The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-06-28

H'A' ttittIt>-
I'm my first letter to you l failed TO
inform you that the report Of the com
mittee was adopted. and now inform you
it was.
The executive committee will meet
one day next week. | will tten submit
Your letter to them, and write you FUR
Their.
i have the honor to be yours re
spectfully,
". BALLARD. Sec't'y.
After the committee met the following
letter WAS received:
Hon. Walter Clark. Raleigh. y. c.
My Dear Sir: At Il meeting Of the
executive committee Of Trinity College.
held Yesterday. l submitted To them
orr letter.
1T was the opinion Of the committee
that Your letter required no further an
SWcr. YOU having already had copy Of
the report Of the committee appointed
by the board Of trustees.
! have the honor 10 be yours very
respectfully.
~. BALLARD. Secretary"
To which the following reply was
made:
Raleigh. y. G.. June -. 1898.
JamcS II. Southgate, ESD, President
Board Of Trustees Trinity College.
Dear Sir: | am III receipt Of Mr.. Bal
llrd's letter in which he informs me that
You executive committee declines TO
permit him To give me the information
| requested.
rs 4 trustee | have Il legal right to
any information contained in the min
utes and | should have thought as a
measure Of courtesy and Of just dealing
To one who had been afforded
no chance of being heard. that YOU
would have given me the fullest infor-
nation as to all proceedings affecting
myself even that not reduced to writing.
II any portion Of the Board of Trus-
tees had stated to me in Il Christian
spirit that it was unpleasant TO have Il
difference between DR.. Kilgo and nv
self and that it would smooth matters
II L should resign. | would cheerfuIlv
ana promptly have done SO. | had 10
animation Of such n wish from any one.
TN the contrary. ut DR.. Kilgo'S ~inStiga-
ton Il committee IS appointed. am
given no notice. no chance to put in
evidence, nor present an argument. |
am tried. found guilty and requested to
resign. When | even then ask for the
names of the witnesses and the nature
of the evidence. and the names Of the
trustees who voted against me. So
that | may see what weight is to be
given to their wishes and if there was Il
majority present. | am abruptly told I
an entitled to know nothing but the
verdict. Then in addition to that this
morning Information is given to the pub
lie. through the Charlotte Observer. that
| have been asked to resign.
ne motive which actuates such pro
tcRt1nrS Is foo nI1In tn need com1paIt \
verdict obtained by i jury appointed at
the instance of the prosecution without
any evidence or argument except from
that side, and no opportunity to me TO
give any. and with refusal subsequently,
OF all as to the proceedings
VIII no respect from any inn
partial or intelligent man. | shall give
no weight to it and shall decline to
acccdc to any request based upon it.
| think ! know the 13J,O 600 Methodist
people in North Carolina. with whom |
was raised and among whom | have
lived all my life, we'll enough to say
that they will give no weight to proceed
lngs conducted in such Il manner. They
will 1T once divine who ran
the proceedings and that the motive
was not the good Of the college nor the
vindication of Justice. but TO CRAFTY the
c'''''' III vi il. IN1iSD, anu NtIi-
gcance on the man who had ruflcd it.
AS there were expressions in my letter
not gratifying to those who make their
millions by illegal trusts cat the expense
OF the tOlllng maSSeS) there were doubt
less some who felt it was necessary &c
propltlate them by condemning. unheard,
the man who had been bold enough
to let it be seen he did not fear "inius
tlce. though wrapped in gold"
| would have resigned as | have said,
II requested III Il proper spirit for We
good Of the college. But if Il trial mad
been insisted on and opportunity given
| could, and would. have laid before
the committee. evidence that should have
satisfied any impartial body of men tina
J was justified i'll every word of my let
ter Of 1fth Of July. 1897.
For eleven months | heard not Il wills
per about that letter and then on 10th
Of June, 1898. / am suddenly informed
| have been tried. found guilty and
asked to resign for having written it.
In his letter of July 18th, DR.. KiIgo
stated that he would lay my convcrsa-
ton with Mr.. Brown before the trus-
tees, but | was aware they had no
more jurisdiction TO pass upon it than
to try Il law SUIT between Dr. kilgo
and myself. and | did not dream, no one
would have dreamed, that if the Board
assumed jurisdiction any committee
would try the matter without giving
me notice and opportunity 10 produce
evidence-but hat was the last thing
DR.. Kilgo intended | should have a
chance to do.
This proceeding. Mr.. Southgate, was
not instituted for the benefit OF the col
lego. 1t was palpably done to eoo'ne
Dir. kilgo's vanity and to placate the
Trust that more money might be obtain
ed from it.
None know better than yourself that
the trustees had no jurisdiction Of the
matter. | was not elected by them. |
was their peer. If the Board are judce>
| was one Of the judges and not subject
to them. At the meeting Of the Board
4 year ago a resolution to endorse the
Common School System Of the State
was introduced. You spoke against it.
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