Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-15

dent Tor Hamilton county under the |
common school law, publishes a
communication in the Chattanooga
Republican,, in which he states that
the school tax collected in that
county in 1867 amounted to over |
$4,000, and that he has drawn Just
81, 482 SO for paying teachers. He
says that many Of the teachers have
taught second term, although not |
paid for the first Mr.. Tade pub
fishes the following note 81 taa
NAsuvILLE, TENN, April 9, 1862
Dear Sir-Tbere is no money in the treas
ury, and all fiscal agencies are over 4
drawn. ~ Yours in distress, 81 ga
ssf fe rr JOHN EATON, Supt.
Mr.. Tade accompanies the pub
LEGATION of this note with the fol-
lowing comment , i,
'0ur wise legislators wisely required
the State Superintendent to give bonds
for one hundred thousand dollars. and
then very wisely kept the money where
he could not handle 1.-THE county SUI
perintendents have seen but little of it
but the people Of Tennessee have paid
more than million of dollars for school
purposes. Where is it? Who has abb
sorbed it2 Let these questions echo
Il froun a.. h, a. ALL
every valley in this commonwealth shall
hear-till a just indignation shall give
whitening rebuke to every State official
who cannot show record as to his
action concerning the school fund. Shall
not the friends of education be heard2
Have we not reached that point where
patience and silence cease to be virtues
Somebody is guilty. Ventilatel Vents
late! No quarter for the guilty.
The demand of Mr.. Tade for
ventilation of the matter in regard
the school fund is just. For three
years the school tax has been regu-
larly collected, and should now
amount to a very handsome sum.
In the mean time but very small
proportion of this fund has been
distributed for school purposes, and
now he Superintendent says there
is no money in the treasury. What
has become of the money that has
been collected from the people under
the guise of school tax To what
purpose has the large fund thus
collected been appropriated? This
money was collected for the benefit
of the children of the State; it was
a sacred fund.-" and should have
been held for that purpose alone.
But it has gone along with the
millions that have been recklessly
squandered by the Brownlow adj
ministration, and the children for
whom this tax was levied and col
lected may get an education as best
they can. The money that has been
collected from the people in the
name of a school tax, has been ia
ken from them under false preten-
ses, for it has been appropriated to
purposes very different from that
originally intended. Somebody is
to blame for this. Who is it? Let
the name or names Of the parties
who have thus squandered the
money which belonged to the
little boys and girls of the
State be made public, that they
may be pointed out in all time to
come as the robbers of little chill
dren. The management of the
school fund by the Radical author
tiles of the State has been disgrace
full to the last degree. After setting
aside the funds returned with the
Bank Of Tennessee, by solemn act
of the Legislature, as a part of the
school fund, the principal Of which
shall never be diminished, and the
interest of which was to be inviola-
bly, appropriated to the support an d
encouragement of common schools
throughout the State, and for the
equal benefit Of the people thereof"
more that half that fund was squan-
dered in the most corrupt manner,
while the schools have never derived
one dollar from the remainder. Not
withstanding the action of the
Legislature constituting the funds
returned with the Bank of Tennes-
see part of the school fund under
the provision of the constitution OF
the State regulating that fund, the
portion saved from the wreck of the
Tennessee National Bank of Mem
phis was, by order of Gov. Brown
low, used in the payment of inter
est on the State debt without the
sanction of law, or even the SEM
blance of such sanction. Much the
largest portion of the moneys col
lected from the taxpayers OF the
State for school purposes has been
diverted from the noble charity for
which it was intended, and now the
Superintendent states that there is
not a dollar in the treasury. Who
has used this fund without the
sanction of law, and for what pur-
pose has it been so used? Give the
people light on this subject that the
guilty may be held up to deserved
Reproduction. We must hold the
Radical party responsible for the
corrupt DETECTION from its legiti-
nate purpose, of this sacred
fund" until it exposes the guilty
parties and washes its hands of the
great crime.