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I recd yesterday, with pleasure, the answer of the Comm of the Faculty & the several answers of Profrs
It cannot be possible, & you may rely on it with perfect certainty, that the Facultyt & Professors) men of well tried ability & discretion & patriotism, justly the pride of the whole state, are to be overslaughed, or censured, or found fault with, upon the ex parte allegation of any young upstart or unknown foreign adventurer. His course has been an unmitigated outrage, & the more I think of it (as I said before) the hotter I get.
Write to me (I will hold it in the strictest confidence & friendship) precisely what you wish the c Comm
I recd by last mail from r Brown
The c Comm
The State Fair is getting into full blast this morning. It will be, I think very respectable.
There is a story on the street that a
I think it's likely I shall write you again tomorrow.
Was th August last (paper B) when Resolutions were passed disapproving of his course about the appointment of Tutors & of his attempts to head the President?
I wish very much that the fact stated in that 2nd resolution should be established by other testimony than r Thompson's
I desire you point out to me the authority for the Fr. Instructor & the Tutors voting as members of the Faculty on questions of College police & Government & in awarding Punishment on the students. I cannot find where the laws of the Institution confer any such power. If it be custom, the sooner 'tiz stopped the better. At least that is my opinion. I will never consent
P.S. No 2.
The two Governors who came here on some political scheme, as I surmised, have decamped in double quick time.
They left this morning under advice of some of their democratic friends that a well grounded conjecture that they were concocting treason against the Union & had assembled here for any such purpose would blow Democracy "sky high" & carry the state for
With all her vacillations in Whigery & Democracy — Union State certain.