The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-04-27
For The Cecil Whia /
Common Schools.

nlcatlon for good reason, or, for M r,a-
son, | make no complaint that YOU refused
TO publish my last article on this sui irct,
because OF It's constructive personality. ]
meant not to indulge IN Objectionable per-
sonalitv, but ii is impossible sometimes, to
separate the advocates of a cause, from the
cause itself, so intimately do they seem TO
be blended. The advocates, par crccHenrc,
, OF the School Bill will, II is pr, sumcd,
charge that everything said against it is
purse-oneI; for, peradven'ur, it it do not
strike at their persons, It may at their
purses. Very sensitive gentlemen they,
and lregret to aggravate the IIc-dolnr-ch'
which troubles the nerve that leads to
their pocket.
Eight hundred dollars year is worth
struggling for, IN county where the
working man, vino usi be lnaed TO raise
this overgrown salary, can earn hu, 500
to 5000 by the severe sweat OF his brow.
Talk about cqraIizing children You had
better cGualize MEN. You would pam
per mp one man IN idIene>s and cause SIX
others, as good as he, to bend over the
spade or axe to support him. And the
iohbing oith $40 600 Poor School Fund
or whatever the amount Sand OF the an
nual receipts from the State ior educational
purposes, glltterS after the California
fashion 100 much, to BE- readily relnquish-
ed. II the law prevail some man must
have the mammoth salary, and some one
must finger the thousands am not per-
Sonal, MIR. Editor, for neither know nor
care, who has the luck.
! But, the people must moi be trusted to
examine this "Omnibus" bill, and form
their own unbiased judgment respecting
l.. No. Gentlemen must turn strolng
commentators to explain and eXpound and
elucldate. Your moderate understanding.
citizens, will not enable you to comprc-
bend this Bll-it is a long bill--lt is an
uncommon bill ii is an intricate bill It
tax s gentlemen with a te esropic vision
which you do not posst s., to see through
| this interninablc, t rtuous, misty bill.
You will, thercfort BIZ good enough, rit-
zens, to swallow it, with all its piled up
! costs-the wares Of the surveyor is moth
ing-the wages of the Board of Educa-
ton is nothing-the mammoth salary is
nothing. The aggregate of these salaries
would only educate iro Aundr.d chill rem
! What matter about two hundred children;
better apply the money to keep two or
three gentlemen.
1t is matter Of concern, That 80 much
ability is brought TO bear on this subject.
Gentlemen seem determined to carry
the Bill, not by its me.its, but by tn,
power of oratory. We read that IA,
North East there were speeches of SEN
ergy and eloquent ability" and tina, the
audience was "spelI-bound.' regret
not being present on that occasion, so
that. as an admrer of popular cloqucncr,
] might TOR once have cried E"rck",'
81 have found it, Eloquenc". Mr. Ed
itor, is dangerous in a wrong cause, ut
there may be OF Stacles in its PATH at
times which set 1t at defiance. 1t would
seem there were difficulties here. for We
find IN the account OF the meeting above
quoted, that one of the champions had
subsequently to "-uridate' some par, of
his s. svch, which had not been fully I'M
der.tood
apprehend there Is room for this cx-
traordinary eloquence still to rxer, it.
self, before i, persuades the people of
Cecil county to sanction the proposed
bill. 1t is a grossly deceptive hll',
tor the income tax proposed by /
can never be collected to any considtra
bic extent. 1t is grossly expensive
system, for the cost of supporting it,
uonM eI~cnfe al HE CHI drea ~ Tie coun,y
uho do net MR. II rc an tdacntion. 1t is
grossly oppressive system, 'or it would
burden every farmer in the county with
heavy additional taxation. it is = gross
lv cruel system for 1t would throw i,'o
the Jail, the poor man, for taxes he could
no, pay;a heartiess feature hitherto ur-
known IN the tax laws OF this liberal
State of Maryland. 1t is grossly un,
quail system, for it would tax the farm
hand and mechanic on ever, iarthing of
his waves, while the income of the pro-
fes>ionaI man and Spectator could net
be determined, and consequently could
not be taxed.
The invested fund il proposes to with
draw, and instead of one hundred Chi
dlrn being educated by the interest it
yields. all that large sum is 10 become
The Prey OF some Spectator. Ard
wherefore have the officer with the
"Ma'nno'h'' saIary--wh,ch, of itself,
would educate nearly I'll the ch:l'Irc n
in some OF the DISSATISFACTION the i'oard
OF Education is COMPETENT fer all the ,lu
ties. Why multiply "xp-nses-why
create useless officers to iattrn on the tax
es wrung from The poor.
Citizens, in a former article, pointed
out some of the evils which this bill
would lead to-'he length this article
has already attained warrs me 10 close
it; and close it saying: in a very few
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