The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-31 00:00:00

LAST WORDS ON THE IDUCATION
CONTROVERSY.
To tee Editor.

Your orreapoadent, A. 1„" atter an enforced eilonee
from public dieouseton, during vriach he seems to bans been
miduously caltivatio • vocsbulary which happily has long
been forgotten by linglish "'ottoman, sad during which In
trao well-nigh forgotten by thepribtlioispin promo himolt on
the Mace of cionamermy and nom. ourlou. antic. In lb.
chap. of Mono gymnastics. come we do not comma
our surprise it his cos:meted, and for blown os we think,
illjudood reappemace, for realty we did ants.. .n that
we had boheedad hint mod behoM b. is non from do hod.
and Mar Me Maim of • certain trarodlan we boo mord of,
" promos to die again p.m tho oomosay." If " AB,"
On purposely moaciailme span by the lalMis) had been man
enough to °oleo thd 100 had been fairly whipped oti the
Bold of orpiment, mould hare admired his candour, ead
would tan excused his cradittee sad hi. term. As it is be
hoe but usade had worse. and hes laid on us the dlogreeable
task el looming hie oft trillanition both of tempo sod of
talent. lorariably it Isomer ma poor ream • are alms—
that who • dimutant hos nothing lett to toy to. himself. as
Is des panful predloienant of " AL," Mom paltry Memo'
et MI.& is but • poor mology for name and sem Moo he
toils the pound duking Worth him, in. can alma simply to
'milord* as hi. opponent and sedearour to aecolopilait by
ohms what bob.. Idled to achieve by boneet meureent. le
elahnlerg such • victory over " I in not foroeful of its
magus mint. for dotory must he soUnsttoi by UN strength
of battle. and the form of oppouente, aid no " • I." I. about
ono 01 the weakest. I admit that mr victory le of oom-
parativoly mall amount Now I am im from objecting to
the u.so of the many delightful sod choloe epithets with
which" A 1" no unspringly In his Met attar loads me. I
=7 concede to hint the right of laden, what is mod
eg to him a.. gentleman tot. Cluistian, but I must
norm asy MVO all Mt lanes that he has not been Mho
added thin to premed himself under no wed Mich met Is
the Qom of onsibi• poor& loved him with no Milo Mimi
sod contempt. tf he had but permed my Mien a little
more &My am than to in.. dom. there lo no 'tying Mat
forth., hidden evils ho might not love brought tap to light
lon the horror sod amusemont of TOW reader'. As It Is you
will nattily memo with ma he hee almond Dot a few which
It oil would go not • Hole way to teach me my mama to
dimes quostlims of public Intend so I hare dom, Let us
look at ddn leardata" n.' A.R." omnewhat lamely AID it
in the absence of • better Widths reminds your readers
of my honorary poultice at emery-so at the Borehealer
Secularists whom in. define. with an elegant turn of plamology
a." Infidole," but who Melo& If not • Imo party In Din-
cheater. at load • rery litre party In raglan& sad whim
Iningipli• are geining adherenta dal y throughout the
Chrialan community, and • Imp portion of whole policy has
eon been endoeted, to tho ergot hoer or I have no doubt of
" AIL sod others like him, by do Wesley. holy. Then
he remind, your redoes of my " tamable importlocce" al a
politocal dimoter." who compidot of ouch an able con-
tributor as 'LK." pillow efno the andied macs in the
colomna of • Deoptper ; redly I beg " A.ICa" pardon. I
I.ll=hlated that in. might to cm have turned hi.
. ono tablets to tom Otto me,Mthord oohing to dem
hls atom my for inetnnot to denominational It not secular
nardarythip, to shine in certain doortmento of public duty.
Then we have lel logic," "Betsy and brokon backed
✓eaming." whatever that extraordinary compound may
man ; then "patent medicine' furnished boomer by
" quacks r petulance,"" 111 temper,' "narrownse. ;"
unblushing astoodshing obitedom of bad reasoning and
ignorance "Inventor of facts." " fabriotor of figures aM
many other ono and odorous throes la 5" A.B.' which
might be colloid from this morons and Christian coot.
and which will help your readers to understand how mbuiertihli
the opnrit of tho Bits,, which he in ardently lona is pommel
by him, and whom oncosts be Is es, antiout to tech to the
young of the coursountty, Mk* In him owe poison he so com.
plod; forgo's. I h•ei. beard of men before now who could
make low prayer for • pretenee, who wore brood phylaatehe
I. proof of their love of the law and the commodesout., who
mr• yet closely related to persons ctled hit..; and If there
he my modern Thereto; I hove • mampidon this
"AL" L. not • Manger to do testornlty ; am he admirably
exprems ii. Mat and adorns its outman. For I set Is not
the whole spirit and breve of this gentleman • perfect
burlesquo on the precepts of the Bible for width he has tacit
ardent Meatiou, and who can set In other. who differ from
him .imply the enemies of God and nem But I with Jun to
mower "AL" that hia pious horror of rayedf and others
has but little effect upon the public; tin. dzy ham quite
rm. by for tho practice of mob frauds. and It will be necweary
for him to memo hi. pity and tumi.in memento and common
moron He may be sore of it, that not by indicting his
opponent, not by amoebic him with oppeobrio eptbeu, not
by shrieking out hard and ugly none& will he matinee his
renders that he lo the man. spa that wisdom will die with him.
Indeed in mellow "AA's.", tirade of abuts, I am forcibly
reminded of tbe words, "Dom it. mid aio bray when he
bath gram? or Moth Me us over his fodder ?" Your rodeo
will agree with me that sli thie braying and lowing of " A.
Is just tho lock of fodder If he had hid argument, he would
hare written in • very differont Wain. If "A N.." wishno to
omelets* the public he mud change his tactics and Inmost of
nbusive epithet. be most furnish convincing argument, not
one pain of which I leafleedt adirm hao he yet produced on
quedloa at Mo. Indoed in. talks an infinite deal of
nothing' more than any man in all Venice. Hit romon. are
ae two greins of wheat bid in three bushels of chaff : you may
wards all Um day for them nod not nod them and when you
find them they ore not worth the search. I condescended to
weer his former letters to tho hope that he or tome one sloe
beUev quantal might be Induced to discum the question
!sale, with what moult your reader, on now Judie. I replied
to kis triumphed charge of my falsifying fourth remora& of ths
expentiituro of public money by Denominational remit, and
as he in.. made no reply your melon will jade! why, sad will
not be ourpried if I claim to charge " in return as
taltelyingtacte almin mood of which titarge be Ma mot in his
letter on* word either of apology or vindication. Why dos
he not delicate birosell if hewn. right, and why if he cannot
dm, he not feel Monied to appear agolo In print? I am afraid
that "AK." Ii poclodernettoto and Lk not likely to feel such
puncturm a. one amid with to billet upon him. Indeed so
Our Boca his parceving Ms folly he Mute before the ?Milt
with the Oro and =Loners of 'harlequin who Weld Well 'Moe
any Chrimtman oatmeal. But let,, rive your reader, some
idea of what condituto logic in the estimation of Mit gentle
man. And sa he ha. bon a long tier in dissevering ray
fallacy, through the defect either of educetion or Mural
gilt., we may kney that in. MP hoovered an • ossordnary
one at Oat. It is the right a [asocial.. whereupon " A.• ."
affirm that if the right, of adneottio were to be remated
std,, wood muter to be abolithed ; Lt if the right .4th.
duxed forty," al sine Tortes have boa baptised. net of
white ' L." in a tomplimue menhar,were to be remected,
and if tho Liberals wore to concede what ma di. to Moo
&island would not exist ;in other worded &gland 1. 1. be
owed and to prosper greatly tin. Liberals mud, loaSat
the. an such Map ao Tories on the Opposition
and legidde leo if they had no Mamma Now
I am no admirer of the Taiga. dill I think the
they have their rights so MI as Liberels, and
that It would be an injury to tine nation for the
Liberals not to acknowledge their rights and to concede
sonorously to them. to much lot the argument for minorities,
which la mooed in all our legiolation, which received
emphatic recognition In our housshold mileage bill in moot
of minoriUes, who roily in Many condition.. are thereby
embled to ammo the rights of mat .rities, although 'A C."
I. Colorant of tin, fad, and in which he ought to feel ast
interest. He Ind mhe ance. oaf unately t case of war
=ler by an extraordinao °Tonight he Minns boa hoe
Instituted to sive sta.., while moot people think it destroys
mama butabertag It. peOplo, oquaodeeing It. melth, crippliag
it. Inhatries, and in many Mance. Worth/ them to the
mire of lankroptcy and ruin, and ors It would be absurd to
✓ive Med to the wiehes of the minority who me aphid It;
while we have ram to modes the abourdlty of war, by
hatituUng • wart ea arbitration 10 eft& our differenees
Instead of the inhuman sod barbarous mothoi of war. And if
the minority have proved thiamine la the loog run to hoe
he.. eight la the, opialoa. mold It Not hove Men • peat
idoenteg tor the world, majoritiee bed paid a lithe more
mood to that oplaloas mad too been glided by their jade,
teenta? And on with -arose with a great may other things,
minorities ore as likely to be right ao majorlthos ; at ell IMMO
so wise goverment will ever atiempt to MO miaorities with
other Moe the moped wink. wh lit their dm, aed although thin
Itrp.... been lost sight of me regard.regard.the thought. a the
lish Nonceeforauste on the qui. of illemitee, " • ff.."
*I not bane to live long to math. evil redeemed, sad the
he will be able to tremolo his dem of ma, with all my
defects and faulta, to No. Foresee and ha mammy.
In the steehttme lot um sem how it Mods me regards Lb.
rights of minorides in mod of the peened q melon ;
and it is extraordinary that "AL" does not perceive the
ohmage of my argameM to hi. side of do pieta. i The
tyrant majority. so the Liberal have bon so frequently termed
have told A.L' and his ompathisses that tuider Imo
they dais sot tech • a atoakinte or fares religious
rortti.
ctiot n up= the child of any unwilling parent : and hem
not the Dencoolnetloasßne been declaiming up and down the
cooriarY OMNI this germ Notice and &grant violatios of
their rebirths.' liberty? sad now when I advocate the rights at
minorities in meals qmothea, A.R." toms round upon em
and hi so loony words ea& weep--well your rodeo mot Judge
certainly be to a genius and divers a talent for logic which
mud be Tory minim In the eyes of your readers Who
doubts that it to den for minorities to yield to nesforitles, but
who doubts at the same time that is I. equally pipit for majori-
&eta pay rood to the Mims of mainodtio; it 1. the optom of
ezinnumeeralma Mich ameatuten the value and Flory of English
on, ead whisk prevents us mottling our difference, by
bloody ovulation. Omoteed of poodul nemorea Will "
or my one Ms vesture to ILSrIn thereto', that Ore conscience.
of the Noneontoralias in roma of queoloom which they deem
tho mod mod sad OW, and foe which they Imo
echoed No mush, and for trhlah they bre peepared to
soh.. yet more, and foe which Inemithne tho are committed
Into gelid ranks, are to be tramped upon by • dominant
blorarchy 'huh claims as It. special right the to
Maeda Um people, and who preirensplooony emit tCrunlest
they are eduedad by them they will dak into utter
heathenism I lot to les suppooM that Nomoeformlsta are
admiedoly to bow to such • feedlot ao %Ma and allow the
moles of the State to he evontled cc • mere net under the
pretend el callineito National edue Mon I If "A. ti." m any
um , other is lad, og any suck deem, lothim be sun of it,
that on. of them .he will be ruddy awakened out of it,
and Mil And It neemary to support Ain motorise dogmas at
, hie Oren =Pad& The condo, and the feeling
the spa..,la neversubmit to band tin. 'dumb. „too, to
my eon honorer Aram sad powerful it may be, old facto
oe ripening to teeth u that maze inteeplatt change rOOO, coo.
pore the poky of tho goterment is bational ediaciatlon.
! And the subtorfuge of " B." and many more like him, that
the moos, is not give for ridigious education as
Weed le proved by the het that the 050100.,,
pesos would not cover ementar edutialton ma dm..
no
one. "AL" will have IM opportunity of rel
Moir he op, 11 he end the denclOthelitmeliste will
proloodon in, WIT woods.,
U tbq osiite the main et the Slate to eitoubme
them melba their Wolin to ootwohow subject.' sod let
prowl& ealledelb jos religious Wreaks ; and Dot
use the ..m7 =No been furnished by the Sow, of
the whole NOW fog them seesuriao porporio—but the hat
that, the DmentliMiallealde determinedly reuse to do thin,
gad OM Ihe wed V relloiseas thoslies so oho plow,
orroisto leollies the they do nem lie mosey of tho oleo
fer raffles= peep om mad the Osoeptioc which "A. cf
attompo to Kooks es Iht public coo Mimed Mee not even
himeN And in It not Mounding the thin "AL," whom
nolnonoam ignorance of to whole, edmation Elontanony is cily
matebel by hi. InaprUonce, to me nee ef ham chess morel-
Mna, publicly to diem it, shoed pooh& la the Is..
al Ital, which myna Ow stupid prey willbotNyNoulthowialge
mad glory Is that the Cloornmeat It they eo ao4 IMMO
religion remits for their granta yet imPewor licb°°l Board,
to levy rate. for the solo object of anstaining dencenhadional
echo*, Mile at the mope Wm they show Sro" mop? to
denoteinationolift to Mob the& domes with the one
Mom to others, ot a monks.* slams: and yet " AL" will
haM Is the ited 04th... tads that so elate mow in paid !
selloleos it/dualism' I I should be ram to thelloterime