<hi rend="bold"> Letter from Dialectic Society Members to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, April 18, 1856:</hi> Electronic Edition. University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dialectic Society Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Bari Helms Images scanned by Bari Helms Text encoded by Brian Dietz First Edition, 2005 ca. 11K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005

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 University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from Dialectic Society Members to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, April 18, 1856 [University of North Carolina Dialectic Society 3 pages, 3 page images 1856 Call number 40005 (University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 </bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language id="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="unc_history"> <list> <item> Any special keywords assigned for this project </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>2005-07-06,</date> <respStmt> <name>Brian Dietz</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc06-128"> <body> <div1 type="official letter"> <pb id="unc06-128-p01" n="1"/> <head>Letter from <name key="name0000284" reg="Dialectic Society" type="organization">Dialectic Society</name> Members to the <name key="name0000352" reg="Executive Committee, Board of Trustees" type="organization">Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees</name>, April 18, 1856</head> <opener> <dateline> <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill No. Ca.</name> <date>Apr. 18<hi rend="sup">th</hi> /56</date> </dateline> <salute>To the <name key="name0000352" reg="Executive Committee, Board of Trustees" type="organization">Executive Committee</name><lb/>of the<lb/><name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University of North Carolina</name> —</salute> </opener> <p>We have been appointed by a large and respectable body of the members of the <name key="name0000284" reg="Dialectic Society" type="organization">Dialectic Society</name> to ask your permission and assistance in the formation of a new Society. As the two literary societies exist by virtue of an act of the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">board of Trustees</name> — and as the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">board</name> are supreme in all matters relating to the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">university</name>, we respectfully submit ourselves to their authority and have no desire to take any step, towards the organization of a literary body without their express approbation.</p> <p>The following are our reasons for presenting this petition.</p> <p>In the first place, the <name key="name0000284" reg="Dialectic Society" type="organization">Dialectic Society</name> has become so large and unwieldy that the literary duties cannot possibly be performed with much advantage to anyone, We think therefore that two efficient societies may with advantage be formed of one inefficient one.</p> <p>Secondly the number of students is amply<pb id="unc06-128-p02" n="2"/>sufficient to support three societies.</p> <p>Thirdly, the Dialectic Hall is composed of members from different sections of the country between whom the most violent enmity has sprung up which instead of subsiding has been steadily growing worse and worse for several years, until peaceable union is now no longer possible.</p> <p>We therefore respectfully submit to the <name key="name0000352" reg="Executive Committee, Board of Trustees" type="organization">Executive Committee</name>, whether unceasing hostility and bitter hatred which defeat the most important end of a body constituted for mutual improvement, are preferable to peaceable separation.</p> <p>Your committee being members of the Senior class and having no personal interest in the establishment of a new society, but having a perfect knowledge of things as they exist in college can say that an expeditious and favorable answer or even a favorable intimation from the <name key="name0000352" reg="Executive Committee, Board of Trustees" type="organization">Executive Committee</name>, in case no definitive answer can be obtained before the meeting of the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> at commencement, would do much to prevent disorder among the students.</p> <closer> <salute>Very respectfully —</salute> <signed> <name key="pn0003055" reg="Dowd, Clement" type="person" rend="yes">Clement Dowd</name> </signed> <signed> <name key="pn0000144" reg="Bingham, William (b. 1835)" type="person" rend="yes">W<hi rend="sup">m</hi>. Bingham</name>}Com. </signed> <signed><name key="pn0003247" reg="White, Stuart" type="person" rend="yes">Stuart White</name></signed> </closer> </div1> <div1 type="postscript"> <pb id="unc06-128-p03" n="3"/> <p>The committee beg leave to add that they have taken the liberty to address you on this subject by the advice of <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person" rend="yes">Gov. Swain</name> an[d] <name key="pn0000119" reg="Battle, William H." type="person" rend="yes">Judge Battle</name>.</p> <closer> <signed>Com.</signed> </closer> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>