Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-15


was compelled to do in givngsthe public all the facts
connected with and leading 10 the disturbance am
prepared to prove and what they have said in reply
am prepared 10 prove untrue: To do which I
have only to referto tie certificates found below from
unpreudiced citizens, whose character of respecta-
bility and truth cannot be mpeacte ed, and oneot whom
Is brother of of the Trustees. The certificate
numbered one shows the character of these nightly
! meetings. when the Rev. Mr. R., of New England,
held forth to the negroes. And the second shows
| that my opposition 10 these meetings, which the
Trustees seemed to- be ignorant of was decided and
well known. This knocks the props from under
another of these fasehoods. I will now particus-
ary call attention another statement in their Card
more reckless than any before 10 my former article
In support of my opinion that their proclaimed
" gentlemanly principal twas not connpetentin MANY
respects to teach charge that of the Trustees
told he would believe The teacher on his OATH
They, in reply to this statement of mine in their
desperate attempt TO get this CHARGE conceived
and published the following, which L give il their
own language:
ITEM 5th, contains an assertion about an oath,
the veracity of which is denied Individually by the
TAstees.''
Here they in plain Language that each of the
Trustees had denied telling he would believe
the teacher his OATH The certificate of DIR. -B.
Outlaw, the President of the Board, will be found
below sustaining the in my statement and mailing this
talsehood TO the counter Oh, shameswhere is thy
blush! might stop here and refer the public to my
first Gard which appeared in the Standard July the
2lst giving full statement of all the factsbut for
fear my silence might be misconstrued and parsons
deceived who did my frst Card, | will rive
some of their other inisalements passing notice. L
Will now notice what they have said relative othey
Academy and the bockading Of the avenue. What
said before on this subject was entirely correct.
did not allude in my remarks toa former Academy,
which was built on the land of WIN. D. Coppedge.
My remarks were intended, Gas the Trustees wete
well Alvarez to apply TO the new Academy. which
was built on the land / gave them, and since the
erection of which all the disturbance has occurred
stated merely in my Card; in order TO show that
was disposed TO encourages the Academy at ist that
had given the land and one hundred dollars for the
building of the Academy, which was true in every
respect. The Academy to which refer was built by
subscription, and have stated before besides Civ
Ing the land subscribed hundred dollars fofis
construction After 1t was contracted for at certain
price, delivered the undertaken timber in nartay-
ment of my subscription. How this lessened my
subscription or the cost, so far was conc6fned,
am at loss to know. So much to the money !; as
TO the land gave it to the Trustees to bold so long
as the school should continue, and for which they
nave my oeed at this moment. AS they seem. dis
posed 10 .deny the ownership of the land, 1 would
nave no objection 10 their returning the deed, and
would at the same time ask them if then hnve any
deed to the land wherein they have accused me of
clearing and cutting down trees, and if they have
means OF access easy and convenient TO the Academy
by way OF avenue which has been in use all the
time, and which always proved satisfactory, until
| they made another path through my land, amidst
their great preparations for of those farcical ex
ainlnatlons, at which the very genemanly princi-
pal took occasion to caricature the female part of
my family. 1t was this new path | obstructed not
the hrst and most convenient one. They have accus
ca me OF uncourteously dragging in the name of DR..
Sllls. his is not l used the name of
Dr. Sllls except to subserve the ends of truth, and
'nen In me most respectful manner and in this
necuon VIII remark that the Doctor like myself,
has 20 send his another school, and paw the
extra expense of board, although he lives much
| the Academy than the teacher himself. And here it
may also be proper TO stale that in The advertisements
of their schools, to which they have called public
attention. they cannot it seems restrain their ruling
propensity for making false statements. In those
ADVERTISEMENTS they State that the two Academies,
which are under the immediate superintendence O {
the same teacher, only three miles apart, when is
is hve miles, and every in the neighborhood knows
IT. And they also speak of the happy location they
have secured for the female school, when III fact it is
| In less than hundred yards of house where they
sell splruous liquors publicly. Fhey have also
coVefy Inslnuated that was an enemy OF religion
because OF my opposition to the proceedings of the
Rev. MI Il. with the negroes. pronounce this
charge an unmitigated falsehood, and refer to my
neighbors who will testify that have always con-
rIbuted as literally the construction of churches
ana Inc support OF the ministry any else in pro-
Portlon 10 my means. l am not surprised that they
appear before the public with extreme difidence
and painful regret, for they have found that the
thin veil with which they endeavored to cloak their
falsehoods, is beginning to disappear before public
scrutiny. AS an evidence of which l will simply
state that they have sent messenger to with
propositions for compromise, and returned them the
answer, that If they would publicly retract their
ca4umnes on my character, would notice them
Larther There are other unimporant features in their
Gard unworthy of comment, while others still are too
transparent to- need retutation. In fact their whole
communication is in keeping with the falsthoods
have exposed. | now hope the public and the Trus-
tees of the Franklin Institute satisfied, and that
can wash my hands Of the whole business. The
newspapers have been sufficiently burdened already
with this affair. l did commence ii; no blame
lies at my door.
A. w. PEARCE. e.
Cedar Rock, franklin CO., Sept. ls, 1852