Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-15

years were as lOlloW5:
Hospital for the Insane................ s68,976 o.
| Physician and Superintendent Of the
Hospital for the Insane................ 4,OO0 "
| Blind Asylum, at Nashyille.-........ l0ODO "
22l83 O.
Memphis Hospital ...... .--.....-.-.--.. $500 "
Total................................s Ii4,6O9 0:
Thus we find that the Harris admins
tration appropriated to sustaining the
public charities of the State for two years
only S54S4 II less than the Fletcher
Brownlow administration has appropri
ated to sustaining these laudable objects
and paying off the debts they contracted
during the past six years. Here is an ad
ministration that makes high pretensions
to love for the people, yet its appropria-
tons to the public charities of State, fol
for the relief Of the sick and the unlor-
tunate, for a period claimed by the Sec
rotary of State to run back six years
have amounted to the paltry sum Of
Sj4S4 II more than the Harris admins
tration appropriated for only two years
Is not that damaging contrast for the
Secretary of State to call up against an
administration he was defending
A great deal has been said by the
Fletcher-Brownlow administration and
its partisans about "thc sacred school
fund and the education of the poor
children Of the State And when the act
of May "a, 1865, was passed care was
taken to impose tax upon property
polls and privileges sufficiently high to
furnish ample revenue to meet the de
mands against the state, defray the legiti-
mate current expenses and leave ''the
sum Of eight hundred thousand dollars
to be applied to common school purposes,
in addition to what is now allowed by law
for said purposes. This is the wording
Of the act But when the enormous ex-
penses incurred by the present admins
tration-more than one-fourth as USE
lessly, not to say as criminal, as if the
money had been thrown into a red-hOt
furnace-were met not only had the
100000 disappeared, been swallowed
up in this criminal waste of the money
wrung from an oppressed people, but that
now allowed by law for common school
purposes had gone the same way and not
one dollar has been applied to the edu-
cation Of the poor children of tha State
by the Fletcher Brownlow administration
during the two years of its existence
In his first message to the Legislature
Gov Brownlow said At no period in
the history of the State has the young
and rising generation appealed so eff
fectingly for legislative aid Practically
denied all scholastic advantages during
the last four years, and deprived, as
thousands have been, of their natural
protectors, if they are not soon provided
for it will be too late for them Indeed,
not few have already passed beyond
the age to attend school, hopelessly Tilt
crate Notwithstanding this, the present
administration has not devoted a single
dollar to the education of the children
yet, multiplied thousands have been ex-
pended in useless legislation, in legisla
ton intended to punish and degrade the
great body of the white people of the
State in public printing for which there
was about an equal necessity that there
is for third wheel to cart, in sustain-
Ing metropolitan police, Governors
staff and loyal militia, for which
there was not the shade Of shadow of
necessity-only to reward political par
tisans with fat Offices.
Now, then, to the Harris administra-
ton, with which the Secretary Of State
contrasted his and Brownlow s, to show
that they had given the people an eco
nomical administration, and see what was
done toward educating the poor children
Of the State in 1859 and 1860 Here are
the appropriations that were made in
those two years
Common schools S8l06i6 IS
Academy fund. 5Zsls -
Spencer r. Hunt fund ...................... 60 90
Total .--..r.si4S5lo ~
What a contrast While the Harris
administration appropriated and paid
out in 1859 and 1860, nearly half a mil
Lion dollars to assist in educating the little
boys and girls in every county in the
State. the Fletcher Brownlow admins
tration has not devoted a single dollar
to that noble purpose Money has been
wrung from an oppressed people in the
shape Of taxes, to reward partisans, to
retain power in the hands Of men whom
adventitious circumstances placed IN po-
sitions Of trust, and to punish and de
grade the great body Of the white peo~
pie Of Tennessee, but the eloquent APP
peal for their rights, which has come up
from the little boys and girls IN every
hamlet OF the State has not touched the
hearts Of the men who hold the reins of
power. although it should have melted a