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j f i i 1".d f;t - Mii ,Ti .113 rf,p..r ti if r - "i - ' . i. . .. . . " - "r" 1 . f - , r 1 . r ( v - : - r r ii - T T t : : : X.-'V.'TT ' rr av j w t- i r- r l . t . v J '; v -jor the Bhci Recorder. - j is quite remarkable thai alftheprol ft, Mversitj-Shall we 'Sustain it ' feasors ihere arb men of - what ; Gov1 -r- asitis?!-' Swain- nsed to n hp...,:..: . , ,. 'j ' -I l i.i V. lll.l 'ill J ' ' ' 1 ! . . . : . preuiiec.uona.'.' .-Two1 of those ar-e -1 4 - ' 'U'AL'EI G:H,' N. C, WED E S DAS, s JUNE 23,1-8G 9 f 7 wm .W,.r) J understood to Wong to the Prby: ,h..a long 1.. . d,l fheolh'r t to ohaWvesity of .North, "''a M And -It Ctflu 1 ... u r i Ire4b5terians. Sn ; fAP then as ttio , what was once its higU. estate : . , 1 r t,uu 01 ine mcn fronJB 6 novr. tliere.! Ima a- bearing-on tMa i'an in every vay 1 a the. fitness. , wanii on ims nev Board tos manac-ei ;a.nd L . T clcrv In no ct- or;, , ,i .. ';4 W, condition, than- in thdae" direct iBDigu Kvhen; Dr.Caldweir had full mV - for-n otner rea?on l'lian Sr; a roPH station for 8chalarship,;and aa, abil ity to teach ani , guide young men, 4nd Bureiy so' deeply fallen inline tiJence of aUrightrniindetl .and yjadging men among na It was the prido and ornament t pur btate Our wise and experienced jnen liad in former daja the guidance; of its movements, and the control of its ifflrs. Then its cliairs .of, instruc tion were occupied by'men ;of high attainments in science and , ,of true icbolarly instincts and .tastes men (of large and varied, cnlture, and trbo were ever reaching; np ward to 3d und istnrbed'and hmnWtioned.- It i plain tlieii that on r people who iro anxious to have their eons train- An tlve taitlr of theii fath- srs have tof say . theK very least, ao especial inducement to entrust tlieif edca!bon"tcf itxsn-rwhd nvmDa- thize bo little with that faith aa tno nen at Chapel Hill. So far as the matter of Theological 5 opinion goes, the conditions , of safety aro to bo looked for: elsewhere, not there, and iho parent who has a conscience touching thia thing, may well think wice before he commits liis chld to inlluences-so doubt t'al in their is sue, if not so lllainlv Vinatiln tA luo 1' kn 1 orrroae At ATrnl'aiilTnhA r .... cuc. f-..VJ .. Dest and Highest liopes for his child'8 hd iearuuu . now . u uuuuw and what is of far higher of truUi, aid of virtue: Then iho Cniversity"Withiatevertlrawback of occasional error and -raisdirectibh -on the whole deserved the confi dence tif the. people of our State; ind of. the whole South, - and that confidence was freely given. ' Then onr.' young men swarmed thither, sad though some failed,; brought back a good report of the Institu tion ; and tliousands of them bear in their hearts to-day a grateful tc membranco of the excellent men to whom they owe in so great a de gree the better promise of their euth,and the prosperity? and no lle performance of their manhood. But now, alas 1 liow low Is it sunk eVi how low iiV otlier respects we ?hall boou sec. How low in public confidence must it bo when neariy eighty ypnng ;men from our own wellbeing. j U at leaving the ecclesiastical as pect of the subject, let us consider whjitonr present duty to the Uni versity is, as we are citizens of Korth Carolina. As Baptists ' onr sense of duty to our -chnrcbr may lead ng amply to leave it to itself, and be stow our patronage elsewhere. May it not be that our duty as citizens of Xorth Carolina will constrain us to do all we may to sustain the University of North Carolina We lttivo looked very carefully at this aspect also' of the subject, and our ;deliberaSe,V and we will-add, most ; reluctant 'conclusion is that as citi zens loo, we are bound to "Id. the tfniver8ityi.(dpn$S that we ought npt to send our children there, nor advise ouj neighbors to sendi theirs, nor in any way give to &n institu tion constituted .and managed as that now is, any measure of support or countenance. ; The Constitution of our State has imposed a solemn obligation upon me juesfisiature 10 estauiisn ana It would : j seem, therefore, that an obligation rests on the people of the State to patronize and . support it. Sach, uo Stite are now in only ' two of , the colleges of "Virginia, 'while frm our wlitJe State,' excepting' "the village Ul vun il Xl.11 1. uui r wnu oiv, uuiiiu t j 1 -it iu um nana ui utu..unu uiow, V"l--. .i i- the Iols of public confidence bo inorb iMaetly or more loudly, proclaim ed.ihany the "statement of this. bt ig thecase There i8 6Uch a general obligation. But when a father, who , has a son to send to college, considers what Ms duty is, in what sense or degree this general obligation binds Aim, he must see at once, that besides themcro estab lishment ofjuch an Institution, other conditions must enter into the case, before it un be his duty to send his son there. If, for example, the University is made to ' servo as a Religious or political machine, if it is so ordered as to be distinctly arid almost ex-prof egso partis an in reiigion or in politics, can it be his duty as a good citizen to give it his support? If agaiB, the depart ments of instruction and discipline are committed to Incompetent men, tolmeii whose scholarship is defec- nbstinencc from political instruction and political influence upon the students. The young . men w$re sent therefor other ends, and any attempt to form and guide their opinions on partisan questions would have been resented by them as an indignity to themselves, no less than as an outrago on the rights of their parents. So zealously have the fountains of learning been guar ded from what all deemed a profa nation ! The sentiment which ' calls for the exclusion ot all partisan influ encies and tendencies, from our Sem inaries of learning, is by no means qon lined -to North Carolina. It ex ists everywhere ; in "every State which has a system of public in struction in schools of every grade that are maintained at the public charge, frem the University down to the common or district school ; and in all 'the 7 officials connected with the system, this rule is most scrupulously insisted tm. It is so in Massachusetts, in New Jersey, in Illinois, in Ohio, : and we believe there is no exception in its opera tion. When-an officer or teacher of any degree, from the highest pro feasor to him who gives ' lessons from the hornbook : from the Su perintendent to the menial is to be chosen, the question is1 never aek- ed "to what political' party he belongs." Politics are reckoned to oe out of his sphere, and no regard is had to any such considerations.- what . the Universw perpetuate. J.ho : fway i of M radical' principles of be. Sj radical " j party ; Or ratherhow treat one wUich ba4 been surrendered loJhOinf es joflfny, political arty--be ts name .what i may ? ' Does it not merit at. ;om hands ihe.raost earnest reprobation? In other--dayg . the, ..jProfessora tjat nmleratand ? ty.; ought . : to 4 le in vNorth Cam-. Una, and how to .make it what it ought to be. Of the men to whom he committed this high trust in- how many? are found l these- conl i- tions ? Many of them, I doubUess',&Te good men, Able men too, in their re spective spheres ; but howifowhave ; Chapel llill were selected fof tjieir, .uu vojwvioi ioouiij, vi me jictuiwi j suiiuiarBuip auu ; worjtU xiow Jkh experience, that might fit them for peoms, they are chosen because they, this peculiar-duty?. But whatever are politicians. If Nqrth, Carolina other good qualities they may have 'has stilU the healthy ' stomach she had, it is plain that the greater part once had what else can 8jo do with of them had one character, which these .degenerate and'! worthless. might w'ell, in the view, of a parti- things,- but ;spew them ut ot ..her zan executive, entitle them to such mmith? '' Can the AJumnij offthe. excluded from it. The Lesislatii re and the public have'always so. unV aerstood the ease. They wonld not. !j hve politics in any shape taught i there, nor the teachers, lUjany de i gree to influence on, such subjects At. . !' . '.. .- : r. ' ,vne minus ot their . pupils. ;The Faculty heretofore have observ- ed this tacit, bnt welh undcrstod compact and condition. It is not many years since one of 'them was displaced for no other t rcaspn than because he seeinetl disposed ,to med- jdlo too much with what were, party iissn.e8.in,. the politics u of tlie day. This feeling, that would-shut out politics from the University has .not been aVvariy feeling. .It has been runiversal, nor ha it regarded rmy peculiar phase of political opin- It has included all. It has demanded of the frovernim and loacning oouies ltietD,'-' h ii"eompiete- auy JTBiawowB,: tn6Lioarutaa jse 1 .a1 raajter xq tne patronage-,., qs.-j irr 7 . r ineir menus anu iigignuorux, vu s'".v -m g-.. m,. y.. ' . ' " . . I .TfTl ill ' f yt it t -cS is ?.aa A 3:i u hirattainineAtslis5'a'pciolar,ian'd)f nageiof aociaUifeof ready, in, the r epntation he has won as a teaehi gh nnto, character, personal ec, Si is frieads anctUie organs of the presence that win respect, 'and the party ato-perhatJi ddiiit)usljr sP vJwvIwtlTnaiLmntvhve lentnfThosa whot jhdge by th inJ tkeselqpalitiea in a measure tu'He dieation bf phyBiOghbrtry1 earii Wot jo?l,themmttnlot of even educa treailrlnhis fade ' the1 'tokens; of ge- ted.men or an OTersliatlotpingJ en niu ort stndions ItlioWght 'tiftr;-fJ PPTWriti in, those .that are of imost indifTerent spectators has his ge- account. .Jtoi, ifi niaL'afr and "Bearitt- beeri ':j foand to ,.v. He. isho'uld be a genuine Scholar, betray the t itraces fhiglt5cnltti,ry H should W boi only well Vekii- Jfi and;gentlerbroedii.g:' ijPerhap's the several- departments of science' knd best that eaii be said ibr bitn as yet literature, btit? What' U ikr mAUl i ifc that he is almbstf unknown to bur portant and far more rare, he musi j peoplejexcept i by nAme; n'd. ' that be thoroughly "t fcoss'essod ty ' the' the report of: his -'achievements' in? i izt. Ar Lti -J 'S i ' ' Missouri has not yet travelled hith- v.. , - . , ... . , ; -1 I v uia uxiu mu t . very and strong supporters of Ac Radical nrka.Ar.aiiAnt hA'nJi . Of MrJ Patrifcktliei Latin? ProI 1 2ti i. . 2wr' their minds1 to disnern tha liffht and feasor, , wo : knoW morewe can lial thW.t f Vnnw ' w- T.f , I - - 1 - 1 " " ' O I ! 11 i 1 ' . ? i - - ww wV. AAV UtUOV The plan which this selection in- (beauty of knowledge and- jthe truths j hardly say better, .though he wa iooar8e,"he fa loverW 'books and dicatcd of regarding and sustaining !can they any longer commend their jbprn;iand raised taofari,own' btate. i awtfie '6ye(w'iy -of their -'power' and' uses. -' And all this must he be.'be cause. frjMiUhlljcadL of. thflAstita-' tion chiefly must come the influences that are to awaken "an enthusiasm for scholarship among the pupils.' And they must 'not be conveyed by 'ho most of them were open University, who . used to jbe proud !erward;Lj ti, ig supporters of the Radical Gf fce excellent .men ;yho' opened ' oPf llxi V 3ected,'iiave thus far faithfully vcar- ricd out. One of their first acts was to turn out the old Faculty. AVe do not care now to speak of the cruelty of this act. It was, as has been shown in your columns, utter- thc Fathers, who have nothing so much at heart as the right training of their sons, can they with a good conscience entrust them to the in struction of men whose partizan- ly without warrant of law, in viola- j ship is their best claim to the chairs tion of the express terms of their own charter, and a sheer usurpa tion. It was worse even, for it was cruel. To turn out such set of men, of whose ability and faithful ness no word of complaint had been ever heard, who had served there ten, twenty, thirty and thirty-five years ; who held their places by a life tenure; who bad, ail of them grown grey in thoservice ; who had for some eight years, by their own earnings and self-denial kept alive the Institution, -which, but for such doings on their part, the trustees must have given up long before to turn out such men, in such cir cumstances, without a word of warning, or of acknowledgment, and its terms of studied' insolence. they hold? What else can the' "While amember of College he was rather distinguished toy the 1 - very: low rank he i held An 1 scholarship, and by his steady disregard of Col lege duties. In the Department which he now presides over he is said to have been eminently low, til ij 6iIttoJi i t-.'l c:.-j & fir.' 1 NUMBER 47," 3T seldom had: a itndent ip before the . Realty, tiwaa --gioiply . -'because he hardly tried to coatreH hit tlaasea it Rllj Atk any lone of'thes hrindre'di who have been there Any part of te yeargyiwhal was hli Tep I ntation:in Iregard to? be discipline and ii general management f he v College, and they swill anWer;- al-; most ka if by coaeert that he wee b Iheir day ecteemed cypher,'r Vt6 hava mt a seore or-tnore of them lot afew.rweeka past, ; and 'haTe" had , that answer frdmi every 6ne.J: has.no power to control yonngmen.1 Were fifty boyi at Chapel .i Hill; an ; prdinary . Coljege -Jehelliea. would unseat him in an hoar.' iEven -hi bodily esence it, i against! him ln this regard, .He.ha neither the size, nor the Mpeckp(Aef.veIitac0' and.conscioua power, that are of, so much, use in anch caies t . fBut,we. baTevjai4lanofh. ;Ko one clalmBTorrPpol nationab literary,repnUt;r!uand,4f tq defect be addeda lack; pf qompetent! scholarship and of a Ischolirlr.tem- formal lectures and didactic meth-' per, and pf suitable skill and power; s ods, but issue from his character, in government and discipline, whe The students must learn to love and can wonder that the intelligent neo- people of North Carolina! do they and probably was one, of , thpse, of admire and aspire after a true schol-i pie of North ,Carolina have, so clear-' for whose highest interest the Uni- whom we have beard soimuch, who , arship, as they see the effects 'and ly, as tiiey have, declared T their " vciBiijr was luuiiueu aiiu uccu uu uun jjiu wiuuk w eigub ui ii iu mm. jLiius ius unixm- juuguieni of nis unuinsss lor msj kep alive, and who have a stake of be able to translate their . diplomas, scious influence, the influence of his place. v,, ,, - iA.tkit'W: so transcendant value in its purity The rank in his class which his real character, is by far his best : It )ias giten ns no pleasure SJ influence. If he lack this power, you, Mr. Editor, well knew,, to write his instructions and admonitions these strictures, j But the Univej'sWi will be worth very little. Arid this ty has been the pommon pride. nd ; character must be sincere and real is the common property , of -all the in him. Painted fire does not burn, peoplig of the tatea.nd tvryimarip A deficiency in this power was a among . na is. bound to do iwhat ho - interpretation. Of his later;, career 1 hindrance to the more complete sue- may to hinder ts being-given rip ixcept that he was when ;the ,:waf cess of the late President's adminis- toineompeitfIliT and efficient action what else can 1 teachers assigned him was seldom they now do, when, new and false ''respectable," and usually, 'tolera principles have been introduced in- ble,'' a"tol mite", being, in the to the very seat of I its life, princi ples that can work nothing but evil, and must bring it to speedy degra dation and ruin ; but fasten upon it, " in ways that none can mistake, the mark of their extremest censure and disapproval. Thus! far they have left it alone. No man, out of Chapel llill except! a kins man of the President has- sent his son there. Our young men have Dogberry interpretation, a stand ''most tolerable, and not to , be en dured." Such too was , the College opened a rampant secessionist, and' tion, though the want was. much JwritterifWithonl rmacIrid'whbut is now one of the truly loyal" Jess conspicuous by his great power torejudi!' bae we only know that he has been the teacher of a country school in. Knock. Ingham county. How far iu and since the conf asion of the war he was unmanly and. cruel. But bad as naturally sought have khey not has been enabled to repair the short the act was, the reason for it was been forced to seek instruction in oomings.of his college days,, and worse. It was a part of the Gover- other States even, rather than go traverse the wide field of Latin Lit- nor's scheme to remove, from every there. Such has been thej instinc- eraturO, as one who aspires to his in other respects. No degree of it I we beheve. and indeed wa aat aavi in tne su Dominate can supply the what we Imowtabethe traui."n: Vvi v defect of it in the head. Hot mere- f We are foconVtncotf that Lthe; ly "a national literary reputation' verdict'of 3ifci('- is desirable in the President but jighkTh much more the possession of a true sons toii CjhapeL HUl becans8itbec echolarly spirit. : - men there have not seemed entitled 4 ? How stands the case i with the pro- to theironfidefnWandrc man who would not profess alle giance to his party. The Faculty were turned out, not lor incompe tency, or neglect of duty, or mis conduct in any way no such charge was whispered even but solely be cause they had not joined the Radi "cil'party, or as it was thou phrased, A Republican Hoard Vf''TruteT4beeaso-(..xZi..rf4 fw- Gov, will filont 1 llomAOMt' OT if n Xom- I TTs.LIsm place that could be reached, every tive prompting of the heart of bur place should have done, we have no t Sessional President in this regard? is the Bimpt,une,jBolereasop . . . .. 1 F . . .... . I -T-r-r , ' . I iCl l-'.i.'vr...!. .lull " people, the spontaneous expression of their resentment. Such is the information. What is known of first expression ot their anathema Turn up to the time of his recent ele- on the men who have defiled and vation is a college life ok conspicu- jjoisoned what have been! the best" ''oris worthlessness, and a later life of and purest sources of education profound obscurity.: "It is surmised among us. Surely our people will that he too is in no slight degree in- not go back on themselves in this debted for his! good luck, if it be knowledge, and indeed can get no I "We have searched carefully into this matter, and give the result of our inquiries frankly and with no 'wisbjto exaggerate , or conceal the truth: Mr.' Pool is a graduate of the University, and when he5 closed his career as an undergraduate re ceived 'the third-distinction.' Af- it.' i..:: r.i..,.... ,i,tii - for a return of ,1 onie thing s Eke its5 ' old prosperity to - thaUnimsit rhey long to feel their former pride ' ' Wit agaiaKielro iriortiSed te r knse they- feci '.constrained fb'f&xd ! . so many of their sons abroad for eaf ; ijcation. Were there a JPacnUy a f m i tmi -witiA 't rimplefact? Is this withdrawal ' or patronage and this 'lack of confidence which that withdrawal iriipjies, justified by the present ceridiiioaihe Uni ver ity, or is it the result j- of prejudice ? I would look at this question some what in detail, yet -may say at the outset that the people of a whole State can hardly, all of them,' and at once; come under the ' dominion of a mere prejadicfe; The fact, that this judgment of whaVhas been a fa- Toritei Institution ! is universal, is tnosgh to show that 'something is Kng in the university irselt. What and ! where1 this wrong is, 1 shall try to show, and for conve- I mence- sake; iri the' form "of : a dis- v Ait . ; . -i ft; ;i. ' - coMion of the question ; " . , :. I -tn. , i . ' 1 -' TT'.. ? . I t . , . ... ; -i . . oaouia we sutam tue ... university - d who have. a 8l,ght u it is I tmouia tne isapust, as sucn, ftnt,tful 'power of controlling the W'itf his'14 countenance and sup-1 ' iftn 'n fiVn whW 1,. an Wl fln'former times ur; breth- nrteia ;reiatation in these re- rea gve almost universally, a rieg- 8peCts would, any sane man among itive answefr 's'qnesoim Their ; U8- feel bound toeritmst the edtica- fonading-'of the College at W axe Qn Qf ni3 gon j0 them. Every man Forest and their; Kntianed patron mt Jteel. that an erirphatic no U i the ige and their steady adherence to it only possible answer to these ques- ia every flucWation-bl its fortunes, tioniHet that -the University of ww pmmi j "g" .-.jS6;";". Xirtti L?arouna, as it now is, is par-., senfiment of ika Bapjtwinori tn n politics, t. and that its fuhc-- Is there" anything m tlw. changed, are 4a hands generally beBeved to conitioribf iniChap HiU, fquitej unfit for so high purposes, Hreqmr thereis, we fear only ' tooabun fitertte University - .'Xf. t& ;va fearV lr There were , points involved, in the ? iiow to'l.bJfi'eve and or ocvit boanl a Republican, over men of their own party, if he is found to be the more competent for the du ties of the place Thb notion of be ing" controlled in such choices seems never to have entered their minds. It should bb scouted everywhere.- Iudeed, shofuld any political party in any of those States avow the op posite principle, and act upon it, and elect professors and teachers mainly, asthey sympathized with the -party, and would; inculcate its principles and carry out its meas uijes, the party would be speedily overwhelmed by a righteous popu lar indignation. No party could carry such c. burthen. It would cost it its life. And all'this should be! so. For to introduce such an el ement of choice is simply to poison thp fountains of learning.' It is to open to unworthy men, places whose occupants are set to guard the dear est interests of Society, and of the State. It is to destroy all perma nence in them, which is a main con dition of efficiency and- success in them. For what fit man-would ac cept a Profeesorship in . a , college," if he were liable to be turned out on Ihe, first change in the political "A deep murmur ot resentment at so- gross misconduct was heard throughout the State. Men, many Republicans even, felt that what was most sacred in our public inter ests had been most rudclyhandled ; that a foul spirit had entered a re gion which all men had held, should be secure always from such desecra tion. The indignation was almost universal. It was completely inef fectual. The men who did the act had the power not the right, and could not be deterred from using it Tor their own seeming advantage by any sense ot the world's experience matter. Single persons may here I such, to his kinshni iwith a. prdml'--1 terwards he became a Tutor there. and there-be corrupted, so as to fhent Trustee, ' L T -r.. I i- having sci -rrnmber-W l-rpetjMrnLtrnst, .the'j tide 'btlld -' .i S te -D.er. lj xiiix I L- Lf.. L J .: I 4i of 'nWru. i mfi-m ik-'imS 0X eeeui iu no.iiv;i.iuu uycii uccucratv i i wi jl iui iuuxvci wo ait; uitui liial vesirs m liihl cauaciiv. was uroinn. i v ted to an Adjunct Professor of Math ematics. This promotion was grant-, and falseness. But the body of our people will abide by their first judgment, nor ever withdraw or abatc,the deep condemnation they. have pronounced on the men , and the system that have done them so inexplicable wrong and opened tlie way for so infinite mischief. The partisan character which has been thus fixed upon the Universi ty, and in ameasure on our whole scheme of Public Instruction is a vast evil, and merits universal and the sternest reprobation. Tlie men who have done this thing should he in such things, or by any conscience taught, so that all generations may of, wrong doing. It was enough for j telafioribf the .Baptist .churches .to jl our college system iri regard tq which II I did' not1 quite J fully sympathize Trinity, from the dismantling of thp University :tit I" think."we -sliall 11 Jgree thatt onr stanoirig afoofrom tlon Jiave bjjsinothiu fpf their for toer Tahtandfc ,5ity,under,ithenew. ad ministra u remains as indifferent to ns as '-t nnder the old one. 7 It holds' 0titnp. new; inducements, to our peo ple to send their , eons thither,! i ': Wp kiveno more now than then a place : one. : of t-ourfable: faeri in of teachersi u; Our peculiar jents find there ; !no ' advocate 4er. and are like in no way' vm more encouragement respect. iuan iu oiner t (9 vor' Teiuctarii to heiieve"suchthings as we have too otten neara, ana, irom rthe best witnessej an a eo"urse " of action ori . the .' parVbf 'thise .who "aye high rweuipn hs! thamsjeitrexnely discreditable to them",' and has made an Institutori1 which once ' f we were erifee arid contempt : ( - ThalUniversityiFa public-jlnsti.; tuiioriu It belongs to thev, State No! man is there' among her citieens U poof or lowv so mhr highf that le f hailnot clear rights ' in ir and permanent interest in it;? lie has a riht to send his fons to enjoy Buch adtantages of instruction asit may i,rft to offer, arid he has ari iriterest in tsbeinglsep.t pnryofall evUinfltfJ ehces, a source of gbod andjof good bf.ly tpourjoung men, and,, to, rqri cbriritry;;. is oeU3ei of Vif1 and interest, in which. alt the peo ple! 8 hare ' equally, and because, of the diversity ot opinions in rvtigiuu - reccrnizing VVs cliin:3cf them that the men not Radicals. Ere long they found it convenient to elect another Faculty. Of the fitness of the men whom they chose, We can say better things, (lie was graduated at the University, and,' we believe, with the highest rank in his class. He served there as a Tutor also, and has been for a num-i her of years the Professor of Math ematics at Davidson College. : He is well known;to be a laborious stu dent and has proved hiriiself a faith-1 ful teacher. He 1 is a man of good mind, not brilliant, of good sense too and of amiable feelings, ahd we suppose of highly respectable attain ' ments. He can hardly be at ease in his present surroundings, and we only hope that he ' has long ago re pented by. his action' of the pros cription of his Pld Instructor Were hig associates more nearly on a level w tth him, our labor 1 i ri these 're marks : had been' lighter and plessant.- ' " "'. Mr. Brewer is the last of the list of iPrOfessors. The gehefal estimate Yet just 'so long;as it isf under stooa tnat ine university is a vouv edhim against the judgment of Dr. ial engine, worked .by.'iiarty "miBa Phillips who1 was then at the head fbr party ends ;" arid so long w men ofthe Mathematical Department, and allowed with much . reluctance and hesitation by Govi!: Swain, who at length yielded to a strong out side pressure. He remained in this position till thb close of the war, when he withdrew from the Univer sity to become the Assessor in the Internal Revenue Department for his District, Of his doings iri this last omce we nave neara no com plaint. But what did he Professor of Mathematics occupy the places of government and instruction there whom we dd - not! respect and confide in, ' and whose fitness we haye so ample rea4L' sbri to doubt, bo long wilt orirwpl , refuse toustain it,Ljsridt iican'nott succec i ITEM.. ."My Substitxite W : r more complexion of the State - And, if A . . , .. A. " ; i , . . . x L tound very strong, and one ol them such perpetual, changes may .'take place5 no college can,; continue to deserve public confidence, ; and: all assurance of prosperity, must cease. . In spite, however of such reasons what have, the trustees of our.: Uni versity done? Or,: raf;her for we 'mttst'goV.fartherbackj-what hare leafn the lesson, that no political iisplaced were party can bear up under such a bur then. The men who have been placed at Chapel Hill by virtue of this new principle of el eel ion may seem innocent in the comparison, - in point of scholarship, to fill such arid yet the way in which they have iJlaces wo mean soon to snfial- Rnt I teen chosen must make men doubt-. it, is plain to , all who know any fufof their fitness, except a? politi- of is qualifications 11 coptaifis about thing ot the facts, that one chief cians for the posts they ; occupy dll that we can leaf ri with any cer mav aav tha lii4' mnhV. k:.u Thev have s,not and fori thi hrleflv this: That wer he' fit to be ensured the election of the Dresent ob. the confidence i of. onr people! I the Xrreek Professor iri' the Univers-' I Tonntftr woo nnL .r1::i I W arft constrained tri riAli7a w.t l.rj fe?conld hardlvhiaVHrippVi atlnw.' I''y akwu.vi, nuo . HUit'J . at knjllblUttl, a 1 -j j j .-.. , !,.,. . ''-'? there are other, , reatona Iwhy - the ed! by those Who knew his worth, to 1 Ti K""y"0.' wnai public confidence has not been ffiv-'l spend three or four 7yearsiri3teac-f NY ;i'Dr en themr! ; Whatever confidence,, the inj a school for negrpesiri Raleigh.1 party leaders may -have in- theni! as Men do not often pud siich a - light . - L il.L. 1 J J- 5 1 i-JLl .1. . 1 U XJ- ;uv Lr Politicians, our poupio uouotjaage I uuur:?uvii a uubuvi..--iv may uo a 4 When 1 was a boy at school AsaldM j.-.-. . a klistinguisbed speaker , to a4eeply? as Adjitnct 8fiemnized audience, f8awi:tihf . ics , in the J that I never cati forget a' rriari tiea L' University '( What he should have tcj a cart, and ' dragged before ' the u done is -plain enough. It was his I HopieVyestbrohgh th iitreeti pf duty to have -devoted himself with all diligence to the studies of his department, till he had made him self thoroughly a master of h. He inly, native town,, his b&ck iior&andii h bleeding frpm the lash. ltwasthaB)e.,i fii punishment. For tnany pflenoes?5 -No. for one offence. Did any of the 1 townsmen offer to divide, the Jashee, . X i i fricnanzingnumauaawiorKwasine - science unvisited ; nor should, 'he, i instance'of itsf wflictietfiuir-;; party motive. -. In the case of some of them the claims of kindred were have remitted the ardor ot his real he had traversed its entire histU to the latest discoveries arid most d testified 1 . M had a cousin, on the Board, and an other a brother-in-law m the Super intendent of Public Instruction . they are all Radicals. ' in! North Carolina so simi imagine that a candidate Idnged to the other side would tliat -Mr: Pool had Kin oh since he left i , tswain, cautious I was a . student at'the ? uriiver8ity,J I saw .anothw light. I vJ rierer can fbrgtinan i!brought ' cut to die. HisannfiweTrTJtnionedr, bib face wai aire&ay , pie sj aeatn , t not grown,. an him as ho came ppftota jthsjail.lA1 l sight Did any mau asl in hid college.'' Gov.. if! . . - i . - "? I hiuij thV sentence of dlwl PormaD "a I tL'L'l 1 a t n the political leaders done T in their lQe "guest cnance ot a success- anxiety to secure to themselves the mi compuu, . xrom ine rrcsident permanent., control pf the ; political f WrtJ 1 mncn i s.o tl,aw rr. known, certainly., not well known have deliberate! v L resolved at the I among us; they had no ."national," outset, to make our whole system of haf 4lv a State f. reputation for liter .instruction an instrument of ary attainment,, iney naa oeen in-3 .the highest i All the evidence ' tcr has comet concur with ' body we believe tp.he the Faculty vefsity as .on ifl - t tammente in scnoiarsnip ana sucn nauet. snai in ? tnis cnaracter must J wiure.j j uueuw ,-:, ;h? cUyfor ;WhettMr Poof had efThis place fet aldnavb entitle them to haVthihSbr ke-havehus glanced nt IWfPrf fufr .t uia nave e r- u ,y. c? V. ,- -v .,., ,.i4"! resolved that ho' shnnhi Vnt ouepoiaro very small calibre'H pf&n He broke thshiaw at lusMuuuuu oi uurjouio i iessoDB iwuc uave oeen onerea xo the i n, --x f :r-zr ",' 'r-Ti pehaity ot a'caangmsjtitimautJiaw.jvi whichrihuiW :rtrtmag:andsuprort Wur -6iti fa "Kanp accoraunglyjeftf kf w.hasWinWt6 &cbpbri pW.; 1 oam? out ot Wj&K&A-b this popBarVeHics; fcapsS dt, Cl them totallynnfiUe erbd ghl . ' T),. I .. . . '- LTOJItfij I rorM K H.HHIM kll'.H in Eflfl Ha An 1 rr sin - I Tn mftnv. . 1118.11 V IIU. "iriimi . i Py T oigmty oi nis omce, aemanas .our I trTTT ,- . ? - ,r I - , .- . 3 Porn itift,nrt'thlltthfl lAnro-fthaSrf'B'J.l-:i ft.!.- fl?i--.'aiLiii''w 1 Wartv rftsnpndenrvL ' In the nthpr eeaifiyo insign meant-in?5 their .v--r-?- . '"bv -HP-r uiauti-jr ui mo uciuanus ,-jur , A,Ma?. s bfTatsfek tSeif burpose formepherest have been-heard )ZhVM niaturesagnnt parts of, that wstem -their purpose uA--f.i:- -Z. . thimore mariifest their want f fitd -b&m .vk-f!iLSPS.sf ' M sihee has nbt yet been weUdeydope4.lJtl""i r t I-wiae -u:XJUf -:"' 13 tukedsi -r.i" y-tw:ifv- r. r lived in : the rjnbliedft not v I nesswUlJbecome- w :: ,t I esteemed one bf the5 highest honnr.1 f"eaa.;:si T Lj-ILlA-5!. -iiiU - --Jl- V.ft. r. I have been aware of anv :rm.i.V I finnW cnKiont. n bo MT...n.j and of; the highest responsibilitv, I U1 dojibt that they have lintended to claims they could advance. why they prpperiy must be con8ideredT;some;: far they .nave certainiyuseu .tne i " i : xuuuu. i wf? , u mm. power their control of itias- given ik r T"" " D"CI' mis was ana mat ony wuicu no severally is I and politic that prevails among us, ! that it has been a principle always wi'.V these who "have had charge cf mj ed as to reward partisan ; ser vices, f and to. perpetuate, parti zan inf aencesSepwhat they have doner C 'hp rst thing that caU; fur ac tio i, a rid disclosed a plan,, was the ap spirit naeritpf a Board ofPruttees. The appointment .was niadpby Gov.' U.l leur. He sbuld, ha vel selected the motive of . the choice. LNo man has ventured to affirm, mnch less to believe anyLotJerL:f jSHoW therij ought Jtlio people; of ! North Carolina to treat An Univer sity which" has been so Jrvbrf ed from its former chars ctr an4; rrriii-T nal constitution ?j -Which r thini foijnd tb"-merit, though the body as af whole, has a repute which Is nbrie bf Ihe best, andii somcrif them srmfy snliVsr somewhat ' from" being; found in evil company (Of ilr. Martlig who ia styled we helevethePro fesior of Logic induiiaetbrio less taeins to be known thanldfpitherpf h4 ixest and best men' of the high- by those who have the eor of it the otners;it wenerauy surmwea e8f uterary;culturp, and-of fhe wi- to be no ! longer simply, the ' hoiii" th't he owes his 'place 'mainly to det and most intim ite experierce arid sonfee of pure IcicnCvj ;anj geri-5 thb fact beside his being a radical m Ihe managem-nt of literary insti- uirie literature; and worthy nd ge- in jKililics that he is ploseljr allied tuions ths men ia the eeveral nial education, but a machine rath- by marriage to the present Superin- . , i ' 4 " .j,.-. . .. . -;- v - ; : . "'.. f .-... 'i :.;-:. i ' ,".:..:... . :..! ....-....;..... 11. i ir. 1. 1 . i ' - - skill Vnd!xprieaudf t Tm' cnaracter otr.rjaldwell 'ITT .."i " "T:1 "rn " .t-a.V en.&waiff werc-hcCdeoLto rJTVL1v Lrr VSi A ttfthe'lUeasttrrfftmbjmi" -ftRRoeiatAR in thA h gonltv I fh manV. manr linn.' commitLaa -ww wM w wxv V VAt . A. .V - j 1 ' tt m belief that "Mf.'Pbvl had. against the unchanging lawsof God. . l, ''ii'f ii , ' " v Bdt again I looked, arid taw Jesns, . he was made an, adjunct ."l t.JxrrfiiJi'-i ngie book belonging to and dnnz en.thp;ieroafor.me. s c artment except those which 1 ibbked. aqd crieandwas foriTC.n. 4 ,l Ath$ force of J ano-of O' come up expectatiouvytelplace callloi(no 1Ftu5f piadricmiltp brdihafvmattBut that-lM U1311 to j eonv" nerenana ten you 01 mt Savior, to see if you will ndl Iso 5." look and live. Ola oira 'mtrigueo- -nr xneTneeus ot a i u w einiyruiiixiKiui f, at jrewfHiivnhavet thrnsr id 89 ntterjy ; nnschjjl Ig fheri afif iilnarj 'man?f prsident otVthe.UnivrsitF otfK 5 Let? u si It rbra;tnom nnt ha .Carolina! j. ud the! Preeidou t'yf ohs Uuiivorsvty )Mhe, jmpprancj tf t peenliaf ought to be, "tvt'ft ,bn Th t'wbtnaiu ?;Khlitionf. f one. ppweg snd, skijV1in1'rega:cd lotusiill .S plineana gqver7rnrenij-;ijp vjMwge k.ir!Tp ftjl I who I -1:1 . 1 fCoannpOB th fcchrsH tree, a t. 4 Ptttnt ad blepchng, whojske n,tness ior.inaioinct' are, FcNpiar- wej .Wjn :rpfai iti mw s. shinna'aiscipifine? ihS?0'-! f. tariWietin their' degree iridispen- verity ia MrPbol s time it is well ; sable, are these, that he shonli be known that m sncti power ana ik-u Bt the fleah with sconr' rs tora, Pj the crown f twiced' taorn, .' By the side docpf ptcrced, : -' Hjibf bafaeAbgrtvis'jth-jj t'.rlf 23 1M OroopiogMUNSewed Prpr. SW'fatoPlstisSdal 'tlrffiioif''' 1 " 'Boand upon the accursed tree, Dread aa4Hrfar,w'lfl'r::T"'r "" By tb,aa t jqdT f1 ii ' : .; ' -Shit erlrfg rocks aJreu-'., T Vri', r. Rj earta tliat tilZ.Uet I. .n lsy yonderTaiDtswtot" tt rt. J ' ;By J2den'r roaiise-t i.jLju. j, ' To tha f Ion at tis 6I J2, Lord 1 f ir ppKart t:.::ire -, 4 ,
The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.)
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June 23, 1869, edition 1
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