<hi rend="bold"> Letter from David L. Swain to [Charles Manly], October 7, 1856:</hi> Electronic Edition. Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868 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 Amanda Page First Edition, 2005 ca. 27K 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 David L. Swain to [Charles Manly], October 7, 1856 D.L. Swain 4 pages, 4 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>2005-06-15,</date> <respStmt> <name>Amanda Page</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc08-17"> <body> <div1 type="official letter"> <pb id="unc08-17-p01" n="1"/> <head> Letter from <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person">David L. Swain</name> to [ <name key="pn0001074" reg="Manly, Charles" type="person">Charles Manly</name>], October 7, 1856</head> <opener> <dateline> <name reg="Chapel Hill, NC" key="name0000165" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, <date> 7 Oct. 1856 </date></dateline> <salute> My dear Sir, </salute> </opener> <p>Your note of the 4<hi rend="sup">th</hi> by some oversight at the post-office did not reach me until late yesterday evening & this morning brought me that of the 6<hi rend="sup">th</hi> with <name reg="Saunders, Romulus Mitchell " type="person" key="pn0001487">Judge Saunders's</name> letter enclosed. </p> <p> <name reg="Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood" key="pn0000708" type="person">Hedrick</name> has the courage of a lion and the obstinancy of a mule. He can neither be frightened, coaxed, nor diplomatized into anything. He rarely asks advice and never follows it. He consulted me as to the propriety of replying to Alumnus, and entered into the contest in opposition to the most earnest circumstances. He communicated his doctrines to reply and exhibited the reply itself to no one but his wife. He will lie in the tracks without moving a muscle, and I am not certain that he does not covet the crown of martyrdom. </p><pb id="unc08-17-p02" n="2"/> <p>Has the Ex. Com. the power of a motion? It has, if it can be conferred by Ordinance. But can <name reg="Board of Trustees" key="name0000107" type="organization">the Board</name> delegate the power of approachment and removal to a Committee? If it can is it expedient? "If it were well when done, twer well, twere done quickly." As the ball was not taken at the first hop, will it not be better to bring the resolutions of the Faculty to bear upon him at the present, and postpone the exercise of Supreme authority, until the election is over and <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization"> the Board</name> in session?</p> <p> If you award the crown of martyrdom immediately and <name reg="Fremont, John C." type="person" key="pn0000545">Col. Fremont</name> succeeds in the election, you make his future. He understands this too well to think for a moment of resignation. Sparing him at the present will gain the free soiler, new strength at <name key="name0001060" reg="The South" type="place">the South</name>, which the charge of persecution for opinion sake will add to the tempest of excitement which is sweeping over <name key="name0000743" reg="The North" type="place">the North</name>. If you proceed to extremities, at once, I would avoid a political issue, and assume the ground taken by the Faculty and approved by <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">the Trustees</name>, in the Arch Bishop case, a violation of the usages of the institution, not as a free soiler, but a partisan.</p><pb id="unc08-17-p03" n="3"/> <p> The accompanying correspondence, you may show to Judge Saunders, to remind him of my arraignment before <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">the Board of Trustees</name>, by our friend <name reg="Hawkins, John D." type="person" key="pn0000695">John D. Hawkins</name> 20 years ago, for permitting the late <name reg="Busbee, Perrin H." key="pn0000252" type="person">Perrin Busbee</name> to advocate a dissolution of the union on the public stage. In the matter of politics, no one knows when, and what issues may arise, and freedom of speech on religious and political matter must be restrained, if restrained at all, very skillfully. </p> <p>The boys exhibited transparencies, hung & burnt in effigy Saturday night and again last night, but the affair was neither very noisy nor tumultuous, and the Faculty gave themselves no great trouble about it. Unless excited by foreign influences I do not apprehend serious commotions. </p> <p> <name reg="Harrisse, Henry " key="pn0000733" type="person">Herrisse</name>, was I understand permitted by the Secretary, to append some remark to his name. He is a great admirer of <name reg="Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood" type="person" key="pn0000708">Hedrick</name>, & has I fear written something foolish, or worse. If so & you publish, as the appendage ought not to be then, strike it out, and suffer him to illuminate the benighted world, in a separate article. If you think proper to do so, you may prepare a<pb id="unc08-17-p04" n="4"/> history of the proceedings of the Faculty, in such form as you may consider most advisable without confining yourself to the removal.</p> <p> Let me know day by day, anything that may be necessary to enlightened action. </p> <closer> <salute>Yours very sincerely, </salute> <signed> <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person">D. L. Swain</name> </signed></closer> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>