New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-15

ti.smert pbilanthropi.t should inalct Bat We
do not see that it is anything Of which President
Buchanan can justly complain, unpleasant as the
Infection Of so cruel and unusual a punishment
must have been to bin. For We suppose Dir.
buchanan. though President sud Democrat,
has enough OF the man left in him to feel the ridi.
cule inevitably attaching 10 suffering under the
imposition Of such fools cap as this under pre-
tense Of It's beng Cap of Maintenance. Indeed,
there is 6treas and copgrui,y in the whole pro
ceeiirg. which takes it out OF the yugsr category
of college bunors which pursue and overfake alnost
all mankind sooner or lster, IN this betitled land.
For our readers may recollect a stern set of
academic justice, which probsby brought the fact
of the existence of University in North Carolina,
and of local babitation bearing the denomination
Of Chapel Hill, TO their knowledge for the first
time. Without specsl system of Nnemonics.
the NE mory of no mere msn could ever bear about
with il the moiety of the names OF the Colleges
and Universities of our highly favored country. or
aitenp; il without lspsing into idiocy and mere
oblivion. But the University of North Carolina
coutriyed to rescue herself from this herd Of
''Dames ignoble, born To be forgot, and to give an
historical interest to the Chapel Hill on which 1t Is
TO be presumed it stands. A professor in that VEN
cradle seat of science-Hedrick was the recreants
name-one dsy uttered the basphemous and he
retcal declaration that il there were such thing
as a Fremont Electoral Ticket in North Carolins,
he should vote for it 1t was Of no account that
there was not and would not be, any such embodi-
nent Of treason in the Rip Van Wrinkle state
The man capabe Of couceivUg an idea 50 subyer-
sive of the rights of speech and the rights of snf
ffsge, and of giving it shape in words was good
for nothing but to be cut of as an offending and
corrupt member. And SO it was done, and that
quickly.
The Faculty of the University, as We recollcet
the matter. frat met and passed resolutions con-
drnnng the schismatlc opinions of their hcterodox
colleague, and making it plain that no suspicion OF
Any such recussncy WAS to be justly attached to
them or to the Seminary under their charge Next
as soon Ms they could be summoned and congregated
together, the Trustees rushed into couclave and
incoDtneDtIy dismissed the backsllder from his
Office for holding opinions incompatible with the
teaching of chemistry to the ingenious youth OF the
North State. And then the sovereign people rose
in their might and majesty and drove him forth
from his native State, to seek home among runa-
way negroes in the uuhosptible North. Had hs
been Yankee By birth, as We presume all the rest
of the Faculty we're, instead of Nor h Carolinian,
and the son of Il stakeholder, he would probably
have Jared much harder at the hands of the Mig
nsnt patriots who Incredibly committed the just
punishment Of his crime from de,th to Punishment.
Now, it strikes us that q University that knew
how TO exercise such wise discipline IN the disir-
herison of a prodeal son, thus faiihless to her
teachings aud example is precisely the one that
should naturally AID justly select Mr. Buchanan as
a child of adoption, aud take him to her maternal
bosom ~ son Of her choice, though not OF her
body. The mother and the son are worthy the one
of the other To adapt a not absolutely new clas-
steal quota ion to the grammatical necessities ofthe
case land OF the eender), We may exclalm, " M@fre
"puichrG-ftius pulehrtor :" Fair though the
mother-forrr yet the son, We are confident
that her wisdom will be justified of this one OF her
Children at least. A degree which would make any
other man born north of the magic line described
By Mason Il Dixon, look like fool tits MIR. Bu-
cbauan so naturally that he only looks more than
ever Ike himself Ard We think We can assure
the Trustees Of the University who unfrocsed Prof
Hedrick and have now be Doctored Mr.. Buchanan,
that they will neither Of them ever do anything to
forfeit the Academic estimation thus recorded OF
them.