Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-05-13
School District No. 2.

out comment, III coming rom SroRSery
bully, but is out of place in respectable pa
per, edited by gentlemen. This child's play
of calling names, is as contemplate as the
brain Of its author.
We will endeavor to make this school
matter so plain that even the editor of the
Enquire. can understand it.
repeat, the endorsement Of the Direct
ors' report in relation to teachers was a fact
suppressed from their article of yesterday
week, there not leing throughout all they
had to say upon the subj.ct the slightest
nl!usion to it, but, on the contrary, palpa-
BILE denial of what every one present at the
meeting knew took place; and, in the article
Of yesterday, while there is forced ac-
acknowledgement Of the endorsement, it is coup
led with an absurd pretenee that the motion
made by Mr.. Bennett did not come from
...he people, and that identically the same
motion made by Mr.. Wallace did come from
the people.
In the early part Of the evening, Mr..
Bennett moved that the District recommend
as teacAeas, Dir. Tuthill, Mrs. Dennis, md
Miss Walker. An hour afterwards Mr..
Wallace moved that the District recommend
MS teachers, Mr.. Tuthill, Mrs. Tennis and
Miss Walker. Mr.. Bennett was not a
member of the Board, but, in every sense,
as much enc of ssthe people" as Mr.. Wal
lace. Mr.. Benefits motion was lost, Mr..
Wallace's motion was carried. Those
teachers were recommended by the old
Board, fact which the meeting could not
have forgotten and this proves exactly
what We have before stated, that the Dis
trict did not object to the nominations, or
their source, but voted down the first reso-
luton, and afterwards unanimously carried
it, simply and solely ON question of order.
II is with all these facts staring them point
blank in the face, that the editor says:
"Thc motion which prevailed almost unanimously
10 recommend the teachers who have since been en-
ployed came from the PEOPLE, and that Is the reason
it carried Ii it had from the Directors, ol any
one of them it would have been negativcd TILL this
hour"
It did come from the Directors; there
was no Recommendation before the meeting.
except that which came from them.
1t was not meeting at which Directors
could be elected; the voters were called to-
gether by tho Board, of their own voluntary
,notios, for the sake of having the benefit
or the advice and responsibility of the Dis
trict and whether the men bers OF the new
Board were nominated first, or the report OF
the old Board as to teachers were adopted
first, the old Board must necessarily hold
over clean through the proceedings of that
night, and at least until Monday, and long
or II they wished and accordingly they did
hold their offices, with complete power ns
Directors, until Monday at o'clock. At
the time this special meeting was called,
there was no racancy IN The Board, and there
hcing no vacancy, the action Of the meeting
amounted to no more than recommenda-
ton, intended to take effect Whenever the
old Board might choose to substitute the
nominees of the meeting for themselves
The Epqui,er says Mr.. Butler stated IN
his report that the Board chad employed
teachers for the next year" What Mr..
Butler did say, was that the B,ard had
eondifionaHy employed teachers" That
is, the teachers had been told tn t they
would be recommended to the District, for
Recommendation by the District to the new
Board, to be nominated that night.
The Enquirer says; Cdr. Butler then went
into an argument to show that he and
his colleagues could not resign without com
uniting suicide" Mr.. Buffers remarks re-
lated to the injury to the District that would
result from shutting up the school, as some
rashly proposed il is a Misrepresentation 70
amply what he said to the Directors.
II the Directors had elected men in their
places without consulting the District, they
laid themselves liable to the accusation OF
,.ntting men into Office who might act out
The wishes o: the old Board. The complaint,
then, Of the Enquirer, that they did not re,
sign sooner. is inconsiderato.
In relation to Mr.. Benefits motion, ou'
neighbor says 2" the vote on the report was
taken by ballot, with Mr.. Butler standing
over the hat, challenging every Irishman''
,ote." Dir. Butler as ed some half dozei
persons if they resided in the District. This
VAS his duty. The assertion that they wer'
irishmen SCENE to be made with a discred
,table native. At least one person thu
questioned was not resident of the Dis
,rict, and spothsT had moved into it within
the previous ten days. We have reason t
helieve that Mr.. Buffers actions heretolor
are contradiction to the insinuation tina
he is otherwise than good friend to Irish
men.
The Enquirer says:
Daring the discussion several voters stated tia
.i,cy we're sorry to be placed ina ston where the
*, re c,n,sied to vote for those teachers. ta as
,n.nnmendafson came from the Liectors. they WEI
lound 10 rcpndia'e it, aud Doistain good faith TO
iss concerned
This is a very extraordinary paragraph
Mere either of the editors there? If not
from whom did they obtain such q statement
With one violent exception. who vote
.,.aan. the three noes against Mr.. Wallace
so,ioa, the yery persons who most strongl
ASSISTED npaa the nomination of Director
10 be first il order, stated that they woul
,ote freely and anAesitatinsly for hose PEI