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aid to this great enterprise, should be read by all who have its high
objects at heart. After clearly and convincingly setting forth these
objects, and showing what has already been done towards the futherance of
the plan by which they are to be secured with earnest and eloquent per-
suasiveness they urge Southern men to weigh in the balance against money
the worth of good principles and high education for their children; to
summon before them the isolation in which the world is attempting to place
them and their institutions; to recall all they have ever said that breath-
ed of love for the South, that savored of indignation against those that
were warring against her; to bring their remembrance their many resolutions
for benefiting their homes, their many reproaches because their section
would not vindicate herself' above all, to recollect that their wealth is
a trust from God, for which they must avvound to him as well as to society,
and to determine, in the face of all these considerations and memories,
whether they will turn their back upon this most promising conception, or
come up, like whole-hearted Southern and Christian men, and found a Univ-
ersity for the South that shall be worthy of our fathers and worthy of our
children.

We had some thing more to say of the beauty and advantages of the
spot selected for the new University, and some other considerations to
offer, in connection with the enterprise which we are compelled to defer
to another article.

The Daily Picayune, Sunday, July 3, 1859.

The following was reprinted in The Times Picayune, July 5, 19(\)59:

"With $340,000 at hand of $500,000 needed to commence the University
of the South at Sewanee, Rt. Rev. the Bishops Polk and Elliot (Georgia),
Protestant Episcopal, were urging Southern men to place in the balance
against money the worth of good peinciples and high education for their
children; to realize the isolation in which the world was trying to place
them and their institutions; to recall all the love they had breathed for
the South, their indignation against those that warred against her, their
reproaches that their action would not vindicate itself....."