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The Ruffin Papers. 51
croft says Massachusetts gave 1 peck of corn or 12y2 cts for each
settler to Cambridge University. Besides this sum, John Harvard, the
Lawrences and others made donations. The Lawrences gave most of
the $100,000, for the observatory and for the Professorship of the
Application of the Sciences to the Arts. They have one of the greatest
botanical gardens in the nation under the care of Professor Gray. Miss
Mariah Dudley gave $100,000 to the Dudley Observatory in Albany, N.
Y. The raiders destroyed sufficient property in 1ST. C. to make all these
additions to Chapel Hill and to support free schools in the State for
40 years. I hope Chapel Hill will have all these things in a short time.
The State was penny wise and pound foolish in not having these
things before 1860. In this year I was in East Tennessee and found
the people very ignorant. It is now unsafe for an orderly man to live
there. "A storm is heavy and the sand weighty, but a fool's wrath is
heavier than them both." A fool's wrath. How many of such people
are in East Tennessee? What is the cause? Ignorance. Ignorance
made the tories of S. C. in 1780. See Marion by Weems Chap. 31. If
education had been diffused in the South as it was in Prussia, how
different would be our condition. Our politicians ought to aim, as the
first thing, to educate all the people. All our academies should have
globes terrestrial and celestial, as well as other instruments on the
small scale. Our University ought to be equal to any in the North.
In 1858 Norfolk thought of having a line of steamers from that place
to Nantes in France. This town is near the Bay of Biscay. We ought
now to have one from Wilmington to that place, another to Liverpool
and a 3d to the West Indies. De Witt Clinton turned N. Y. into a
garden. If a line is established to these places, Wilmington will have
a population of 100,000 in 20 years and the best workmen in England
will be at all our factories in the State. We can then send cotton and
tobacco for goods and keep our money here. Labour will be so low
that we can work as cheap as the Yankees. Gov. Vance could set this
ball in motion.
I am very much pleased to see our people patronize the books of
Sterling and Albright in Greensborough.
[Enclosure.]
Jethro recommended Moses to choose men to assist to judge over
10's 100's and 1000's. They were to fear God, love truth and hate
covetousness. (Italicks mine). If we had had such rulers for the
last 25 years, this war had never been.
We ought to educate our wounded soldiers and the orphans of our
soldiers. They will not then be dead capital in our country. I heard
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| Full Text | The Ruffin Papers. 51 croft says Massachusetts gave 1 peck of corn or 12y2 cts for each settler to Cambridge University. Besides this sum, John Harvard, the Lawrences and others made donations. The Lawrences gave most of the $100,000, for the observatory and for the Professorship of the Application of the Sciences to the Arts. They have one of the greatest botanical gardens in the nation under the care of Professor Gray. Miss Mariah Dudley gave $100,000 to the Dudley Observatory in Albany, N. Y. The raiders destroyed sufficient property in 1ST. C. to make all these additions to Chapel Hill and to support free schools in the State for 40 years. I hope Chapel Hill will have all these things in a short time. The State was penny wise and pound foolish in not having these things before 1860. In this year I was in East Tennessee and found the people very ignorant. It is now unsafe for an orderly man to live there. "A storm is heavy and the sand weighty, but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both." A fool's wrath. How many of such people are in East Tennessee? What is the cause? Ignorance. Ignorance made the tories of S. C. in 1780. See Marion by Weems Chap. 31. If education had been diffused in the South as it was in Prussia, how different would be our condition. Our politicians ought to aim, as the first thing, to educate all the people. All our academies should have globes terrestrial and celestial, as well as other instruments on the small scale. Our University ought to be equal to any in the North. In 1858 Norfolk thought of having a line of steamers from that place to Nantes in France. This town is near the Bay of Biscay. We ought now to have one from Wilmington to that place, another to Liverpool and a 3d to the West Indies. De Witt Clinton turned N. Y. into a garden. If a line is established to these places, Wilmington will have a population of 100,000 in 20 years and the best workmen in England will be at all our factories in the State. We can then send cotton and tobacco for goods and keep our money here. Labour will be so low that we can work as cheap as the Yankees. Gov. Vance could set this ball in motion. I am very much pleased to see our people patronize the books of Sterling and Albright in Greensborough. [Enclosure.] Jethro recommended Moses to choose men to assist to judge over 10's 100's and 1000's. They were to fear God, love truth and hate covetousness. (Italicks mine). If we had had such rulers for the last 25 years, this war had never been. We ought to educate our wounded soldiers and the orphans of our soldiers. They will not then be dead capital in our country. I heard |
