Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1883-07-03

In the upper part of the right thigh.
Mr. Beirne then expressed himself
as satisfied, and SCI parties left the
field Berne and party passed here
on Ties " b. r. on Saturday, and
went to Baltimore Elan was taken
to the residence of Lfeut-Gov. Jno-
r. Lewis, near Port Republic, where
he Was Joined by his wife on Sunday.
The West Virginia. University
It is now manifest that concerted
and determined assault is to be made
upon the University by the Radical
press of the State, and no stone is to
be left unturned in the effort to de
stroy its usefulness.
The occasion of this undisguised
hostility is manifest. For many years
every paid Office connected with the
institution was filed by Black Re
publican "A local clique at Morgan
town had taken possession of the
school, and claimed an indefeasible
right to resp its emoluments, and con-
troll its destiny. The men composing
this clique were personally unobiec-
tionable- They were not, however,
men who were fitted either by eduea-
ton or opportunity to decide upon
the needs of a University They did
not even know the meaning of the
term. and seemed to imagine that its
chief business was to compete for
patronage by an easy curriculum, and
8 low standard of graduation. They
were fully impressed, moreover, with
the idea that the college belonged to
Morgantown and not to the State
An of this rural simplicity, and con-
traeted proyincialEsm might have been
borne with, had it not soon become
apparent that the institution was to be
made fountain head of Radical
Propagandisua, whence the youth of
the State were to irnbibe mortal an
tipathy to the Democratic party, and
q corresponding love for the Jacobite
principles of the party falsely called
Republican This fact was not at all
disguised, but on the contrary openly
avowed. and, Gas has been eharged),
boasted of by the then president of
the University The Morgantown
clique of Republieides seemed to for
get that this State was Democratic,
and that the annual appropriations
which alone supported the institution
were drawn from the purse5of Dem
ocratfe Taxpayers, who Could not
afford to keep up an institution for no
better purpose than to corrupt the po-
liticalprineiples of their own children.
But the new Regents appointed by
Gov Matthews, (with such men as
John A. Robinson and Thomas Farms
worth at their head, grappled at once
with the anomalous problem of Rad
icai propagandism emanating from
State institution They equalized the
: Offices between Republicides and
Democrats. They rescued the Ex-
ecutfve committee from RepubIicidal
control They reconciIed the Legis-
lature to the institution, and increased
the neutrality-suspicious. They added
two new chairs to the faculty. and
appointed competent professors to
each In fine, they laid the train
r which eventually rescued the Uni
iyersity from the control and par
amount influence of the korgantown
clique of Jacobites, whose influence
was enough to kill any institution in
g Democratic State. The work OF re-
form was completed under Governor
Jaekson's administration, and culmi-
mated in electing az president Hon.
w L. Wilson, the ablest and most
popular president the college has ever
had His resignation. brought shout
by his unsolicited nomination to Con-
gress, resulted in consigning the care
OF the institution for one year to Prof
Berkeley, as chairman of the Faculty.
his eminent qualification for the posi-
ton is admitted by all, and the only
objection urged against him is boldly
and insolentiy placed on the ground
that he Is Demoeratl
Now, since the University is sought
to be destroyed solely on the ground
that it has been rescued from exclu-
sive control of narrow-minded Jacob
ties, and has been conformed in adj
ministration to Harvard and the Uni
versitE of Virginia. we exhort the peo-
pie of this wealthy section to give it
new encouragement, and additional
patronage Send your sons there,
and not out OF the State. Their prin-
rSrIae Ill r,~, ro,~-o- T.. !