Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-02-08


| ing contnIaely. Shall We not be rpnrooched
for oar patience, when we confess thar we
have so long submitted 10 the tyranny OF Dr.
Green, hut 10 the epithets ct" rascal pup
py-1nd " har -cOnst1ntlv laViShed on has
class from the gross lips OF Dr. Slack
Sunday was day OF peace Injustice APP
peared arrested by IFS interference and We
had hoped that the occurrences OF SATURDAY.
would nave induced such change as would
have anpeaSed the feelings OF the wounded in
mind and produced All oblivion of the past in
the kindness ofthe fninre-it was the dream ot
youth.
On Monday business took its usual course
until about evening. Some of the students
sick in mind. had reSorted to rcrosS in their
chambers, they had not attended pravers-
W IN what use conld they have attended there
ana SUBMITTED 10 the hypocrisy of addressing
the Most High and united in supplicatioiI
with the authors of our su!ferinss the mind,
however feeble and inexperienced, cannot
enter MIRO associations so discc:dant. much less
reconcile them II requires u irisid indiiier-
ence To 1he precepts of moral truth. to to.e-
rate them-youtli must he more hardened than
We can conceive, not To be impressed with a
stronger feellngthan disgust, at AN association
50 repugnant to the purpose aud nature OF
prayer. The students who had been absent
from prayer, were cited To offer their excuses;
aud we confess HAT on thus occasion we felt a
Lind of so!ace seldom known betore--for our
words OF honor were neither questioned nor
dsrerarded. The members OF the faculty, all
but the president, soon retired and as soon as
ne rose from his seat, some OF his expressions,
which had wounded. were repeated, aud IL
was fairly intimated ~ him that lie possessed
neither their confidence, nor respect and that
they expected to he treated not like brutcs
but aS pupils who were tc be hereafter resnec-
table members ofsociety. lie retired, aud so
il ended.
Tuesday wastranquil aud serene, until abont
- O'Clock OF the afternoon when the faculty
cited fourteen ithc students before them Z,
without i0tcrrowatio or explanation or an on
tD tlp NV, nf,i,
cause, on 10 showits error, or its taliScy thew
were each lay short and peremptory sentence
dismissed the college-rc crime alleged-no
charge spccified-no evidence aiduceI-no
defeace aliowed-expediency alone was avow-
ell, aud the process OF dnathclaa was in these
concise terms, well BETTING genera. of 4 Do
nInican order hut not well adapted to the ge-
nerous idea os our free country and a liberia,
age. We were cited into the Study irnmedi-
Etely, Which is separate from the college edi-
tce, q each on his individual head received this
sentence" Io,T are 10 go from this Study,
ocitiout The collage 5orrds-ars 1.of 10 return M
eco"
Here then ended the relations which had sub
sisted between us and the college. We were
solicitous to depart in peace, aud go lour WAYS.
but our property was refused to MS. Theyhad
dissolved the power which their situation had
sanctioned them, as they conceived in abusing
Our rights remained unimpaired, and our pro-
perty, withheld; owing them no longer any a.
litigation, we determined 10 assert those rights
which they at no time nor under anv circum-
stances could be authorised to violate We
proceeded I'M body TO obtain what belonged 10
us, and was wantonly withheld from US The
vice president Slack, we found paradng upand
down one entry, like Hercules aDoutto execute
the viii OF the memorable Eurisfieus with his
club on has shoulder; the first tutor, like Sc
ccBd disciple ofCIiTOn the centaur anhIiur mn
and down another. Both appeared strics On
with stOncy wonder, and we passed their eff
gies, unIpolesting and unmolested, accomplish
ed what we wished for, and returned in the
same unotfending aud unotielded mode in
which we had entered. Driven as we had been
from the roof under whiehwe ought 10 have
been protected, our refuge was a public tav-
cTn, TO which we had scarcely returned witt,
our trunks, when message from our fellow
students overlook us-it was, +" That then con-
" ceiceG the treatment had receiyed iaSifJeubLe
" and cere determined Mpom rs,LycSs,' and called
upon MS to return; perhaps we ought not To
have returned at this time but we appeal TO
every generous and honorable mind ii, i'm
moment when we saw our beloved associates
pouring forth from every door to invite us
makingou injuries their own. and under the
eyes of those who had oppressed us. whet her il
would have been consistent. or if il would
not have been base, had we alone been
liisensible TO our wrongs OF Indifferent TO their
affection.
We rushed into each others arms. as I've
should do in the presence OF Il public enemy,
giving this assurance IN our Youth Of what we
hope will govern us through orr lives, Il semt-
lnent OF virtue ana h0nOi-ihls look place in
the front campus, in the presence ofmuItiludes
OF the citizens of Trenton, who can verify eur
relation; the whole body proceeded towards
the college. Again vice president Slack appear
edmoving IN the entry, his liOl'S skin had now
dropped of before the crowd upon whom he
had so often iavishcd vulgar abuse the cur
rent carried him along, and deposited him on
the outside of the door. undisguised by his ass's
skin, where lie was left III a state of inexpres-
sihie but unwarranted alarm obliged TO bear
the rebuk rs OF those upon whom his wanton-
ness had heaped so many aud unwarrantahle
epithetS.
DR.. Green and professor Lindley at this mo-
ment mixed int the multitude the former with
out exciting an emotion either ofrespect or dis
dam. y piece Office had fallen upon his hat
which he seemed to have nagnitied bv appre-
iensiOn into one of those mountains which the
gods of the poets in their pleasure or wrath
hat heaped upon each other, under the weight
OF which he seemed TO have been overwhelmed
tor he disappeared, and was no more TO be
seen. But the contrast of manner aud the glow
of ate ction, with which Mr.. LindlcV was re-
cRlvcd, very plainly marks the source and can
SEES OF these troubles. From this gentleman VIC
arc for ever separated; he knows us too well
10 attribute 10 fiattcry the testimony VIC
bear towards him; and we should say more
were we not apprehensive of wounding his
feelings or producing other bad effects to him.
Wherever the demeapOr and temper of the
professors were becoming, however severe. if |
liberal, however exact, ifiust, the student was |
always found respectful.
Perhaps cool reflection may not sanction in |
our own minds the course of measures which |
yet arising. as they did out ola long |
series az injury and tyranny, unless those on |
prcssOns and cOntumelOus insults which We |
had long suffered were in themselves lam