The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-25
TO yeritas. and all Concerned.

Inc next morning after your assault
upon the writer of the RemOnstrance,
1 thought the same medium you select
ed for your work, requested you TO
name the time or the occasion / voted
against the school law, or with the sup
posed offending 'thirty'' and in nv
communication to which you replied on
the morning of the 23d instant, L again
in substance plainly renewed the same
request, unless you were willing to ad-
init that the statement 1 made showed
that your statement was erroneous, and
that did not vote with the thirty, vet
you do not admit that you were misin-
formed, and that 1 did not vote with the
supposed offending thirty" but leave
the matter standing on a quibble upon
my use of the word remembrance. But
to make this part of our controversy
plain request you to sdmit or deny
whether the election which was held in
Oh1o county, on the 22d of February,
lSil, to take the sense of the voters for
and against the Scnool Law, was the
occasion or time1 voted with the Offend
ing thirty or other number, and If not
to inform us what was the time
or occasion to which you intend
ed to allude. And L here repeat.
that at the said election held on the
I'D of April, lS47, did vote for the
said school law, and that the poll book
will show it-though it is POSSIBLE /
other occasion-but that according to
my remembrance did not.
have not time, on the present occa-
slonJ materially to extend my former
argument. In your last communica-
tion, you declare "that undertake to
make II appear, that the rate of taxation
should be the same as that fixed by the
State law" Now while il is trut, thar
L do not wish TO be rude or offensive
yet 1t is certain that did not so under
take. What undertook on this occa-
sion to establish was, that taxation for
such purposes ought to be by general
tdrS, and not by local ones. / did not
say what the taxes were under the gem
eral law OF the State, nor did say that
they were more or less under the State
law. The issue made, and intended
to make in this particular was, that the
support of schools, such as was pro
posed by this bill of Veritas, ought to be
by general tuiCS and not by local ones;
ana that such was our State consuitu-
ton. did not contrast the expense
under this proposed Wheeling bill, and
that under the general law of the
state. 1did no such thing. But did
attempt to contrast the expense under
the proposed bill of Mr.. Neritas land as
IL was when the remonstrance was pre-
pared } and the eriSti1lg local law. con
ceEning this Wheeling district. And l
uld charge, and repeat the charge, that
ms proposed bill did propose to increase
the amount that might be raised in
this district, over that which could be
raised under the local law. The re-
nonstrance alleged that the existing
law only provided for three grammar
schools, while his bill established six,
or one in each of the six townships.
with power, on the part of his corpora
ton, to increase the number of these
grammar schools over six, whether the
WT~W IA NaaEN
that under his proposed bill more
money could be borrowed than could
De under our existing local law. It also
showed that the present law only au-
thorlzed the voters at an annual meet
ing TO appropriate to s2hool purposes,
funds the township had-but that his
phi gave TO the voters (citizens as
ne called them) the power at
an annual Cor special meeting, to
maze JurdeT special assessment for
Schoot purposes, with no restriction ax-
cept their own discretion. Hence l did
argue and did intend to argue, and do
so yet, that under his proposed bill the
taxpayers could be subjected 10 heavier
burdens than they would be laid under
the existing local law for our district.
l repeat that his proposed bill does give
the corporation the power to borrow
more than it could borrow under the
present Wheeling School District Law,
v AtNe pllA Slutt IT'S amendment
Oy the Legislature, 1 do not know. But
can say, that l am glad to learn that
the remonstrance has done some good
that II or something else has reduced
the power of this body to burden us
with taxes.
l also repeat, that the remoustrance
did not contrast the extent of taxation
under the general law of the State, and
that under his bill, and that Veritas has,
an thus, raised an issue of his own ma
king, and combated facts of his own
am glad to hear him avow that his
purpose is to take education into the
hands of the public, and virtually to
Supersede private schools. l was sure
equally sure that many toho hare sup
ported these public schools hare not E7.ot1n
that Snch lVGs their purpose.
Veritas in his concluding paragraph
declares "that the entire Remonstrance
is a most transparent blind. While it is
ostensibly aimed at the proposed bill.
it is, as before charged, in reality, aimed
at all existing systems of public in
struction." This 1 aver to be a bold
and reckless assertion, and one easier
made than proved. But will here add
that If he means to say that existing
systems of public instruction are sys-
TENS to educate alike the rich aud The
pGDptGs
education into The hands Of The public, and
TO SLpeTSsde private schools, then I will |
and do here admit and declare once and
for all, that am opposed to it. But if |
The gentleman means 10 say that am
opposed TO instruction at the expense of
the public for the poor, or that am
opposed to education. or that I am
opposed to the State aiding and patron-
lZing education and instruction then L
say the gentleman declares that which |
he has no right to declare from any
thing have said or done. have done
for education as much as most people
have, who have no more means than |
have. 1t may be very proper, and often
is very proper, for the public to aid in
making railroads and other public i'm
provements, such as bridges, ,,turnpikes
and canals, but it is another thing to
say that the public should take these
matters exclusively into its hands, and
make and accomplish them by taxing
the people. 1 might, and am prepar-
ed to say, that would oppose any sys-
tenn which proposed to do so, while il is
not true, that would, on no occasion,
extend help to such enterprises, by
public taxes.
1 will repeat that do believe that
such school bills as he proposed, are in
conflict with the Constitution OF West
Nirglnia.
L respectfuIly request Veritas % take
up the remonstrance, and to expose.
in detail, its errors in argument or of
lact. REMoNsTRASCB.
DEAN Swpr's FouRrEES REsoLU-
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