The astonishment with which I met, in the perusal of you letter,
induces me to write to you immediatly. I find in your letter, that I am accused
of neglecting my studies, and also of di
sorder,
both of which charges, I deny, and can prove at any time to be false, by those
to whom I recite and also by my whole class. I have consulted
Govenor
[David] Swain
concerning the affair, and he says, that he knows nothing
against me. As to being disorderly, I am verry certain, how that originated;
some three or four weeks ago
Swain
was absent from the
hill, and one evening at pray;s, something took place,
which created a great laughter, and
Old
[Elisha] Mitchell
, (to be smart) got up, and spoke verry harshly, and in
return, nearly every fellow in college commenced stamping; and those whom he
did not see, he repo
rted on suspicion.
2 The
honors were distributed among the senior class this morning, and as usual with
great partiality.
Jones
&
Malsby
, who were entitled to the first honor, have
both met with injustice.
3
Jones
, I suppose, has
4 not
missed more than three words this session, and
Malsby
has done equally as
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well, though
Jones
being a member of the
Dialectic society, gets first, and
Malsby
, because he is a member of the
Philanthropic society gets only second. Various acts
of partiality
ofhave thus been
confere
d on the
Dialectic Sosiety, and daily observation proves to
me, that the Faculty are a set of rascals. I hope when you recieve this, that
you will have no further doubts as to the dissolute course which, some of the
Faculty would have you believe, I have been pursueing.