Weekly North Carolina Standard

A Good Sign. The Board of Regents of the University of Michigan have removed three professors on the ground that they "not only publicly preached, but otherwise openly advocated, the doctrine called the Higher Law"—a doctrine which is unauthorized by the Bible, at war with the principles, precepts and examples of Christ and His Apostles, subversive alike of Civil Government, Civil Society, and the legal rights of individual citizens—and, in effect, constitutes, in the opinion of this Board, a species of moral treason against the Government.

At the last Methodist Annual Conference for Michigan, Mr. Whedon, one of the professors, introduced anti-slavery resolutions, and his two colleagues sympathized with his higher law fanaticism. Rich. Enq.