The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-10-07
Letter from Mr. II. M @. TrainOr--A RefM-
tdtiOn of M Van. M. Isaac'S Charges.


PowHATAN, October Sd, 1876.
To Wm. VI. Isddc AS you have fit to
malign my character therefore demand of you
an immediate reparation or you shall pay the full
penalty of the law for your malicious SANDER.
Mr.. Isaac, your infamous, malicious and SLAM
derous article of week before last should and no
doubt does receive the condemnation it justly de-
serves. Who would have thought you so mean
and low as to be guilty of such malignity Sir, the
''result" is "seen" and every Trustee Board teach
er and patron, and people too, Of Baltimore county
know to-day there is a Caesar in Towsontown who
does not respect the will Of the people, the repua
ton of the teachers the legal Authority Of the
Trustees, but sits in judgment over 10 con
quor or to ruin and you are the man.
You have made charges, sir, against my reputa-
ton grave win not admit of apology, which
are "extenuatcd" in falsehood and "set down in
malice"
In the presence of witnesses you charge me with
forgery" and "defraud." These are grave charges,
sir, and if you cannot substantiate them you know
the penalty. You may take my purse, impair my
health-these may be repaired by time and medi-
cine; but, sir, touch not my reputation it is all
have.
| You said, "Trainor always comes to the Associ-
alton drunk" which 1 can prove to be malicious
| falsehood by witness who came with me two out
of the three times I attended the Association in
nine or ten years. for while in the city l did not
attend its meetings.
And as to publishing my examination paper"
| am not the least surprised. All that have heard
| speak of it, say, at shows his (your) judgment
| and sense" No one where 1 have taught could
be made to believe it criterion by which to judge
of my qualification to teach. In fact did not
pect higher grade; / surprised that re-
ceived what I did having heard of your intention
| to "oust" me this fall on account of my "Reform"
| speeches last fall, which is proven by your own
words and which / hope are yet fresh in your
memory. You said to me on the 9Th day of July,
81 will attend to your Reform Mt Powhatan this
I fall" This l will to, and perhaps some
others alsO proving that your i'll will to me is
because of my politics. This all the people believe
| And your expression, "If | had known he had re-
ceived a certificate l would have moved to turn
him down." &C, proves your action towards me
purely malicious, to work out your political ends.
1t is useless to deny it because you cannot make
| the people believe anything else. 1 was qualified
to teach before making "Reform" speeches. but
not since! How is that, Mr.. Isaac?
| You say, also, that / used ''indecent language"
| in the Teachers meeting. The subject discussed
there was, ''ShOuld the age of pupil be quaf-
cation for advancement in the grader" 1 called
it fudge" and used the following argument to
| prove it: There was pupil in my school might
/ SCHOOL, who was the father of fourteen children
Where should grade him, in the highest class %
| Mr.. Sellers said, "The gentleman told me coming
out his pupil was the father of ten children. >
| This was said in joking way, / did not tell
him SOY | replied, IF that be so, then the chill
dren have increased since, for he is the father of
| fourteen children; at least he told me So" Now,
sir, 1 will leave the above language to the world
| for it to judge Of 1 am confident there is not
| person of common sense in Christendom who will
| adjudge it ''indecent."
| Mr.. Isaac, do you think the people and myself
so blind and ignorant as not to see and know that
your action is a base subterfuge to cover up the
| real cause of the "trouble at Powhatan SCHOOL,"
| You said l published or caused to be pub
lished," the article in the Union. This statement
| is also false. You said that you did not get my
| contract nor Mr.. SlOthOwer's letter, which is
doubted by every one who knows the circumstances.
You said / did not know enough of Arithmetic
| to teach one of your schools. How strange this is,
notwithstanding you have the teachers list this
year sixteen seventeen of my scholars, and still
| stranger that all my Examiners Trustee Boards
and patrons in the county and the city for twenty
odd years were all Except yourself) too ignorant
| to judge of a teachers qualification. Did ever
| Caesar have such an opinion of himself?
Mr.. Isaac, it is my opinion and also the opin-
ion of the people, that when you wrote that mali
cious article you had taken that into your mouth
| which you frequently dO-which stole away
your brains--if you had any. When go into my
school go sober, and if 1 was summoned on a
Grand Jury to attend to the interests of the peo-
pie, would keep sober. Mr.. Isaac, they say you
take yours Straight" Is that so?
Mr.. Isaac, you know you made illegal APP
pointment to school No. Z. What right had you
to appoint when you are only the confirming
power? And as you did appoint without the
knowledge of the Trustees, you, sir, guilty of
NAL administration in office, and unfit to super
intend the educational interests of the county
| You should be removed and a gentleman put in
your place who will not through malice and for
political ends get in a middle and to get out en-
deavor to destroy mans greatest boon-his repu-
| tation. r. NJ G. TRAINoR.