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how{?} lottery agent. I brought the college
last year to as high a slate of prosperity
as is possible, without endowments, but it
was done at such a fearful sacrifice on
my part as to prevent its continuance. I
was willing to give my entire servics without
charge & meet my own & family (illegible} but
could go no farther. I am now sued to meet
bank calls for the support of the professors
after the assurances of the Bp. that all
debts sh'd be paid. He still says so -- but
I can wait no longer. The Bp. means well
but can not perform. I told the Bp. that
I would go on to the last moment, but
when I was permitted to be sued I should
resign. The fact is that the church
in Ky. will not endow it, until Dr.
Maller {illegible} his mortgages and until
the people of Shelby cancel the item, in
the transfer, which will revert the college
to the town in case of failure to keep up the
college. One man offerred me $20000
to begin the endowment if these matters
c'd be secured -- but neither Dr. Maller
nor the people of Shelby will yield.
Indeed the sectarianism of Shelby
looks with no favor on the Episcopal
College -- I proposed to the people
of Shelby, who really control the College,
& not the Church, that it should be
made a feeder for the Southern Uni-
-versity & this expressed great oppo-
-sition -- but in a year or two some
of us will get up a Kentucky Church
Grammar School, directly {illegible: ancili-}
-{illegible: ary?} to the Southern University.

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