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borders.

I am fully conviced that it
is worse than useless for Kentucky &
Missouri to be attempting the
support of Colleges, without endow-
-ments or their equivalent. Kentucky
ought at once to enter heartily into this
Southern movement and the Conservative
clergy wd. gladly do so; but the Bishop is very
desirous of having a College and is sustained
by those sympathizing? with him, [who are?]
so feeble as not to afford him the necessary
aid. But after a few years more of
misfortune at Shelby, I think all will
be desirous of returning it to the people
of Shelby. There is no way out of
the difficulty but by _cutting_ the Gordian
Knot - -retroceding & giving it up.
Dr. Waller holds most selfishly his
mortgages of $40000 on the property, when
he is virtually secure (& _only_ thus) by
the lottery, ^he [receiving?] $6.000 per annum