Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-08-25
The O6ici0l Ukase---PrOnuncia-
lnentO Extraordinary!

The OmCt0l aSe-.-PrOmullC11-
lnento Extraordinary!
We publish on our first page the pro-
nunciamento Of the Wing Superintendent
Of Public Instruction, in accordance with
the ?. $. appended, requesting "editors
Throughout: the State, to give this place
in your paper" We call especial atten-
ton to this document for several reasons,
among which are the following:
FIRST Because we firmly believe that
it was written, as it purports to have been
BY the learned professor himself Our rea-
ders will recollect that we have charged,
that the previous communications publish
ed over the signature Of this individual,
were, with the exception Of short one
published in the Reporter Of July 7,h.
written BY the exceedingly mortified
Doctor Dictator Of this city, who, it ap.
pears. though ostensibly extending to him
his aid and counsel, has now let the pro-
fessor loose, (for what reason, those who
know him best will have no difficulty in
Judging, to work on, his own political
salvation, with fear and trembling
/ Second Because, as will be seen at a
glance, it is an official communication, adj
dressed BY the Superintendent to his in
ferior and supernumary officers, prescrib-
irg and pointing out the duties Of their
stations as .'clear as mud!"
| Thrd-Beca the document (aside
from its being the best specimen Of a fault
less and grandiloquent model composition
ever published since the foundation Of the
worldly at once and forever puts to rest
the question Of the validity Of the election
OF the school officers, and renders certain
the triu.nphat reelection of the writer,
and forever silences the arguments of
those who wish to Dust him on the ground
Of incompetency.
i Fourth Because we wish to give pub
liciy to the pedigree of the Superinten-
dent. the most important and only ofci4l
information extant as to the paternity OF
1.-THE head and fountain of knowledge" IN
Iowa. This we understand has been left
out Of portion of the official circulars to
the school officers, through the influence
Of several Of his whig friends in this city,
thus depriying those officers of the cream
and substance Of an official document, for
the printing OF which, the State of Iowa,
OF course, has to foot the bill. We call the
especia! attention of our readers to this
portion of the ukase, and insist upon their
taking off their hats while they read it.
Fifth Because we are gra,itied to learn
from peru>al OF this document, that the
FACTS Of the school officers will be valid,
| If their election acos no!"!! On this, as
well as other points touched upon, the
document is at once forcible and clear; and
is its own best expounder and cri,ique.
&lM Because the document is most
triumphant vindication Of the hitherto
muchabused high order of talents possess
sed by prominent representative Of the
intelligence and responsibility party" Of
Iowa. In connection with this subject, it
may be well fer us to give the lie to a
SANDER circulated against the professor by
certain malicious individuals of this city,
to the effect that portion of the war eiIu-
sion Of the pedigree paragraph" is stolen,
uithout credit, from celebrated speech ia
miliar to every school boy of the land.
Tho,e who circulate such ISLANDERS should
recollect that so universal familiarity
with the borrowed language used, renders
quotation or credit entirely unnecessary
and superhuous.