The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-06-06
THE CROWDED PROFESSION.
Mr. greeley Protests Against Law
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From the Lebanon (Tenn) Herald
The Philomathian Society of Cumber-
land University recently elected a num-
Der of distinguished gentlemen honorary
members of that body. Among them
was Horace Greeley, who sent the .io-
lowing characteristic reply, which we are
kindly permitted TO put in type from the
original Ms:
New YORK, March &c, 1872. Dear
Sir: l lived years on % cents day,
and eventually acquired the proud Office
And now fervently invoke an Esqui-
maux to number your kittens. Grain
unfed to poultry acquires the position
of hominy. Young men marry off the
ugliest and biggest to the prettiest OF the
land. love no velocipede--dead
against frenzy. / know that money hon
orably secured gives a man interest.
Colleges protect only because | see that
professors are towards, while authors are
infidels and needless. You stole weeds
Yesterday. Ten thousand editors are
cobbling young men TO cook butterbeans,
10 cook hOmiuy q plOw. You ought
TO work. Now, better soil, with ANNA
ted, royal woods, widows with steel
| wrought fans. her own buttermilk of
January-how two men edify performers
for tories, rIlacadamise snObs, Internal
mountebanks, etc, etc Get she cooks
these need no supplies; no vile she gan
ders went west after left off soup. RAJ
nous lawyers need doctors. You Will
not need my boots, still, | ask you 10
return it for the benefit Of the miser, and
move down 10 Georgia. Nations which
trust always succeed, you silly boy.
Yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
Harry Lee, going to school Mt Leba-
non, Tennessee.
After writing the remarks which
precede the above letter, we handed them
with Mr.. Greeley's MS, 10 the com
positor. Upon reading the proof we
became convinced that the peculiar hand
writing of the distinguished gentleman
had probably misled the printer in few
minor words, and we have consequently
submitted the original letter to a com
mittee of experts, who assure Us that il
reads, when deciphered, a. follows:
NEW YORK, March 26, 1872. Dear
Sir have yours of the 23d instant,
and gratefully accept the honor Of which
it notifies me.
And now permit me TO make an un-
gracious return for your kindness. am
impelled to protest against the devotion
OF so many young men-many Of them
our ablest and brightest-to the profess
ion of law. | have no vulgar prejudices
against that pursuit. know that many
have nobly served God and man in that
calling-I protest only because see that
profession Overcrowded while others are
untitled and neglected. Your State
needs this. day ten thousand educated and
capable young men To teach her where TO
look for mines and how to open and work
them; how TO belt her soil with addition
al railroads, laid with steel wrought
from her own vast wealth Of iron ore;
how to multiply her furnaces, factories,
machine-shops, implement manufactures,
etc, etc. Yet she leaves these needs
unsupplied, while she grinds out grist
of superfuous lawyers and doctors You
will not heed my protest; still | ask YOU
to record it, for the benefit of the wiser
and more docile generations which trust
are to succeed you. Believe me
yours, HORACE GREELEY
HARRY LEE COSTING, Law School,
Lebanon, Tennessee.