The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23
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l was somewhat surprised some
days since to notice in your issue OF
September 2lsL what purports to be an
answer to my communication publish
ed September l4th on the subject OF
employment Of Southern teachers in
Southern institutions OF learning. This
so-callcd answer is signed "CoIie
Tcrrill.' She gives her origin in full
it is not necessary for me to give mine,
as everybody Knows it. All | have to
say with regard to Mrs. Collie Tcrlill
is, that at the time | wrote my com
m%unicalion, | was not aware that she
was employed in the Mary Shorp Col
lege at Winchester, Tennessee, and con-
s~equenlly not q word of the same was
directed to, or in any manner intended
to reflect on her; for the community
were in doubt as to who would sue
&C ed the lutte teacherS. And how she
can suppose that any such thing was
intended is beyond my comprehension,
as her origin, as stated in her answer,
shows that by no probability could she
be said to come from the North, to be
educated in the North, or to be any
thing else than a "simon-pure-dycd-in-
thc-wooI' Southern lady; and my
only regret is, that she, n lady Of such
decided southern extraction, thought
and feelings, should occupy SO sudordi-
nate a position as she does in a South
err school, all Of the other members
of whose Faculty. as stated in her re
ply, were born, raised aud educated in
the North.
The point of my communication
was, that it was wrong ntact and Prin.
ciple to employ Northern teachers ex-
clusively, when ne can get just as good
South;; especially when Mary Sharp
College processes to fit its pupils for
any station in life that they may desire
to occupy, and claims that they will be
able to compete with the best in the
avocation of teaching and %instructing
the youth, and when there are from 90
to 100 graduates Of said College in the
State of Tennessee who, by the ceItiti
Gates of graduation which they hold
from the College, are said by the Col.
legc itself to be THOROUGHLY rolf
GENT in all the branches of q polite ed.
ucation, and a tortiori are capable Of
filling any position in that institution
and many of them would, know from
good authority, be giod to serve the
College for 4 moderate compensation,
But | will tell Mrs. Collie Terrill that
every one Of the teachers and Faculty
Of the College, with the exception of
herself and Miss B*******, are
Northern teachers, and | must claim
that she has failed to answer me in any
manner whatever.
Seeing that Collie Terrill complains
that | write under a mon dc plume"
| have no hesitation in stating that my
real name can be had. if necessary.
One thing | would notice in justiiica'
ton of myself. Mrs. Terrill quotes
me as saying, "After twenty, five years
have passed they go North for a
teocher." Now, il she will refer to my
article she will find that | said, "Atter
twenty-five years have passed they 60
North for teacherS,'-not teacher, and
in this oversight on her part lice, per
haps, the reason why she took UNI
bragg to herself when none was IN
tended. i
Ihave not replied sooner because OF
urgent private business and the excite
ment natural upon the eve OF Al I'M
variant election, JUSTICE.