The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-05

H0No W0tCeT Clark, Raleigh, N. q:
my DEAR 6R:-I beg to acknoWl
edge receipt Of your favor Of 18th and
duly note contents.
SIN my first letter TO you / failed to
inform you that the report Of the com
mittee was adopted, and now inform
you that &c was. q
"The Executives Committee viii meet
one day next week. I viii then sub
nit your let4er to them, and write you
further.
Il have the honor ITO be yoTCs re
spectfully, "V. BALLARD, sec'y.
After the committee met the follow
ing letter was received:
Hon. Walter Clark, Raleigh, ~. c.:
Ny DEAR EIR:-At q meeting Of the
Executive Committee Of Trinity Col
lege, held yesterday, I submitted to
them your letter.
sit was the opinion Of the Commits
tee that your letter re quired no further
answer, you having already had copy
Of the report of the committee ap
pointed by the Board OF Trustees.
ST have the honor to be yours very
respectfully, ~. BALLARD, Sec'y."
To which the following reply was
made:
RALEIGH. N. c., June 25. 1898.
James H. SoUthgate, Esq, President
Board of Trustees Trinity College:
DEAR sR:-I am in receipt Of Mr..
Billiards. letter in which be informs
me that your Executive Committee
declines to permit him to give me the
intormationI requested.
As a Trustee I have a legal right to
any information contained in the min
utes and I should have thought as q
measure Of courtesy and of just deal
ing Go one had been afforded no chance
Of being heard, that you would have
given me the fullest information as to
all proceedings affecting myself even
that not reduced TO writing.
IfAny portion Of the Board of Trus-
tees had stated TO me i'm q Christian
spirit that it was unpleasant to Esve q
difference between DR.. KGgo and my.
self, and that it would smooth matters
il I should resign, I would Cheerfully
and promptly have done 90. Ihad no
intimation of such q wish from anyone.
On the contrary, at DR.. KiIgo's insti
cation q committee is appointed, / am
given no notice, no chance TO put In
evidence, nor present an argument, /
ann tried, found guilty and requested
TO resign. When / even then ask for
the names Of the witnesses and the ma
ture Of the evidence, and the names Of
the trustees who voted against me, so
that / may see what weight in to be
given TO their wishes and II there was
q msj0rity present, / Am abruptly told
I am entitled to know nothing but the
verdict. Then in addition to that this
morning information ia given TO the
public, through the Charlotte Obser-
yer, that I have been asked % resign.
The motive which actuates such pro
ceedings is too plain to need comment.
A verdict obtained by a jury appointed
&C the instance of the prosecution with
out any eviderc ca or argument except
from that side, and no opportunity to
me to give any, and with refusal sub.
sequently Of all information 10 to the
proceedings will command no respect
from any impartial or intelligent man.
I shall give no weight to it and shall
decline 10 accede to any request based
upon it.
think / know the 1876 600 Methodist
people in North Carolina, with whom
I was raised, and among whom I have
lived all my life, well enough to say
that they will give no weight to pro
ceedings conducted i'm such a manner.
They will at once divine who ''Fan''
the proceedings and that the motive
was not the good Of the college nor the
vindication of justice, but to crafty
the wounded vanity Of DR.. Kilgo, and
vengeance on the man who had rUfh9d
it. As there Were expressions in my
letter not gratifying to those who
make their millions by illegal trusts
Cat the expense of the toiling masses)
there we're doubtless some who felt it
was necessary 60 pFppitiRte them by
condemning, unheardsyth6 man who
had been bold enough to let it be seen
he did not fear injustice, though
wrapped in gold"
I would have resigned. assI have
said, if requested in a proper spirit for
the good of the college. But Il trial
had been insisted on and opportunity
given I eonld. and would. have laid be-