The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-10-16

frleDdS III thlS Scnool tnah you nave your
presents is not any more Desirable IN
this school room than Mr.. f. Il not half
SO nucl,' &c. III
The next specimen was received in Ju.
ly. The ignorance in this case is clear
ly teiyne,l, though the dcpror;ty is gcnu-
inc :-"i hav thot Nv tellin yc fur sum
tim what the people think nv ye. ye kno
that Ivy commencing on Doc GOWN yc
mad ycrself a liar x then he published yc
a liar ye coudent say word the people
| thout It was truc-I kccrd a man AZ eff
ye wus door keeper fur the niger show
and he sed it wus to be at your hous but
the people kno that's as big lie as you
swore to at the cort hous against farmer,
&c vel mkt is is the skool ye kno the
rul is them it lie i'll steal so they don't
like yc or NOR proper ther afecrd Nv ye
But must close now an when j git tim
will tell We al about it an whether yc ortcr
al resin yer ofcc or not wun man sed he
had seen a great many no nothens but
YOU was the d--d 10 nothen ever he
sccd," &c.
| do not Of course, insinuate that all
who have opposed me endorse these let
tiers, nor that the writer's of them were
authorised to speak for ",he peopie," as
they pretend to; but they show one
thing pretty plainly, viz: that my course
and influence must have been very near
ly right, and strongly on the eide Of good
order, intellectual aud social culture, to
have provoked these "lewd fellows of the
Sascr sort to expose their ignorance and
depravity by writing such letters.
Some of my friends may think It un-
fortunate for me to bo involved in this
matter. 1t is certainly very unpleasant;
but may not shrink from it solely on
that account. 1t seems to me that |
should be recroahs to an important l,ria-
cipic, if from mere personal d,SInolinatian
to such unpleasant strife, | should yield
the poiat by retreatias under false aud
injurious imputations, and thus counten-
ancc the erroneous opinion, that min
's'sr is net also and equally mon and >!
titt.ra
The Board have endeavoured to act in
all good faith, and for the best interest
of the district, throughout. If the dis
trict had b.en willing to hear their ex-
plantations, and to look at the matter fair
ly, instead Of impugning their motives
and charging them with attempting to
} thwart the will of the people, all this con,
troyersy and trouble might have been
avoided. The Board cannot. admit that
they have Willingly done wrong in any
particular. Ii blundcr was made in
: directing them to secure the dstv!c.
against arg i. c. all damage to the house,
in consequence of private schools there
in, when it was only Intended to secure
them against broken windows and jack,
{ knives, that is not the fault Of the Bo r@
We had no part in giving those inst rue
ti0ns; no one Of Us but the Secretary be
ing present, aud he being occupied ii
{, recording the proceedings of the meeting
l We took the instructions as they were
: given, and are not responsible for tht
I intention of the giyers. When it wa:
: disco ,ered that we had put too large
construction upon the language Of thu
0 resolution, it could easily have been rem
0 eaied, at the next meeting. But moth
, ing of the kind was proposed. All tha
i seemed to be wanted, by the leaders, Wa
Il some,hiay on which to found IN accusa
a ton against the Board And as thei
r action in relation to this instruction ha
Z been made the ground Of severe censurc
J will give my views of it more at length
The Beard did, indeed, consider tn
$, instruction as very faulty, in several re
/ spects. Cd 1t required us to take pub
'r lie property to the amount Of eight o
!, ten thousand dollars, In which all til
l. inhabitants of the district have any cqu;
= interest, and ''yiee' the use Of it, for a
&c indefinite time, not to the dictrct, bu
- to a few private teachers. No rent Wa
" to be taken. And those teachers NIGH
l. demand the same tuition as If they ha
y Doid reasonable sum for the use of tn
ai house, as they would have been oblige
ID to do, had they taken private rooms
Il Now, as the district is i'll debt, aud tn
S. house aud grounds need improving,
le seemed TO as unreasonable and unju:
at thus to take the children's bread had civ
n it to strangers. (2) We regarded I'll
L. movemen. as calculated aud intended
interfere with the public free school. &
is 1t imposed extra work upon the Boar
I'd which was very vague and unsatisfactol
vi in its details.
&c Nevertheless, if we had really believe
Ut that Oh fair understanding OF the cas-
70 majority of the voters Of the distri
nc desired to vote away their money an
Al privileges to strangers; who had no rigl
&c to tEem,- should certainly have col
'.s Piled with the instruction, or else fran
a'i ly have given our reasons for refusing
% do so.
~ - We therefore deny the justice of al
- and all reasons assigned for our resign
:, - ton. We have simply desired to have
- good public school, for all the childr'
.. 90 of the district, during as large porti'
Ia of the year as the people could afford
- and we have no evidence as yet, that al
W. other Board would be more favorable
-" s such school, or essentially better qu
:, u lied to manage it, If the designs OF t
ns Board had been carried out, there wou
.s 'a have been in Upton at the present thu
y" large aud fourishing free school, wi
E some four hundred scholars daily enje
~ " ing its benefits, the highest honor a
r. besi treasure Of the town, and light u
'"e encouragement to ali other towns in
~ "V County and the State Instead OF tn
w. ~, VIC now have, chiefly in consequence
''' the unreasonable hostility of few n
to the Board and their measures, an
ave occup . schoot house, the ya.uc OF VIII
the amounts ut least a thousand dollars "
Jou entirely thrown away, (or gtpcn away
igh private teachers, and more than haif