Louisiana capitolian., 1880-07-17

nature, to which, however, | am muc
liable, precludes my meeting you to
day, and compels me to take this mod
{ of making my earnest protest and RI
monstrance, asking that il be entere'
on the minutes, against tho resolutio,
offered by Mr.. Walton yesterday for th
vacating of att the various Offices of thi
institution and Board, tho immediate re
filing three of them and the prospect
i've re.flling Of the Others, q measur,
which l can scarcely trust myself in my
weak condition to characterize tn
mrong of further than to express MI coa
r'c''on Of the injurious effect it vii
have on tho character and standing, al
homo and abroad, of this institution iu
the creation, organization and inter.
ests of which l have earnestly and zeal.
ously |dbored for twenty seven years, ~
we'll as OH tho reputation and cbarac-
tor Of the Board itself.
Here are set of gentlemen in the
faculty and its branches who have been
invited here from various States to
I'LL these positions, all of whom. with
one single slight exception, have been
shown to us to be the equals, in their
positions and for the faithful and earn
est discharge Of tho duties of those po-
s'tions, to any similar set of mon ia tho
country. The resolution in question
casts on those gentlemen, their families,
their connections and their friends our
official stigma of dissatisfaction aud want
Of confidence and this stigma follows
them to their homes in this and other
States, and throughout the country 'In
the case Of the hOnored and respected
President of tho institution this stigma
is still worse, aud, if possible, more ua-
deserved. If we did not know it other
wise, his competency, zeal aud devotion
has been shown to us by the concurrent
testimony Of all the professors and
cadets whom We have examined We
have seen from the testimony of tho
cadets that they look on him, and up
to him, rs their counselor, friend and
guide, that "they 50 to him in their
troubles" and that he has constantly
encouraged the same kindly intercourse
between them and the members of the
faculty.
This have known and seen much Of
at the Seminary in Rapides parish.
l have had much, aud most anxious
occasion, in the interest of the school
and its Immediate and prospective
effects and results on the character to
be given by it, to the people Of tho State
to observe closely his course in regard
to it aud its management, since he was
entrusted with the reopening of it in
the autumn of 1868, and | say most con-
sciencously that, in my acquaintance
and experience, do not think another
man could have been found whH, in his
educational qualifications, the results
derived to himself from his own expe-
riences, his .ingrained nature as a pure,
clear, hightoned, honest and honorable
man and gentleman--d modd for the
youth Of our State 10 form iiseli on-was
better qualified to he entrusted with
the management Of tlfis institution and
its destinies, and Of our youth.
Of his self.sacriticing devotion to the
support and preservation of this iusti.
tuition and the minutest item of it's
property in the darkest and most gloomy
days of its desttution aud poverty,
have had many illustrations, Of which l
will mention one: On railway train
N Albemarle county, Va, in October
1873, l made the casual acquaintance of
mother passenger, who, developing
limself in course of talk, told me that
le was now a citizen of that parish, bnt
vas originally (anotjre Of Georgia) from
Claiborne parish, in this State, where,
II his. school at Homer, he had been
'ducated by David f. Boyd; that he
lad married wealthily in Albemarle
hat he then had four boys to educate,
md that he had written, some time
before, to Col. Boyd, whom he would
ather have take the entire charge Of
heir education than anyone he had ever
,nown; that if he would consent to come
here, he would buy Monticello and cs-
ablish him in a school, and impressively
me, then on my way home, to
rgently repeat the offer for him to Col.
'oyd; that he would not accept so
an offer, which would have ;.
arred him to the home of his father
nd friends solely, as I believe, because
would have compelled his abandon