North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-01-01
THE DEAF AND DUNGEON. MANLY.

Board, so far that Report touched the affairs of the
Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. We did this in
no unkind spirit, and with disposition do injus-
tice to Gov. Manly. Indeed, we not only dsclained
any wish TO annoy fallen foe'' but article IL
self bears ample evidence in its every line that
merely sought to g correct his mssatements AID to
set forth the facts, they exist before the Legisa-
ture and the public.''
The Raleigh Register-Gov. Many's organ-in-
stead of acknowledging the truth of statements,
and treating our remarks in the same spirit in which
they were made, flies into passion-Puts airs
denounces article malignant and bitter and
finally INDUCES in charges and destinations against
the Board of Directors of the Institution andS the
Principal of the institution, which unjust, ib-
eral, and totally unfounded in fact.
Now, what we have 10 say TO the Register in re-
gard is, that adhere TO the facts
forth in first article that those facts have
not been met by the Register, can they be. That
paper may evade and plead specially, as it has done
already; but an enlightened public will see through
that, and will kno,c that the Registers in this
matter dictated by the determination to defend
Gov. Manly, right acrong.
The Register endeavors to produce the impression
that Gov Manly did know, at the time of making
his Report, that there than eighteen pupils
in the Institution. We do not say that that paper
makes any direct assertion 10 This effect but this is
the inference to be drawn from its remarks. We
peat the list handed in by the Principal of the names
of pupils whose Counties had paid for them fur
nishes criterion by which to Judge of the number
of pupils actual in attendance. In May, 1850, there
twenty-five pupils in attendance, twenty of
whom benefciares in whole or in part but yet
the Governor. proceeding upon the number of eish-
Teen, whose Counties had not paid, and going back 10
Nay, 1850, recommends that, of the small
of the number of pupils at that time, the annual
appropriation be curtaied And in the financial por-
ton of the same Report as if 10 strengthen this
concentration, the Governor makes a mistake of S.
O0O the result of which mistake goes TO show that
the Institution has hand s. 900 than it re-
ally possesses for Educational purposes! The Reg
lister does allude to this point in its attemp-
ted reply.
Now, we take leaze to state the fact that the Gov
ernor was authoriativey informed, before his Report
made out, that the Institution had under its
at least thirty pupils the present session; and this
information was given him in order that he might
avail himself off it, if he should think proper do so in
his Report to the As e,nby. He knelr, at the time
he wrote his Report, that there were thirty pupils.
Why did he not alIude to This fact! Why did he go
back six months, and take an assumed number as
reason why The appropriation shor!d be reduced
Would il have given him much trouble to have said
that the Institution numb ers thirty pupils, where
as, in MAY, 1850, it numbered eighteen far he
knec Did this large increase give occasion for
expressions of qualification at the prospects of the
Institution! And not. he, the head of the
Siate the very officer express that qualification
And yet, on this score, he is silent!
The Register ad ui,s, in breath, the ability
of the Board of Directors manage the affairs of the
institution" and their /" determination to manage
them propery' and yet in the next BREATH speaking
Of the annual appropria lion, it asks If the whole
is be absorbed every year by The Deaf and
Dumb, or is it to be devoted to certain other pur
poses 2'' What does this mean? Is THE Editor of
the Register ,riEng 10 let that oppression go ,uhout
explanation?
But the most {: magnant" and ungenerous portion /
of the Registers article is that which assumes that
tue Superintendent of the Institution (Alr. Cooke) !
wrote our article of the 2lst December. or that we
were " instgated - to it by that gentleman. The
Register does not directly charge" this on the ST.
perinendent, but it the Sc current impress
SION" That paper, in a word. only insinunfes. The
charge is totally unfuunded-the insinuaton is I'M
worthy fthe Editor of the Register The Supern-
tenden of the Institution neither wrote nstiga
ted that article We did not cnpy it, but wrote
it, every word, with own hand, and we are re-
sponsi5le for it. 1t OUn article, conceived
and written by US, and by else. Will that
satisfy the Register? And if will not that paper
do the Superintendent the simple justice to set him
right in this respect?
The Register, after assuming that the SuPerintend-
ent had hand in article of the 2lst December,
says if the motives of the Executive of the State
are to he questioned and his integrity mpugned, by
one of the States servants. through the medium of
party newspaper it is high time that stop should be
put to such conduct Now assert that the IS
lives of the Executive have not been questioned"
nor his integrity impugned ''butif such had been
The case, and if even the Superintendent had done
his thing, who and what is :. the Executive! Is
not he, also, " one of the States servants! Is he
Irresponsible, OF above comment or censure7 If SO,
hen are the principles of the sedon law in full force
among US, without having been enacted, and opera
ing, too, under this special supervision of the Editor
IF the Register! We congratulate the Editor his
new position; but fear he will not be able to pre-
vent people from speaking freely and truly Of
s dignites." This is free country, and when the
,edition laws are indeed revived and put in I" tul
force and virtue," expect to be informed of the
fact and to govern ourselves accordingly. We shall
consent to no g snap Judgment
AS the Register, by charging the authorship of our
article else than the Editor of this paper
opened the door for questions of this character,
we beg leave to know Of that paper if lie Editor
Trote the reply which noticing Was
hat article yriAen by the Editor. was it copied?
pod rho crate nd no cODlPd.