The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-10
THE SCHOOL BOARD.

j. Profound as was the contempt entertaine
Of for the Kellogg School Board before, it ha
4 been deepened and intensified by the unut
is terable meanness and despicable littlenes
e evlnced by its members since the memorable
It l4th OF September. It is almost impossible
l. for honorable men to conceive of huma,
y beings, white or black, being actuated by mo
n tlves as contemplate as those which hav,
, moved the men temporarily and unjustly il
charge of the public schools of New Orleans
! to dismiss teachers who were in every way
capable, and who were, besides, entirely de.
. pendent upon their salaries, because of their
! supposed sympathy with the movement of the
citizens on the 14th inst.
7 1t amazes us that some of the more respect
able darkeys on the board did not rise in their
seats and protest that they should not be
n .de to bear The odium whicf. must ireyita-
b. attach to 80 di'gust, g An exhibition of
petty malice and malignant parti1nship. We
regret that the white men on the board were
not made to shoulder the entire weight of OBJ
loquy and opprobrium which the act must
necessarily call forth, for we happen to know
that the base maneuvre was the emanation of
those members OF the board whose skins are
white, though their hearts are of darker hue
| than the faces Of their saddle-colored associ-
| ates.
The venom of these white and tan Radicals
it appears could not find adequate expression
in the dismissal of two estimable and
thoroughly competent gentlemen; number
OF refined ladies, some of them orphans, all of
them capable teachers, must also be sacrificed !
to teach the people that revolutions are danger
GUS, and that "treason" must be punished
Valorous gentlemen truly Superb exem-
plars of virtue, honesty, and true manhood
Bah! Such scurvy fellows, such low minded
and base hearted human things, such corrupt
and venal officers deserves to be impaled upon
the sharp points of popular scorn and indigna-
ton, and held up for al the world to ieer and
kick at
But what are we to expect when the negro
superintendent of Public Education in this
State Is an incompetent and drunken fellow,
and many Of the members of the School Board
are VIGOROUSLY corrupt Forty gentlemen, at
least, saw Brown drunk ON the occasion of the !
meeting at the Varieties Theatre last month,
and he has frequently exhibited himself in
public places under the influence of liquor.
Boothby, the fussy and radically incompe- q
ent superintendent, who was only a little ,
While back the ninth part of man, has been :
'harged In the board with bribery and corrup- T
ion ; but the matter is hushed up for fear of il
reating noise
Altogether, there never was so disreputable +;
nd Infamous a body as the present School c.
'oard taken as whole, the few decent mem h
ers making the others stand out in more 81
fenslve relief. As an evidence of the anmus
the board, we will mention one instance A
Dung lady IAN orphan-a teacher in the e
,hools) wrote to director that she was un-
voidably detained in Virginia by the illness ~
her aunt, but would return with all possible m
aste. The director granted her leave of pr
'sence, and promised at the first meeting to OF
we 1t extended thirty days, if necessary II
That was before the 14th of September. Al
nee that time her name has been stricken IS
ON the roll and the only excuse given is that OF
e was believed to have sympathized with 81
e people in their revolution. It was con- frt
'sed that no possible blame could be found he
tn her as teacher, that she was an exem- s e
'ry person in every other respect, but in u
At it was probable that she sympathized with ga
3 people, she must suffer. wh
r. is our colarr corv;ot;o,, A.. :. ,, col
infinitely better for the white people Ar
abandon the schools to the incompetent am
immoral men who control them, and to as
negroes, rather than continue to send ~
II children where they are subject to insult ne,
where the influences exerted by the gov ticu
ing power is impure and degrading. !
he time is not long before the people will o ob
in control the State Government and the Que
ools will be under the control of men of viii
ue and eminent ability, and, in our opinion TO
ere better for parents to teach their chill WAS
y at home until that time arrives. the
he influences exerted upon children by by q
unworthy men, white and black, whom a
t terrible calamity has temporarily placed non
barge of the schools cannot but be iniuri
and debasing. tt
Luther Lyon. I'll
here is a certain fellow in town who bears ~
above name and has been representing am C
self as n reOOrtar of tho W. Aooe!