Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-08-07
indignation Meeting.

4 Quite number of the citizens o.
Goshen Township, Belmont County
Ohio, met in Convention at Burr:
Mills, o., Aug. End, 1873, for the pur
pose of expressing their disapprobation
of the action of the County Commits
sioners in regard to the actions of the
School Board of said township; said
meeting was organized by electing A.
P. Wiley, Chairman, and VIM. III.
Hays, Secretary. The Chairman ap-
pointed the following named persons a
committee to draft resolutions express
sive of the object of the meeting. Com
! mittee, VIM. Patterson, E. D. Combs,
DIR. D. L. Pratt, T. n. Hollingsworth
and A. Garrett; said Committee repor-
ted the following preamble and resolu-
tions, which were unanimously adop-
ted:
WHEREAS, The late and very ex-
traordinary, hasty, inconsiderate, un-
called for aid unnecessary act of our
County Commissioners, by their as
sumption of the duties of the School
Board of Education of Goshen Town
ship, by their late interference with
said Board in the discharge Of their Of
ticial duty, was presumptive and des-
potic without the shadow of law or
necessity upon the bare representation
of one-tenth of said School Board, who
upon full deliberation had made with
a full knowledge of the wants of said
sub-District No. 5, the necessary pro-
visions according to law as they sever
ally believed, under the solemnity of
an oath, for the youth of the said SUBJ
district according to the requirements
of the school law; Therefore the glar-
ing presumption of said County Com
missioners, that nine-tenths of our hon.
orable and competent Board of Educa-
tion would perjure themselves or sink
their moral character in the estimation
of the good people of Goshen Town
ship, by dereliction of duty, who had
appointed them to the honorable posi-
tion of members of the Board of Edu-
cation; through the blind passion of
prejudice to the people of Belmont,
calls for the strongest terms of indigna-
ton; but when we 60 farther and look
at the enOrmity of the act, the injustice
and wrong it infiicts upon the already
over burdened tax payers of Goshen
Township, and its pernicious cOnse-
quences as q precedent arrOgating to
themselves the powers and duties
belonging to the Board of
Education, thereby encouraging dis
sension, insubordination and cOnten-
tion in said School Beard; therefore, it
becomes the imperative duty of all
honest and well disposed persons to dis
in the most unqualified man.
ner those would be lords forgetting that
they are the servants of the people;
therefore,
Resolred, That said Commissioners
have by their late unwarrantable, un-
iustifiable and unnecessary interference
with the official acts of our School
Board forfeited all claims to our suf-
rage or respect and that we will, with
put regard to party, rebuke and remove
from office as fast as opportunity pre-
,ents the present incumbents and that
we pledge ourselves to each other that
we will use all honorable means at our
disposal to accomplish this end.
Resolred, That the proceedings of
his meeting be published i'm the
Enterprise, BELMONT
CHRONICLE and st. Clairsville Gazette.
A. I. WILEY, Chairman.
WM. H. HAYS, Sec'y.