The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

The Pilot announces the new Board


"A Warner, of Madison county.
ST. ID. Is0m. of Oxford.
g-.Jason Niles. of Kssciusko.
I0-Charles Clark, of lulah.
lie. W. Clarke, of CEeenville.
12-John Duncan, of Jackson.
The following was the old Board
Hon. James N. Howry. Oxford.
Hon. James Brown, OxDrd.
Hon. George II. Young, Waverly.
Hon. Alex. M. Clayton, Marshall county.
Hon. Charles Clark, Bolivar county.
Hon. Thomas +. B. PegIes, Oxford.
Hon. Giles NJ Hilly er, Nicksburg.
Hon. Edward G. Walthal, Coffeeville.
Hon. Robert A. Hill, Lafayette county,
Hon. William 1erger. Jackson.
Hon. A. NJ. West, Oxford
Hon. Johu Duncan, JackDn.
The public had been previously mott
fed that the Governor had carried his
politics into the Univerity and the
foregoing viii show the extent to which
he has gone He has removed some of
the most capable, and best men in the
State to make room for Radical partizans.
The people are concerned to know why
is this? Why is Walthall set asile for
Tarbell? Is it because Tarbell is a
Radical and testified to the Congressional
Committee pending the scheme to force
the rejected DISTINGUISHING Constitution
on the people, that the election vas a
"damnable. swindle," and that 1.-THE
''soeiai, business, religious and political
''history Of the South acH sho1o more bad
sJaith, deception and treachery than IN all
''the States Of the North together 2
Why was VIM. Yerger displaced for
c. W. Clarke-a mere advenfurer, and
pensioner, on the treasury of the State,
with scarcely local habitatior-a Radi-
cal whipster, and bogus member Of the
black-and-tan Convention of 1868-a
noisy participant in all its wickedness, and
spurned by the people when a candidate
for Superintendent of Public Education
in 1868?
Why has j. NJ Howry, the steadfast,'
ever-active, devoted friend of the Uni
versity-who has given the best years of
his life to its advancement, and has
yearned for its prosperity with more than
parental fondness-why is he set aside
for Warner? Is it because Warner is a
fresh importation from the land OF Purl-
tans, a Radical member of the Lpgisla-
ture elected by a constituency who have
no concern with the University, and is
the author the sentiment that ''4Missis-
sippi is rich IN everything bit intelligence 2"
Why is Hillyer removed? Why is
Clayton, one Of the most learned men
and devoted friends of education in the
State, set aside? Why is he removed
and Peyton put in the Board Why is
Judge Hill not permitted to retain his
place?
And so the inquiry might properly be
extended to others. The question admits
of but one answer. The men who are
set aside are the friends of the people to
whom the University must look for pa
tronage, if it is supported at all and
Tarbell, Clarke, Warner and Peyton have
shown themselves to be their enemies
The former are conservatives, the latter
are the advocates of the progressive
ideas" of the Republican party as devel-
oped in the denominations which have pass
ed the Legislature. These men are to
share in the control of the University !;
and the action of the Board is supreme
in all matters touching the selection of
teachers, the adoption Of systems of in
struction, &c, &c.
1t is for these reasons that the partisan
conduct of the Governor has aroused the
of the friends of the Univer-
sity and caused painful forebodings of its
destruction. They have before them the
fate of other institutions of learning in
States, whose prosperity has
been blighted by Radical manipulation.
The splendid University buildings of AL
ALBANIA have become tle abode of bats
and owls. And Chapel Hill University
of North Carolina, which has given Pres
sidents. and Senators, and Supreme
Judges, and learned Divines, and men of
Science to the country, exists only in
name
The people are bound to submit to Rad
ical legislation until they can correct it by
the peaceful method of the ballot; but
the education of their chillren is a mat
ter of volition, and if the University is to
become a Radical machine by which the
streams of public virtue are to be poison
ed at their source, they will follow the ex-
amples of others and shun it as a pest
house
There are yet some good men in the
Board; but the changes are ominous
and the institution which has been foster
ed with so much care, is trembling on the
edge of destruction. If the coursewhich |
has been foreshadowed is to be followed
up, it is doomed. Its managers had as
we'll beat down the walls and SOW the |
Campus with salt