The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-10-13
a Point ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of
tHe Faculty OF the University
Against MOmRrelism.

IAN applicant for admission as student
" on account of color?"
To This enquiry the teachers have re-
piled that in deciding the admission of
students the Faculty will be governed
by considerations of the color and race
of the applicant" And further, that
"shoadd an applicant belong to the negro
trace ,cc should, Oittom hesitation, reject
chin" CThe italics theirs.) And fur
Their, that the University having been es-
tablished exclusively for the white
race" the Faculty would instantly re-
"sign if the Trustees should require
''them to receive applicants of the negro
trace"
This reply is pointed and emphatic,
and admits of no question of the deter
mination of the Faculty to recognize dis
tinctions Of race, so far as their power
over the Institution extends.
In thus avOwing theirpurpose "to look
into the face Of IAN applicant" "to deter
mine the color of his skin," and 10 ex-
clude him from the University if it is col
ored, the Faculty have uttered bold and
defiant declaration against the funda-
mental principle of the Republican
party-a declaration at war with all the
| acts which have characterized the legisla-
ton of the Mongrel party in Mississippi
and elsewhere In their legislation to
establish a system of common schools, the
Republicans made an especial point of
rejecting every proposition that recognize
ed distinctions of race; and it was with
difficulty that the consent of a portion of
that party could be obtained to a provis-
ion whereby the races on the application
of fixed number of parents and guar
dams could be separated. And to illus
trate further their progressive ideas, they
passed law Furnishing with fine of FIVE
thousand dollars any president, conduct
or or other officer or agent of any rail-
road, steamboat, stage orcoach, who shall
recognize distinctions of race and assign
separate apartments for passengers con
account of race or color"
When the Faculty accepted their places
at the hands of the representatives of a
party which is committed to these ideas,
it became duty no less to that portion of
the population who look upon their meas
ures with adherence, than to themselves,
to make known their views upon this car
dinal tenet of that organization III the
most UNREASONABLE form. The cores
pondence shows that they have perform
ed this duty; and they hare perform
ed it brarely and aceH. We
have no reason TO question the per-
feet good faith of their declaration,
and if they adhere to it with the frmness
| which has characterized the manliness of
its utterance, we have no apprehension
that through their agency the abomina-
tons of Radicalism will find place
wherein to plant the soles of its feet in the
University While it is true that the
students who may be in attendance at the
Institution will not have for their chief
aim the propagation of political ideas,
we nevertheless claim for them the same
right of cherishing and avowing the po-
| litical views which the Faculty have re-
served to themselves
While we warmly endorse the senti-
ments expressed in the letter Of the Fac
ulty and the course which they have de-
clared their intention to pursue if these
sentiments are not acquieSced in by the
Board of Trustees, the letter itself sets
forth the precise grounds on which we
have reprobated the action of the Govern
or in organizing the Board. Unfortu-
mattel y the Faculty are not the "authori-
ties of the Institution As we have
before said, they are the mere agents of
a Republican Board whose breath has
made, as it can unmake them. This
dependence they frankly acknowledge,
and at the same time they freely express
their purpose to resign if it should be re-
quired of them to disregard distinctions
of race in the admission of applicants for
instruction. We have not believed that
the extreme measure of amalgamation
would now be insisted upon by the Rad
zeal authorities. They propose to attain
this object by gradual and stealthy APP
proaches. The first step has been taken
in the appointment of what they avow to
be a Republican Board" When this
measure shall have been submitted to
and the public consent is obtained that
Tarbell, Warner, c. w. Clarke and men
of that stripe are proper patrons of the
Faculty and students, another will be
taken by the infusion of Radical element
in the corps of teachers, and the decoc-
ton will be made stronger as the sensi-
bility of the public becomes blunted and
its stomach established in its SUSCEPTIBLE
ty to receive the entire nauseous dose
which the Mongrel sehemers have in store
for it. Thus do they aim to advance by
degrees until they have accomplished
their purpose. 1t is for the intelligent
people of Mississippi to determine wheth-
er they will oppose the scheme at the
threshold or wait until the enemy OBJ
tains possession of the citadel.