The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-06-17
JUNE E'ssll 'ssesil1l 7si 1865
c,MMFScrM,ssssr,s D,I,I n cs,,i n, Dr., ,,,liiY NIP
CHAPEL HILL. N. c. June 4. 1868.


. CHAPEL HILL, n c., June 4, 1868,
5a To the Editors Of tie Standard II arrived
at this pleasant village with my heart fulTo
delight, at the glorious landscape scenery, |
every where visible in the vicinity, Of this
well known seat of learning. I spent my
J first evening in strolls through the noble
campus, admirippg the College buildings, the 1
rnatchless trees, and the splendid id monument
ato Caldwell, itself a perpetual rebuke to the /,
. exclusive and Japanese spirit that now
{ haunts the cloisters of the. University. The
campus is planted with broad walks, shaded
! with magnificent trees, forming grand park
Of emerald-green sward. The situation for
University purposes is perfect, The town is
situated on a verdant hill, in, the, heart of
Orange, County, surrounded by, a country
upon which wealth and cultivation for the
last forty years have lavished their uttermost
3 resources. The town itsefis grand wooded
park and garden, with one good street, and
a labyrinth of old houses. q If God ever
made spot for a college that place is Chapel
r Hill. It's superb street, sweet campus, and
shaded grounds constitute a Paradise of
beauty. III,
The aristocratic denizens of the place look
more like the feudalists Of the middle ages,
than like the earnest, entesprising,, goa
beadative people of this grand century,
This arlstocracy of wealth, cotton and land
is becoming more decidedly modest in its
pretensions than in the days when the
bloods exhibited and illustrated their chiv
/ airy in whipping negroes and shooting yam
| kee travellers. Toa liberal American it is
painful to see the clannisll tendency of tile
. families that constitute this so-calIed South
ern aristocracy. Many of them are thorough
ly uneducated and vulgar Their families
seem to be eaten up with social ambition,
and their servility before Northern Copper
heads is almost incredible! The stupid en-
thusiasm with which that old bunker and
fogy, Seymour Of Connecticut, was received
by the naughty and devilish, yet beautiful
women Of this town, confirm what / have
said of their abject servility, and of these
raging desires to receive social recognition
from the cowardly traitors Of the North
| This effete aristocracy is thoroughly united
! to keep down every thing below them, and
no man can unlock the gate to their hearts
who does not bear key of gold and a soul
| IN sympathy with rebellion slavery and
| Copperheadisn Their foolish and funny
| illusions to tine yankees, especially, to Col.
Deweese, are absolutely amusing. That
| Deweese, Northern gentleman, a gallant
| soldier and genuine patriot, should repre-
sent them in Congress, is of all things to
| them, the most CALLING. 5a5 b sa-! IFS 20
| The interior of the University equals any
| public building have seen. Its lobby, stair
cases and halls are superb, the ceilings no.
| BILE. The Library rooms filled with curious
relics and books, rare pictures and sculpture,
and the fine library could only be glanced at
I in our rapid survey. The Chapel is dreary
! institution. az 2.bal az -afg rHs $500
| a L felt like worship and strolled into the
| Chapel for edifcation.S think shall be
forgiven for my failure to sit longer than
| half an hour under the Grating of the Cop
perhead machine, who was grinding the
dreary political mill This effort, though
containing some passages of rare beauty,
was wretchedIy1 delivered. ai Dry, juIceless,
fossil, inhuman, given up either to the drear-
lest wandering through the mazes of de
| funct political organization, or the coolest
moraiizing, Governor Seymour's address
seemed more like the voice from out the Sc
pulchre ofan age, dead andhuried thousand
years ago. 1t is mystery that Il cannot
explain, why such notorious and vicious
Copperhead should be imported to deliver a
State of North Carolina. iu.5,- e..s -3ei
Io Governor Seymour is a tall spare, feeble
looking man with rather shriven weazen
face He has a skin and complexion almost
as fair as a woman. He dresses neatly,
wearing ministerial cut coat and would
pass for a preacher. - t,,,s..s. ~ 81, s-,.z,,
During the delivery of Governor Sey-
mour's speech, he was repeatedly cheered.-
g r ~
ceived with cheers, yelIs and groans at the
few yankees present. i rs5 .rgr'... ~ -. q
The sermon delivered in the afternoon be
fore the graduating class, by the Rev. DIR.
Moran, of Tarboro', was remarkable and
unique production. Mr.. Moran is broad
browed man, with darkish visage, and fine
earnest look. He speaks gravely, in q deep
baritone voice, and hard, curt, nervous, me-
thodical manner, sometimes rising into elo-
quence sometimes like Gladstone, sending
out little bullets of epigramatic epithet
which go. straight to the marx and always
tell. 4 He is every sense of the word gen
tleman, although he did not have the good
fortune to be born in the land of chivalry.
j The sermon was a grand one, though
marred by length and the use Of philosophi.
Cal terms, which not fifty people in the
house understood. Correctin its theological
sentiments and profound In some of its
views, it would have left more pleasing i'm
preston, had the reference to the poor old
Pope been left out. In a State University
on such an occasion and before a promiscu,
GUS audience, any allusion to the truth OIL
fasehoOd of churches is entirely out of place
The conscientious scruples of even a tenth
ought to be scrupnously appreciated in 8
country whose glory is that every man is free
to worship one God or twenty, just as his
conscience dictates. q ad Lasd sE-.llHgr
I DIR. Moran's style of oratory is bold, Wig.
i orous, nervous and elevated, and though the
graces of lelocution are wanting, his mode
of delivery is manly and impressive. He
wants the volume and silvery sweetness Of
voice necessary to a popular orator Byron
truly says in Don Juan: mad .-a.r Eas
| "The Devil hath not in all his quiyer's choice
i An arrow for the heart like sweet voice. aI
And the names Of Berger. Huge, Simp
son, Meaghcr, O'Gorman and Pierce may be
cited in confirmation. Though few men
have studied thermother tongue more close.
ly, and though Moran has all the weighty
bullion of the English language at his com.
mand, he rarely uses poetical figure. He
is logical and rgumentative-morefr frequent
ly addressing the judgment than the pas
| sons. He aims to work his way to the
heart through the medium Of. tile; under
standing. In the field of legitimate argu
ment, when combating the subtle objections
4 of infdelity or proving the truth of Chris
i tianity,, or indicating the Providence Of God,
4 he exercises the talents Of a great master,
and wields with powerful energy the weap-