Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-09-27
from Knoxville Chronicle.J
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE.
Another Attack upon its Management
THE TRUSTEES ~FEARFULLT
~SLANDERED.

SLANDERED.
The papers report everything loves
" in che University OF Tennessee at
Knoxville now that they have sue
eeeded in disptacingsthe last Republi-
can in the faculty-which was the
tohjeet Of the row from the beginning
The Chronicle aud the Republican
members Of the Board did not have
backbone enough TO denounee the
vicious scheme as. it deserved, and its
narrowsminded perpetrators have
gone uawhipt ofjustice. The school
will not suryiFe partisan management
twelve months, but will go TO the
devil, as it deseryes.-Jonesboro
Herald end Tribune.
If we could haYe rested confident
Ia the convection that the s'obiect''
OF reorganizingt the University Facul-
ty was to "displace the last Republi>
can In it, we would have had ssbacks
bone enough to denounce the vicious
scheme as It deserved
But how could we believe that gray
headed ministers OF the Holy Gospel
Of Pence aud Brotherly Love would
engage in O SEyicious sciemer How
could we belieye that noble. high
minded, patriotic, generousshearted
Democrats wouldengage inea'Yicious
scheme to put politics in our insbi-
tutions OF learning!
Tt is true we had lived to see a
Democratic Legislature, on the de-
5maad OF Democratic newspapers, in
ieet a small deluge OF honest Demos
cratic blood into the Board OF Truss
tees several years ago.
It IS true we had lived to see these
new honest Democratic trustees rev
nluticnize the Faculty by kicking out
every man from the North and every
man. with one or two exceptions,
who was suspected Of not saying his
prayers three times a day with his
face to the Jerusalem Of DemocN
racy.
IT is true we had lived TO see The
University collapse as soon as this
REORGANIZATION took place, . collapse
from which it has never recovered;
and though there haye been recent
signs az life the -disintarested specta-
tor cannob tell whether they are che
final throes OF dissolution, the gasps
Of the death agony, or, us we hope,
evidence Of Incorporation and PROOF OF
returning vitality.
It is true We have lived TO see all
these things but then, o. late, We
had been led TO hope that breads
Drained and ]arge~hearted Demo
Gratis had made up their minds to
despise such radical tricks as
turning a school teacherou because
he was not Of their politics.
Il is true the grand, patriotic, I'm
and statesulanlike warsery
had been raised, of SSturn the Res
publican rascals out and put us hon
est Democrats In" but we did not
suppose that it meant TO turn Re-
publican preachers out Of the pulpit
and Republican teachers out OF the
These are our reasons, Mr.. Ger-
aid and Tribune, of Jonesboro, for
not "denouncing the vicious scheme
as it deserved" and if you viii only
aside your partisanship while
you read this you viii see that the
ClO GlgHU.
You judge Democrats, Mr.. Her
Tribune, of Jonesboro, by
5he beuighted Democrats up III
your own region. LIST us inform
you thai the Trustees Of our Unit
yersity are not of THAT Lind. These
Trustees are all gocd men, above ali
Of your small, partisan, "vicious
They live in the sublime
of unsullied good faith; they
breathe only the atmosphere Of
broad beneyolence; they feel moth
throbbing in their hearts but
5he public welfare and the advance |
nent Of education and morality, |
md they scorn to inquire what q
politics are and where he was
)orn.
1t is true the aforesaid injection
# Democratic Blood into the Board
If Trustees, the kicking out of the
Republican and the Northern pro
essors and the final success Sin dis
,lacing the last Republican in the
aculty,' might, by distortion, give
) narrow-minded Radical some
amt excuse to charge that these
were I'll done for the partisan
purpose Of putting Republican
aseals out and putting honest
in;n but such a charge
you'd only show how incapable
uch narpoE-minded Radicals are of
properly approaching and duly
Teighipg the generous, unseihSh
nd philanthropic motives that act
.ated the conduct OF the majority
f the Trustees in doing what they
id.
We are sorry to see such journals
s the Herald and Tribune charge
artisan purposes on u Trustees.
t does not hurt the Trustees, but
My shows that the sort of Demo
rats the Herald and Tribune is ac-
Iuaintcd with are not of that noble
reed that make q majority of one
d cur Board Of TrusteeS-when the
Board is not full.
And as for the "school going to
he DEVIL" We can only say that
.uch language is very naughty, and
We only refer to it to beg pardon OF
readers for quoting it.
tt is true soIne Middle and West
people ara in favor of
moving 1t, but we have never heard
# any ore directly suggesting that
t be moved to the particular local
ty referred to-. Nevertheless, the
emoval Of the only preacher in the
Faculty serves, we suppose, to give
uch partisan papers as the Herald
nd Tribune excuse for %profanely
animation that the "schoof' IS
to the DEVIL
But this only shows what narrow
minded partisanship will lead one
say!
Wants to Abolish the County Court.
Gazette.
There is growinga telling through
ut the State to abolish the cumber>
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