Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-10
THE TENNESSEE SCHOOL FUND

through the South bE Gov Harris,
il will perhaps 90 further discuss the
the loss of the orig "a. school fund
Well that is bargain We agree to
the Tines propos.li.n. ana hope there
will be no backiug out. The six hun
bred thousand dollars in gold was cap.
tured IN Georgia 10y Federal soldiers,
and returned to Gov. Brownlow. 1t
was no part Of the school fund and
never had been. Upon the recon-
mendation of Gov. Brownlow. if we
are not mistaken, certainly with his APP.
| prOval, the Legislature directed that sum
to be invested in 1880 bonds and passed
to the credit Of the .Chool fund. This
was done The bonds Were deposited
at Nashville in the capitol, and after
wards taken by the State Treasurer,
who was not Republican, although
elected by Republican Legislature,
and deposited Ia q Memphis bank.
The bank failed and "a large proportion
/ of the fund was lost For this .oss,
Gov. Brownlow was }. Io way respou-
sible, aud not one uo.t u:evideuCe has
ever been Offered trs. uW that lie was.
We have no apology .n OF. for the
men WHO were parties @. tll. loss,
whether by "uiu' Negligence, or by
criminal participant % ur eounIvauce.
| But Democrats have been % iower
since that occurred alH have never
punished any ou,r,r IT. AaL be it re-
memDered, that although Democratic
| Journalists attempt 'o conceal the
fact, this wa, 10. isgt of the
/ original school fund. AS we have
stated before. every dollar Of that fund
was used for the purpose OF sustaining a
visionary government rotten south-
ern Copfederacy ihi- fund amount
ed to S2,6l9 ,Ol6 So What became of
that? Will the elitnr of ;he Times
or of the Memphis appeal, or Of any
other Democratic paper in the State
| tell Us? We fear not, and for that rea.
son We will show where that fund
went. We will let d Democrat tell
about il. tn "A public discussion in the
| town OF Murireesboro', in the fall OF
/ lS72 between Gov. Isham CT. Harris
and Col. Colyar, of Nashville, the lat
| ter alluded 20 this matter and gave
dates ana figures. Az reported in the
Nashville BaRnu, . Democratic paper
/ he said:
Governor Harris himself il 1851,
/ while Governor under oath to support
| the Constitution, and only in anticipa.
/ ton OF war caused what was called a
/ Military Board to take, and which was
/ taken by his Orders, without due pro-
cess of law, in the month of May, 1861,
while the state was still in the Union,
from the Bank of Tennessee, and out
Of the sacred school fund, secured 6l
| the Constitution Ia the children or thu
State forever, $685., 9l3; that without
due process OF law, he took in June OF
this fund S767 GA; that without pro.
cess of law. he took in the month OF
July, 81 $50, 2l3; ia August, without
due process of law, 1913, 449 ia Sep.
TENDER, without due process of law
1884 GAL in October, without due pro.
cess Of law, he took from the school
fund sos, l43; in November he took,
without due process of law, $3.50, 939
in December, Sll3,75l; making in all
of this fund taken without due process.
of law, $3.50, 1913.
Governor Harris, not only for wal
purposes ana without due process OF
law, took this large sum from the chill.
dren of the State, but he went TO the
Planters Bank and told the officers o.
| hot l., l. . -. mn m
and that he was backed with the mill
! tary and that they must furnish the
money and under II positive threat d
taxing by force ne got, without du,
process of law, from this bank 5000,
900; and then he went to the Unioi
: Bank, and under positive threat {
take 10y force, he got $500, 900. Turniu,
to the Governor, Col. Colyar said
" Sir, if johnson ought To be damne,
JOrerey for taking money without du
: process OF law, don't you think yol
ought to go to he'll for at least thou
sand years.
[ SO it will he seen, Governor Harri
not only took without process o
: law y all the original school fund il
, the bank of Tennessee, but he tool
from the bank l,S7l, IA 81 additional
Not satisfied with robbug the chill
, dren of the State by using a fuu
/, secured to them by the Constitution h
! had sworn to support he took by fore
5 another million belonging to privat
q banks
/ And this j. what became of th
- school fund. Whoever heard Of :
3 much brazen impudence as is displaye
by Tennessee Democracy in chargin
upon Republicans the loss of $685.
t. when they are responsible for takin
@ three or four times that amount an
n using it for the purpose OF breakin
i up the Government? When thei
= was not Republican daily in the Stat
d and only three or four weekly journal
e they could publish this stupendou
: falsehood with impunity, and the
4 even got some clever people to believ
= ii, but that day has passed, and we al
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