The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-18
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Evolution Yielding Fruit.
from, the Christian, Utserstss!'

In its issue of May % the charge of
defrauding DR.. Boggs is renewed, the
editor speaking of the Seminary's having
professor Boggs' $685." In it's issue of
June 4. the charge is renewed by two of
the. Directors, who speak of "the balance
of 1888 due on the salary of Professor
-Boggs."
Since December, 1854, many bitter
things have been published in that paper,
but as the object was evident to all, they
were not deemed worthy Of notice. The
thrusts at DR.. Girardeau we're intended
so 10 annoy him that they would cause,
as it was aptly said, lone man to get out
of the Seminary" The untrue and half
true statements about me we're intended
ito kill off Mack" The thrusts at aid
THREATS agaibst those elected as professors
were intended to ipjure the Seminary, by
preventing them from accepting, by
preventing old students from staying and
new students from coming, and by pre-.
venting persons from giving to its endow-
ment. The spirit was, ''If we cannot
rule, we will ruin"
The charge of defrauding DR.. Boggs,
however, demands attention. Is it true,
or is it false? The facts will show that
the Board have paid DR.. Boggs every
dollar of salary promised him at his
election-that they have paid it quarter.
~ in advance-that they have given him
over $3.50 more than be was promised
when elected.
/. The salary year Of the professors be-
gins OF July | Of each gear. Hence when
Drss Witherspoon and Hemphill were
elected professors in 1881, they were in.
formed that "tenure of Office and salary"
would begin July 1, 1882. Hence it
required a special resolution of the Board
to continue to Mrs. Howe the salary of
DR.. Howe after July l, 1883. Hence, the
Treasurer Was lately directed to pay DR..
Tadlock "his salary from July !, 1885,"
2. In January, 1882, the Board adopted
a resolution that te4eept in the case of
Prof. Hemphill, whom they had preyi'
ously promised to pay from July /.
1887, the salaries of all the professors,
for the first session, should begin Sep.
tember /, 1882.
This resolution was introduced by DR..
Boggs (then DIRECTORY, with the
avowed purte,e of saving two months
salary, to enable the Board, without
financial embarrassment, to elect another
professor, aud thus properly equipped, to
reopen the Seminary in September, 1882
8. In March, 1882, DR.. Boggs, Of the
Central Church, in Atlanta, was elected
a professor. He accepted, knowing that
his salary would, for the first session, be-
gin September l, 1882, and June 80,
1883.
4. DR.. Boggs was paid salary by the
Central church up to November l, 1882.
They paid him 81 900 for the four months
after July /, 1882. Perhaps one reason
for this was that his Seminary salary did
not begin until September /, 1882.
s. The following receipt will show that
the Board paid Dr.. Boggs in full for his
services during the first session:
"March 81, 1883. Received Of T. A.
McCreery, Treasurer. five hundred dollars,
in full of salary to July l, 1883;
6. The following receipt will show that
the Board paid DR.. Boggs in full for his
services during the second session
"April 1, 1884. Received of T.. A..
McCreery, Treasurer, fve hundred dol
lars in fuN Of salary, to July l, 1884.
"WM. E. BoGas."
T.. On December 10, 1884, DR.. Boggs
sent in his Unconditional resignation" :"
and insisted that it take effect from June
30 1885, e., the end of the salary
year.
5. The following receipt shows that
DR.. Boggs w9s paid in full for bis services
during the third and last session; wheth'
er we regard the close of the salary year,
or the time when he requested his resig-
nation to take effect:
"April 1, 1SS5-Receiyed of T. A..
McCreery, Treasurer, FIVE hundred dollars
in fill Of salary to July l, 1885.
"WM. E. BoGGs."
9. The Board has given DR.. Boggs
ouer $3.50 more than he soas promised at his
election.
Fsrst-ID September, 1883, the Board
agreed TO loan DR.. Boggs $500 ,cithoM
interest "while he remains professor"
On December 21, 1883, he called for and
received this, and the e.interest thereon up
to July /, 1885, (when he ceases to be a
professor) is about 1914 This WAS in
addition to his regular salary, paid quar-
terly in advance.
Sscondly-In January, 1884, the Board
insured DR.. Boggs' dwelling, agreeing to
do so "while he remains professor"
They paid $7S.75 to insure it for five years
or until January, 1889.
Thus the 1874 interest, and the $3.50
insurance would make over $3.50 more
than in March, 1882, was promised to
DR.. Roggs; and upon business principles
he is not entitled to the insurance on bis
dwelling from July /, 1885, (when he
ceases to be a professor) to January, 1889,
which amounts to over $50.
10. In the late meeting understood
the t,co Directors as wanting to pay Dr.
Boegs $685. for the months of July and
August, 1882, on the ground that Prof.
Hempt;;::l was paid for those months:
They now say that it was for July aud
August of 1885.
The Board declined to do this, which
would call for the payment of two
months extra salary also to Drs. Wood.
row and Girardeau, and for this the
Board are week after week accused of
dishonesty, to the 1000 or more SUBJ
scribers of the Southern Presbyterian.
IL. DR.. Boggs has never (so far as
know), claimed that two months salary:
1 take it for granted that he did not, and
would not, for be is an honorable man.
Why, then, does the editor of the South
ern Presbyterian delight in paradin1g such
a claim, and in persistently charging tne
Board with fraud? Does the question
need any reply?
"A style of highway robbery which is
new in New York has just made its ap'
pcarance in that city. A dispatch re-
cordipg the first case says: "a few