Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-07
A SLANDERER REBUKED.
President Bishop, of the AFikausss In
dustrfaI University, ReDOkes Rev.
j. Y. Taylor. of Springfield.
missOuri.
Editor Evangelist, oskaloosa, Iowa:

ENduSGAlsli OehdLOOoSf AOWe
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK, October 70,
lS74.-In your issue of the twenty-fourth OF
Septem Der ultimO, observe letter from Kew.
]. Z. Taylor, OF springfield, Missouri, who mad
recently, II seems, been to this town minlste-
rally, and in which letter the following
passage occurs:
aRev. S. K. HaIlam is preaching for the
church at Fayetteville. He has noble ana
generous nature-nothing little or enV1ous
about it. He VIII be compelled TO open
school, as his salary is inadequate. be taught
last session in the Arkansas state university,
but owing to his northern birth ana reerlhg
he was left out of the faculty this year. That
State, in her majesty. has decreed, under
stand, that no individual reared in northern
ATTITUDES is TO be employed In her institutions
OF learning. Whatever may be thought OF the
wisdom OF this course, Ii certainly cannot
tend to the development of the State in any
of her true interests. 1t is simply suicidal.
II she does not suffer long from this and other
acts that retard her progress, IL viii because
some freak of nature has transmitted the PEN
atty of violated laws into blessing"
Rev. Mr.. ]. z. Taylor, permit me 70 say,
is firing very much at random, In the first
place Mr.. Hallam, though an excellent in
structor, for that matter, did not teach at all
"last session" and in its previous history had
only done so occasionally, and for short perl
DDS of time, when some member of the faculty
was absent whose place he was Temporarily
supplying, or to meet some other emergency
created by the growth of the Institution. In
the second place, MIR. Hallam never was IN
the faculty, and therefore could not be cleft
out" as Mr.. Taylor says, because OF his "norJh-
e. n birth and rearing" or for any reason.
These statements of Rev. j. z. Taylor are
absolute fslsehoods, and when he says further,
even with the weak protection OF 81 under
stand" that the State OF Arkansas has decreed
that no diyidUal reared IN a northern lat1-
tude is to be employed in her institutions OF
learning, he puts the keystone in his arch OF
Fnisre presentatio / was reared and educated
in northern latitude" myself, came
south in the Union army, about
which Mr.. Taylor has somewhat to say else
where in his letter, and when the present
board OF trustees Of tile Arkansas industrial
university (the State university TO which Mr..
Taylor refers met here in July last they chose
a faculty OF eleven professors and instructors,
myself included, three of whom only are
southern-born. Our professor of theoretical
and applied chemistry is graduate OF your
own State agricultural college, and Yale, Wa
terVilIe, and the State normal college OF Hi
nois are represented in our faculty, aside
from those members of IL who were born or
educated in the south. Again, II is not true
that teachers of northern birth are not en-
pIoyed in other institutions OF learning
throughout the State of Arkansas. They are
so employed in various places, and Mr.. Tay-
lurs speculations are entirely gratuitous.
They create a false impression in quarter
where il should not be permitted 10 exist, an d
l therefore ask, as simple act of justice, that
you publish this communication.
4. W. BISHOP,
President Arkansas Industrial University.