The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-07-14

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las seen ditto n6miaatei Lorin Andrews for
school Commissioner. Haia the man put
onward BY the Wings, the Scott stumper oil
ne last campaign, the fugleman Of the
treat Niagara pox.wow. twill be remem-l
,ered that this Association, through its or
ran and the Wing papers, had the impu.
70 demand that the selection ofa
nan to GIL this Office Of paramount import
Of the .State, however. did not
choose to be disfranchised by a clique, and
were too wary to be caught Ia the dead-fall
set for them BY the unprincipled and inse-
cure Wings. The no party plot was, there
fore, a ridiculous failure. The attempt Of
the Association to dictate the unanimous
choice Of an avowed w big p~artizan and
stumper under the hypoeritical cloak of a
no-party man, was rendeted abortiye; and
the Association is now openly In the field
as a polliiealbody, acting in concert with
the Wings. This Is much better than to
have been skulkihg behind the bush. They
have now introduced themselves into the
political arena az q body ofWhig pErtizahs,
and they must take the consequences. Ev-
cry man among them has an undoubted
right to be a Wing and to advocate the e.
lection Of Lorin Andrews; but the Teachers
Association has no right to set itself up as a
body to choose officers for the people. They
have sought t~o..nsurp the powers of appoint
ing the School Commissioners they have de-
clared formally against the great principle
Unpopular elections; they have emphatical-
|ly pronounced the people unfit and incom-
petent to elect this officer; they have tried
to disfrsnchise s~eyerylvoteF lathe State but
themselves; for. they set up the cry of
l"leaye the Commissioner 10 the Teachers.'
Now We challenge the Association, collect
lively and Individually, anditS abettors, the
lhyp0critical Whigs TO say why it was not
proposed to confer the power of selecting
1.-THE Commissioners upon the Teachers when
the school law was befores5he General As
sembly ,ifit was ct md proper for them to
do it. They know why but they will moi
dare to answer this question. The Propo'
sition would have been received by the Leg.
%islature and by the people with a shout o.
scorn and contempt, And now they are
trying to do this very saine thing that they
dared not ask the power to do openly ant
without disguise. Democrats Of Ohio Free
sellers, and Wings, ifyou value the princi
pie Of election by the people, repudiate thi
base attempt to usurp the power to CHOOSE
your officers, and to deprive you Of you
franchise Statesman.
We desire, says the Ohio State Journal
to lay before the people Of this State tn
course Of the Ohio Statesman and the lead
ing spirits of the Locofoco party on thi
school question, that they may have tn
means Of forming a calm and intelligence
pinion Of it. Hence we copy the above al
ticie, entire. Read it over carefully, an
note its spirit and its reasoning. See tn
miserable attempt to array party feeling o
gainst Mr.. Andrews, by charging that he
a Scott Wig: We venture the a%ssertio
that, in the three years he has served til
State Teachers Association as1its agen
not a teacher ever learned from him VIII,
were his political opinions. Doubtless b
has his own views, as all intelligent Amer
can citizens have, upon the politics ofth
day, but he has been employed by the Al
ISOLATION for entirely a different field of Ii
Dor, not involving any political question
and he has carefully, s~tudiously condne
himself to it. That he has discharged h
duty promptly and ably, the unanimous a
cord o fall the teachers in Ohio in his fav'
is suficient, evidence,
The Teachers State Association is con
!, posed Of men Of all parties in the State. !.
! They are associated together to promote ii
. great cause of popular education by meal
of a system of common schools. Many
them are practical teachers. some of the
I merely friends Of education, and having
common desire to make our schools eficier
and equal to the task before them. F
b years these men have toiled without pecur
o airy reward, or the hope thereof, to OriI
: public opinion to the proper appreciation
. the Importance of we'll digested and
ranged system OF common schools. F
Years they have taxed themselves to pay
mere pittance to Mr.. Andrews, to act
' their general agent to form Union Schoo
I to establish Teachers Institutes, aud
lecture to the people, atall proper times a
occasions, on the Importance Of a mo
Thorough system Of education for the mass
Of the children Of the State. If ever a Z
OF men showed their faith,,by their works, t
teachers of Ohio have done it. If,in Il
& age ofselishnsss and money making, a mo
: unsel6sh and patriotic. body ofmen and "
men can be found, we have yet 10 knc
!, where to look for them. 9
Before any action wastaken by the teac
ers, we avowed a desire that this Off ce
, superintendent should be divorced from p
~ politics. We had seen and admired
patriotism and devotion Of all the teache
:, and we expressed adesire that, by comm
:. consent, the political parties Of the ST.
should abide by the recommendation Of
Teachers Convention, that would assem-
at Dayton in July. We knew this body v
composed of men Of all patties, but we a
r. knew they had a strong desire to make
systsm, OF commoa schools as efficient q
perfect as possible, that III the discharge
9. their duties, they knewgwhat, quali6catir
n were desirable, audthat they knew, bet
es than we, or the mass Of the people CO.
know, what person combined within him'
at to the greatest degree, the necessary quail