The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-09-01
The State JniverSity--.A Plea for
the Republican Board.

the Republican BOard.''
Mr.. Trustee Pegues, in his publication
explaining how it is that he and A. War
ner Cwho thinks our people rich in
everything but intelligence, the one as
Secretary and the other as Treasurer. are
receiving between them 81, 600 for servi-
ces that were formerly performed for
s200-informs the public that the Facul-
ty is unchanged with the exception OF
the Withdrawals,
But how about the Trustees who have
the entire management OF the University
and on whom the Faculty depend
for their places? They hare been remorsd
because hey are not Radicals, and other
r.er hare been PIT in TIER places because
then ere Radicals. 1t was for the reason
that he had not Joined the Radical party,
or acquiezced in the supremacy of that in
famous conspiracy ofknaves and plumber
ers, that Gov. Clarke was not confirmed
BY the (so-called) Senate. The official
organ of the Mongrel government admits
as much when it boastingly proclaims,
that the University has now "a Republi-
can Board.
Assuming this to be true, and that the
Board can make and unmal,e Faculties,
ii may be we'll apprehended that some of
the Faculty will reconcile it TO their duty
to thor country to cease their opposition
to Radicalism; and from tolerating it, how
many steps are there to its active sup
port Take the case of Mr.. Pegues him
self. He was a South Carolina nullifer
of the Calhoun school, dyed-in-the wool
secessionist And yet we find him mixed
up in this financial transaction of which
he and Warner, the Connecticut carpet
Dagger who has a better opinion of the
purses of our people than of their ''intelli-
gence," are the benefciaries? He was a
| Northumberland secessionist; and yet we
find him the humble apologist of the
political intolerance which drives Walthall
! from his seat in the Board because he
bore his part gloriously in the struggle for
/ secession and has refused to become the
champion of the party whose record is a
catalogue Of horrible crimes against hui
manity itself in its treatment of the South;
and which puts Tarbell in his place,
whose tongue is foul with. the calumny
that the social, business, religious and
= political history Of the South 'cH sho,c
:" more bad faith. deception and treacLe,y IN
9 a single State, than in aHhe States Of the
9 North together" What may not be APP
pretended in the presence Of such a fall
as this of Pegues
u The Radical schemers know well that
with Republican Board the key OF
the position is in their own hands, and
that they are masters of the situation. -
Are there not men in the Faculty who are
even now ready to denounce the old
Board, to burn incense to what the Pilot
calls the Yankee element in the new
Board" and to intimate that after
all, Republicanizm * not such d
bad thing 1t holds the sword.
1t holds the purse It creates Offices Il
t increases salaries. 1t kqoaea ho,g to carr
men on a high mountain and shoac them The
things at It's disposal We do not cast i'm
putations. Time will prove all things.
a subsidized Conservative is worse than
a carpet-bag Radical. The war between
Conservatism and Radicalism in this State
is irrepressible, and he who is not for the
former is against it. The powers thai
be" have taken the first step towards con
verting the State University into a nursery
of the political and social denominations Of
the Radical party Let the parents and
guardians and young men Of the State be
warned, X