Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-03-26
From the Fayetteville Presbyterian


The State University at Chapel Hill
opened as per advertisement on the Sd in.
slant without single student from abroad.
After few days a Mr.. Wilder from Wake
county arrived, but on finding exactly how
matters stand here he remained only three
days.
The people and press of North Carolina
have exhibited singular forbearance and
reticence on the subject of their University
and its treatment at the hands of the State
authorities. So much forbearance and so
much reticence that in the opinion of
some. it ceased to be virtue on her part,
partaking rather of her constitutional
supineness and slowness and phlegm.
Perhaps, however, it was we'll to say
nothing-but eCat and Ses. At any rate it
cannot be charged that enemies to the
Government prevented the success of its
measures by violence and evil speaking be-
forehand.
AS general rule it ought to be under
stood that a mans politics should have
nothing whatever to do with his eligibility
to place in Literary Institution. If the
man be able-a good scholar and good
teacher, likely to reflect honor, to attract
patronage, and to do. good-let him be
elected by all means A literary man
vent his peculiar political prejudices from
being offensive to his colleagues and asso-
ciates. That done, he may vote as he
pleases-keeping clear of newspaper arti.
Giles meanwhile.
That the Executive Committee Of the
Board of Trustees of our University chose
to select the new Faculty from a strictly
Radical point of view-though provok-
ing enough of course to Conservatives
would not have been in itself, strictly
speaking, a casuS 6elH. The point is that
they positively offered an affroIt to every
Intelligent and educated man in the State,
to every man who, having been educated
at Chapel Hill himself, naturally felt as If
he had right to have his sons educated
there, by putting at the head OF SO veneer
able and respectable an Institution body
of men SO far below par In their attain
ments. antecodents and associations.
Prof. McIvcr, late of Davidson College,
is the only man in the new Faculty to be
excepted from this estimate-the only one
whose appointment is even decent one.
Of Mr.. Pool, the new President, it is not
necessary to say word. A man, as Gov.
Swain used to say, of exceeding small
bore" One look at this dull and solemn
little person would be enough to satisfy
the most incredulous and sanguine Opt
mist that his appointment was more than a
crime-it was bLunde7. AS to Prof. Brew
er, no matter what his attainments might
be, the fact that he had been for
q year or two a teacher in the
Raleigh negro school and an habitual as.
sociate of his pupils there, that fact alone
made his election to the Greek Professor
ship at Chapel Hill an insult to the State
an insult to our prejudices, our pride. If
he was doing good work among the ne
groes, so much the better. He was to be
respected there and having made his debut
In the State in that connection, he should
have been satisfied with his chosen field
FOR awhile at any rate. But being a shiny
man, of course he is for getting higher,
say again, it was an insult to the State that
he should have been set in Professors
chair at Chapel Hill. OF Prof. Patrick
little is known. He has just taken the
benefit of the Bankrupt act-has been
teaching an ordinary country school Ia one
OF our upper counties with no extraordinary
reputation, and takes his place as OniVet,
sity Professor with commendabJe GOODNESS
at least. OF Martling no one seems u
know anything. He was said IN the al
nouncement of the elections to be IRON
Missouri" He has not arrived upon Tue
scene of action. have heard that ne Is
Baptist preacher.
The University of North Carolina cannot
be galvanized into life by such means as
O graduate of this Institution, /, for oLe'
hope to see her halls empty and her groves
silent and forlorn as long as the present
regime exists. trust that North Caro-,
lima will continue to show by silent ana
yet eloquent contempt that she has nothing
as State to do with this degradation OF
her brightest jewel, and that Wake Forest,
Davidson and Trinity will now lengthen
their cords and strengthen their STAKES
and keep our young men at home Tor their
education, if possible.
Poor Chapel Hill-ruined, deserted anu
helpless. A better day will yet dawn Vh
her. A place so blessed in the past Will
so many hallowed memories-a place 50
dear to the hearts of the best people OF Tue
State-it will yet revive and blossom agAln
and still bring forth fruit in its old age
Let.her people be patient, JUDE1'
Horpotk March 10