Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-17
STILL THEY COME.
A Correspondent After The
County Superintendent.
He Thinks More Charges Have Been
Brought Against Kim Than Any
Superintendent in the State.

To the Tobacco af-Chrenicle.l
In a recent issue of the LEAF
CHRONICLE which / have before me,
/ find among the communications
the defense, or rather the reasons,
why Miss Birdie Shackelford was
forced to give up her school at Cen
trail chapel. Her communication has
excited in my bosom sense of the
deepest sympathy and commisera-
ton for her, in her endurance of the
many wrongs that were heaped upon
her so unmerited. At the same time
my sympathies are aroused for her
Gan unprotected, defenseless female).
have sense of the utmost disgust
and loathing for any man SO destitute
of Southern chivalry and refinement
as seems to characterize the author
of her wrongs. We know Miss Bir-
die Shackelford well, and we have
some acquaintance with ]. U. Ty-
Ter. Miss Shackelford is lady of
unquestioned erudition and refine
ment, while our superintendent,
Judging from many of his official
acts, is an amalgamation OF course
alloys with little refinement, and,
being thrown in immediate contact
with Miss Shackelford, no doubt he
felt himself at such a great disadvan-
tage that it stung too deeply and
aroused the envy of his nature.
From the course he has pursued
towards her it would seem that he
had determined to blast her in the
future as teacher and lady of We
racity.
Not content with his prosecutions
while she was in the school, but after
she retired he still pursued her with
spirit of applicability. We are
reliably informed that in district
No. 10 he was asked by gen.
tleman of veracity what was
the cause of the difference be-
tween Miss Shackelford and himself.
He replied by saying: "She has
simply lied and l have freed her in
it." If there is any one crime a
man can be guilty of, more heinous,
more unmanly and one that shows a
greater depth of human depravity
than another, it is the deliberate
traduction of the good name of a
defenseless lady.
The lowest and most uncultivated
man in the country would have had
too much manhood in his heart to
have spoken of any young lady in
such manner. Beside, / am fully
satisfied in my own mind that his as
sertion was false, and only served the
purpose of a stab at her private char
acter. The protection, and not the
sullying of the private character OF
defenseless young ladies, is the first
and most sacred duty of all men who
have spark ofIhonor in their bosoms.
And Mr.. J. U. Tyler should be made
to know that the spirit of chivalry
still fingers in the bosoms of our
Southern people, and they, at all
times, are ready to WELD their
swords in defense of helpless virgins
Will not our County court remove
him and give us man who has
some qualifications suitable to fill the
Office, for the sake Of our little ones ?
J. U. Tyler is a great drawback, in
my opinion, TO the common school
system in our county. A man with
fewer qualifications for the Office
could not have been found within
the limits of the county. During j.
U. Tyler's career as a superintendent
he has been charged with more in
civilties towards the white female