The Van Buren press., 1874-11-24
A SLANDERER.
Letter from President Bishop, of the Ar.
kansas Industrial University.
FArETTEvlLvE, Oct. &c, 1874.

FArETTEviLvE, Oct. 26, 1874.
EDITOR EVANGELIST Oscaloosa, Iowa:
In your issue of the 9th Of September
ultlmo, | observe letter from the Rev.
}. Il. Taylor, of Springfield, Mo, who
had recently, it seems, been to this town
ministerially, and in which letter the fol.
lowing passage occurs:
REV. s. X Hallam is preaching for
the church at Fayetteville. He has no.
bic and generous nature-nothing little
or envious about it. He will be con-
PEELED to open a school, as his salary is
inadequate. He taught last session in
the Arkansas State university, but owing
to his northern birth and rearing he was
left out of the faculty this year. That
state, in her majesty, has decrecd, un-
derstand, that no individual reared in
northern latitudes is to be employed in
her institutions of learning Whatever
may be thought of the wisdom Of this
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, it
will be because some freak Of nature has
transmitted the penalty Of violated laws
INTO blessing"
The Rev. j. Z, Taylor, permit me to
say, is firing very much at random. In
! the iirst place Mr. iIailam, though an ex
cellent instructor, for that matter, did
not teach at all in the Arkansas State
university" during its A." Last session
and in its previous history had only done
so occasionally, and for short periods Of
time, when some member of the faculty
was absent, whose place he was tempo
rarily supplying, or to meet some other
emergency created by the growth of the
institution
In the second place. Mr. IIallam never
was in the faculty, and therefore could
not be :" left out, as Mr. Taylor says,
because of his northern birth and rear
| ing. or for any reason.
These statements Of the Rev. j. Il.
| Taylor are absolute falsehOods, and when
he says further, even with the weak pro-
lection Of II understand, " that the state
of Arkansas has decreed that no individ-
ua reared in a northern latitude is to be
employed in her institutions of learning,
he puts the keystone in his arch Of mis-
representation. | was reared and educa.
ted in northern latitude" myself,
came south in the union army, about
which Mr.. Taylor has somewhat to say
elsewhere in his letter, and when the
present board of trustees OF the Arkansas
industrial university (tbe state university
to which Mr. Taylsr refcrs) met here in
July last, they chose a faculty of eleven
professors and instructors, myself in
cluded, three Of whom only are southern
born. Our professor Of theoretical and
applied chemistry is a graduate Of your
own State Agricultural college, and Yale,
Watcrville and the State Normal college
of Illinois are represented in our faculty
aside from those members Of it who were
born or educated in the south.
Again, it is not true that teachers Ol
northern birth are not employed in Other
institutions Of learning throughout the
state Of Arkansas. They are so employ
ed in various places, and Mr.. Taylor's
speculations are entirely graluitous
They create false impression in a quar-
ter where it should not be permitted to
exist, and ] therefore ask, as a simple ac
of justice, that you publish this commu
nication. A w. BISHOP,
Pres Arkansas Industrial University