize tho bride, an
other the old mans leg, whilst two or three
are grabbing at the ducks" Let not fur
| Their experience prove this to be so.
There is yet another strong reason why
| all classes and trades Of men should unite
now to build up here this School. You
will be opening a sure and broad avenue to
| your sons to an easy, cheap, but flrst-class
education, fitting them for any position
or calling in life. You will be, at the same
time, creating here state Of cultivated aud
refined society, in which Education will be
the just, honorable, and distinguishing feat
ure and this education will be made accessi-
| Bile to all classes alike in the proximity and
cheapness of the Bristol High School. You
will thus, and thus only, surely hinder for
ever the growth and establishment ola cod
fish and bloated aristocracy of wealth,
whittier you are fast tending, and to which,
in the nature Of things, you will certainly
come, and which is the most unjust, tyran-
meal, pretentious, despicable, and wicked
aristocracy that ever did rise and foster
upon the society of men. We know that
none of you want this curse to be the lot
of Bristol. But so surely will it be your fix
ed doom as it is true that.the Business men
of Bristol are training up their sons to re-
gard trading and making money as every
thing, and TO think that TO stand behind q
counter and measure calico is the sum
mnm bonum, the very acme of human
wishes and human destiny. What blind
delusion
In this common strife for money, some
few will succeed-most of you will fall
II ard feelings will have been engendered
in the hot contest, and your fortunate
neighbor, bloated and pulled up with his
money, will stand over and look down upon
you, with sneering pride and smiling con-
tempt. All this time you will be imbibing
yourselves, and instilling into your sons, as
a legacy, all the vile and bitter passions OF
: Shylocks. You will send them into the
world intellectual dwarfs, without the edu-
cation and learning to make them an honor
to their name and to society. Oh the
stolid stupidity of men that will not learn
that "riches taketh to itself wings and fiji
eth away"-that though rich to-day, their
grandsons will tomorrow be poor-that
they prefer to leave their SOUS few hun.
bred greenbacks more to be squandered
t than to invest it safely in an education for
, them which they can never lose or waste
and which, let come what may, will com.
fort their distress, relieve the worst Of af.
Fiction, and dignity the worst poverty.
= In conclusion, we beseech yon, the bust.
, ness men Of Bristol, to unite as one
man in building up the Bristol Higt
1 School. Let us have great college here
9 that shall be on this hill bright light
t casting its brightness and glory upon Ou
= names and memories, far up the pathway
S Of the future. We have several times hearC
r it remarked that you need not present thi
f school to the people of Bristol in any othel
t view than that of pecuniary one. In tina
= sense alone, it is worthy IF all their efforts
= But will the citizens of Bristol allow thi
n imputation on their namesl viii they not
n by their acts, prove this 10 be SANDER OF
S them2 1t is for the business men Of Bristo
g to come up to the help of this great matter
Z You are the bone and sinew here, the mel
c OF your day, VINO can act with effect. TIL
u great responsibility is upon you. If thi
1 | fail oil Cd
S auences, you will be disgraced. 1t was tn
e solemn declaration Of yonr most useful ant
:, honored citizen that if the Bristol lIigl
y School was failure, he did not want 4
If stay here, but he would leave the place for
IS ever. We appeal to you, then, not TO 10
! this be 50. This school must be built up
G You have sons to educate. You are re
D ionSib'o to them and TO society for their pc
c sition and usefulness. They must he edu
y Gated. If Won arc merchants and You
= son is To follow after you, aim TO maxi
Il him the head of his calliug-teach him, a
y least, the laws Of trade and llnance-try I
/ give him love for learning-develop hi
s intellect-elevste his tastes-don't let hin
: be mare measurer Of calico, a mere couu
n ter .hopper, mere sutomaton, with tn
g heavenly spark of reason smothered and a.
Is most gone out from the neglect of educa
J. ton. We beseech you do not. So we coul
d say to the carpenter, the farmer, the black
n smith, to all mechanics. BY the educatio
= of your sons can you only expect TO d'gnif
9 and elevate these useful and necessary call
d ings To their proper spheres. Then we ar
II peal to All classes and trades Of the bu'ines
n men of Bristol to come no as true and in @
igent mea, and resolve that you will bull
I. up s'Ktng's College" as a lasting monumen
p to the citizens OF Bristol, in behalf Of Cd
3 great cause of education. Success has eve
/, crowned faithful and persevering eforts-
D. Our efforts shall he so crowned. Lookin