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- Collection: Prewar North Carolina
Letter of Charles Manly to David L Swain, October 8, 1856
RaleighOct. 8/56
My Dear Govr.,
I recd. yesterday your note & a copy of the Faculty's proceedings in relation to Profr. Hedrick . Upon consultation with containing 15 ½ closely written pages on the laxity of discipline in the College, how a…
Letter from Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to Charles Manly, October 14, 1856
Chapel Hill, Oct. 14, 1856
Dear Sir:
I am glad that the executive committee did not yield to a popular clamor and remove me from my situation here. For I believe that if I can have a full and fair hearing before the Trustees, the censure…
Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, October 18, 1856
Raleigh18 Oct 1856 My Dear Gov., I send you herewith a copy of minutes of Ex. Com. ofthis day. On the trial ofthe mpeachment, after all the Communications from the Faculty were read Gov. Bragg presented 4 papers of 30 mortal pages from "Sir Wm…
Letter of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to Mary Ellen Hedrick, October 22, 1856
Davidson County, N.C.
Oct. 22, 1856
My dear Wife,
It is now just dark, and I am at Adam's. I came to Lexington today on the freight train, and walked out here. Adam is going with me directly to take the cars at Lexington. I will go to…
Letter from Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to Charles Manly, October 28, 1856
Chapel HillOct. 28, 1856
Gov. Manly
Dear Sir,
Accompanying this I send you a letter which I wrote before visiting you in Raleigh. I believe I mentioned to you the fact that I had written it; certainly I mentioned it to some of the Board.…
Proceedings of the Faculty, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, October 6, 1856
Monday October 6th. 1856
The Faculty met under a summons from the President at 12 o'clock. A.M.
All the members were present.
The President stated to the Faculty, that in accordance with the course which he deemed his duty to pursue, with…
Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees Minutes, University Of North Carolina Chapel Hill, October 11, 1856
RaleighOct 11, 1856
Executive Committee met.
Present
Present
His Excy. Gov. Bragg , Prest
J. H. Bryan
D. W. Courts
C. L. Hinton
Ch. Manly
B. F. Moore
R. M. Saunders
The Prest laid before the Committee a political essay…
"A Few Reflections on Secession," The Daily Herald, November 9, 1860
It is thought by some persons that a dismemberment of our government is imminent, and almost inevitable; others are more sanguine as to the result of our present difficulties, but all agree that there is some cause for apprehension. The prevailing…
"The Convention," The Wilmington Journal, June 28, 1860.
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Daniel Lindsay Russell, Jr., 1845-1908
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