The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-04-03
THE PERRYSBURGr JOURNAL.

BENTON AND NEBRAsKA.-The distinguish
ed Missourian is prepared to say hard things
of the Nebraska bill when it shall come up
in the House. The New York Tribune's
Washington correspondent in letter, thus
speaks of Benton's intentions and belief in
the premises:
Mr.. Benton says the bill will be defeated; he
declares that he does not know how, but that
twill be he is certain. Such wrong as it med
itates, he says, never does triumph. He will
speak, but he says he shall not speak out of
order, nor over his time. He wants but an
hour, he says, to destroy it before the people,
and that hour he proposes certainly to'occu-
py, for he says that he will kill the bill and
write its ephitaph. Yes, SIR" in his own
language, " the bill will be sent to HI, sir,
and its authors will sent there with it, sir
Of it's principal author, he expresses the pro-
foundest contempt. "Sir," said he, the
meanest man in our country is a poor white
man who marries woman with niggers.-
He is not allowed to associate with gentle
men, sir. He is hooted off the court house
green, sir. We have nothing to do with
him, SIR
STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS, United States
llOIl llllllOlS, was DOIH III hullollll
county, Vermont, on the 22d Of April 1918,
and is, consequently, Al years Of age. His
father was physician. At an early age he
was apprenticed TO the business of cabinet
making, which he soon deserted to enter an
academy. Mr. Douglas afterwards read
law in Canadaigua, New York, and Cleve-
land, Ohio; after which he went to Jackson
vile, Illinois, where he divided his time
between teaching school and the study ot
law. In 1884 he began to practice law, and
in less than one year. was elected States At
torney, by the Legislature of Illinois. Al
twenty-three he was in the Legislature, and
afterwards was Register in the Land Office
columbian.
1t has been decided by the Court of Jus
tees at Worcester, Mass, that the authority
of a teacher does not extend over a schola,
after the school has been regularly dismissed
either at noon or night, and that it is illega
to keep children in after school, as a pun
ishment.
We respectfully call the attention of ou
School Directors to the above. We know
it is one of the grounds of complaint agains
our public schools that the children are KEEP
after the regular hours of ofdismissal,as punish
ment for some offence committed during the
day. The above decision is no doubt strictly
according to law, and we think according tt
right. 1t is not pleasant to parents to have
their children kept in school after the prope
time. They cannot know whether they have
been injured or detained by the way, or not
They very frequently have duties, chores, al
the Yankees cali them, for their children Il
perform, and they need them at home. |
| tho chi1 i1flror cbnooYt LOT
other system be adopted This is clearl.
illegal, and wrong in the abstract, and SHOULD
be changed.
We are so decidedly friendly to our pub
lie schools, that we desire to see removed
every cause Of complaint. We trust thi
will be considered at some future meeting O
the Board.-[O. S. Journal.
In India, when horse can but will no
draw, instead of whipping, spurring OR burn
ing him, as is frequently procticed in NOR