Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-06-25
commencement at the University.

to know something OF the seventy-fourtn
! commencement at Chapel Hill.
| On Wednesday morning, 9th, about
thirty people counting chiIdren) met in
the College Chapel to hear the exercises IN
Defamation Of all college. Dir. Snperln'
tendcnt Ashley appeared upon the stage
and was introduced by his hrothcr-iu- law,
Prof Martling. After this Was over Mi
Ashley ought, in common fairness, 10 bave
introduced Mr.. Martling, who needed II
quite as much. Exercises opened with
prayer, after which Mr. Martling, with an all
of much politeuess introduced Lord Chat
hams speech on titc withdrawal OF troops
from Boston, ana stated that il would uoW
be declaimetl by Nlr. CAus. II. Sngg, OF
Chapel Hill Water II. Gutltrie, of Chapel
Hill. next gave liz Irish Aliens" PIesi-
dent Pools nephew, ~--- Orcr"ta", gave
"Rienzi to tie Romans, and another
nephew, IFo1tc,- +. Poo!, - Fits Speech. .
These, Messrs. Editors. constitute col
leSe. What classes they represent. whether
one for each class, or all III one, am un-
able to say. PRESIDENT Pool sat upon the
stage with all the dignity and solemnity
betting the occasion, and the first g APP
pearance " of first class President. The
other Faculty sat about meekly in spots
wherever convenient, and the audience,
consisting of the families of the Faculty,
and dozen or SO persouS from the village.
occupied the centre tiers of boxes. Ne
groes i'll the gallery. This was Wednes-
days performance.
On Thursday morning half i dozen hacks
drove in from Durham, an extra train
having h:oug ht up from Raleigh Governor
Holden and certain Of the Trustees, who,
at j. H., assembled in the Chapel. Exer
cises opened with prayer by Rev. Fisk ?.
Brewer, late of Connecticut, and the negro
schools al ltaleigb, now Prof. letters sue
cessor in Tie Greek Department of the
University. Mr.. Brewer prayed earnestly
for more students, but rs one OF The village
boys says, President Pool has been doing
that every morning through the session at
prayers. y We have reason to suppose such
petitions are not answered in the way de-
sired. Mr.. Ashley then gave an address
which was mainly al appeal to the people
to support The University at ali events, and
under all circumstances. The audience
consisted of ahont seventy five whites, and
as many blacks in the galleries. Mr..
! Ashiey'S address will, therefore, have TO be
! published to reach ''the people,
| There we've ten Trustees present, viz
/ Mr. Ashley. Gov. Holden, Judge Watts
judges Settle. Dick, Buxton, Rodman,
! Thomas, and Messrs. Iassiter and Bynum.
| With the Trustees, there were IN all seven
! teen persons from abroad. | saw
| Prof. Kerr aud Colonel ". A. Moore,
! OF CAOwan, and a few like minded who
! had come "to look on. There were three
! ladies from abroad, Mrs. and Miss Ashley
and Mrs. Judge Buxton NOT more than
/ two or three OF tie Chapel Hill ladies were
present. Chapel Hill people were appre-
hensive Of having 10 witness the ceremony
OF AZ Installation, aud rs they desire moth
! ing more ardently than that this Faculty
should he removed, they would not sane
ton hy their presence anything that tend
ed toward thin establishment mere. How
ever, their fears were needless There was
no attempt made at an = Iu< tlation -
! Gov. Holden followed Mr. Ashley, de
claring that the University must and should
be supported, and tina. the people should
!
too nucii air OF bluster and threat a!oont
Gov. Holden address. Otherwise he
spoke sensibly aud 10 the point. IN one
thing he was mistaken. Paying a compli-
meut to the men who lately and so long
presided over the University, he said that
| they were most Of them foreigners. that
Drs CALDWELL Mitchell and Phillips were
all foreigners and carpet-haggers, aud as
such had to live down public prejudice,
ANA 50, eventually. wonII the present Fac
nlty.
Gov. Holden may affect 70 eae 81 differ
enco III the stand point fcom which we look
at the gentle,uen he namc> and those
strangers DOW in their places. But he
knows rs we'll rs we who heard him, that
tie eases are widely dissimilar, and rs TO
the prejudice mat forty, Or twenty, or ten
, years ago existed against Northerners as
teachers, we ali know very we'll there never
wts any s,iUt prejudice. Southerners al
ways sent North for teachers and every
thing else ti,ey could afford to ; and the
further North the better. That the pre-.
sent Faculty are from the North, = even
now 10 objection to them, i! they behave
themselves luot1ensivolv ---that some of
them ara from North Carolina is no disad-
vantage, provided they are capable. Ii is
that they are not acceptable to our people
that they ore not Judged lit TO build up
AMI carry en- great Institution, that they
are al eye sore and An irritation, and as
long they remain viii he an obstacle to
the lie and growth Of The College, The |
events Of the past tour mouths onght to ID
dictate clearly enough TO them their posi- |
ton III the estimation nf the North Carroll |
Ia public
Gov. Holden was followed by King Sol |
ONION himself in aN his glory. AIr. Pool |
gave us decidedly tedious Grafton on the |
highly original theme Of Education. -
The main drift was an urgent appeal to the |
Trustees 10 support himself and his ad-
lancts. DO, if you please, sustain u.s..
Help Us, hold on to us or we are gone.
This was about all. believe. Mr. Pool
has no MORT rs public speaker or teach
er. His voice is weak, his manner lifeless.
anu bis whole appearance unimpreseive.
In the afternoon, the respectable part of
the audience was even thinner than in the /
morning, which WAS to be regretted, for
Judge Rodman did himself credit in
plain, sensible, manly presentation of the
condition Of the University, and practi-
cal succession OF the remedy and the onlv