Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-20
UNIVERSITY OF NORM CAROLINA, !
Chapel Hill. Oct. 6. 1856.

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The faculty met at 10 o'clock, NJ, under
summons from the President Presentation.
David l. Swain, President; ProfeSSors-E
Mitchell, j. Phillips, N. Fctter, F. NJ. Hubbard
j. T. Wheat, A. N. Ship; C. Phillips, B. s.
Hedrick. a. G. Brown; instructor-H. HerTis-
see; tutors-S. Pool, j. B. Lucas, r, II. BEETLE,
and W. H. Wetmore. Il
The President stated to the faculty that he
felt himself called upon to direct their attention
to the publication of Professor Hedrick in the
North Carolina Standard of Saturday. Very
few remarks, he said, will suffice in relation to
the present subject.
In an institution sustained like this, BY all dc.
nominations and parties, nothing should be per-
United to be done calculated to disturb the har-
moniouS intercourse of those who support and
those who direct and govern it; and this is well
known to have been our policy and practice dn-
ring long series of years. AIR. Hedrick's tcS-
timony that "as student and professor" he has
known mo institution, North or South, from
which partizan politics and sectarian religion are
so carefully excluded will be received with
perfect credeuce by our graduates. and By all
familiar with the state of things among us.
10 secure an end so essential to the rcputa-
ton, prosperity and usefulness of the UIiverSi-
ty, cautious forbearance has been practiced by
the faculty, and cnjoined upon the students III
relation TO the subjects The sermons delivered
on the Sabbath, in the college chapel, have becn
confined to exhibition Of the leading doc
trineS of Christianity, with respect to which no
difference of opinion exists among us; and no
student during the last twenty years, has been
permitted to discuss upon the public stage any
question of party politics. This course, upon
the part of all, has been regarded as not merely
necessary to internal harmony and quict-in
unison with kind feeling and good taste--but rs
due to numbers of persons of different tehcts
and opinions, who no or us by their attendance
upon our public exercises, and have right to
respectful consideration.
On motion of Dr., Mitchell, seconded by Pro-
fesSor Fetter, the Presidents communication
was referred to a committee, consisting of Dr.
Mitchell, DIR. Phillips, and Prof Hubbard, who
reported the following resolutionS:'
Ree0tCe8, That the course pursued ty Profess
sor iedrick, as set forth in his publication i'll the
North Carolina Standard of the 4th instant, is
not warranted by our usages; and that the polit-
cal opinions expressed are not those entertained
/ by any other member of this body.
! Resotrtd, That while we feel bound TO declare
our sentiments freely upon this OCCASION we ell
terrain mono other than feelings of personal res
pect and Kindness for the subject Of them; aud
sincerely regret the indiscretion into which he
seems, i'll this Instance, to have fallen.
After brief discussion the resolutions were
adopted by the following vote: Aycs-Messrs.
Mitchell, Phillips, Fetter, Hubbard, Wheat.
Ship, q. Phillips, Brown, Pool, Lucas, Battle
and Wctmorc. Nay-Mr Herrisse, who said
that he voted in the negative, simply on the
ground that the faculty is neither charged with
| Black Rcpubllcanism nor likely to be suspected
of it."
On motion of DIR. Wheat, seconded by Pro-
lessor Shipp, the Secretary was directed to trans
init copy of the foregoing proceedings of the
Faculty to the Trustees of the University: