The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-04-07
Our University.

T. hos been well said that the most effec-
=. = agepcies in determining the destiny of
country, are those which operate upon the
roune, Hence we find that the governments,
which have prospered most and have risen
HIGHEST in national glory, have given con
staat support and encouragement to their
literary institutions. Some of the noblest
nurseries of science and literature in Europe
were planted just at the close of desoiating
wars. No Government can safely neglect lts
youth, especially its educated youth. lhose'
who are in our college youth to-day, VIII twen-
tv five wears hence be our legislators, judges.
statesmen divines and teachers. The infiu
cnce of the educated cannot be overrated:
For veal or for woe, they determine the des-
t;rv of their country. North Carolina can
NOT then afford to he Indifferent as to the
education of her future rulers; or to entrust
that important work to those who are her
avowed enemies
1t is not denied or wholly concealed that
there is a powerful party in North Carolina,
and other States, who were and are opposed
TO the reconstruction acts OF Congress, and
to the State governments formed pursuant
thereto: and that this party embraces with
in its ranks Almost the entire college, pat
ronizing portion of our people, and 'y far
the largest part of our most respectable
teachers The training of our young men
ought not to he left in such hands.
Hannibal, when twelve years DID, was LED
70 the altar and made to swear that he would
ayenge his country's wrongs. Under the
inspiration of this oath he led an army across
the Alps. and spread terror and dismay
through the streets of the proud Mistress of
the world.
In 1910, when the Reformation had
spread its influence over nearly the
whole of Europe, and was threatening
I the very existence of the Roman Catholic
| Church, the Order of the Jesuits was formed,
which arrested the progress OF the Refor-
nation mainly through their influence as
teachers Of youth 80 They lahored with the
greatest assiduity TO qualify themselves as
the teache1so IF youth, and succeeded at length
in supplanting their opponents in every
Catholic kingdom. Before the expiration
of the sixteenth century they had obtained
! the chief direction Of the education Of youth,
in every Catholic country of Europe"
Rauke, in his History of the Popes, says
that not one in thirty of the population
. Of Austria adhered to papacy, and for nearly
generation scarcely a man was found to
enter the Rnmish priesthood. But the Je-
suits obtained controlling influence in the
Austria was lost to the Reformation and
regained to the Papal Hierarchy. In the
sixteenth century the Polish Diet was a
protestant body. Most of Luther's works
and other protestant books were printed in
Poland. But in an evil hour protestant
king, chosen by protestant Diet, appoint
ed Jesuit Minister of Public Instruction.
He filed the Professors chairs in the Uni
versitieS, colleges, and higher seminaries
with teachers of his own order, and the
power and progress of the Reformation was
broken"
II history, as observed by Lord Brougham,
is philosophy teaching by example" the
lesson here taught is instructive and strik-
ingly appropriate. The teachers of the
nineteenth century may accomplish in
. the service of one error what their pro-
totypes of the sixteenth century did
in the service of another. If they
fail. it will not be from want o!
ability, zeal, energy, fidelity or answering
devotion to their work The government
should not persecute them in any way, be
cause the work in which <hey are engaged
the education of YOUTH is truly noble
and valuable work; and besides, it is not
easv to know how far he love of country is
taught along with the love of science and
virtue or how far the young mind may be
poisoned with mere partizan doctrines
which are hostile to the great principles Of
freedom and republican government. What
then. shall the State do Is it powerles:
for good? By no means. Let it build ur
its own University -adorn it with at
fractions which shall draw to it the gener
GUS youth of the land. Let its foundation
be laid upon no mere partizan basis, bu
upon the broad basis Of liberty and Union
Let it rise the pride and glory Of Nortf
+ Carolina. Let it become power for good
Let it be as the shadow of a great rock in &
weary land Let its halls and its groves bt
. again thronged with the youth who are tc
be the future guardians of the rights and
liberties of ourselves and our children. Lei
these youth here learn to love their country
and to cherish just national and State
pride, and then, and not till then, the great
work of reconstruction will be safe and on
/ liberties will he secure.
Stay Law Decided Unconstitutional.
We learn the constitutionaity of the new
STAY law entitled "an act suspending the