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Primary document
Title:
Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, February 5,
1856: Electronic Edition.
Author: 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
Size of electronic edition: ca. 9K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2005-07-28, Sarah Ficke finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: David L. Swain Papers (#706), Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain,
February 5, 1856
Author: Charles Manly
Description: 3 pages, 3 page images
Note:
Call number 706 (Southern Historical Collection, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
Page 1
Raleigh
Feby. 5/56
My Dear Gov.,
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.
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
Page 2
objections.
Page 2
Would it not be better to postpone any reference of the subject to the Executive Committee 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
Trustees & students as far as practicable?
If your speech & arguments, & time for reflection, don't bring
them to their senses, then, it seems to me, they are "past praying
for."
I shall expect to hear from you again.
Mr. N. W. Woodfin writes me that
Messrs.
Hover & others decline taking
the Allison lands &
inquires
Page 3
whether, under the Resolution he is at
liberty to sell to others. We all say, yes, upon the same
terms.
Page 3
The money is what we want & care not who's the
bidder.
If everybody & every thing don't freeze this weather I can't tell why
not.
God help the poor, who have neither wood nor blankets nor bread, such weather as
this.