Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-10
Card to col. A. II. Grimslaw-NO. Q.

10 the President Of the Board Of Public EducG-
HOH:-
At a regular meeting OF the Board OF Pablo
Education, held August 26th introduced pro-
position to create high school in the city Of
Wilmington by uniting the Boys Grammar
At No. A. After an Intellectual attempt of
the opponents of the measure to choke of
debate and lay my resolutions ON the
table you came to their aid and with
delicate sense of justice not often attain
bic by dwellers on this planet, declared
the proposition before the Board out of order
Nor did You deign to offer even a preteXt for
YOUR action. On the following day addressed
You card through this paper requesting you
to state il YOU could wherein my resolutions
were out of order 10 this you have made no
answer, and to it can make no answer. The res
olutions were in order it was proper for the
Board at that time to consider them, and your
ruling was nothing more nor less than an auda-
clous attempt to destroy them, utterly regard
less Of Justice and parliamentary law.
The Board met in regular session again last
evening" and a series of resolutions was offered
providing for the removafof Miss Millers No.
school to No. l, and of Miss Rowands school to
No. t. and for the classification OF the Boys aud
Girls Grammar Schools at No. l, 80 that schol-
ars in the most advanced grades, OF either sex,
could pursue the same course of study and re-
cite together in the same class rooms. The in
PRODUCTION of these resolutions was met by the
out of order, and you were asked for Judgment
upon the point raised. Here now, you disap-
pointed the expectations of your friends by de-
Gliding the resolutions III order
But after the opponents of the measure had
exhausted their energies in vain attempts to de-
Ieat it by motions to postpone to lay the table,
to refer to a committee to be appointed by your
self, you called on our bashful and unassumlng
friend Col. McIntire (who from his seat had de-
clared the resolutions out of order.) to the chaii
and nrnin nFnnAGd.
ed to denver a speech in opposition
to the measure before the Board, closing witt
;he astounding declaration that me resolutions
mere out of order, and called for the ruling o.
the chair upon that point. Col. McIntire, the
temporary chairman, ready for any emergency
of that kind, promptly declared the resoluttOn
ont of order, which ruling, by vote OF fourteen
10 thirteen, of the members present. was sus
tanned. And 80 this measure, believed to hav'
been favored by majority of the Board, ant
Sustained by the best public sentiment in thi
community, was denied fair hearing ant
slaughtered by the tillbustering dodge Of it
enemies aided and abetted by you, the Presl
deut OF the Board. l have written this publ
letter solely to call the attention of the fair
minded and intelligent of the community :
your action in these matters, that they may az
prove 1t, il it be just, and condemn It'll othel
~lse. do not desire to injure you in the est
nation of the public, nor do forget the Valuabl
service you have rendered the cause of publ
tincation in this city, but will not consent
nave measures introduced into the Board, owe
which you preside, conceived in the interest {
lhe public schools, defeated by unjustihabl
methods, by your connivance and aid, withot
hNch protest as will be heard and felt in th
community. Very Respectfully,
WILMER ATKINSON.