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Hedrick's</name> Actions]</head> <opener> <dateline> <date>Monday October 6<hi rend="sup">th</hi>. 1856</date> </dateline> </opener> <p>The Faculty met under a summons from the <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person" rend="yes">President</name> at 12 o'clock. A.M.</p> <p>All the members were present.</p> <p>The <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person">President</name> stated to the Faculty, that in accordance with the course which he deemed his duty to pursue, with reference to to the selection of a chaplain, to deliver the valedictory sermon to the Senior Class at the last commencement, he felt himself called upon to direct their attention to the publication of Professor <name key="pn0000708" reg="Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood" type="person"> Hedrick</name> in the North Carolina Standard of Saturday. Very few remarks in addition to those submitted to the Senior Class on that occasion, will suffice in relation to the present subject.</p> <p>In an institution sustained like this by all denominations and parties, nothing should be permitted to be done, calculated to disturb the harmonious intercourse of those who support, and those who direct and govern it. Mr <name key="pn0000708" reg="Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood" type="person">Hedrick's</name> testimony, as student and Professor, that he "know of no institution North or South, from which partisan politics and sectarian religion are so carefully excluded", will be received with perfect credence by our graduates, and by all familiar with the state of things among us.</p> <p>To secure an end so essential to the reputation, prosperity and usefulness of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, cautious forbearance has been practised by the Faculty and enjoined upon the students in relation to these subjects. The sermons, delivered on the Sabbath in the college chapel, have been confined to an exhibition of the leading doctrines of Christianity, with respect to which, no difference of opinion exists among us, and no student during the last twenty years, has been permitted<pb id="unc08-16-p02" n="2"/>to discuss upon the public stage, any question of party politics. This course, upon the part of all, has been regarded as not merely necessary to internal harmony and quiet, in unison with kind feelings and good taste, but as due to numbers of persons of different tenets and opinions, who honour us by their attendance upon our public exercises, and have a right to respectful considerations.</p> <p>On motion of Dr<name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person" rend="yes"> Mitchell</name>, seconded by Prof<name key="pn0000510" reg="Fetter, Manuel" type="person" rend="yes"> Fetter</name>, the <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person">President's</name> communication was referred to a committee consisting of Dr<name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person"> Mitchell</name>, Dr<name key="pn0001360" reg="Phillips, James" type="person" rend="yes"> Phillips</name>, and Prof<name key="pn0000795" reg="Hubbard, Fordyce Mitchell" type="person" rend="yes"> Hubbard</name>, who reported the following Resolutions:</p> <p>Resolved</p> <p>1. That the course pursued by Prof <name key="pn0000708" reg="Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood" type="person"> Hedrick</name>, as set forth in his publications in the North Carolina Standard of the 4<hi rend="sup">th</hi> inst. is not warranted by our usages, and that the political opinions expressed are not those entertained by any other member of this body.</p> <p>2. That while we feel bound to declare our sentiments freely upon this occasion, we entertain none other than feelings of personal respect and kindness for the subject of them, and sincerely regret the indiscretion into which he seems in this instance to have fallen.</p> <p>After a brief discussion, the Resolutions were adopted by the following vote:</p> <p>Aye—Messrs. <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person">Mitchell</name>, <name key="pn0001360" reg="Phillips, James" type="person">Phillips</name>, <name key="pn0000510" reg="Fetter, Manuel" type="person">Fetter</name> <name key="pn0000795" reg="Hubbard, Fordyce Mitchell" type="person">Hubbard</name>, <name key="pn0001756" reg="Wheat, John Thomas" type="person" rend="yes">Wheat</name>, <name key="pn0001538" reg="Shipp, Albert Micajah" rend="yes" type="person">Shipp</name>, <name key="pn0001357" reg="Phillips, Charles" type="person" rend="yes">C. Phillips</name>, <name key="pn0000201" reg="Brown, Ashbel Green" type="person" rend="yes">Brown</name>, <name key="pn0001385" reg="Pool, Solomon (b. 1832)" type="person" rend="yes">Pool</name>, <name key="pn000" type="person" reg="Lucas," rend="yes">Lucas</name>, <name key="pn0000119" reg="Battle, William H." type="person" rend="yes">Battle</name> and <name key="pn0003240" reg="Wetmore, William Robards" type="person" rend="yes">Wetmore</name>.</p> <p>Nay—Mr <name key="pn0000733" type="person" reg="Harrisse, Henry" rend="yes">Herrisse</name>, who said he voted in the negative "simply on the ground that the Faculty is neither charged with <name key="name0000104" reg="Black Republicans" type="organization">Black Republicanism</name>, nor like to be suspected of it."</p> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>