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Vdiß'cy
led to
Dio. I I
lest into.
sition and
cality.
The selection of Sewauce
our projected Institution, xvas 1
; in the tirst instance, “without the inatu
j deliberation. At the meeting hold in July
11857, at the Lookout Mountain, a Com
mittee of Location was appointed, consist
ing of one Trustee from each Diocese,
whose business it was made to examine all
the suggested localities and to report to a
meeting to be held at -Montgomery in No
vember, 1857, with the lull understand
ing that the hoard would then and theft
i decide this important question of location.
■ Having examined personally such proposed
sites as their other duties would permit, 1
the Committee of location requested Col. |
Walter Gwynn, of the Blue Ridge Rail- j
road, to organize a corps of civil engineers, j
with instructions to examine minutely ev- I
cry locality which might desire to present j
its claims, and called attention, through a i
series of questions prepared with great!
judgment by its Chairman, to the points
deemed most important in the settlement
of the question. To the meeting held in
Montgomery, in November, 185/, this
corps ot engineers reported in lull, la} ing
before the Board accurate, because scien
tific, information upon all the points ma
: tcrial to*a final judgment in the premises.
Gentlemen sent up as delegates from these
respective localities were examined mi
nutely as to their hoalthfulncss, tlicii ac- j
cessibilitv, climate, water, building mate
rials, and centrality. Advocates Lorn each
locality were heard in detail and were per- j
rnitted to enter as fully as they pleased in- ;
to the merits of their favorite sites. When j
these examinations were ended, such of
the Trustees as desired to speak, were j
heard before the Board. It was then re- i
i solved that no locality mould he selected j
which did not receive the vote of two
thirds of each order, the order of Bishops
and the order of clerical and lay Trustees.
After a long balloting, not unaccompanied
by prayer for the Divine guidance, Sewa
i nee was selected as combining more ad
vantages than any locality which laid been
examined. Lndcr these circumstances it
was neither a hasty nor imptdsivc decision
j to which the Board came at Montgomery,
and subsequent investigation and personal
i examination have confirmed tuose v
1 t <1 for it in the first ‘F'Uuiec ;r
JTHEJNION OF THE STATES: -DISTINCT, LIKE THEBILLOWS. ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMASTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 24 18-59.
moved the objections of some who thenvo
t< and against it. \\ e feel confident that
Sewanee only needs a personal inspection
to satisfy most minds that it has been well
and judiciously chosen for. its purpose.
Ihe selection of the site for the propos
ed U Diversity must be considered in con
nection with the objects, which the South-
I ern bhoceses had in view in its establish
mriir. Apart from these, it might not be.
easy to prove that it was the fittest locali
ty, .mt m conjunction with them, it will
be found to unite more completely than
any
M 11 m* lliS D not. the feeble eftoi't
. b’-rl’ Lie * concentration
, 10 patronage oi ten Dibceses extending
from the Southern line of Kentucky and
V irginia, to the Western limits of Texas
and Arkansas. Any locality’, therefore,
which would give anything “like general
satisfaction, must occupy a central posi
tion, inclining as much as possible towards
I the \\ est, since that is the only direction
! in which this confederation of Dioceses can
ever extend itself. This limited the Trus
tees, of course, to a certain range of coun
try’, outside of which it would have been a
waste ot time to have examined and con
sidered any locality. But it was likewise
essential that the selection should be made
from that portion ot the centre of these
Dioceses which should offer undoubted
healthfulness upon a soil furnishing abun
dant supplies of freestone water, which
should afford easy communication with a&.
parts us the confederation, and which
should be surrounded by a farming coun-
try providing the necessaries of life in any
quantity and at a moderate expense.
These requirements still further limited
the choice ot the Trustees, and con lined
them within an area extending from At
4‘i. (hi., to McMinnville, Tennessee, as !
f ern and A\ estern limits, and from
’ Huntsville, Alai )ama, as its j
*wT, er ji ii]yW a Within
nee must fto made
and
point to he con
t lie social life of i
led attention in
est ion. Our citi
i part, made the
-cried of travelino-
Vu ,-fitTna.'iTTTrS tnnr
s are deserted and
!, e world over, from
’ Saratoga, New
les. At this
hem to have
hands.— i
them,ati
.3 dissi- {
when !
Col- |
oe. — !
f an !
on when j
aiiu j Jai proses- |
.e suiTOUiuled dv their farai
.q . vlieir homesteads; when the i
checriul Christmas fire is burning on the j
hearth, and mothers and sisters and ser
vants can receive the returning student to
his home, and revive within him that holy*
domestic feeling which may have decayed
amid the scholastic insolation ot a College ;
when he can engage in the sports which
make him a true Southern man, hunting,
shooting, riding ; when he can mingle free
ly with the slaves who are in the future to
be placed under his management and con
trol. That a literary’ institution may’ give
i the student these precious months, it must
; be placed where the climate will permit
! him to apply himself during the hot
| months of summer, where intellectual la
j bor will not be a burden, where cool nights
i and mornings will restore the energies
i which have liagged under close applica
| tion. This condition of things could only
1 be secured upon some lofty table land,
5 which should protrude itself into the cen
! tre'of the Cotton growing region and ho
: happily surrounded by all the* other re
quirements of a large institution. This
- consideration, therefore, forced the choice
I of the Board within still narrower limits.
But there was likewise another point to
be weighed, the question of social inter
course of the Professors and Students like
ly to he assembled at such a point. Could
we have found within these limits a city of
from fifty to one hundred thousand inhab
itants, combining with the refinement of
large towns the facilities which cities af
ford for the conduct of life, and offering
the University undoubted healthfulness
the Board would probably not have hesi
tated in selecting that as the best location
for the University. But no such city of
fered itself, and the question was left to
be. decided between the neighborhood of a
small town or the creation of a social at
mosphere of its own around the Universi
ty. \\ hen it was reduced to this alterna
tive there was hut little hesitation about
’ ihe decision, and the Board almost unani
moiisly agreed that it would be preferable
to create a society around the 1 nlversify
WMdi should receive its tone from thel ni
’ dependentup
his math r
I performance, some locality must
I be Selected which should combine attrac
tive scenery and picturesque variety with
a temperate summer climate. If these
coiild be found in conjunction w’ith acces
sibilitv, with an abundance of water, with
good building materials, and surrounded
by a fanning country affording in plenty
the necessaries of life, the Board cofielu
ded that u should have thcr locality
which its circumstances demanded.
All these things are combined in the lo
cation which the Board has chosen at Se
wanee. It lies within the limits to which
i*"e hoard waits circumscribed by the pri
mary.-Aidn of the* Bishops at Pltiladel
plua, being neither so far West as McMinn
ville. nor so far South as Huntsville. It
stands*upon the elevated plateau of the
Cumberland Mountain, about 1900 feet
I above the level of the ocean, possessing a
I ‘T'mate equivalent to that of Flat Bockmn
;bs orl h ( arolina. It is above the level of
a i ini tomittent disease, and D abundantly
blessed with tlie purest water flowing from
under the sandstone capping of the Cum
berland lodge. It is covered thickly with,
excellent timber, oak, chesnut,and walnut.
I t has all over it the very best building
sloiie and can command, by easy approacli
the limestones and marbles’ in which Ten
nessee abounds. It has coal mines at its
very door, opened at great cost by a weal
thy company of New York, provntmg fu
el at vefy. reasonable rates. There lies at
its foot, connected with-it by Bail B<*ul,
one of the richest farming countries of the
\\ est. Nothing is wanting to render it
every way suitable to our purpose, .and
there can he no objections to it except they
are from its being a mountain location, or
lrom inaccessibility, or from disease.
A\ lieu a low lancer hears of a mountain
location, he at once conceives of a lofty
peak, covered with rugged rocks, whose
summit is to bo reached by a severe and
toilsome labor. Was this conception of
11 is correct, he would be right in arguing
•hat it was unwise to place an University
in such a position. But the Cumberland
plateau does not answer in any particular
to this conception. It is not a series of!
rugged peaks, but a wide table land, hav
ing upon its summit a level area of from
tw o to twenty miles in width, upon which
nJlbW^vifiefTSTßge fOMs are matte as
smooth and easy of grade as any in the
middle counties of South Carolina or Geor
gia : upon which farms, county towns and
watering places tire located, and which is
as well timbered as any part of the coun
try except the heavy river swamps. This
plateau is reached by an easy ride of half
an hour upon a Bail road built in the most
substantial manner and laid with a T rail,
which traverses the whole extent of the
University lands. In addition to this
Bailroad, the citizens of Franklin county,
which lies at the base of tlie lands upon
which the University is to stand, have
! guaranteed the building of a Turnpike
from some point on the Chattanooga and
Nashville Railroad to the site of the Uni
versity, so that we shall be connected with
the lowlands at our base by both Rail and
Turnpike, giving the University the full
est scope for the easy procurement of all
its supplies. When this summit has been
reached, there spreads out before the eye
an area with just enough undulation to
; make it picturesque, covered with large
timber, with a richpmderbrush of grass,
and with springs of freestone water yield
ing four hundred, five hundred, and in one
case one thousand gallons of water per
hour. From this summit the visitor is
delighted with scenes of unsurpassed beau
j tv, with points of the mountain running
iii fantastic shapes into the valleys, like
promontories into the ocean, with wooded
! slopes stretching down into the cultivated,
lands and mingling the wildness of nature
with the improvements of man, with fiat
| valleys rich in the bounties of Providence,
with an almost boundless horizon spread
ing away -towards the far West. And
these views vary at a hundred points of
the University lands, for it is the peculi
arity of this sandstone formation to break
into gorges and to open up new scenery at
every turn. The soil too is capable of pro
ducing the very best vegetables, specimens
of which were submitted to our inspection
and ..vjdiieh might bear comparison with any
in our City Markets.
Tms Cumberland plateau seems to have
l>een formed by God for the benefit and :
blessings of the valley of the Mississippi’
and the cotton growing regions of the
Southern States. Forming the Eastern
limit of that immense valley, stretching,
with this peculiar formation of a sandstone
table land, for one hundred miles across
the State of Tennessee, and easy of access
at many points, it must become the sum
mer resort of those wealthy planters, who
desire to recruit their familEs during the
summer months, and are yet unwilling to
be far separa'e l from their planting inter
ests. The time is not distant when this
wlii-le plateau will be ■covered over with
villas, end cottages, and watering places,
and will ttem with the most refined socie
ty <•£ the• S nUb and W’ujp. This will hr*
! the place of meeting of the South and
I West, and Wilmington* Charleston and
| Savannah will here shake hands with Mo
bile, Nuvr Orleans, Nftshville and Memphis,
’ an, l cement the strong bbnd of mutual in-
I P'TCst with the yet stronger ones of friend
| shi]> and love.
j Because when Sewanee was chosen as
! the University, the name was
j unknown, it\waS at once concluded that it
was remote of the way. This is
the usual reason the world, and was
jas false in this it is in most
, others. ►Sewanee, as win be seen bv tlie
a3cpij)anying map, is in connection by
: RaiUand Electric Telegraph with every
portion of the South and West. The Rail
road ot tlie Sewanee Alining Company
passes by the door of the University, and
five miles lrom it unites at Cowan with
the Chattanooga and Nashville .Railroad.
This gives direct access on the one hand
by Rail to the capital of Tennessee, and
thence by turnpike to Kentucky and Ohio,
and on the other hand by Rail to Chatta
nooga, there uniting with that net-work of
roads which run through Dalton and
Knoxville to Virginia and through Atlan
ta to Montgomery, Columbus, Macon, Sa
vannah, Augusta, Charleston, Columbia,
S. o Charlotte, N. C., and Wilmington.
At Stevenson the Nashville and Chatta
nooga Railroad connects with llio Mem
phis and Charleston Road, which brings
Sewanee into immediatecontact with Mem
phis and Arkansas, and when the New Or
leans and Jackson Road (now in rapid
progress) is completed, with the whole of
Mississippi, West Alabama and New Or
leans. The Will’s Valley Railroad also
connects with tlie Chattanooga and Nash
ville Railroad, and brings North and Mid
dle Alabama into close proximity with the
University, so that instead of being out of
tlie way, it can be readied from any and
every point of the ten Dioceses, Texas ex
cepted, within forty-eight hours, and from
many of the large cities, thirty hours will
be suflicient for the journey. . ’"’ton
this is added the chain of
graph, which * v
there are D
hear with’
their ch
them in
centrj4|jigit m x *-
in means (ff fronW’
ccses formirrg?the confederate
The said bitty of the dim.
all question. It is fret? iron*
kind—it is above the region oi
the thermometiical range in sr
dom exceeds 80 deg. and the .
mate is not nearly so severe as thau
Northern Colleges to which our s<
freely sent. One remarkable ft
I this plateau is its dryness which b
by the lack of lichens the
the entire absence of ip f or ]ara
ing upon humidity, knu by the frcvu-om
from decay of the fallen timber. After ti
tree has fallen for years and the bark sep
arates without any decay of either bark or
wood. Pleurisy and Pneumonia are jvl
most unknown. Strict examination was
made of persons having no interest in the
matter, who testified, one and all, that
there could he no question upon the sub
ject of its healthfulness. But whatever
may be the severity of the winter climate,
it need not be encountered by tha students.
It is well known that October and Novem
ber are two of the most delicious months
upon these plateaus, and our vacation can
be so arranged as to dismiss the University
about the middle of December, and, al
lowing the usual period of vacation, work
would not l>e resumed until the middle of
March. This throws out the only three
months which might be too severe and re
turns the young men to their homes, as we
said before, during- the season in which
their Parents will be most glad to see them,
and when they will keep up the habits of
life which arc to be theirs in the future.
\Ye feel almost ashamed to say anything
upon the silly cry of milk sickness which
has been so pertinaciously urged against
this locality. Like everything that is dis
tant and mysterious, it seems to be dread
ful. Because nobody knows what it is, it
it is invested with additional horrors. It
is magnified until fond parents imagine it
to be an epidemic like yellow fever, or
cholera, or small pox, sweeping off its hun
dreds and desolating neighborhoods. _ But
the moment you approach it, it vanishes !
Even when it did exist, a generation back, it
was as rare as a rattlesnake bite, or a spider
sting.
Blit it always goes out with population and
cultivation, and Physicians of the highest
standing assert that they have not seen a
case for the last twenty years, although
their practice lies all through the-cove in
which it is said to exist. .Since the Board
have come upon the spot, nobody has dar
ed to mention it. It did very well for a
war-cry at Montgomery, but at Se-wajiec,
and Bcrsheba, nos a word is said about it.
And for tire very best reason, Pv gen
tl mien of the highest respectub.T •'*”
Prating those very -cows and IHV.
them with their tarn lies, because a
cattle ot the valleys an’ sent Into these
t(nes ftn d upon these mountains dufing'the
summer months, and because nobodv hesi
tates to eat freely of the beef aad'bntter
which are offered him here, and to drink
the rich milk as if it was water. At lief*
sheba Springs,at Altamont, at Tracy City,
tit Cowan, at \\ inches ter, (which places
surround the University site,) everybody
partakes, without scruple, of any food that
is set before him, and the residents would
as soon expect to find arsenic in their wa
ter as poison in their milk and beef. The
charge is simply ridiculous and the stu
dents of the 1 nirersity would have about
as much to dread from milk sickness ftft
Iroin who once roamed over
these hnrx and swarmed in these valleys.
All these advantages of climate, accessi
bility, healthfulness, proximity to the cot-
ton growing region, offer to the friends of
the students strong inducements to settle
around the University, and form, for she
summer months at least, a tine society for
the Professors and Students. These fam
ilies will attract others, and very soon as
much society will be gathered about the
l niversify as shall he advantageous to the
young men. Kvcry facility will be afford
ed by sale and leasehold for the building
°t ornamental cottages and villas around
the 1 niversity, and it will exhibit the same
aspect as West Point does in the summer,
with fliis superiority: that besides the
transient visitors who will take this place
cn route I**r the Southern Springs and
Northern Cities, there will he a much lar
ger settled population Spending the sum
mer months among the mountains. The
chances are that there will be too much
rather than too little society.
Such are the reasons which liave induced
the Board of Trustees to adhere to their
choice of Sew a nee as the fittest site for the
University. They have hut one object in
view, tin* best interests of the Institution
which they are endeavoring to create for
bfouujt and blessing of the Southern
’hi they have been swayed by
’otives, inducements of ti
have directed their
acting
n-r
>u
‘vit
.. „v .erne was
/ts very inagnl •
Vs from underta
ken id be no hope of
p engendered among oui*-
ould continue to be depen
jiis as in everything else. We
> jil continue to import Teachers, Pro
hors, and Literary men from other lauds.
We should return nothing to the common
stock of literature and science, and should
he aliens from the commonwealth of let
ters. We should leave our institutions
with a stigma resting upon them of degra
ding instead of elevating our social condi
tion. All these consequences were before
us when we made our choice, and with a
full view of them, with a holy pride for
the elevation of our homes, with a becom
ing zeal for the moral culture of our peo
ple, with a love, passing the love of Wo
man, for the land of the sun and the slave,
we were willing to stake our judgments
upon the selection and leave it to time to
vindicate its soundness.
And we call upon the men of the Sotttli
to rally around us ; not upon churchmen
oiilv, but upon all good men and true of
whatever name and profession ! We have
undertaken this thing as a Church because
there was no other way ot doing it. lhe
government of such an I niversity must be
an unit, harmonious in its principles, views
and feelings. But it is in no sense intend
ed to be sectarian. Its curriculum will ex
tend through every branch of learning dhii
science—its doers will be open to students
of every name and sect —its conduct will
be catholic in the very highest sense of the
word. It the States could hate done this
work wc should have let it alone.. But
they could not accomplish it, for their can
be no unity in a State Institution. It can
be accomplished only through a body,
whose ]JHncipleF arc settled, whose basis i3
immovable, whose officers are permament,
whose spirit, while determined, is large
and comprehensive. Confident in our pos
i session of these things we have undertaken
this task. We have :It idowed forth our
ictc-ul we have laid the foundations broad
aiul deep. It remains for you to rally
; around us, and bv your wealth, your active
co-operation, to enable us to build up an
; University which shall offer your .*>ns the
! highest literary culture, which shall sur
■ round vour homes with the refinement ot
scholarship an<l piety, and “ shall ‘in
dicate the lieuthei 11 State. <n?ui UtC*Uo
quv of ignorance and ku/MiiMU.
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