Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-27
CONGRATULATIONS.
FREMONT IN THEsSoUTH.

For the Standard.
FREMONT IN THEsSOUTH. "
MsssRs. EDrroRs: We haze noticed with pleasure
that Southern fathers arc beginning to feel the ne
cessity of educating their sons South Of Mason q
Dixon's line The Catalogues of Yale and other
Northern armories of Sharpes rifles, have but ie"
{shame upon those few Southern names. Inc im-
portance of enancipating our young men from the
banefui Influences of the North-and no where Is
this influence more zealeasly exerted and powerful
" felt than in MOI thern colleges and under 60cG re-
1u6lican teache,s-has taken firm hold on our peo-
pie !; and We notice. with high degree Of gratitude
to Bishop Polk, OF Louisiana, that the clergy ana
aud church are in fair way OF taking concerted
measures for more fully bringing about an object so
much desired. We have every reason to oeneve'
that unless the course of the North very materially
changes-and we are forced to say, we see no I'M
mediate chance for such result-there Will DC IN
augurated at the South system OF education con-
genial to our institutions.
We are proud of such names as Harvard and
Yale; and feel that such benefactors of the human
race should be held in everlasting remembrance by
grateful country. But their laudabie OBJECTS are
being frustrated by the fanatics that have obtained
possession of the government of the schools their
charity has founded for the benefit equally OF the
slars opaer and the slace hirer At the former, the
South is aSuited by the dismissal of an instructor
for performing his constitutional duty as Judge
and at the latter the Southern young men see tner
professors and felow-students, in the name OF the
college-nay Of the very class Of aoh.ch they are
Misunderstanding religious rifles to shoot their own
brothers that may be seeking honorable and profit
able employment in Kansas. These colleges have
been turned from their legitimate channels and been
perverted into stronghods of fanaticism; and from
being great links of union between all parts OF our
country have become lighthouses for the nurture OF
artificial statesmen of the Garrisonian school and
manufactures of bleeding Kansas tragedies.
Then, when our fathers and guardians see such
state of things it is not to be wondered at that our
Southern colleges largely attended and South
ern seminaries of all grades full to overtowing.
The cause is palpable--a determination to free
ourselves from Northern thraldom and stop the rev.
enue accruing to their abolition treasures from the
labor of Southern slaves. 1t is pralseworthy o.
ject; and glory to this great reaction In the
proportonate numbers of Northern and Southern
schools.
But the question occurs, are we entirely rld OF
Northern influence in the South? Can North Car
DINA tell the world that her seminaries of learning
are free from the corrupting influences of black Re-
publicanism, and Southerncrs can receive Southern
education unmxed with instructions hostile to the
feelings and opinions their parents have nslled IN
to them? Nay can the Trustees our own State Uni
versty invite pupils to the institution under their
charge with the assurance that this main stream OF
education contains deadly poison at its fountain
head? Can boys be taken from Northern colleges
and transferred to our University with perfect
security?
We have been led to these considerations, Messrs.
Editors, by an article headed -" Fremont in the
South in a late issue in the Standard and more
particularly the following closing paragraph:
"If there be Fremont men among us, let them be
silenced or required to leave The oppression Of
black Republican opinions in our midst is incona-
pati67e soitA honor and safety people. fiat
all necessary shall refer to this matter again
Let our schools and semnaries of learning be scru
tnized and if black Republicans be found in them
nor safe instru tor Of our young men, acho eeen
inclines to Fremont and black Republicanism." We
very much gratified to notice this article IN
your paper at this particular time for we have been
reliably informed that professor at our State Uni
versity is an open and avowed supporter of FIRE.
mont, and declares his willingness-nay, his desire
to support the black Republican ticket; and the
want of Fremont electoral ticket in North Carroll
ma is the only barrier to this Southern professor
from carving out his patriotic wishes. Is he fit
or safe instructortor our young men?
If our information be entirely correct in regard
to the political tendencies and Fremont bias of this
professor ought he not to be required to leave at
least dismissed from situation where his poisonous
influence is so powerful and his teachings so antag-
onistical to the honor and safety" of the Univer
sity and the State? Where is the creative power?
To them appeal. Have they no restrictive clause
in the selection of instructors limiting code in
gard to their actions?
If the Trustees or Faculty have powers in re-
gard to the matter in question, think it fit OBJ
ject of early legislation at the next meeting of
General Assembly. This ought and must be looked
to. We must haze certain security under esisting
relations of North aoth South, that ut State Uni
rersities at least wiU hace canksr-orn prey
eng at tile Gerry citnls of Southern Institutions
Upon what ground can Southern instructor,
lying for his support upon Southern money selected
to impart healthy instruction to the Of SOUTH
sace o,cners and indebted for his situation to
Southern State, excuse his support of Fremont with
platform which eschews the fathers of his pupils
and the State from whose University he received his
station, and from whose treasury he supports his
family?
Does he tell the young men that he is in favor of
q man for the Presidency nominated by men whom
their fathers could not nor could 70 sit in Conven-
ton with; placed upon platform hostile to their
every interest," its separate panks put together by
the vest Southern.haters of the North, upon which
all the isms Of Yankeedom find aid and comfort;
whose Cabinet, in the event of his election, would
be composed Of such men as Speaker Banks, who
is willing to "let the Union slide y and Mr.. "Niag-
ara " Bu,l!ngame, who demands an anti-slavery
Bible and anti-slavery God; whose orators bclch
forth vile ISLANDERS upon the South under flags whose
venomous folds reveal but sixteen stars, and whose
torch-light professions do not "march under the
flag nor keep step to the music of the Union :" p
Does he read the following extract taken from his
candidates letter accepting the nomination lam
opposed to slaoery in the abstract and upop princi
ple sustained and male habitual by long-settled
cenuietons? ?" Are these the doctrines he ADVOCATES
to young men, toothirds Of whoss property consists
in slauess
|. cannot be denied, by any person cognizant of
college influences, that each professor has his quota
of friends and admirers among the students, and
their minds are to a certain degree, upon general
subjects, merely daguerrotypes of his opinions
This is natural. The student is young, and the in
struct placed over them, in loco PARENTS, to
guide them correcty and the young graduate leaves
with opinions moulded by his instructors that will
cling to him through life.