M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-12-28

Rip Van Wrinkle would be for president of
railroad company. A man Is known.
too, by the company he keeps. When
found with those nOtOriOrsly diSlOyal, and
apparently glorying in their shame. all his
professions of loyalty are mere wind.
| Loyalty. like female virtue must be above
suspicion. None other is genuine.
4 sincere Patriot is for his COuntry-0ac
and undivisiblc-nOw and forever. lie is
frank and outspoken, and thinks 1t not
Unconstitutional to say in thunder tones,
I VI loEs oEsvg ny E}&R &2ppfrEY ppfrE and Ike & iri% nr-
| fumes" for its defense aud pfeSefyaJon.
.prove his faith by his works
| This is the stuff that such men as Andrew
Jackson. and the mlrtyrcd Lincoln were
made of: and of the same mltcrial are made
millions upon millions of loyal mcn, who
now hold in their hands the dcStnieS of our
great. free. aud glorious Republic.
The Marietta Times. and papers of like
sentiments, call this great OvcrShadOwing
! host that has just completed the annihia-
! tiOl of the Confederate Democracy, Oh Il
| thousand battle-iicds of the South. and by
| the ballot at the North. "a paSticnt fac
! tiOa." Webster" says a faction" i Il
party distinguished by opposition TO the
prince. government or State" In the light
Of this definition who are the factioli,t~ :
1t i impossible tO convince these editorial
oWiS who have all been asleep duriug the
last folr years, that the world has moved.
and /, noT sweeping onward in its mag
nilicent orblr.
We expect them to wake up. without
DELAY. and clear away the cobwcb' and dust
that obstrct their mental vision. and. if
possible. In get their eyes open.
Our parting advice to Mr.. Goodrich. and
those OF like agc and accomplishments. l.
to "Tarry at Jrrlco, until their boards be-
grown"
We have thus. briefly. defended our posi-
tiOl, and avail ourselves of your permission
to use your coumnS. We would be pleased
to have the Marietta Times publish this in
full and send It's the number OF their paper
containing it,
Respectfully Yours.
joan \. PooLER,
GEORGE Fry.
Directors.
II is proper to say in this place
that we do not propose 10 NEEDLE
with the true functions Of Messrs.
"Pooler" and ''Fry" as school direct
ors. So long as they keep to the
rules of conduct prescribed for
them by the statutes of Ohio, (and
by common sense as wel,) they
need ielr no impeachment from
any quarter. We do not know
these men, personally; and we
attach not the least importance to
them as individuals. 1t is only in
so far as they-being "clad with a
little brief authority" - embody
and represent the average preju-
dices Of abolitionists, and act out
the average meanness of the fell
fanatics with which they are asso-
ciated, that they can come under
our notice. Most welcome are
they to all that they may get by
it.
We are not acquainted with Mr..
On'in Goodrich, either. We never
saw him; we have had no cores
pondence with him or his friends :
and we know absolutely nothing
about the man, except what we
can gather from his letter to THE
MCARTHUR DEMOCRAT. We eSpous-
ell his cause for reasons which the
school directors aforesaid have
made only the more manifest.
With his "private griets' we have
no concern. But this is no "pri-
yatc' grievance, and "Pooler" and
FRY" should exhibit more honesty
and clearer sense than to state the
case in hat manner For they, in
their OfTCGAL characters, dealing
with Goodrich in his PROFESSIONAL
capacity, took it upon themselves,
while acting as OFFICERS, to go be-
yOnd the statute; to disregard and
override what the LAW lays down
as the qualifications for teacher
in the public schools, and, to i'm
pose upon him a bastard test of
their own wilful cOntrivance. They
rejected Goodrich-a suitable ap-
plicant, as was shown by his certi-
licate-and they did so for no other
reason than that he professed him
self a DEMOCRAT. They deny
no fact-material or immaterial-
that Goodrich alleges; they tacitly
admit his whole statement as true :;
they AvOw that they prescribed
him because of his POLITICAL OPIN-
IONS, and for no other reason; and
they purpOsely rest the whole of
their defense upon this one thing
In such case, while the good citizen,
be he democrat or abOlitionist, is
bound, by every principle of real
loyalty, to side with Mr.. Goodrich
ana with the LAW, it is not easy to
see from whom these school direc-
tors can expect cOuntenance, unless
it come from those as narrow, as
oyerbearing, and as intoleraut g