Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-25
CORRESpONUE
YARBORo HOUSE. Raleigh,
n. C.. June ~. 1876.


Supreme Court and the Board OF
Trustees of the University of the State
were in session and busily engaged.
His Honor, Judge Bond, presided
over tho Federal Court. Of the I'en-
tai and moral and Judicial characteris-
tics of this individual the readers OF
the JOURNAL do not need to be told
anything at this late day. A word,
however, as to his personal appearance
may not be out OF place, and only
word, for like him who was descrih-
ed as short man with red eyes. his
Honor can be presented in single
sentence as duck-legged man with a
big nose. Several important cases
| were tried before him but none of such
general interest as to require COM
ment.
In the State Supreme Court the
most prominent case was that involv-
ing the validity of the amendments to
the charter of the city of Wilmington
enacted at the recent session of the
Legislature and under which Mayor
| Van Bokkelen and the other members
of the new Board of Aldermen were
elected. From the intimations thrown
out it seems that the Court consider
the new charter to be valid unless that
provision requiring residence OF
ninety days prior to election day shall
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other objections are held, it seems, to
! be untenable. What the decision up
on the ninety days question will be or
when it will be delivered cannot be
F.! told. It is pc ssible the Court may
take an adUisari and Withhold its opin
ion until January, if its opinion shall
be adverse to the Clstitutionality of
| the recruitment of ninety days resi-
| dence and for this reason. If the
Wilmington Charter be invalid on that
t ground alnosG every town charter III
the State is equally unconstitutional
! and the effect of the decision will be
! to produce great confusion and lncon-
venience and to no good pur-
pose in view of the fact that
the Convention SO soon to assemble
will certainly express in the new Con-
stitution, i'll tie plainest terms, the
right to require ninety days residence
as qualification to vote i'll town cleo
tons If, therefore, the opinion of
the Court should be adverse to the
charter there would seem to be good
reason for an advisari. Nor is it i'm
| possible motive might be lacking if
| the opinion should be favorable and
the motive a bad one; to-wit: the de
sire to continue the acting Aldermen
in power until January-but it is not
! orr purpose to impute bad motives to
| the Court. The fact that n Conven
ton to amend the Constitution will
| meet at such an early day deprives the
! question of much OF the Importance it
would otherwise possess. Colonel
Strange's speech is spoken of in the
highest terms. Judge Russell is said
! to haze mended his lick some what, and
to have presented his argument before
/ the State Court in rather more re-
! spec able and lawyer-'ike manner than
he Gid when Arguing before Judge
| Bond in February last. His recent
surroundings were much better than
those in February. Then he was as
sisted only by Messrs- Bailey and
! Cantwell. Last week he had the eff
cient help of Messrs. john FL. Haugh-
ton, of Newbern. and d. G. Fowle and
r. Q. Badger, of this place.
! But the event of tie week, of the
greatest general Interest to the people
of the State at large, was the meeting
of the Trustees of the University of
/ North Carolina. The readers of the
! JOURNAL do hot need to be told how
much at heart its Editors have the re-
sival of the University, or that they
Intend to use their best efforts to bring
about a contamination so devoutly to
be wished at the earliest possible day.
And this, too, not merely because of
tuition in which it was their fortune to
spend the quick-passing days OF
happy college life, but for the better
reason that they see and feel the ne
cessity of reviving the University in
order to advance the cause of general
education in North Carolina
1t matters not whether citizen
OF North Carolina graduated at
Chapel Hill or elsewhere, or
whether he did not graduate at all,
he has the deepest and most abiding
interest in the revival of the Universe
ty that he can have in any question
that concerns his State. Ii our inter
est IN the question was based only up
on the fact that we had been students
at Chapel Hill, we should make no APP
peal i'll behalf of the University to the
general pnbiic. 1t is not as 1Atnaaai
then in behalf of beloved Al2nu Ma
ter, but as citizens of North Carolina.
who have her best int rests deeply at
heart that we appeal to our people to
lend helping hand to the great work
the Trustees are now seeking to &C
complish.
The character and reputation of the
gentlemen chosen by the Trustees to
constitute the Faculty of the Universe
ty under its new auspices give a strong
guarantee that their efforts will be
crowned with success. Three old Pro
lessons We're selected to wit Charles
Phillips, John Kimberley and De Ber-
nler Hooper. The experience of these
gentlemen in the successful conduct
OF the University il days gone by,
leaves no room to apprehend failure
IN the future for want of wise counsel.
The Rev. A. W. Mangum, now Pro-
lessor Mangum, Is in the prime of life,
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