, 1869-06-07
The Seminary Of the Northwest and
Mr. Mccormick.
4 Select Committee to Report in
November,

Latter fact Wa5 not known Until after the test ypte
WIS tAten.
Dz. Hornolowcr, Of eSaw Je.ssy, whose decasra-
ton and testimony aennlues did not constitute
very HAPPY preparation for position IN which
something OF judicial candor md freedom from !
prejudice Il essential, xts Chairman Of the COM
Eittee. d. Hasnll1, Of New Jersey, gentleman
Of ycEy CONSERVATIVE tendencies; MI. ]. B. Skinner,
wnose frequent speeches pending the debate, one
Of the corning papers ehazactertZes as violent and
personal, and Nj. Henry Day, m excellent gen.!e-
nan Of this city, bus who i the attorney Of III.
Mccormick, and wnose sympathy tnd coadac. In /
this business were but TOO evidently, though, wc
believe unconsc1ousy, Influenced BY TINT fact /
were members OF the committee. When VIC tdd |
tha: DT, T. 8. Henlng, Of Sangatnon rreso5te1J, |
one Of tho Boutd Of Directors, aud whom Dr, |
pr. E1stne, LAST year, moving his nan, caused to
be placAd In that position, was also member Of |
the committee, it Will be seen that those who did
not sJupathiZe With III. Mccormick bad sor7e
work On hand. |
Tbs report Of the tostty OF the committee Was
Us folloNn: 1
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rruste.. rteny .p1 ontei b. tbe Beara i Drrstort
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the ia;atatiaa I'D ID 10 f1ns .he tanfa xh'ea NIX:
for pesse. The COMMITTEES recommend that tbs Ispo.s
p1lntta III il . = 70 IL
The passages n this report hers italicized arc
wor1hJ OF particular notice. Thcy Indicate, better
than volume Of biography could do, tie temper
And 1eanines ef onc or two OF the leading E:lr1di
1mons the majority Of the committee. Nov tse
"knoWn aud declared FicNa Of the gentleman Tac
has so lzrgrlJ endowed thts institution, ere tnA'
Dts Lord md Dlackhurn should bo removed fru1u
their Proressorsntps; that working majority :
IN tho Board OF Directors should be strea hl1a
And that he sho1ld be provided 3" with proper a.
surances Of non.tntes1erenoc IN The fu tutr-" Tht
meaning Of the report, expressed IN goasdcd ant
aktltul language ot course because the Ec1tleE1a1
who drafted the fepofi did not Dare 70 say al HI
wanted to say; the tnA1nin9 Of The report u thA
those demands Of HI. Mccormick should b
granted. 50 disturbing, 70 controlling, IN MAI,
| cAaes hse political sympatnles, personal friend
ahlps aud money, o7er tho judgments Of evel
| Christian men
In connection with another passage III the re
port-thAt which ttaies tnat the Trustees who's
aerycea 70 the eemtnalJ are About TO be lost hav
contributed "tighs-nintha Of the peEm.neu
fund Of the inB.itutlon'-we cannot refrain 1ror
here asking the 1calo rs Chairman Of the comni:
tee whether. IN the light Of the facts that. outst
, OF Mr.. Mccormick tWho promised 400, ,o1o, ,ard ha
: paid s75,eo1, and refuses to pay the balance, an
: | now wants the 3.3c0o backt, tho total contnbu
tons Of eyerJ Kind TO the seminary a. appear
, frun .ts hooss from the beginning Of time to h
, present dag By the 1Ee Of 1i1 other gentlemen 9
alluded To, amount TO the slender as6st
. | gate OF s+Ho, scattered over \ petfo
: Of ten ycazs; that the total Of the1
, contributions for the past 1o1r JeAxs Ia les
than one thousand dollars; tha* 5aoe Of sach sa1
4 Of 1850 xas gtTen BY one Of the numbers 1rcs
a tee not removed, and not sought 70 o= remoTet
!. becaase one Of the best and nos: generous {
. men-1eaFtng The average amount contributed
a each Of the remaining I'VE, trom the start dow
4 to to-day, Ices than i've hundred dollars, thoue
i. she report describes them as gentlemen Of his
: financial pos1t1op.-we aay We caQnot4 IN theftgs
Of all tnla setr7ta trua asking this generally mo:
as:ute Chairman whether, IN this cAse, he did x
\ let ht. rhetoric get the start Of hls facts
4 From two members Of this committee minor
! II report was submitted. The nrss po.tton of til
. report erbEseed IN historical statement Of tact
;. showing how md under what etrcumstances Il
' ITO 900 cxz1e 70 b promised b MI AcCosulc
n 1t traced Dr. Rseef connection with this semln1l
r showed the dtssena1ns which, In Jea1 past d
n tu1hed It md the sources from which they h
II sa71nz, md identified such sources x1th those d
! ncuIies yex1ng the Institution tordAJ. after so<
e Introduction tic report proceeded u fo1ow8:
-prrtax the consideration IN this eons1tttee Of u
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