Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-11-19
From the Raleigh Sentinel.
CLINTON, n. G.. Nov, 6, 1869,
Pref. Solomon Pool, President
of The T51i7ereify Cf ~ n

| DEAR oIR-A lew days ago / received
from You Il suppcse) several newspaper
slips from the Raleigh Standard, one of
which Was au anonymous communication
to that paper, purporting to have been
written by one who graduated at the Uni
verslty within the last decade of its pros
perity, aud urging on the white people Of
the State the duty of supporting the Uni.
| 7erslty as it is now organized.
Ihe usually friendly relations existing
between you and myself while I wa a stu
dent at Chapel Hill, and the almost neces-
6ary silence on political Matters which
pertains to my vocation, may, very natu-
rally, have led you to hope that an appeal
to me III behalf OF the University would
| not be vain.
L regret to inform y0u that Cannot lend
my influence directly or indirectly to the
building up Of any school established or to
| be established under the auspices Of the
enemies Of North Carolina, Whe her i'm
ported or native born; and lest you NAV
DO me the injustice OF supposing me con-
| trolled by prejudice, [ ask your attention
to some Of the reasons for my determina-
| ton.
| Before proceeding, however, I will state
that I regard it as singuiarly unfortunate
| for you that the advocacy of the Universi-
| t. is conducted in tie columns Of the Bal
| eigh Standard. You remember tnat, in
! the autumn Of 1856, that newspaper first
| exposed and paraded the fact that Prot. s.
s. Hederick was not opposed to the cleo
! ton CT q free-soil President, and that its
denunclatiOns Of Hederiok were uumeasur-
ed and most unjust; that Eederick pre-
pared All article in his defence which the
! Standard editor refused 10 publish, TINS
| showing that he was destitute Of the in
| stinctS commonly supposed TO belong to
| iuc INF
| Hederick never obtained hearing except
through the columns OF paper publish
| ed in Wilmington, by Thos. LoriDg, ESQ.
| Prof. Hederick was driven from the UNI
versity and from the State, the Standard,
all the while, leading in the hue and cry.
The burtality of the Standard in this af
fair was exceedingly offensive to me (al-
though was, by education and prejudice
uncompromisingly opposed to the election
of Fremont,j and its injustice was so fa-
grant that J. was forced to the belief that
its editor was destitute Of those moral
qualities which are the chief elements of
fairness, consistency and reliability.
A man who is cruel to G beast will be
cruel to his best friend, if it will serve his
selfish purposes.
Now I am informed, that paper has ex-
ceeded the Widest dreams of the Fremont
fanatics, and is the champion (not OF free
sOil-not OF universal emaneipation-not
OF negro equality J Of negro supremacy
branding those OF us who love the North
| Carolina which Our ancl ors freed from
British oppression, astraitogs unworthy OF
the elective franchise and declaring the
negroes, par excellence, true aud worthy
American citizens
It is unfortunate, [ repeat, that q news
paper conducted with so little regard for
consistency and fair dealing should be the
chief advocate Of the University.
In order that [ may enable you to un-
derstand clear, my reason for declining to
| join in an effort to restore the University
to popular favor, [ will begin by stating
few we'll known facts:
lst. Previous to the ratification Of the
Federal Constitution by North Carolina
she Ii. e. her white population) was free
and independent State, and no people on
earth possessed the right to modest her or
interfere in her affairs.
Cd. In ratifying the Federal Constitgl.
ton our forefathers gave to no state or
combination of States the ght to deprive
her people of the privileges Of free citi
zens to invade her soil with brutal armies,
to burn and destroy the property of their
posterity, to murder part and subject the
rest Of her population to an outrageous
m ilitary despotism, to rob us of our sub
stance in the name of taxes TO pay the ex-
penses Of our own ruin, and 50 destroy us
as body polite and subject Us to the rule
of ignorant freedmen and corrupt faction
of her rightful citizens.
3D. In ratifying the Federal Constitu-
ton North Carolina gave to no State or
combination Of States the right to de-
eide for her whether she was being
Justly dealt with by the other parties to
| the compact
4th. The Federal Constitution denies to
| the Federal Government the exercise Of
any other powers than those expressly
granted.
5th. In violation Of their oaths TO sup
port the Constitution Of the United States,
| the executive and legislative departments
| of the government OF the Northern falsely
| claiming to be the United) States, have
denied to us the right to judge our own
grievances, 20 eli Joy the freedom won for
US by our forefathers, and to live under e
| government OF our own choice; they have
invaded our State with hostile armies;
| they have murdered thousands Of our peo
| pie; they have destroyed millions Of our
property; they have insulted Us and NAL
treated US with peculiarly offensive garri-
sons quGrtered III our midst; they have
subjected US to the caprice Of an odioug
and morally infamous despOt; they have
compelled us to obey as Provisional Gov
ernor ian officer not known to the Constitu-
tion), q man in whom we had but recently
declared, in unnistakable language, q want
of confidence; they have taken the man
agement of our affairs out of the hands of
the Intelligent, honest, patriotic descend
ants of the trainers of our government and
given it to ignorant and incompetent
negroes and such white people as they
| have found willing to exchange principle
for plunder; they have compelled us to
obey laws enacted by strangers and enc
mics, intended solely fer our humiliation;
they have enforced among us the collec-
tion of most exhorbitant and unjust taxes
to pay the expenses of their fiendish cru
sade and to support the corrupt, cruel, in
competont and periured creatures VIII
wieid the powers of cover 1ment; and all
this for no injury we had done them, but
for the simple assertion of our birth right.
9th. BY the votes Of unconstitutional
constituencies, our State with oil it's inter-
ests is now controlled by unworthy and, as
a WHOLE unprinclpled, swindling men. Or