North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-12-21

PIE DEAF And DUAlB--GoY.. MANLY.
In his late Report to the Legislature, as President
of the Literary Board Gov. Manly travels out of his
way TO make some statements and Suggestions in re-
ialon to the institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
Among other things. he says;
Is The Report Of the Superintendent to this Board,
shows that he had under his charge for the year end
ing May Is, 1850, eighteen deaf mntes who are
bene6ciaries of the State.''
The Governor then goes TO refer the fact that
no provision has been thus far made in this Institu
ton for the education of the blind, and in view of
this and Of the supposed number of deaf mute pupils
he tells the Legislature that while this state of
things continues, the annual appropriation of $4,000
ought to be curtailed." Gov. Many is mistaken in
his statement in relation to the number of pupils in
the Institution in May, 1850. The Report of the Su-
pernendent to the Literary Board 10 which he refers
contained only the names of those pupils whose
Counties had failed to pay for them as required by
law. The number Of these, as the Governor states,
was eighteen; bus this is no criterion bv which to
form idea Of the number of bene6cares in attend
0nce. The number of pupils, at the time mentioned
in the Report of the Superintendent, was toenty-t,vo
and of these twenty bene6ciarss of the State,
in whole or in part. We refer the Report of the
President and Directors of the Institution Submitted to
the present Legislature, containing statement of
the number of pupils at present in the Institution as
well as for other matters of interest connected with
its operations. &a
So much for one mistake of the Governor-now
for the next In the financial portion of the Report
there is an item charged the Institution of rs OOo-
the amount appropriated by of Assembly for the
purpose of meeting the bond of the Superintend ent
given to the contractors. This amount was TO come
from the unerpended balance Of the annual apropria-
tharef ho mad
charge, as it is made by the Governor.
So much for that mistake-now for the next
Speaking of the buildings and of the contract made
with the Messrs. Cosby for their erection the Gov
ernor says, the of 81 $780, part of the contract
price, has been withheld from the contractors, until
this question whether the contract has been
piled with, shall be satisfactorily adjusted" Now,
the Literary Board have retained 81 $780, as stated
by Gov. Manly, and the Board of Directors of the
Institution have withheld 81 900, of the 1000
above spoken of-making in all t,oo thousand fire
hundred dollars withheld, instead of one thousand
Ave hundred, stated by the Governor.
We have said that Gov. Manly has travelled out of
his way to make of these statements and sug-
gestions in relation the Institution for the Deaf
and Dumb. The last Legislature took the man.
agement of this Institution of the hands of the
Literary Board, and vested in Board of Directors,
who were empowered generally and specially to
perntend and control it. 1t is to be presumed, in
the absence of proof the contrary, that they know
their dutes-that they will perform those duties to
the best of their judgment-and that, if the annual
appropriation for the Institution should be found to
be too much, they will recommend to the Legislature
reduction of it. rs Governor Of the Stale, recon-
mendation by Gov. Manly that the appropriation be
curailed, would have been in place; but we cannot
perceive that, Presiden Of the Literary Board, he
has any authority to offer suggestions and recon-
mendations in this regard, than the Board of Direc
tors Of the Institution spoken of, would have to offer
their advice in relation to the Literary Fund CON-
mon Schools. But Gov. Manly appears to be peculi-
ary unfortunate in every rubc movement he H.akes.
Instead of putting his whie-basis Recommendation
in relation the distribution of the School Fund,
in his annual Message Governor of the State, he
ought have held that and inserted it in this Re-
port President of the Literary Board; while the
proper place for most of his statements and sugges
tons in this Report, in connection with the Deaf and
Dumb Institution, would have been his annual Mes
sage. But the Governor, being determined to put
his white-basis proposition n yielded in all PROBABLE
ity to the necessity of the in embodying it in
his annual Message-for he knew that the members
sition in their Report.
In making these remarks actuated by no
disposition annoy Gov. Manly, to do him injus-
tice. We have sought only to correct his misstae-
ments and forth the facts, they exist before
the Legislature and the public.