The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-02

would be without precedent that they
should sit as jurors with expectation
of being absolutely without bias in
favor of the side they had counseIed.
If either of these gentlemen will say
I am mistaken as to him / will strike
out his name. Rev. T. N. Ivey has,
during this controversy, in The Advo-
cate, indicated SO clearly his =
tions in favor of DR.. Kilgo. to whom
also his relations are SO well known,
that I presume he will not offer to sit
as a juror.
"Mr. Southgate, presiding officer OF
this board, had = controversy with
me, which was pub he'd in the papers,
over the very poin;s now to be decid-
ed. After such pubic expression Of his
views, it il possible, of course, tina it
would assuredly require, according to
ordinary human nature, considerably
more weight of evidence thar to re-
tain him in his publicly expressed
views. At the aforesaid meeting on
the 18th of July, Rev. Jurney advo-
Gated, as a matter of policy, giving
time to get up evidence, n then a.
if fearing his position might be mis-
understood, he said to his board. T
am a Kfngo man. I told the district
conference at Rockingham yesterday
I was coming here to fight for DR.. Kill
CO.; that I would fight for him with
my fingers and with my teeth, and
when my teeth gave out, I YOU gum
it for him He is also an agent in
the service of the present administra-
ton of the college. He himself will
hardly contend, I houId think, that
he is a confident juror in the investi-
cation of a party for whom he is pre-
pared to gum it. At the same meet
ing on July 18th, w. H. Branson, for
getful of what was due to himself, to
| NynrIr hann 70 h1n hanr1 nr1 tn v,ycaIr
who was here at your request as well
as in my capacity as trustee, used
grossly insulting language to me in
your presence because I said I could
not get up the evidence you wished un-
less time was given. 1 alone rebuked
him and further reminded him I stood
here alone, one man against tWenty-
three. Mr.. Southgate did say to me
that l should be protected, but I told
him L did not need protection, I could
protect myself; that what I wanted
was decent conduct. Mr.. Branson is
also, L am informed, an employee of
the Dukes. If any one else present
showed disapprobation of Mr.. Bran
sons remarkable conduct it is known
to himself. Certainly it was not suf-
ficiently pronounced to procure up to
this Ome any apology from Mr..
BransOn either to myself or to your
board, so far as I am informed. At
LID odlllC lilcCIIIS On lHc 1Oll VI July,
another of the board, insisting that
no time should be given to get up
evidence, suggested that failure to lay
before you evidence sufficient to con-
vince you of the correctness of my
views might be followed by expulsion.
I think this was Rev. Mr.. Tyer. If it
was not he, I will be glad to have him
correct me. If, therefore,, failure to
convince this jury that my views of
DR.. Kilgo are correct is ground for ex-
pulsiOn there is additional reason why
L am entitled to an impartial jury,
none of whom shall have formally ex-
pressed opinions strongly in favor of
DR.. kilgO and cOndemnatOry of myself.
1T is true that the letter of the pres
ident of your board announcing this
investigation and requesting me to aid
with evidence says the investigation
will be confined to DR.. Kilgo' but on
the former investigation. though both
Mr.. ~SOuthgate and DR.. KiIgo say tina
he alone was on trial, yet, in some
understandable way, the verdict and
judgment were rendered against me.
Therefore. as a member of the board,
as one invited by you to lay evidence
before you, n as one whom one Of
your board has threatened with ex-
! pulsiOn if the evidenc is not sufficient
to convince the board land therefore
sufficient to change the views of those
members who have expressed opinions
favorable to DR.. KilgO), I demand a
right which the justice of the English
speaking race has always n every
where ante to the humb1est- a
fair, unbiased and impartial jury in
the aSCertainment of the facts-and
that each member shall be examined
whether he has formed and expressed
an opinion as to any of the points in
controversy.
Il do not doubt the entire sincerity
of those members of the board who
ave so frequently and sometimes
so violently expressed their opinions
Upon this controversy in favor of DR..
KilgO. Their absolute conviction is
what d~isquaIifies them. The early
martyrs were tortured and put to
death by men absolutely convinced
that they were doing Gods service.
DR.. KilgO is a minister and there
are some ministers (thougSI hope very
few who hin enormously that a crit
icism upon one of the order is an at
tack upon the whole order, and there
fore, in their opinions, Upon the church
and upon religion itself and / stand
here a layman before a tribunal, a
majority Of which present are proba-
, bly, ministers. I have been pronounced
in my views against h illegality OF
trusts and I have cOncurred with the
resolutions of the Western North Car
DINA conference against the sale and
manufacture of cigarettes and / stand
here. by the terms of your invitation
in "Benefactor's Parlor, Dukes Build
; ing" a room thus doubly labelled witt
, the reminder Of the cigarette business
the influence of whose vast
lations is like the darkness of Egyp'
in that it canno only be seen but cal
> be felt. This institution has become
itself a partner in that very business
, by being the holder of a large bloch
1 of it's stock from which it derives NJ
small part Of its income.
GAS an act of justice to yourselves
: to the college, and to myself, an &C
= of justice hat no North CaroliniaI
should ever seek in vain. I ask tina
, the triers be polled and that no on
: shall sit on this investigation who i:
- not absolutely and altogether impair
tial and uncommitted by former de
liberate expressions of his views"