The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-12-04
A New Moses.

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in this place,in the capacity of teach
er of the Colored Public School OF
this place"
The above subject for few Thanks
giving reflections, is clipped from the
Morgsntown Post:
If your correspondent was disposed
to make a systematic discourse upon
the above text, he might divide his
sermon efectually, and treat the sub
ject under numerous heads, to-wit;
Firstly-Alex. is to be Moses.
Secondly He is to be the Moses
of the colored race of this place,
Thirdly-The character of the
Mokes to be led by Alex.
Fourthly-Could better selection
be made?
Fifthly-What made the necessity
for Moses?
Sixthly-Into what wilderness will
this Moses lead his followers, and with
what sort of rod will he lead them
Seyenthly-When will they start?
How long will they be gone? And is
there a prospect of their never COM
ing back again?
And so we might 60 on until we
would reach seventy filthy, at least,
but life is too short to attempt any
learned or systematic exegesis of
this suppositious exodus, but will sim
ply give few facts connected with
its history.
1t seems that the colored people of
this place, pay in school Kali told,
the extravagant amount of about five
or six dollars, have a school kept and
taught for their sole benefit and i'm
provement, at cost to white tax
payers of about three hundred dol
lars; that George w. Semans, poor
but worthy man and efficient teacher,
has for year or two labored to i'm
part instruction to some forty or fifty
urchins, the offspring of smoked
American citizens" In this capacity
Mr.. Semans has given general salts
faction, until about a month or more
ago he gave offence,a and was dethron-
ed by his rebellious subjects. The
ground Of Prof. Semans' offence and
the manner Of his dethronement
seems TO be about as follows: After
the nomination of the late candidate
of the republicans for Governor it
was charged that certain near rela-
tive of the aforesaid candidate had
sold negro, and that the Governor
had delivered the aforesaid negro to
the "soul buyers" This charge was
first made by republican competit-
or of the Governors in the primary
election held in this county four
years ago,but was supported by some
information in the possession of
Prof Semans. The radical bosses
here seemed anxious to do something
to clear up the record Of their
candidate, and to contradict the
charges started amongst themselves,
SO they set up II tremendous
howl about Democratic slandering,
and yillifying their candidate. In all
this, Mr.. Semans seemed to be the
person at whom they were hurting
their anathemas, and he prepared a
simple statement of the case, which
he thought would exhonerate him
self. In this statement he was unso-
phistieated enough to give a plain
statement of what he knew and had
been told, stating what had been told
him by two very unreliable negroes of
the town, and handed his statement to
the Post for publication. 1t seems
that this statement, while it was mild
in it's terms, full of kindness, greatly
offended the radical politicians, and
they set themselves about to injure
the fair fame and reputation of Prof.
Semans, and to break him down gen
orally. So they got down on their
bellies and wallowed with the negroes
until they procured the sworn state
ments of the two negroes above re-
ferred to,denying what they had told
Mr.. Semans; and these statements
they evidently did not understand,
and tile editors of the Post were I'M
fair enough to publish these affidayits
Immediately under Mr.. Semans'
statement, without any intimation to
Mr.. Semans Of their being taken, OF
giving him any opportunity to reply
or defend himself. They also per
suaded many Of the colored people
to take their children way from the
school, unless change Of teachers