The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-10-20

Frhc .Facu1sy throsrs N B0nmp
Among thc BEengrels---Thc s.Eke-
puRsIEcmm BEARD Answers ssidnaM
n Sqmfrf-
The frank response of DIR. Waddel and
his colleagues of the University to the
|timely enquiry of Judge Hudson whether
|they would exclude a negro from the
University on account of his race, has
produced commotion In the Radical camp
Although as plain an answer as they
could give, setting forth the reasons OF
their action. and avowing that the Facul-
|ty would abandon their places rather
than swerve from the line they have
marked out, they have been answered
with Enthusiastically insolent missive
lof dishwater froth from the creature of
accidental circumstances who is so grace
fully described by his organ as the Gem
.'inent man who sways the destinies of the
Estate of Mississippi" In the proper and
'dignifed production of the one, and the
arrogant, illogical and illmannered efu-
4 sion of the other, the public are treated Cor
|disgusted) with a striking illustration Of
the sublime and the ridiculous. Alcorn|
Occurring Waddell Only think of it. III
is strange, but it has really occurred inI
4 this day of strange and small things.
No one can read this correspondence
without conviction of the truth of what
We have before written on the subject of
Z the change in the management of the
University and of the base partizan mo-
tives at the bottom of it, The violent
and presumptious TRADE ofAlcorn against
the Faculty is the offspring of chagrin|
and disappointment. Improves that their
Temporary retention of the Faculty in|
whom the public had confidence, was al
part of general plan to Radicalize the
n University. 1t was a part of this plan
Ito dominate and subsidize the Faculty.
and to use them as decoys for the youths
of the State. Thus they designed to soft
4 ten the public Indignation at the proscrip7
Stion of the old and faithful citizens in the
Board on account of their politics, and
bat the same time gradually to prepare the
way for other approaches to the main
object which they are seeking to accom-
plish. But at the very outset, they have
encountered this formidable anti-Mongrel
u manifesto of the Faculty, developing an
irresponsible conflict which can be set
u tied only by the yielding Of one party or
the other.
What the white people Of the State
have found entirely proper in the letter
Z of DIR. Waddell, the Governor has found
4altogether wrong The learned Chan
#cellor who knows the force oflanguage and
takes his position not without mature de
liberation, is sharply told that he has not
been sufficiently tender with the sensibil-
titles of the negro race-that he had no
<occasion to state that the University
was established to educate the white
&youths of the State-that other parts of
4 this letter might have "been dispensed
Z witt" and that other portions are "stH
4 more ineqpedient." The Chancellor
is told that it was "the profound wish"
of his lecturer to raise the University
above BIPARTISAN influences ;" but that the
4 letter of the Faculty has created a
doubt" of the realization of this pre-
tended desire. The pretention might
well be exposed by pointing to the re-
nOval of unexceptionable men from the
Board of Trustees because they were
Conservatives, and the substitution of
notorious carpet-bag adventures who
E owe their Importance solely to the tri-
umph of the Radical party and also by
the wrathful utterances which the com
munieation of the Faculty has provoked
in Radical circles.
1t is not for US to say how the Faculty
will resent the insolence of their selfsuf
Efficient, self-constituted monitor but they
may be assured of the approval of the
public whose good opinion they must
Z value far above the patronage of the vile
schemers who temporarily occupy Office
in contempt of the public will and who
are seeking to prostitute them to the
basest purposes.