<hi rend="bold"> Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, February 5, 1856:</hi> Electronic Edition. Manly, Charles, 1795-1871 Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Bari Helms Images scanned by Bari Helms Text encoded by Sarah Ficke First Edition, 2005 ca. 9K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005

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 David L. Swain Papers (#706), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, February 5, 1856 Charles Manly 3 pages, 3 page images 1856 Call number 706 (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 </bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language id="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="unc_history"> <list> <item> Any special keywords assigned for this project </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>2005-07-28,</date> <respStmt> <name>Sarah Ficke</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc08-09"> <body> <div1 type="official letter"> <pb id="unc08-09-p01" n="1"/> <head>Letter from <name key="pn0001074" reg="Manly, Charles" type="person">Charles Manly </name>to <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person">David L. Swain</name>, February 5, 1856</head> <opener> <dateline><name key="name0000934" reg="Raleigh, NC" type="place">Raleigh</name> Feby. 5/56</dateline> <salute>My Dear Gov.,</salute> </opener> <p> Your letter giving the proceedings of the Anti-Know Nothings of the Senior Class has been received & only confirms the good sense of the Law & universal experience that boys are not able nor fit to govern themselves.</p> <p>It has always been to me a wonder how the 2 Literary Societies have existed for 60 years. It is to be hoped they will take a sober second thought of this act which, however harmless & allowable under ordinary circumstances, presents at present so many formidable <pb id="unc08-09-p02" n="2"/>objections.</p> <p>Would it not be better to postpone any reference of the subject to the <name key="name0000352" reg="Executive Committee, Board of Trustees" type="organization">Executive Committee</name> until time & reflection be allowed the class to retract their steps & to wipe out their error, voluntarily. Is it not best to avoid all collisions between the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Trustees</name> & students as far as practicable?</p> <p>If your speech & arguments, & time for reflection, don't bring them to their senses, then, it seems to me, they are "past praying for."</p> <p>I shall expect to hear from you again.</p> <p><name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Mr. N. W. Woodfin</name> writes me that Mess<hi rend="sup">rs.</hi> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Hover</name> & others decline taking the <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Allison</name> lands & inquires<pb id="unc08-09-p03" n="3"/> whether, under the Resolution he is at liberty to sell to others. We all say, yes, <hi rend="underscore">upon the same terms</hi>. </p> <p>The <hi rend="underscore">money</hi> is what we want & care not who's the bidder.</p> <p>If everybody & every thing don't freeze this weather I can't tell why not.</p> <p>God help the poor, who have neither wood nor blankets nor bread, such weather as this. </p> <closer> <salute>Respectfully yours,</salute> <signed> <name reg="Manly, Charles" key="pn0001074" type="person">Charles Manly</name> </signed> <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person">Gov. Swain</name> </closer> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>