The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
CHAPTER ii.

sion that VIM. G. Brown, the usurping State
Superintendent, is competent for the position
which he occl pies we continue, with sug-
eestive comments, our extracts, verbdtim q
pu,actuatim, from the Annual Report
g. On the subject of School Districts, the
report says
Section 10 Of act 8, Of 1871, which requires
the State superintendent to observe the ward
boundaries (Of parishes) in the apportionment OF
the current school fund-and in the duty OF gen
eral supervision and carrying INTO ctet Inc
general enactments made for the establishment
OF schools and their government-compels the
recognition Of ward boundaries that, in many
parishes DOrks disadvantageously, and prevents
the establishment Of schools, in some instances,
where most needed. To illustrate: Three or
four wards near or forming the corner section ~
a parish each Of them, excepting the corner
ward with an enumeration list Of educable chill
dren, aggregating from four 10 six hundred-the
corner ward having one hundred, perhaps less.
This ward, receiving only its pro rata OF the
school fund, is un0ble, because OF It's smallness,
to build schOOl-house, or If 1t possesses one, TO
maintain schools bm two or three months in the
year"
This excerpt affords "A fair specimen OF the
style in which the entire report is written
Intelligent young rhetoricians will readily dis
cover the inconsequence Of thought and the
want of clearness and harmony in the con-
struction of sentences, and in the language
employed by the writer and any pupil famil-
lar with the reasonable exactions Of grammati-
cal rules, will detect the ambiguity caused by
the use of the relative that Immediately after
the word boundaries as subject of the verbs
,oorks and prevents Keen young minds will
also supply an indispensable verb after the
colon and they will also suggest that, where
their befogged State Superintendent pro!!a-
bly, meant to say that the corner ward is "unn-
BILE to maintain schools more than "two or
three months in the year" he has actually
written that it is unable to maintain them
but (only) two or three months of the year, =
the purport of which is not apparent, and
teachers should cause THAR pupils to revise
and rewrite the entire excerpt for the n&st'nc-
ton Of their Superintendent.
TO- Touching the relation Of education
and labor" in his illusions to which the sol
distant ventures to indulge in the usual Radical
TRADE against ,ohite prope,ty-o,oners in Louisi-
ana, the following characteristic language is
used in the report
In the changes which have occurred since
1863 in the status Of the abOrer, III the eyes OF
the law" and in the character Of the war be-
tween capital and labor" the careful Observer
and inquirer after the causes that produce effects
seen, discovers that which has and IS producing,
the restless upheaving and disorder among the
people in this and eur sister States South. 1t ia
not race or color to any appreciable extent, but
instead CASTE The OutgiO,rh Of the arrogance Of
,cedih, trying to maintain freemen the un-
hallowed supremacy it held over slaves
"The laborers Of this and other
Southern States are rapidly forming an alliance
with the forces Of education that has already
overcome much Of the disparity that existed, and
which will soon put them on vantage ground,
'chen he result Of TIE contest 'rW not tong BE-
wOblematical The wise and good OF
nations statesmen and educators, beholding the
strife and understanding its cause, ally them
selves with the laborers by recognizing their
belligcrent rights, and offer direct them to
,ohe'p and hop they may obtain the sinews Of
war-viz: education"
Pd,tArier1th monies; nascit,u ridicatlus mus.
Pestiferous in sentiment and barbarous in
expression. the foregoing excerpt reveals the
ani,nus which incites all Radicals in their un-
hallowed schemes Of political education IN the
Southern States. The gross errors in grammar,
which are indicated by italics, and which it
were herculean task to expose in detail, may
serve to excite only the derision Of teachers
and pupils when they undertake to relieve the
excerpt of its hideous deformities /; but the
OWNERS OF PROPERTY, who are GENEROUSLY taxed
for the support Of such schemes, will be
aroused to fearful realization of the designs
Of the conspirators if they will but trace the
Of the insolent mendaciOus
language Of the Agrarian Estate Super
intendent" with the insidious, regulatory ac-
ton Of Chas. W. keeting, the division Su-
perintendent" of the Fourth Congressional
District as described in the columns Of our
vigilant and patriotic contemporary, the
Shreveport Times:
shreveport Times, June 2, 1871
Intelligence was brought lis last week OF the |
Of keeting with certain negro lead
er IN this parish, III which keeting explained, |
even to the disgust of his negro listener the most
Infamous scheme for the wholesale confiscation Of |
the property Of this State, and the expulsion Of
the old landholders from its boundary The in |
formation was not AZ full as we desired, and as we
did not wish to do even such creature as keet-
ing injustice, We refrained from exposing the
scheme until our information was thorough and |
authentic.
Yesterday We met MIR. Reuben White, q
wealthy aud well known citizen OF this parish,
md from HIM We obtained the information We
desired. The information was given Mr..
White by the negro to whom keeting unbosomed
himself, and who is ready to substantiate the
The facts are about as follows Last week Mr..
heeting, who has Of late been devoting his time
ana craftsmanship to the organization Of negro
political clubs throughout this portion of the
State, called on prominent negro named Jas.
Berry, residing near Fairfield, a mile or more
!fom this city, on mission Of this kind Berry,
turing the last canvass, had a large negro club
IN his neighborhood, and did good work for the
lrpet-bag thieves, and Keeting informed him
hat he must reorganize his club without delay,
" the campaign was opening. But Berry seems
% have thought better of the thing, and told
Keeting that be believed he would not do so
hat tho white people were overta xed now, and
aad been plundered until they had no money for
themselves and none to give the freedmen,
md he thought the thing had gone far
enough why" replied honest Keeting, "You
10 not understand the policy Of the party We