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

From the Pilot.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMKNT.1
STATE or ALKssIssrPPr.
Torrrrr.a. 49, 1kf. Ta~n 4

FROM the IIi0E.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,1
STATE or MIssIssrPPr.
jackson, Oct. 4th, 1870.
DEAR IR:-Ih have the honor to aclnowI-
edge the receipt Of your letter accompany
inc the letter addressed TO you by Judge
Hudson. In answer TO your question touch
Ing the reply made by you on behalf Of the
Faculty TO the enquiries of that gentleman,
take leave to state as follows:
Your answer presents the form Of q thesis.
shall deal with its propositions in the
order in which they have been made. Be-
fore doing so, you win permit me 70 premise
that. when the political power of the State
rests in the hands of one Of two races. ali
questions involving q f0rbearance In the
exercise of that power. Involving In fact a
self-deuial in favor of the other race. ought
to be dealt with In spirit of prudent and
sincere tenderness.
That the University has always been ex-
esusively Tor the white race, is a proposition
10 which you travel outside the inquiries of
judge Hudson. Inasmuch as ii bears the
character OF an argument rather than ofAn
answer, J submit that il had better have
been omitted in a case of so much deIicacy.
The second ofyOur propositions Is unob-
iectionable In itself, save only so far as it Ia
part Of thesis that could, suggest, respect
fully, have been very well dispensed with.
Your third proposition Is it appears to
me. a full answer as far as lay i'm the power
~ Yourself and the Faculty, TO give to the
epouiries of Judge Hudson, and viii. i trust.
be completely satisfactory 70 that gentle
man, when it receives, as it does here from
me on my own behalf, on that of the Trus-
tees in jackson, and so far as / ann aware OF
every member Of the Board, full concur
renee.
o,t If the scope of Judge Hudson's letter
hut does so on a ground by which it Is made
s,ill more independent. If it were not an
utterance of men so grave and well disci-
Mined as yourself and your worthy cellea-
ines. | should have sent that declaration
down as one Of rather more than feeling
And ifthis judgment were just, it would,
under all circumstances of the case, make
the statement in question seriously EesPcn-
sibIe. gg h TN ~ =
University education for the colored .peo-
nile is, you are aware, held by one political
marty i'm the State, question simply of
time On the other hand, you must know
also that another political party in the
state scouts university -educati@R for the
eolored people, az an absurdity. The APP
pearance OF feeling which the enquiry OF
Judge Hudson has brought out unnecessar-
ilv In the answer of the Faculty, leads me to
doubt for the first time, the present accom-
nishment of my profound wish to raise our
University education out of the injurious
Influences of party politics. While stand
Arm in my anxiety to maintain the Univer-
sitv OF oxford a subject of honorable tradi-
tions of my own race. my conscience would
forbid. even though my ability could COM
mass. its maintenance as such, if its admins
traitors shall be found from time to time,
outside the sphere OF their high and honora-
bic duties. holding lang age inspired by the
passions of race or party. The affections of
many of the bri ghtest intcllects that adorn
Mississippi, cluster 'ound your institution;
but must caution 0u those affections will
be stune with grief as surely as to-morrow's
sun will rise, If the Trustees and Faculty
fail in the duty of purging its hall of the old
vice that has haunted them so long-politi-
cal faction.
have the honor to be, with assurances
of the highest regard,
Your very obedient servant,
j. L. ALCORN.