The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-06-17
Gibson, second, and efessrs. johnson and
iVihson, third. Mr.. Bachelor, of Raleigh,
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Vinson, third. Mr. Bachelor of Raleigh,
was accounted as of the second rank in
;Mathetnaticsf 9iofn0iq o noitfeagsih Doe V
+, Besides the twenty who received in course,
/" primuna graa,tn, in artibus,n eleven gradu-
ates took their second degree, viz ?Messrs. T.
| s.. Armistead, j. r. Gilmer, F. Fl. Haywood
w. j. King, H. A. London, Jr., T. S. Scales, G..
Slower, w. G. Twitty,A. Van W yck, w. R.
Webb and R. s. Tucker, Esq, Of Raleigh.
I A. B. causa honoris was conferred on L. A..
T. Jobe, of Little Rock, Ark, and W. N.
.Mebane, Of Wentworth. iRa ~ ~ f7tai' i
f A. NJ. cansG honoris was conferred on E. b.
Haywood, M. D., of Raleigh, and w. S. Pet
Etigrew, of Tyrrcll County. "a, 80,
Bachelor Of Laws was conferred on A. W.
Rieger, of Beaufort N! G., graduate of the
Law school at the University gsrd0g si1
i The honorary degree of LII. D.iwas con-
.ferred ON B. F. Moore, Esq, Raleigh, and on
the Hon. T. Fl. Seymour. of Connecticut.
=. The honorary degree of d. d. was confer
red on the Rev. Prof Phillips, of the Uni
versity, the Rev. Ala Watson, of Whining
ton, and the Rev. T, H. Pritchard, of Raleigh.
The Trustees present at this Commence
ment were His Excelency, Gov. Worth,
Judge Ruffin, Judge Battle, Gov. Graham,
President Swain, P. Oh Cameron, Esq, S. F.
Phillips, Esq, F. Shober, Esq, D. M. Garter,
ESQ, Treasurer Battle and the Hon. D. M.
Barringer, in behalf of whom Gov. Graham
announced that the present Faculty had
been requested to continue their 5labors at
the University for another session, during
which their instructions would be offered to
the public as heretofore '-i go !
So anflofl anotbar If tba r,lpa ca ut vynoka in
June, for which Chapel Hill has been famous
for many years. The company gathered on
this occasion seemed delighted with every
prieiy marked the department of all who
participated in the festivities that are, of
more than ordinary meaning and influence.
A new career is shortly to be opened to our
| University. Long may She be known as
dispensing the culture that diffuses the love
of Virtue, the truths of Science, and the
priceless gifts of Liberty. .slp i..r.,
THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND TIE PRESIDENCY.
In politics as in matrimony nothing should
be surprising. The constant reports from
Washington of the efforts to make the Chief
Justice Democratic candidate for the
Presidency-the announcement from Albany
that Mr.. Seymour gives the proposition 6 re-
spectful consideration '-the public appro-
baton of Captan Rynders, who knew him
when he was Democrat" and who knows
that he is now a State-rights Democrat,
and is sound on the currency question -
the advocacy of D. w. Voorhees, the repor-
ted sudden popularity of Mr.. Chase among
Virginia Conservatives-Mr Chase's CON
| spicuous and consuming passion for the Pres
! idency. and the utter bewilderment of the
/ Democratic party in presence of the nomi-
nation of Grant and Colfi.x, and of the sim
| gularly sagacious action of the Chicago
| Convention, combine to give Importance to
suggestion that would otherwise seem
absurd "uIH HG F"i usl ,r}raa HlGlE
Mr.. Chase's public career is identified with
| the Anti slavery movement. He was one of
| the Republican chiefs who utterly baff1ed
| the Democratic policy, and overthrow the
| Democratic party. He originated the finan-
| cial system of the war, which the Democrat
| ic party opposed. He was one OF the earliest
| and frankest supporters of equal suffrage in
| the Southern States He is the President
| of the American Freedmen's Commission.
He does not favor any principle or policy
which the Democratic party has recently pro-
fessed !; and yet some Of the managers of
this party whose double cry is Republication
and Down with the Niger: this is awhile
mans government |" are trying to compass
Mr.. Chases nomination, which Horatio
Seymour will respectfully consider, and Cap
tain Rynders cautiously approves. Could
there beany more imposing proof ofthe utter
decentralization of that party, and ofits con-.
seriousness OF the hopelessness ofnominating
any Democrat against Gen. Grant
But the arrangement could not be COM
| peted without an understanding. What
must that understanding be? Mr.. Chase is,
| like Mr.. Sumner. politically Unidentified with
the negro. Would or could the Democratic
party pretend to be the friend of justice to
the colored race 1t is impossible. Could
Mr.. Chase deliberately renounce his fidelity
to it 1t is equally impossible. What,
then, could be done? What is always done
when two differing parties are anxious to
agree in a common policy2 There Is a com
promise Suppose the proposition made
that the negro is really out of politics that
| he is emancipated, has his civil and pollti-
| cal rights, is citizen OF reconstructed
States, and need not, therefore, be mention
ed. Suppose that, upon the presumption of
a restored Union, the whole reconstructed
problem is considered settled, and a plat
form Of State rights, with planks resound-
ing with retrenchment, reform, specie cur
rency, and universal amnesty be adopted,
and Mr. Chase placed upon it. In that case
he would say nothing against his colored
friends; the Democracy would say nothing
against reconstruction. The past would be
left to bury its dead, and the future alone
| would be consulted Is such u compromise
| probable9 1913 Es..aE ID. 9
| Mol There is nothing in the history of
the Democratic party, nor in the character
of its adherents, which favors the possibility
of such an understanding. Its Conventions
everywhere insist upon the white mans gov
eminent; the party organs declare that
Congressional reconstruction shall not stand
if the Democracy can carry the country ;
and the prejudice and ignorance of the
party, which are essential to it's success,
could not be aroused without the appeal to
the most contemplate of passions. More
over, the Democratic party has not shown
1 the least tendency or desire to be taught by
events. It fights as furiously for the corpse
of slavery as it did for slavery living and
powerful 1t went to Chicago toward the
end of the war; after the three years expe-
perience of the resolution and spirit of the
people, and sneered at their efforts, and adj
vised surrender to the rebellion. 1t sees the
steady logic ofhistory, the restoration of the
Union upon the American principle of equal
rights, and merely snarls that if it could
only get into power it would undo the work
and give political rights exclusively to the
rebel class This is not party that will be
wiser than in 1868 than it was in 1865. 1t
| &c a O rQI RI for