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spot near Chattanooga, where the various Railroads traversing our
dioceses converge, thus rendering access to it from every direction
easy and speedy.

The above points comprise all those upon which it is deemed
expedient to fix as a basis of union. Any others that may appear
of importance, will be incorporated hereafter, as expediently shall
require.

We have thus, dear brethren, presented and developed a measure
which we regard as the most important, in view of all its relations,
ever presented to the American Church. For ourselves we are
deeply persuaded, that it far transcends in the promise of its use-
fulness, any merely local or diocesan enterprise, it would be
possible for our dioceses to get up separately; and that its combina-
tions are of a character to ensure always to our children and our
children’s children, to many generations, the largest and most
varied amount of talent for their intellectual culture, as well as
the soundest moral and religious influence, it is in our power to
provide for them. To do this, is to make the best investment for
our posterity, and to lay upon the altar of our country, the most
appropriate offering that could be tendered by the citizen or the
Christian.

With earnest solicitude for your individual and associated welfare
and in the hope that these views may find favor with you, and
obtain your efficient support, we remain,

Faithfully and affectionately,

Your servants in Christ,

JAMES H. OTEY,
Bishop of the Diocese of Tennessee.

LEONIDAS POLK
Bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana.

STEPHEN ELLIOTT,
Bishop of the Diocese of Georgia.

N. H. COBB,
Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama.

GEO. W. FREEMAN,
Missionary Bishop of the Diocese of the South-West.

W. M. GREEN,
Bishop of the Diocese of Mississippi

F. H. RUTLEDGE,
Bishop of the Diocese of Florida.

THOMAS F. DAVIS,
Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina.

THOS. ATKINSON,
Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina.

Philadelphia Oct. 23, 1856.

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PROCEEDINGS

OF A

CONVENTION OF THE TRUSTEES

OF A PROPOSED

UNIVERSITY FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES,

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

TOGETHER WITH A

NARRATIVE, AND THE ADDRESS

OF THE

RT. REV. JAS. H. OTEY, D. D.,

BISHOP OF TENNESSEE.

Prepared under the order of the Convention, by the Secretary.

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA:

PRINTED BY C. R. HANLETTER.

1857.

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Should the sober critic object, apart from the many deficiencies
of this Narrative, to its excess of detail and circumstance, the
writer begs it may be noted---
1. That they who imposed this task upon him, enjoined him
to omit nothing belonging to an occasion, in their view, of
most memorable importance.
2. This pamphlet is intended, (as appears from the large edition
ordered to be printed,) for very general distribution, and will
reach many to whom the whole matter is a novelty—hence the
need full particulars.

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Narrative.
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It is known to the public, that during the last year the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Polk, of Louisiana, invited the attention of his brethren in