Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-06-11
The University.

tested in the welfare of our State UNIVERSE
~. It is associated in our minds WIN
many Of the most pleasant and profitable
hours Ct our life. We regard 1t as the
Drou5est and most honored feature in the
former history of the State. We had
hoped and had frequently so expressed
ourselves that it would have been regarded
with too much respect and veneration to
have beer drawn into the dirty pool OF
politics, and that those merciless strangers
and degenerate sons who have laid their
vandal hands upon the social and political
institutions of the State would permit the
University to remain untouched, sacred
from its long usefulness and its distin-
guished services. That We were disap-
pointed is now source of deep regret.
It may not yet be too late to save it from
total destruction. Our people still love
and cherish it and would again rally to
its support, if the State officials would
give them a Faculty and government
which was not an insult to their feelings
and their intelligence. The Trustees meet
in few days. If they can throw aside
their partisan feelings ; if they will act with
q view to shield and foster this institution,
something may be done to save it from
entire and final destruction. With the
Executive, Judicial and Legislative de-
partments Of the State under their control,
with very large majority of county, mu-
nicipaI and township organizations in their
interests, with the railroads and their pat
coinage at their command, and many of
the officials in all these departments, the
merest party tools, we might suppose
that the Radicals could permit the schools
and colleges Of the State 10 remain I'M
scathed, aud the education Of our children
free from political bias, without detriment
or danger to parry ascendancy and sue
cess.
The citizens Of Chapel Hill and the peo-
pie of Orange county feel the most lively
interest in the affairs of the University
In view Of the approaching meeting Of the
Trustees, they have made an appeal to that
body, copy OF which we have boon fur
nished for publication We give below
and direct attention 10 it III connection
with our remarks in the last issue of the
JOURNAL. There is no subject Of more vital
importance to the people of North Carroll
ma, nor mono which requires their more
Immediate and earnest attention:
AN APPEAL.
Anappeal is hereby made to the Trus-
tees OF the University of North Carolina,
who are to meet at Chapel Hill on the 10th
of June. We hope the papers of the State
will give it circulation.
The attention of the Trustees is called
the present session of the University was
to be an experimental one, and that the
appointments OF the present Faculty were
PROFESSIONAL The people of Chapel Hill
and its vicinity, though greatly confound
ed when the appointments were announced,
earnestly deprecated any criticism or pre-
Judgment Of them in the public Press, and
in fact took steps to prevent it, so that the
trial of their acceptability might be fairly
and freely made. 1t is to the pecuniary
interest of Chapel Hill that the College
shall succeed, and it is matter of utter
Indifference to the people of the town and
country what the political bias of the mem
bers of the Faculty may be, provided they
are able and popular teachers.
The trial has been made and the present
officers have proved to be so utterly dis
tasteful and unacceptable to the people of
the State that with every attempt to con-
two students have arrived there, and they
are relatives of Mr.. Pool. One other stu
dent is associated with them in college-a
resident of the 7illage-and five or six
smaller village boys attend at the build
ings as at preparatory day-school. The
Trustees are now expected to act upon
these Indications.
One of the fundamental principles con-
lected with the establishment of the Uni
versity was, that no party bias should be
allowed to have any sway there, or to in
Huence the appointment Of its officers, and
the people of the State have right to de-
mand that the Trustees shall act upon this
principle and give rs President and Fa-
Guilty such as all can rally around, and thus
enable US to renew and sustain the former
and usefulness of the College.
We would put W. Pool into one scale
md the people y he STATE into another.
What claim has he upon the State or upon
the College that lie should be set I'D there
in opposition TO the Judgment and wishes
OF the very people who are to sustain it
and whose property is taxed to pay its Off
GERS With what face can any member of
That Faculty retain his seat there in the
teeth of such emphatic disapproval as they
Lave received? Mr.. POOLS pretensions to
ability to fill that Office, his pretensions to
public Difference and consideration are
lighter than vanity. and, even we're thew
in any degree considerable, should be
thrown to the winds when brought into
conflict with the welfare of the youth Of
Our country.
AS political partisan, Mr. Pool has had
No.