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Polk Letters: August 20, 1856

1856, Aug. 20

Bishop Polk, New Orleans, La., to Bishop Elliott, re: acknowledging receipt of
his letter in reply to the printed letter sent home on the subject of
establishing a Church UNIVERSITY; referring to Bishop Elliott's remarks on
failure, saying that a failure in one or two, or a half dozen instances should not
be conclusive against all effort to remedy a confessed evil of growing, and portentous magnitude, a very long and persuasive letter on the absolute
necessity of a Southern University to supply southern schools and pupils for teaching and for the ministry, to educate southerners who can no longer be
sent to the North because of the great gap and difference in feeling and
sympathy. 18 pp. (1 mss. original and 1 Photostat and 1 typed copy ).