Col. J. A. Washington has been killed in a skirmish. He
inherited Mount Vernon. This reminds me that Edward Everett is urging on the
war against us. The universal education, so much boasted of in New England,
like their religion, is merely a humbug, or worse than a humbug, the fruitful
source of crime. I shall doubt hereafter whether superior intelligence is
promotive of superior virtue. The serpent is wiser than the dove, but never so
harmless. Ignorance is bliss in comparison with Yankee wisdom.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 80
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