Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07

? 2FAYETTEVILLB, TENNBSEB: THURSDAY, MARCH I 1872

square miles of territory, Will,
Tennessee has 45, 600 square miles
Massachusetts, has a population
of l87 to the square mile, fen,
nessee only 273 to the square
mile. Massachusetts commenced
the education of her people al
least as early as 1886, the reputeG
date Of the founding of Harvard
while Tennessee was not admitted
into the Union until 1876, and
commenced her career in the vii,
derness infested with wild beasts
and savages.
Mr., Hoar- will itbe disagreea,
bic to the gentleman to have me
interrupts him? (
Mr.. Bright have not time
to yield now | will answer any
question, if my time will be ex-
tended, -...l lea.
Mr.. Hoar--I should like to
verify the fact.
Mr.. Bright say you cannot
verify the fact by the educational
report, if that is what you allude
to. And, inasmuch as the educa-
tional system of Tennessee has
been alluded to, Mr.. Speaker, l
stand here to pronounce the zeal.
Gus and ready cooperation of al
the. departments, legislative, ad-
and scholastic, in
the State of Tennessee, to bring
it up to the highest standard Of
excellence. And the gentleman
from Massachusetts will find,
from the educational report which
| see he has before him., that liz
consequence of the financial con.
1ition Of Tennessee she could not
resort to a coercive system of
common schools, and she had to
resort TO the, system Of county
schools, authorizing the counties
to.tax the people in an amount
not exceeding the State tax on
the taxable property, which taxes
we're to be added to the apportion-
nent Of school funds to which
each of the counties might be en-
titled out of the common school
fund provided by the State-that
S, the interest on 81, 800. 900, the,
State tax on polls, all escheated
property and all gifts Of property
% the State not restricted to
another use. atrss r.se a. 4
Tennessee has not been indiffer-
mt to the establishment of sys.
.em of common schools. AS ear
y as 1923 her Legislature dedica-
ed to common school purposes
he proceeds of all the vacant
ands lying north and east OF
What was known as the Congress
ional reservation line. By act
If 1927 the Legislature enlarged
he fund by dedicating a part of
he capital of the new State bank;
~ the proceeds of the sale of the
1iwassee lands, after the extin-
,uishment OF the Cherokee title in
S26; by all the lands previously
appropriated; by all the other va
ant lands in the State belonging
othe State; by all the rents and
,rofits of the school laDds by DO
lations made to the State by Ma
on Lee of South Carolina; by the
Donation of five thousand acres of
and made by John Rice by all
'ther donations to the State un>
ess restricted to a different use
~ four hundred shares of stock
,wned by the State in the old
'ank of the State at Knoxville;
y all escheated lands, and by all
he personal effects Of intestates
Iot passing under the distribution
avs of the State, These funds,
With any others that might be
hereafter appropriated, we con-
and secured inviolably
o common schools by the amend
d constitution of Tennessee IN
S34. These funds were placed
IS a part Of the capital in the
Bank of Tennessee by act of the
legislature in 1888. Of the divi.
lends of this bank 100000 were
.nnualiyi set apart for common
chools and SIS, 1000 to academies,
o.be apportioned according to the
eholastic population of children
'etween the ages Of. six and six
cen. 81 .--.,---,..o 80, !
This system continued in opera
ion until suspended by the recent
ivil war. After the war the
Sank of Tennessee was put in
liquidation by a winding-up act,
md all its chooses in action were
'laced in the hands Of . trustee
OF, collection. The specie of the
'ank, or a part at least, was re-
urned to the State authorities af-
er the war, and by them convert.
d into seven.thirty bonds of the
United STATES, amounting to $685.