The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-04-26

who has given his attention and zeal
to assist in establishing (as general
Agent) the great principles, the life
desire and earnest thought Of Mr.
Peabody. He has established in the
different States, his Local Agents.
these Local Agents establish schools
in communities, these powers must
act in unison. So far, the distressed
and impoverished people of Bayou
Sara, have maintained their schools
assisted by the free will gifts Of the
people. We have received emo pen
NY of the school taxes that are
wrung from our hard earnings. We
do not oppose the State Schools, we
have earnestly desired SO far as in
our power to cooperate with them,
but when the miserable subterfuge
was made for division of funds, they
certainly knew that if was not in our
power to change the testament Of
the great philanthropist. We had to
quietly withdraw and let them enjoy
their accidental power.
During the three years Of no Pub
hc Schools our people established
The Bayou Sara Peabody School,
with three branches. The people
though generally poor, harmonioasly
united and generously gave what
they could, to give their little ones
some degree Of education. We are
now teaching as heretofore, and af-
ter making & careful examination Of
the school records, we find that
there are in all our Peabody
Schools represented by 81 families,
with 257 educablc children, Of
whom LOG are regular, in atten-
dance, 115 are irregular and 80 so
very irregular, that we scarcely know
how to class them, as they shift from
one school to another. In our an
nual report, we will give you fuller
statements, and if required the full
name Of each pupil, age, ard parent
OF guardian, all pay and free. This
we would do now but feel that many
good people would feel mortified by
so public an act.
We find that there are in all the
schools two hundred and fifty one
children, of whom about 1O6 are
regular in their attendance, 115 very
irregular, and 80 that we cannot
class because, one week they are in
our schools and then off to the Pub
lie Schools, yet they have been re-
ceived, and in many cases books hs We
been furnished them gratis by this
Board.
The malicious Quibble about Their
being only Il pupils at the Princi-
pals School is worthy Of the SHARP
practice OF a s1,yster, Or the deadly
mistakes Of the quack. The truth
is this in February last we had
some tremendous rains-so terribly
muddy the roads, and disagreeable
the weather, that parents would MOI
generally let their children leave
their homes. For several days the
register shows a small attendance
one day IA was all, but we note thai
the average regular attendance i!
above fifty. Many children cannot
attend longer than IL NJ, in conse
quence Of being useful at home poo
people cannot loose all the time o
their larger children, hence the ii
regularties. We have made the nee
essary examinations of all the trans
actions of our Schools, since Jun
1865, to this date and do unhesi
tatingly pronounce the writer of tn
) note to Dr.. Sears, to be an unmiti
; gated falsifier of the facts and chal
lenge him to the proof, or let hin
stand branded, as one of the mos
, Infamous defamers of the character
: of those whose hard and toiling live
are spent to the best of their abili
ties, for an honest living, and use
full live, and supported by the fire
, gifts Of their fellow-citizens with th
: nloiety of the great donor. Can
be, that any man who passes as ~
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