The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-09-13

of old South Carolina.
| refer you TO the document read by
Judge Clark on yesterday in which he
tries to show that this Board i incom-
petent 10 try this case. The defendant
is ready to leave the matter IF his char
acter in your hands. and Judge Ciars.
who Is Il mere witness should raise no
complaint. 1t was only one of his lodges
to evade any investigation. But such
accusations come with poor grace from
him. If YOU are incompetent in this
case. what must be said Of a Judge on
he Supreme court bench who has de
nounced corporations, financial problems.
business enterprises and issued without
cause his verdict before the trial? | say
he is the last man who should complain
against You.
He never did furnish to any one the
names of his Caswell county witnesses.
but attempted to run them in here on
mere certificates without the defendant
having a ghost of an opportunity of
knowing them. much less Il chance To
examine them. What will lawyers think
of this conduct on the part of u SUI
preme court judge:
All Of this history proves the deep
est malice on the part Of Judge Clark
and the verdict should say as much.
His conduct is unworthy of the lowest
order of politics. But we leave you TO
settle all of this.
Gentlemen. there is a princi.le in
vOlved in this case that is far-reach-
ing and threatens the foundations of
our educational liberty. From the be-
ginning Trinity College has stood for
freedom. Through all of her struggles
the one impulse of her struggle
has been liberty. No men eyer DurSed
the principles of freedom in this common
wealth with more jealousy than her
sons; no boys went more readily to
Nirginia's fields Of slaughter than hers.
Here we deserve the right of holding
to political freedom and will not bow
to any political ring nor recognize any
political master. Boys SHAH come here
Democrats. Republicans. Populists and
hold their views without shame or fear.
Truth is what this college wants, and
God alone shall rule its destiny.
In these last days there is a political
crowd that has sprung up who are de-
termined to enSlave every college for
their purposes, or kill every one that
will not bow to their god Already
they have laid foul hands on State edu-
cation as is seen iii the Kansas Uni
versity and in the case of DIR. Houston
in the Texas University. Dependent
upon the ruling political party for ap-
preparations. these institutiOnss are
forced to nurse or not oppose the Wild
est political doctrines. Such bondage
is degradation TO all thought. Bat now
they come to the doors of the church
colleges whose freedom they dread. and
I lay their clutches upon their throats
and strive to choke them into base
servitude or an infamous death. Trim
ity will suffer neither. BY the etcrnals.
she shall be free. No political power
, nor any other shall ever claim her, but
over and above everything else she. shall
answer to God and obey the truth, and
that is what they do not wish. For this
the defendant is assailed by political
tricksters, but into their faces he filings
/, defiance. while his old Scotci-Irish blood
runs hot and he impulse of freedom
! beats heavy in his bosom. Defamc anG
malign her servants, but thank God Trim
ity will never wear the political chain.
/ What is meaner than the attack these
traducers of men and destroyers of free
dom make on the good old gentleman
who gives of his abundance to the
growth of Trinity and to the culture o:
his people. More than thirty years ag,
he came from the war to his home III
which there were four little orphan chill
,lren. His property consisted of 4 few
acres of pipe clay dirt in Durham cOun
ty and fifty cents in cash. He began t
work in this poor dirt to feed his lonely
family. He thought for himself and
worked along new lines. As the years
went by he worked harder, economical
more. till at last he through toll ano
business Eagacity. owned a fortune. Now
that he is old and seems to be working
along the banks of Jordan in search OF
,rnin ,1nno WILMA no Cn0nc co
near the border land, he gives his
money to his church, at whose affairs
he found God, that through Trinity
College the young manhood of his ma
tive State may be blessed, and this
crowd of political haters curse his gifts
and traduce his motive. He is not OK
%travagant. wasting his money in social
folly. he has not shut it up in bonds, he
has not wasted it in SensuOuS living, he
has not lost it in cOvetOuS gambling IT
stocks. hut has given it to build & great
: college IL his native State for his OWL
civil kinsmen. and this is met by this
crowd of society wreckers with curses
and strokes. Oh what will be their mex
step. No. gentlemen. his crowd Viii
never be satisfied till they wreck colleges
and chain the pulpit to their cars Of
ruin. The defendant will welcome dealt
rather than submit.
= am through. Come to your verdict,
(, but one thing is sure. there has been NJ
trickery in this effort. The defendant
in this hour has not only plead for youl
college. but for Il name which he will
! hand down to his wife and children
which is clean. Find your verdict, gen
tlcmen, but if You 90 along the same
logical line which the defendant has
followed you will not simply vindlcate
him. but you charge the whole matter
to the deep seated malice of the prose
cutting witnesses.
WAKE FORESTS OPENING.