Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-11-05
For the Standard.
MR.. HEDRICK ONCE MORE

OF the University, and he was sent to Cambridge on
salary, and sustained there while pcrfecting his
knowledge in agricultural chemistry" and on the
strength of these statements, Mr. Hedrck is charg-
ed with 1.-THE grossest ingratitude." The writer of
that article was doubtless misinformed. The state.
ments, above quoted are not true and the charge
of "ingratitude" therefore fails. Enough indeed,
has been said of late against Mr.. Hedrick to make
it unnecessary to employ allegations Of doubtful
of no authority.
The fact is that Mr. Hedrick was never in any
sense "a beneficiary of the University" All his
College bills, from the beginning to the end of his
College life, were duly paid by his father. The
University has not, and has never had any claim
him that score, other than it has all who have
ever enjoyed the advantages of education there.
Neither was he " sent to Cambridge on a salary"
by the University, as is implied, by any person
connected with it. The facts these: that about
the time when Mr.. Hedrick was graduated, the
President Of the University received from the then
Secretary of the Navy suggestion that sub
ordinate place in of the scientific bureaus,
connected with his department., was then
vacant, and asking if there was among the recent
graduates good mathematician, competent to fill
it. Mr.. Hedrick received the nomination of the
Faculty, and was appointed by the department, and
ordered to reside in Cambridge. During the whole
time of his residence there he was supported by
the salary which he earned from the U. s. govern
ment, and never received dollar from the treasury
OF the University until he had actually entered
the discharge of his duties there, Professor of
Agricultural Chemistry. 1t may be added that the
salary which he received at Cambridge was precise
1y the same as the one offered him when he was
called to Chapel Hill, so that he could have hoped
to gain by the change nothing than the
pleasure of mailing his home in his native State.
The writer of these lines is in a condition to know
the truth Of the matters whereof he affirms and
could easily demonstrate it to who would take
little trouble in the investigation lie may be al
lowed to express the hope that those who are in
Glued to speak or think i'll of Mr. Hedrick, will do
so only on clear evidence, and after some examina-
ton. X
The above communication received in time,
and should have appeared in our last, but was un-
avoidably crowded out. 1t is from highly respec-
table source, and we cheerfully insert it.
writer in the last Register, after correcting
some of the mistakes into which the Standard had
fallen, and which the Standard itself had promptly
corrected says:
alt is due the Standard say that in its issue the
two above statements withdrawn but it also contains
allegations which no less erroneous.
Mr. Hedrick never was in carly life at any time,
apprentice to the trade of brck-mason of Jther
trade.
His father gave him his choice of an education
his portion Of his estate at his death"
1t is due to the Standard state, that the 'alle
cations " here characterized as "erroneous " were
made on unquestionable authority which author.
ty could be given, if at all necessary. They were
made portion of the matter, the publication cf
which deemed an act of justice to Mr.. Hedrick
but surely they are not material statements
, They amount to nothing. Much better would it
have been for Mr.. Hedrick if he had been appren.
ticed "to the trade of brick-mason," and had
learned and followed that trade. He might have
been saved from the perls of that "much learning,
and from that contract with abolitonism at Cam
bridge which in his has certainly produced 'mad
ness" But true men have gone through that con-
tact, and have come out of it pure gold, because
their hearts right, and because they regarded
the obligations of Constitutional Union, and not
the claims of sectionasm and the promptings of a
sickly sentimentality. Our correspondent can
Alumnus," was at Cambridge, five not mis-.
taken, when Judge Loring, one of the Professors in
the College, was removed by an abolition Legisla'
ture for having acted United States Commission
er, under Constitutional law-the fugtive-slave
! law; and he forthwith left the institution and re-
! turned home, account of that high-handed meas
ure in relation to Judge loring
| But We have no disposition to dwell upon this
matter; nor is it wish to do any man injustice
We have already been chided by some Of ou1
friends for allowing Mr.. Hedrick hearing in on,
dent--he was struck-he spoke for himself, and a!
he spoke no sedition, we gave him hearing. Or
strict principles of justice as between man and man
ue did right but knew, furthermore, that if re
fused hearing here, he would have gone into Nor
thern journals and great cry would have beer
raised that the South had denied him freedom O.
| speech. AS it is he removed from his place
understand it, not because he had avowet
himself for geographical, dsunion candidate 70
the Presidency, but because, having taken part pub
lcly in politics, he had ceased to be useful Pro
fessor and this part in politics he took by the pub
Hcation Of his socalled" Defence in the STANDARD
That publication therefore, the of his re
mova
Our correspondent expresses the hope that thos
who are inclined to speak or think i'll of Mr.. He'd
rick, will do only clear evidence, and afte
some examination" We concur with him. w
thought we had "clear evidence but when in
formed to the contrary, we were prompt to max
the correction. That was all we could do. We ar
not only " inclined to speak i'll " of Mr.. Hedrick
but we denounce him as an enemy to North. Caro-
lima, to the Union Of the States, and to the bes
hopes Of man. We may have aided to magnify hin
somewhat in the public eye, but that one Of tn
Unavoidable Incidents and not the object. Ourobjec
was to rid the University and the State Of avowet
Fremont man; and we have succeeded /And we nov
say, after due consideration, but with no purpose
make any special application of the remark. tina
no man who is avowedly fo- John c. Fremont 70
President, ought to be allowed to breathe the air o
to tread the soil of North-CarolinaL
While on the subject we makeHhe following ex