The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-26

alterations from safe rule is the new
est departure, by which the Valhalla
of heroes and counsellorS is turned
into q place Of social reunion, where
the sexes ningle on equal terms-nay,
where the woman, pure, ts'Ge and
lefty in her spirit, is placed on IL COM
handing pedestal and men, her infe-
riors In the gentler virtues. render
homage to her incompatible charac-
ter.
What I have above written I have
written as sort of friendly guide
post To North Carolina when she
comes to select her two figures for
Statuary Hall. OF course the fact is
generally known that when the mat
ter is finally fixed it Will he done iii
accordance with the public will and
pleasure that two great statesmen and
popular leaders, one of the older, one of
the newer age, snail be chosen. One
OF these is Nathaniel Macon, the Cato
of the United States, Speaker in JEFF
ferson's time afterward an infiueu
tial and much-venerated Senator, and
the other is the great war Governor.
the devoted friend OF the people, the
able Senator from North Carolina
who stood with the ablest Democrats
of the times in behalf of a reform
and reduction of the revenues. North
Carolina should, AS one of the original
thirteen States. be represented now
in the hall ard as she is not So rep
resented the earlier the. step is taken
by the Legislature to provide for
such representation the better. Let
the present Legislature make the nc
cesSary appropriate Plans should
be formed at once. and the SCULPTOR
or sculDtors selected. The best South
ern talent, if possible. should be CALL
ed into reQuisitioa. But in any event
the work should not lie placed in the
hands OF inferior worAmen. Let me
add 4 further word: If ii even de.
Rsired not to have men for both of the
places, il is propabie the public sch dice
would fall on that truly notable wo-
mana man in brain and energy
Cornelia Phillips Spencer. .s
The movement to incorporate b.
act. of Congress the University of the
United States has been revived by
the re-introduction of a bill in the
Senate. The idea seems TO be to have
the institution established under the
control of the government, with the
President Of the United States as
chief of the regents and the Chief
Justice to be one CT the governing
body, along with Senators. cx-Sena-
literary men. etc. This whole con-
ception OF a national school is all
wrong. Washington embraced il be-
cause in his day there were no South
ern univers.ties. few Northern and
education was neglected. The Fed
eral Convention expressly denied the
right to Congress to great characters
for such and other purposes. as
canals, roads, etc. The constitution
al right to charter does not exist.
Besides. the rights of the various pri-
v;lte and state universities would be
initiated against by the institution
of the proposed university. Again
universities are not to be created in
this way, but grow up as representing
an actual want. Students go to Har-
ward, Johns Hopkins. the University
of North Carolina etc. because these
Institutions provide the means for Sc
curing a broad education. An institu-
ton at Washington could not be
/ more truly national in any proper
sense. The mere use of the govern
ment collections would not make -.
so. The student can study constitu-
tonal law just rs well at Chapel Fiji
as at Washington. He CAN study
science lust as well at Johns Hopkins
as at Washington. And If the chairs
of Constitutional Law and Science at