The life and letters of Robert Lewis Dabney . y in the Synods of Virginia andNorth Carolina; some of those few were attending the Semi-nary at Columbia, and others were at Princeton. Mr. Dabneyseems to have had some difificulty in deciding where he was togo for his theological training; Ijut he was. even at this earlyperiod, an advocate for building up our own peculiar homeinstitutions. This decided him in favor of the early days of November. 1844. he set out from hismothers home. Certain considerations seem to have calledhim by Richmond, whence he went by canal-boat to Carte
The life and letters of Robert Lewis Dabney . y in the Synods of Virginia andNorth Carolina; some of those few were attending the Semi-nary at Columbia, and others were at Princeton. Mr. Dabneyseems to have had some difificulty in deciding where he was togo for his theological training; Ijut he was. even at this earlyperiod, an advocate for building up our own peculiar homeinstitutions. This decided him in favor of the early days of November. 1844. he set out from hismothers home. Certain considerations seem to have calledhim by Richmond, whence he went by canal-boat to Cartersville,in Cumberland county, and thence by stage to his destination,at Our facilities of travel have improvedsince his dav, and the manners of those who officer the wrote to his mother on the 12th of November. 1844: I took the canai-hoal Friday evening as I , and found tliecaptain drunk. He had a fight in the boat with one of the passengerswlio was also (bunk-. an old Irishman named Irving, who li\cs near. Student Life at Union Seminary. 83 Cartersville. The chief part of the fight took place at the supper-table,and made one of the most disagreeable scenes I ever saw. I suppose,if the captain met his deserts, he has been discharged before this arrived at Prince Edward Courthouse a little after dinner Saturday,having had a very pleasant trip in the stage, except the cold in themorning. He was soon domiciled in his room in the main bttilding ofthe Seminary. He describes his room, in a letter to his brotherWilliam, dated November 22, 1844, in the following- terms: My situation here is very much what I anticipated, and in somefespects better. I have a good room up two pair of stairs, facing thesouth, with two windows, a convenient closet, and sufficient furnitureof the plainest sort. Of his boarding-place he writes, in the same letter: The living with the steward is, upon the whole, much better than Iexpected to find it, although there is
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