The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-13

Catholic Bfhasin one of the spnsfiesehOols,
h,,f pveryyyhera the Protestant VT Ion, 10
which Catholic children are CONF lied toI
,,s,an, Ths Jews Of Richmond are to
ihe bE6fessine CHRISTIANS about I'D he. pro
~s;ortioi, az ole to seven. and yet thEre isanot
= school In Richmond Id which JcSsi stL cha-
dren are not compelled to listen to the Eead.
;np Of the. New Testament rs the WORD Oh
God when they believe 1t to be DO more
.diyineIy inspired than the, Code OF virginia.
A fourth of our population who profess any
faith, are jews and Catholics; yet instead OF
having tgenty-t,ro out Of the eighty-seven
teachers. az they are entitled to according 10
Mr.. WilIiams's theory, they have but sa1 !
| Whose rights are trampled on, whose cor:
| yictions triled with, whose prejudices insuIt-
| cd by the School Board! Yet this gross
inequality our Catholic and Hebrew feiioW'
! citizens and taxpayers are content 10 Deai
rather than eIntnrrass the system VIII re-
| Iicious controversy and from them. so mr
not a murmllr Of complaint has been heard,
Pint il turns out that Mr.. John IL. VII
liams has, in fact, no grievance after all tit
says: +.
have not much to say about the boare
and its doings during the past year. / haVe
L. IUU GSD6Cuil CIClthS w :
been recently made up, or, say, TILED up,
"rThe success of the past year was undef !
different re1an,e from that now in power
| We have vet to learn what the present boarf
| will do. We are ut their mercy, and onJec
to them now, before they SO to work"
The excessive "softness" of this answer
turneth away our wrath. He has not m'icl
to saw about the last Board. The last Boart
| was a "success." He has yet to learn VIVA
| the present Board will do. Now, would =
not be well to find out what the presen1
| Board will do before burdeninS the ncWspa
pers with assaults Oh themf Ut course he u
| ut our mercy, but We promise to let MN st's
in Richmond for the next year, and az ne MAJ
"got all that trash 0tf his stomach" L hoP
he will improve.
Here his letter should properly have ended
| but having been forced to confess the weak
| ness of his cause, some refuge Tor bis sell
| esteem was needed, aud he hndS IL III Il mo
| dcst boast Of his labors, and their success, II
| support Of the Bible in the schools. ),
IL is not n gracious task to PRICK tn's u
| Bile. but truth requires it, and L accorulnSl
| beg to assure the public that the bibie ma
| been at the head of the printed list of text
| books in every grade of the pubic Sclioolso
| Richmond from their inception, IN Juiy, loo9
TO this hour, and has been SO puollsned IL
every annual report of the Board. Next,
! assure them that the effort was never maze
since 1 have been n member Of the Board, t.
| eyclude it, l assure them'that the Doua.
| version is used in no school IN hlcninoha
although, unless Mr. Williams's blgotry !
| extremely one-side1, he should demand it
use in several. | assure them that the Board
80 far from superseding sacred music by secu
lar. has nothing to do with the music, ant
| does not meddle with business that is Of NJ
concern to it.
And | will add that there has been since
| the introduction of the public school system
| into Richmond but attempt to divert it
| funds to the support of q scctarian school
| that n Board on which there was neither
Jew or Catholic unanimously rejected it ant
it may be interesting, in view of this contro
| versy, to say further that the attempt wa
made by Mr.. John l.. Williams, of the firm
| of Lancaster g. Co." 4. NJ. KELLEY,
President School Board.