Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-15


COLUMBUS, May l2th, 1866.
EDITORS ONO STA ATESHAH:
After watching the daily papers for two
weeks, / supposed that" Taxpayer" was to
be allowed the field to himself to pass un-
noticed and in Obscurity to the tomb
But, yesterday my attention was called to
the article in the Journal OF Tuesday last;
again demonstrating that sparrow cannot
fall without being observed.
Successful incubation only results from
due degree of long continued heat.
After Just three weeks of sitting the A.
B. c." correspondent of the Journal has
brought forth q production every way APP
propriate to so long, so painful and SO
patient parturient effort. "TaX-Payer's"
damaging comments upon the small stock
of school politics annually reproduced to
influence the election of School Directors in
this city seems to have worked the required
twenty-one days of Preventative heat.
should not venture out upon the present
occasion but have often observed that the
Rallinaceus terocity ofthe maternal protect
or OF newly Matched brood was only an in-
nocent way OF showing the dignity of the
parent towards its new offspring. AS they
say on the birth of a prince. 1.-THE whole
country INDUCES in sympathetic congratu-
lations."
| can only excuse myself for getting
down long enough to notice A. B. C's. NOR
tai two columns, written with gas, gall,
vinegar ana fetid water, under the charita-
bic apology that he has mistaken his pangs
of chronic indigestion for feeling of devo-
tion to the common schools under what, in
his insane delusion, lie imagines to be his
paternity.
And beg here to say, to all the persons
whose names have been dragged before the
public by the "A. B." and &C" correspond
ents of the Journal, that SO far as | know
them entertain none but the kindest of
personal feelings toward them. 1t Is the
petty politicians of their party, who to
subserVe their partisan ends have paraded
their names for the discreditable purpose
of damaging political opponents. l shall
only call them by name to disprOve the false
statements paraded before the public by
these scribblers; and then as lightly as pos
sible.
without a word of proof, but with a
tumble of epithets and fierce expressions,
"A. B. c." starts out with staggering as
sertion that the statements of "TaX-Payer"
were false" In the progress of his dia-
tribe, however, he unwittingly admits all
the material issues in the controversy.
Hence the public will indulge Inc mo-
mem { while siit from his two columns of
invective, few of his own admissions for
the proof of "Tax-Payer's" positions.
lst. He tacitly admits-as he does not call
In question any of the statements in regard
to the conduct connected with the so-called
expulsion of certain persons from Mr..
Seavey's school. So much settled.
I'd. While pretending that Mr.. Norton
was removed as a result of Democratic OPP
preston he asserts that just half the Board
III. h.,-g haf ffFnn
Gratis. In another paragraph he says it re-
quired majority -four members) to remove
a teacher. The facts are that Messrs. Sulli-
want, Gere and John Greiner-all of Mr..
Norton's party-were certainly members of
that Board. How Mr.. NortOn's removal
could have been party affair will require
more than even "a. Il. C.'s" sophistry to
convince the public. But the facts are, the
removal was unanimous-Mr. Sullivant |
being absent; and am assured by those
who know, that the records Of the School
Board ,ciH sho,o this tdctl
3D. "A. b. g." attempts no explanation of
how the appointment OF Mr.. Twiss, subse-
quent to the removal of Norton, was a |
Democratic measure. But
4th. He struggles through two enormous |
paragraphs of huge dimensions, and most
labored special pleading, to satisfy his read
ers that Mr.. Twiss was turned out by the |
Democrats; while the files of the State |
Journal show that majority of the Board |
under which that gentleman was super
seded, was claimed as of its party; nor
does he deny that the record of the School
Board shows that the appointment OF Mr..
Hutchinson was unanimous.
As the case now stands, as presented by
" Taxpayer" and as left by "A. B. c." it
is rank Injustice to Mr.. Twi.s to say that he
was turned out. There is not a word of
evidence to show that he would have ac-
cepted the appointment under the circum-
stances.
9TH He comedies that all the victims
to Democratic cruelty since the removal of
Mr.. Norton, had served out the full term of
their appointment. But his doctrine ap-
pears to be, that once in office (if belong
ing to his party, Democrats are in duty
bound to keep them In all their lives, and
when the Abolitionists have a majority of
the Board, the Democrats are to be held re-
sponsble for the on-reappOintment of his
special favorites.
9th. The unworthy motives of these Com
mon School politicians in presenting their
clap-trap arguments "to all the men, all
the women, and all the children" just on
the eve of every election for Directors, is
now made manifest through this precious
n |
act of the Abolition Legislature, which was
passed by party vote, to expel the Board
of Education from the position to which
they had just been elected by the legal
voters of this city, he holds the following
language:
"That Union men in this city may have
become aware that If positions were to be
held by them, it was simply by the suffer-
ance of the Democratic party. -
This they had learned by experience. 1t is
not strange, then, that they favored the
Here is an acknowledgment from
the mouthpiece of the common school pol
iticians that ''the positions to be held by
them" are the main object for which the
city is to be kept in perpetual fever for the
patronage and pickings the common schools
are to yield.
A most precious paternity to the educa-
tional interests of the city!
There never had been any objection to
the original plan of selecting the Board
from the entire city-as was wisely prOvid-
ed by the trainers of the original law. 1t
worked we'll. Nobody wanted a change
till few restive partisan Abolitionists con-
ceived the plan of legisldting themselves
into positions that the people would not
give them
Our correspondent is exceedingly en-
barrassed at statement OF "TaX-Payer,"
that while Mr.. Twiss was Principal of the
High School the entire Board-save one
member-was Democratic. For his en-
lightenment, | will explain. He seems
aware that teachers are only appointed for
one year. Mr.. T. was reappointed several
times each wear the BOARD became more