The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1870-01-18
THE ILL. STATE TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION.
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| EDITORS BULLETIN: $780, In the high.
| toned, courtly, polished aud cl,Urdcicr-
istic eiiusion of Mr. Morgan, in your
| paper of the 10Th inst, he has utterly
| failed TO rcfute q sing,e statement made in
the article he attempts 10 reply to. For
his personalities and destinations we
care nothing, as Mr.. NJ, and ourselves
are too well known to the public in this
} vicinity to fhave, anything effect our
] standing in this community that he can
| possibly say against us. He says our
article was "tissue OF falsehoods;" we
say that it was n statement Of facts
every line Of which, we are ready to
make affidavit To if hecessary; aid on
fectly willing to stand before the public
with Joel G.. Morgan, and abide the lie.
suit We now re affirm all we have be.
fore said, and will here re.itterate part
Of what we have before published, viz:
"That had Mr.. Morgan been Usry anxious
to have had the Association held here,
he could easily have asoertained that
they cOuld have been accommodated at
the st. Charles and elscwhere;" and we
will further add, that supposing (and it
will require an immense amount of inn
Imagination To even suppose" such
thing that the ST. Charles could not ac-
commodate but "forty-five on the upper
hoors,n (which, by the way, contain
some of the most pleasant rooms in the
house), we cannot even suppose "with-
out fires,n for there is n stove in nearly
every room. But supposing the accom-.
modations arere Limited 10 the above.
number. We again say if Mr. NJ. had
been anxious 10 have the Association
held here, all he had to do would have
been TO inform the public Of lack Of
hotel accommodations, rs there are hun.
dreds of our whole.souled citizens who
would cheeHully have left the "lateh-
string" out, and received the teachers
with open hands and willing hearts.
This assertion, we know to be true as
many prominent citizens have told VI,
within the last few weeks, that they
would gladly have assisted in taking
care OF tue AssOclitlOn nuu hT. NJ. let
them know anything about it. We dis
like newspaper controversy us much
rs any one, and during our five years
residence here we have carefully avoided
anything OF the kind. When the article
appeared in the Bulletin headed "The
"Reason Why" we did not reply to II,
although we knew Ii was false and un-
Just IA far as we were concerned, but
when, n few days ago, another article
was published, more glazing and false
than the first, we thought 1t about time
to "define our position" in the matter.
This we have done, and here we rest our
case. Mr.. Morgan may continue his
brilliant literary communications; his
manly, heightened eflusions; he may
also continue To squirm, wrthc, wriggle
and siirk the responsibility, but the Jdts
remain the same, and "iacts" are, II
seems, u him most stubborn thingsn
In conclusion, Mr. Morgan says our
last article, rs an advertising cari," was
a success. As we wish to be impartial,
We will here say, that the "adycrtlslnp"
done In his article has been Tor his sole
benefit, and we hope Il viii prove rs
much "plccessr Tor him, rs he claimed
opr last was for u.
JEwErf WILCOX, * Co.,