The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-01-27

But you will expect of one descended from.
The old covenanting stock, who fought so rcso-
lutcly for the rights of conscience, and whose
blood dyed the heather hills of Scotland ;fron
one who was brought up in a district where
there are martyrs tombs in every churchyard;
from one who was connected With SO many
years with the Irish system OF national educa-
! hon., which allows M one to tamper with the
religious convictions of pupils that he shall take
/ care that every one here shall have full freedom
of thought; that ohateyer Is lis religious creed or
fotiticd party he be from the North or he be from
I meSOafh, be he Of a ultite or Of dark Color he
shall haze free -dccesx 10 all The benefits ohch tbs
College 6estoy and that minority, nay,
4 even single conscientious individual, shall be
| protected from the tyranny of the majority,
encouraged to pursue his studies without mo-
lestation, provided always that not being inter-
tered with himself he does not interfere with
Others" -. -tl
This is an extract from the inaugural of
the Rev. DR.. McCosh, the recently inaugura-
ted President of the College of New Jersey.
The italics are our own and We invite spe
cial notice to be taken of those words
When it is remembered that they were
uttered in New Jersey and by the President
of its great College at Princeton, it will
give additional weight to them. New Jer-
sey is not Radical State. The college at
Princeton is held to be model of Conserv-
atism, and within its classic halls is the last
place that fanatic ideasn will venture to
enunciate themselves Yet at last the hour
and the man meet there and this grand ut
terance is heard 1t is the culture and piety
of the old world taking advanced position
on the soil of the new world. 1t declares
that in the oldest and most prosperous of the
Colleges of that staid old Church-the Pres
byterian. Sectionality and color shall be
no longer bar to the full enjoyment Of all
its privileges That the fountains of classic
and modern thought under its shade shall
be equally accessible to all races without re-
spect to origin and color. 1t does not sur
prise US in the least The world-f famed cul-
ture of DR.. McCosh would be guarantee
that the contemplate prejudice against color
in the world of letters could find no advo-
cacy from him. Then too his martyr line
age and providential training was warrant
that he did not lack the moral heroism
needed to make the walls of the First Pres
byterian Church in Princeton echo his
manly sentiments and purpose before the
elite of learning and beauty of the Preshy
terrain church of the country. This makes
Us feel hopeful. Being doctrinally in full
sympathy with the old Covenanters-an
earnest admirer of their heroic deeds and
faith, we are proud to see the College of
New Jersey in such hands and by them
placed in such advanced position among
the seats of learning in our great country.
We hope that this result of culture and
piety transplanted to our shores will find
genial climate in New Jersey and a gene
rous soil in the old school Presbyterian
Church of the North.
What noble fruit of generous modern
culture these sentiments are How grandlY
it shows the world of letters to live above
and beyond the contemplate prejudice that
prevails in the bower regions of society. 1t
is not only the out-growth of culture-thor-
ough philosophic culture-but it is still
more truly the out growth of profound and
thoroughly scriptural piety that flows from
the life of the old corenant keepers of Scot
land. A piety that knew no master but
Gods eternal Soma piety that recognized
brother in all men of like faith. Here we
behold it with all the rubbish of passion and
prejudice removed from about it. Its SIM
pie Christ-like beauty challenges the assent
and affection of all the brotherhood in
Christ
We avowed ourselves to be hopeful of the
future. We expect to see such sentiments
regain their place in the educational institu-
tions of the South. The College of New
Jersey always has stood in closest relation
,, to our institutions of learning. 1t was once
and is again to become common to send oul
sons thither to receive thorough collegiate
training. The results of narrow and unjust
opinions that we are now so utterly paral
yzed with, will we trust, recede before the
broad and more christian culture that has
thus been enthroned at Princeton and reach
down through all the grades of educationa
institutions. t- ..,-7. s...
Is it not possible that this example may
! also soften the feeling of prejudice that holds
, in our southern churches-that are kindred
. with the denomination that holds contro
over Princeton This branch of the Presby
terrain church was for many years of the anti
slavery movement remarkable for its persist
r ent Conservatism. The movement went on
ward and this enunciation of the nature o.
,, the conduct of the College at Princeton j:
3 gratifying to all lovers of learning and free
dom, and that it comes from one of such
undoubted piety and pre-eminence of posi-
, sition in one of the oldest and noblest de
nominations of our common christianity and
, long greatly influential in the South, we looI
with interest to see what effect it will have
on the cultivated mind in the Presbyterian
church in the South, and with what feeling
! this adrance will be met by the piety of thai
/ church. We have no intention to meddlt
in this matter, but being alive to every steE
of progress intent to see every ray of ad
vancing light-we arc anxious to hear wha
the response from the churches South viii
be to the generous impulses that reign il
, Nassau Hall to-day.
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