Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-02-13

a vague idea Of the provisions of the school law,
or his duties under them. He refers here (it
must be, II he aims at anythlng) to the teacher
as the ''rejected Gpplicant" which, If so, the
negroes tactious opposition to the trustees he
admits to be right. If not, to whom does he
refer as the Projected applicants There was
but one applicant, and she was elected teacher,
and who was teacher de j1re from the lst Octo-
Der to the end of the fall term, if not de tdcto.
Georgeanna SmmS did not put ii in the pow
er of the trustees to reject her; she had been
| taught by Mr. LLOYD to look to him and not to
the trustees; he had previously appointed her
and paid her, and she. together with the patrons
of the school, regarded the interference OF the
trustees an unwarranted assumption ofpower
! on the part OF the whites.
''If the colored patrons do not desire the mrs
iGpplicdnt, do not think that the trustees would
go far wrong in consulting the wishes OF those
patrons in selecting teacher for them
Was not Mr.. Lloyd aware that we had al
ready elected a teacher? 1t was not the teacher
that created this opposition on the part of the
negroes, though it was made the preteNt 1t was
placing the schools under the control of whte
trustees. Trustees can appoint teacher to-
| day and turn him out tomorrow, though every
patron mi ght approve the act. Whatever may
be his derelictons or offences he is entitled to
thirty days notice. SO if Mr. Lloyd is correct
in his statement that, under his advice, Mr..
Speake and Mr.. Huntington held private
meeting aud elected Georgeanna SimmS II was
in violation of law, and not worth the tobacco
masticated during their grave contab. Chap.
| 5, sec. ,.
NO person shall be employed as teacher I'M
der this law unless Stch person shall hold q
certificate OF qualification. issued by the Exam
incr of the county"
Thus saith the iaw-(chap s. sec. ~ This
certificate the party referred TO did not hold
If Mr.. Huntington at any time voted for this
woman for teacher he must to have been in that
happy oblivious condition of mind that Mr.
Speake found himself when he signed the pro
test. She was not the teacher Mr.. Lloyd. in
his communication on the ID January, agrees
with TAX Payer she was not. The trustees
of the school represented to the School Board
she was not. The County Board decided she
was not entitled to pay. So the whole matter
seems TO be at an end. But instead of this Mr..
Lloyd gives a new aspect to the whole thing,
and ventilates.himSelf.
About the 10th of January last a communi-
cation directed to me individually came 10 hand.
on opening it | found it intended for the trus-
tees of No. /. 1t was from Mr.. Lloyd saving
1.-The County Board had decided against any
payment to Georgeanna SimmS, as teacher, I'M
less the trustees would recommend payment.' Ii
feel themselves justified in recommending. ohri1l-
iy, pay. ont of the public crib TO party not lc-
gally entitled to ii, saying nothing about going
back on themselves and their own records. -
sent the letter 10 Mr.. Huntington with the
request that he would Immediately send it 70
Mr.. Speake and thought nothing more of the
matter. But before Mr.. Huntington could get
the communication TO Mr.. Speake Mr.. Lloyd
had made the first track. through q six inch
snow, to the extreme end of Nanjemoy, passing
the residences of Mr.. Huntington and myself
10 hold an interview with Mr.. Speake.
Great zeal this, and it was worthy of better
cause He there assumed the duties again. of
trustee in behalf of his protege, Georgeanua
SimmS. Mr.. Huntington wrote me with refer
ence to Mr.. Lloyd visit as follows:
january q, 1874
''Dedr Sir: carried Mr. Lloyd 5 letter to Mr.
Speake and there found Lloyd. | signed some
paper. with the unders landing that did not
consider Georgeanna SimuS the legally elected
teacher This was in the presence of Mr. Speake
| said the same bsrors and attcr singing the
paper. Yours. &c. W. W DUNNINGToN. ~
l am thus minute for the reason that rumor
has it that this woman has been paid; this |
care nothing about provided the MONEY comes
from the right place. Mr. Lloyd told the ne
groes to '.go ahead and he would see the teacher
paid, and of course. in honorable man, he
was bound to fulfill his promise: but If she waS
paid. teacher OF No. |. out of the school fund.
/, as one of the trustees OF that school. protects
against it as Illegal, unjust and grossly wrong.
and not justified by the action OF a majority OF
the trustees of the school. Ii any one was to
be recommended for pay it WAS the legally elect
ed teacher, who had been kept from the dis
charge of her duties by factous opposition 70
law, and who received no aid or encouragement
from the trustees or the County Board whose
duty ii was to have Installed her in this school,
if for no other reason than to vindcate their
authority and the law.
Mr.. Lloyd predicts rich fruits from his cor
respondence with Tax Payer " Well. If il
will only bring forth in him the fruit of obedi-
ence to the law, it will accomplish one good
end But | grieye to find the first and only
fruit yet perccivable is not iIl-humor only
But that little word ia,r seems 10 throw him in
towering passion, and, in the subimity OF it.
we might fancy TO see the consClcnce-Strcken
Secretary
'With oping mouth and staring eyes,
Gaping like a young crow Tor meat;
Iu rage sublime he cries:
Such impotence has put me in a sweat"
The exhaustion that must follow such mental
and physical eXertion that friend Lloyd has of
late undergone needs something recuperaiive,
and, if might venture prescription. ii would
be to tabOO, for time Samho, ''irrgatc his
arid tonsilS, and take snooZe.
THOMAS A. NILLAR.