The Nevada journal., 1859-04-29
The Bible in Public Schools.

pears to be unnecessary at present, as
the object sought by the friends of the
Bible has been gained in the restoration
OF it to the public school, and l should
say no more were it not for the puerile
attempt, of certain of our opponents, to
avoid meeting the question fairly by de-
scending to personal abuse and scurrility
unworthy of gentlemen.
In the face of the fact that the Bible
was excluded from our school-a fact pa
tent to all who will make proper inquiry
Notwithstanding cir own public and
private avowal it, of Mr.. Rolfes posi-
tive assertion to myself, that the Bible
would not be admitted into the school,
&c. and of the plain and unequiv oca dec
laration of Mr.. Jennings, to Rev. Mr..
Dryden, that the Bible had been erpelled
from tie School By tile Trustees, and that
bath he and has scholars acere forbidden to
use i'll repeat, in the face of all this
array of facts, and much more, they have
the modesty to deny their own recorded
statement, and even come before the
public with fat denial that the Bible
has ever been expelled, and very cour-
teously denounce all who disagree with
them as liars, &c. A very convenient
way of disposing of unpleasant facts and
hard arguments doubtless, but not very
convincing.
The fact is Mr.. Editor, they have
changed their position SO often that one
scarcely knows where to find them
The exciting and tantalizing exercise
so common in California of catching
certain little insect, proverbial for its
success in eluding capture, might be con-
sidered an exact science compared to
the more hopeless task of cornering our
more slippery opponents, or of pinning
them to any thing when cornered.
The well known lawyers plea in ref
erence to the "cracked kettle is no
where, aside of theirs. For they frankly
admit, in the first place, having taken
The kettle, and of having wilfully and ma
liciously cracked it, because, forsooth !
they found it would cook other peoples
fish, as well as their own. Secondly,
they plead that it is no body's business
if they did crack it as they did it for the
public good.
Thirdly, they stoutly deny having
broken it at all, or of ever had the ket-
tie. And fourth, and lastly, they show
very conclusively that the whole story
has been gotten up by sectarian bigotry
to persecute them-poor innocents, and
clinch their arguments by calling every
one very naughty names who dispute
them, Really consistency is a jewel"
They remind me of the poor lunatic,
who imagined every body crazy but
himself. But enough of this and them,
with a brief notice of Mr.. Jennings ar
ticle in the last number of the Nerada
Journal, will close, leaving him AID
Rolfe to enjoy all the honors and selfre-
spect they have gained by their singular
course of action.
1st Mr.. Jennings, in the aforesaid ar
ticle accuses me of adopting" sneer-
ing tone in respect to himself" l was
not aware of it, and certainly aid not in
tend it. Will he be kind enough to point
it out
2nd. He says ut is net true, as Mr..
Stratton states, that no questions were
asked me at that meeting as to text
books" never said 50 nor anything
like it as he well knows. l did say "nor
was Mr.. Jennings questioned at all on
his methods ofteaching and government.
Now is he too ignorant to see the wide
difference between the two, or must we
sit it down as (to quote the chaste lam
guage of Rolfe) "a wilful perversion of
the truth :"
Sd, He whimperingly complains of
my ungenerous conduct in stating the re-
suits of the great spelling match at Mr..
Anderson's office. He knows that on
ly referred to it in self defense. When
w. T. Anderson made that uncalled for,
and unwarranted public statement, that
they had examined us as to qualifications
&c. and fond him my equal in cvery re-
spect, which was not only false. but
felt sadly to my disadvantage,-every
principle of honor and self-respect, re-
quired that 1 should vindicate myself by
exposing the pitiful farce.
4th. He denies that the Trustees de-
cided that was the only one who SPELL
ed the words correctly. This is also