Tit, PEOPLE'S JOURNAL.
JNO. S. MANN,
EIY.VIS HAS ELL, 1 Dm"
FIDELITY TO THE PEOPLE.
COUDERSPORT, FRIDAY, JtJ NE 16, 1854
We had a very pleasant inter
change of sentiment with Temper
ance friends, from other sections, at
our Division'room on Saturday evniog
last. Brothers Bailey of Mansfield,
Tioga County, and Jones of Ulysses,
in this County, encourager] us by their
high standard of Temperance princi
ples, and their kind appeals to all to
place themselves on the side of Truth,
Virtue, and Honor.
We call attention to the commu
nication of JOSEPH BLOOMINGDALE...—
We do not see how any one can fail
to be convinced that his reasons for
declining the honorable office of Coun
ty Superintendent aro unanswerable.
We are very glad that Mr. Blooming
dale has given the public the benefit
of his large experience, and practical
good sense; and we tender him our
thanks for his promitie to give the
public still more of his'experience and
suggestions, in relation to the great
question. We , shell always give his
communications a hearty welcome ;
and invite all other friends of Educa
tion to write freely—snaking use of
of our columns for the purpose of
reaching die public as often as they
desire it. .
tar We are much gratified with
the unanimity at present prevailing in
this section in favor of Temperance.
We shall not follow the example of
our opponents, and say , that some of
those who have lately become quite
zealous in behalf of the good cause,
are acting for selfish purposes. On
the contrary, we rejoice in the belief
that ;fie cause of Temperance has so
commended itself to all, that it is im
possible for honest men any longer to
withhold from it their support. And
we say to the flew converts, it is your
duty to take the lead in this matter.
You were resting while others were
toiling with all their strength ; and
now it is the privilege of those old
soldiers to rest, while you carry the
cause on to new victories. Do this,
and all your ill-will to zealous Tem
perance men will give place to hearty
and friendly cooperation.
0 , We call the attention of the
reader to the Prospectus of the N. Y.
Evening- Post, Which we publish in
column. When the Post stultified
itself by supporting Franklin Priece
We thought it our duty to say that in
spite oc its great ability and rare com
bination of talent, it was not entitled
to the support Of Independent men.
But now that it has returned to the
support of old fashioned Jeffersonian
Democracy, and is wielding its influ
ence for the overthrew of the hateful
oligarchy, which is seeking the de
struction of every safeguard of Liber
ty, we take particular pleasure in
calling the attention of the freemen of
Potter County to it 3 claims to their
attention and support, " A Coon in
the Capitol," published in another
column, is a fair sample of the genial
and genuine wit, which- frequently
graces the columns of the Post, and
we may add is not found in any other
paper in America. " The Fugitive
Laws has triumphed, who rejoices 1"
is a sample of its keen and powerful
arguments. If the two articles do not
commend the Post to the heart and
judgment of the reader, then no effort
of ours could do so.
The following resolutions were
adopted at the Convention of School
Directors in Warren County on the
6th inst. We are glad to see that our
Convention is so well sustained. We
trust the State Superintendent will
call the attention of the next Legisla
ture to the importance of the change
proposed:
Rewired, That in the opinion of this Con-'
vention, the recent school law should ba so
altered as to require the election of a county
(gape rintende ut annua I ly; under annual adjust
ment of his compensation.
Resolved, Tbat we recommend such further
alteration of the law as to require that the
Convention of Directors whether held annual
fy or tri-ennually, shall be composed of two
delegates from each school. District in the
county, to be appointed by the board of Di
rectors, in lieu of the whole Board as now
required.
• IWe congratulate our friend J.
W, Barret of the_ Williamsport Press
on the flattering testimony which the
School District of Lycoming Count
have given him.
WHAT FOLLY.
At the New England Anti-Slivery
Convention, which was controlled by
Garrison, Philip'', and Foster, a grea t
many foolish things were said, as is
usual when these impracticable men
get together. Among other things the
following proceedings were had i
On motion of S. S. Foster, the resolution on
the Free Soil party, and that offered by H. C.
Wright on the dissolution of the Union, were
taken up for discussion.
Mr. Wright's resolution is as follows:
Whereas, the only ground on which Liberty
and .Slavery should ever meet, is the battle
field whose war-cry is, Victory or Death ; there
fore
Resolved, That the only issue to be made in
the present Anti-Slavery struggle is, the Disso
lution of the American Union, which extends
protection alike to slavery and liberty, and the
formation of a Northern Confederacy, on the
principle of No Union with Slaveholders.
Mr. Foster supported the resolutionat some
length, going into a searching examination of
the course and policy of the Free, Soil party
in Massachusetts. He referred to their plac
ing Boutwell and Cushing in office, men who
never could have been placed in the office
they held in this State, had not the Free . Soil
men given them their votes; and this, after
having declared it to be a pro-slavery act in
the Democrats to vote for %hose very men.—
Mr. F. made thiee distinct charges against the
Free Soil party, viz:
1. That, acknowledging the Constitution
and Union to be on the side of slavery, it still
goes for the support of both.
2. That it selects and supports pro-slavery
men for office.
3. That it amalgamates with pro-slavery
parties, and helps to elect the vilest pro-alavry
men to office.
We do not remember a meeting of
this class of men for many years, in
which the Free Soilers were not abused
and
,denounced as pro-slavery; and
unworthy of confidence. And yet We
are told, there are men in thin county
who have been made to believe that
Wendell Philips,William Lroyd
Garri
son, and S. S. Foster are leading Free
Sailers ! ! Such men ought to move
at once into Virginia, where poor
white men arc not expected to know
anything except what shareholders
choose to let them. In this County,
where the Common School system has
been in operation for some time; and
where no one_ of any intelligence can
believe such stuff, the man who pre 7
tends to it, only makes himself the
laughing stock of his neighbors; and
the Slaveholder will soon find it is one
thins to own a Press and its ostensi
ble Editor, and quite another to de
ceiVe the people into the support of
the hateful institution by slandering
Free Soil men, or by putting words
into their mouths -which they never
uttered. The Pittsburg Platform of
1852 contains a full and explicit avow
al of free Democratic principles, and
we challenge any of our opponents to
show a reasonable objection to that
Platform. •
We have never seen an old hunker
that dare compare the Pittsburg Plat
form with that of the Slavery Platform
adopted at Baltimore. • .
.Ear We publish in another column
the prospectus of a Free Democratic
paper to be published at Harrisburg,
to which we ask the attention of every
reader. Such a paper as this ought
to have been established at the capi
tal of the State long ago. But it is
particularly needed now, when the
slave drivers are cracking their whips
over our representatives in Congress.
Pennsylvania has ; sunk lower at the
feet of the slas \ -eholders than any other
state in the Union. Her Politicians
have lost all semblance of manliness.
Her Sham Democrati . glory in their
devotion to the Slave interest, and it
is surely quite time that a paper should
be established at the seat of Govern
ment to advocate Jeffersonian Democ
racy, and the principles of the Fathers.
A KANLY IMOTEST
It is refreshing to find an old line
democratic paper denounce the Ne
braska swindle, in the following ear
nest manner, which we cut from the
Warren Ledger, a paper that says
many good things, and if it would cut
entirely loose from its doughface al
lies would soon stand in the front
of the Independent Press of Penn
sylvania.
Can the Ledger not see that its par
ty repudiates the sentiments of this
article? There are. only two other
Bigler papers in the State that oppose
the encroachments of Slavery. What
hope is there that your party will
ever throw off the rule of slavery
which now degrades and corrupts it?
But here is the extract:
This stupendou s fraud upon the rights of
the free states has finally been consummated,
and the "peculiar itunittnion" can now rejoice
in an acquisition of territory sufficiently large
to "spread itself" in for the next fifty years.
No administration, either state or national,
has ever before exercised its power and influ
ence in favor of a measure so much opposed
and condemned by the people; and when we
reflect, that not a single petitioner has ever
asked for its passage, but thousands, and tens
of thousands have implored Congress, in-tho .
strongest terms cf supplication, not,-to dis
turb so solimn a compact bet Ween the-States
as the Missouri Compromise, we can arrive at
no other conclusion than that-the President
and the adherents of the bill in Congress are
either willfully and recklessly blind, or what
is still worse, morally and politically corrupt.
The agitation which . our party in conven
tion at Baltimore declared should thereafter,
both in and out of Congress, be arrest, has.
linen by this bill and its friends reopened and
revived, and the wildest and - most uncontroll
able excitement been engendered all over
the country.
/ WHO BZIOICESI
The article in 'another column, from
the New York Evening Post, in rela
tion to the late Boston fugitive case,
is one of great power - and of thrilling
interest. We do not believe there
are twenty men in this county who
will not admit its truthfulness and pro
priety. Try the experiment, friends
of freedom. Pass this article of the
Post to your hunker neighbor, whose
paper never lets anything manly or
independent reach his sight, and he
will thank you for the kindness. Cut
this article out and carry it with you
so that all the people may learn what
an
: odious thing this Fugitive Slave.
bill is. That in order to execute it
" a regiment of United States soldiers"
is obliged to surround the Slave Com
missioner with a cordon of bayonets.
That no Court House in England
during -the bloody administration of
Jeffreys presented "the disgraceful
spectacle that was witnessed at the
.Court House in Boston during the
week just closed!"
Let the people understand these
facts, and . the unblushing. falsehoods
to industriously propagated to keep
them in the service of Slavery; and
in subjection to this infamous„
will have no influence. Men who
can stigmatize the Hon. John P. Hale
as a buffoon, and assert that Governor
Seymour, William Lloyd Garrison,
and Wendell Philips are Free Sellers,
will state any thing. Party is their
God. • Truth, honor, and manhood
are all trampled in the dust, merely
to sustain a party, that is owned and
controlled by
. slavery . .
The' people are sick and disgusted
with this disgraceful seirviency, and
our friends have but to show them the
contrast between the manly independ
ence. of those men . who oppose the
Slave Power, and the cowardly yield
ing of those who are governed by it,
to reduce the Slave party in this,
county to a corporal's guard. Wheth
er'this shall be done or not, depends
upon the activity of those who desire
to preserve this Nation as an asylum
for freedom. If we allow those papers
which nerer . publish anything in favor
of building up a great party of free
ditm, but fill their columns with gar
bled resolutions, deceptive statements,
and libellous insinuations, to be the
only papers that reach a certain clots
of people, of course such people will
go on sustaining the party that carried
the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise in defiance of the public will.
But if our friends will not be quite so
anxious to live in comfort, and will
spend a little time to increase the cir
culation of those papers that dare call
their souls their own, and are revolu
tionizing the public sentiment of the
Nation, we shall soon see such a de
monstration as will make the heroes
of Yorktown and Bunker Hill rejoice
in, their quiet, homes. There is -no
excuse* for inactivity on the part-of
any one. The free soil Democrat can
ask his political associates to subscribe
for the New York Erening Post, a
paper richly worth all it - costs; the
free 'soil Whig can increase the cir
culation of the New York Tribune,
which has no superior as a-newspaper
in the world; and the Independent
Democrat can use his efforts to in
crease the list of the National Era,
which after all is th.c paper to build
up and consolidite a party that Will
make such scenes as we have just
witnessed at Boston impossible.
If any of our friends while canvas
sing for these world-renoli,vned papers
shall feel it his duty to say a word or
two in favor of increasing the list of
our humble sheet, of course we shall
be gratified with such approbation of
our services in the cause; but we ask
no favors. Do
.whatever your better
judgement shall decide is the best for
the cause of freedom. But in the
name of violaled justice, and a dis
graced North, do something,
rgr THE LADIES' WREATH AND PAR
LOR ANNUAL for June is received, and
as usual is full of entertaining matter•
. . But nobody in court knew Mr. Brent, and
We notice great. rejoicing among._ ?, / s U' e o r ra g re hims ta el , f , c e o s ilf t e h t ed wo t t a l t d h t L sto tt o l
. ,
the Slav:Us. over the success of the fairest mind." He had come all the way from
Richmond to Boston to make out the ease
Administration in seizing am innocent exp ected his reward, perhaps in
Doubtless he **
'man in Boston and consigninglim to. money, perhaps in honer. It is an hoher in
Virginia to supp ort the institutions of that
Slavery. The pretense for - this' re- Sta te- But, on the other side, many witnesses
joicing is the allegation that the law testified that Burns was here in Boston on the
, Ist of Marc h, and worked several day s at the
has triumphed. But that this is mere m att , • ironworks, South s s
pan iron-wo at ester'. ev
pretense, is proved from the fact that inTp l e in amcil e n i t i egri o wn
v, testified the Bosto n— men
vi;
not one of these defenders of Slavery, evidence rebutted their testimony. Nothing
who make so much noise over the was urged to impugn their integrity. The
Commissioner says their . "integrity is ad-
Boston riot, as it' is called, have ever mined," and "no imputation of bias could
had a worcl to say against the viola
-1 tteasettachoe,dlmtheas.
ring tat,stiLdeeactibssetwseeon
[ions ,of the law by the slaveholders of the fugitive, alleged to have been made in jai(
, when he was surrounded by armed ru ffi ans,
the South. when he was " intimidated' by fear—and he
In a sermon of unsurpassed power takes admissions which Burns denied to the
i" last, even
proof 0 f identity,
after the decision. This was the
and force, entitled the "New Crime
delivered June 4th, THEODORE PAR- The record called - Burns a man with "dark
complexion." He is a full-blooded negro.
KER said:
~. His complexion is black almost as my coat.
1n1844, one of the most eminent lawyers of The record spoke of Burns as having a scar
-this State was sent by Massachusetts to she on his right' hand. The right hand of this
'city of Charleston, to proceed legally and man had been broken. The bone stuck out
have Massachusetts colored citizens releaied prominent. His right hand was so badly in
from the jails of. Charleston, where they were jured that when it was opened he could only
held without charge of crime, and contrary to shut it by grasping it with his left. The kid
the Constitution of the United st
States. Mr. epper's witness testified that Berns was in
Boar was mobbed out of Charleston, the Virginia on the 19th or March. Several wit.
High Sheriff and Mayor of the city aiding in nesses, I know not how many, testified that he
driving him out.. J was in Boston nineteen days before.
Mr. Hoar made his report to the Governor ;Brent stated nothing to show that he ever
of Massachusetts, and said: had any particular knowledge of Burns, or
." Has the Constitution of the United States particularly observed his person. -Some •of
the least practical validity of binding force in the.witnesses for the prisoner did not testify
South Carolina, excepting when she thinks its Merely upon general observation of Burns'
operation favorable to her I She prohibits form or featnres, but they stated that they had
the trial of an action in the tribunals estab- noted especially the scar on his cheek, and his
lished under the Constitution for determining broken hand, 71 they knew him to be the man.
such cases, in which a citizen of Massachusetts Besides, this t timony is of multiplied force,
complains that a citizen of South Carolina has not being that of so many to one fact, but that
itir k ii o n es d h i l! .
to
tutu ., to rho
done him an injury ; saying that she has her- of each stands by itself; here was a cloud of
-self already tried that cause, and decided Witnesses to prove that Burns Was in Boston
against the plaintiff." rrona the first of March.
Not long ago, a young man of irre- LO ne u r t - V' n gie
r v o ic o p th 's a r t r h iLlou t t i t the C o o u rn om mi e s ci
proachable character, residing in Cirt- in the record- A man not known
- to anybody
cinnati, thought it would be for his i e l ai c m o i u n r g t, B b u rings rns as a hi p s a s p lo e v r e. fro4LAl s ex s an r d w ri os a,
health to travel through the Southern drawn up five hundred miles off; paper
ihe eh-
States. Supposing , that he had an Bence
for'
, Bums;
sh i libert y, enemies, siore than
his %Tito.
"inalienable right" to pursue his own ought
brought one
identity of the man, who says that, his' fear..
happiness in his own wny,-provided mums said, lam the man-. • Now, the fugitive
he did not interfere with the rights of slave bill provides that the testimony of the
fugitive shall not be received as evidence in
others, he went to Sduth _Carolina for the case. Mr. Loring avoids ihat difficulty.
the benefit of his health. He had been He does not call it "testimony" or "evidence,"
He calls it" admissions," accepts it to prove
there but a short time when some of the "ident ity," and decides the case against
the chi airy suspected he was an abo ,
I l i r m eilt. l Nl: l t ho doe
proved s tid the
. identity 1 . Mr.
y miszn p
r c o o n n t t contrive
e t a l
litionist, and without a single item to prove 1 Brent's testimon .
prove even this, which was not a crime have
reut itirefl Fo c r itnt o
proof sttem o e fß Breast's
a 's
ito!i
if it had - been proved, he was thrown was in part corroborated by one n er thecrO a
into jail and kept there till his health tures of the Marshal, hired to aid in this wick
edness: There is, I think, a is-ell-known
was ruined." He lived but a few days axiom of the common law, that " the admis
sionsahall.go in entire,"—all No that ls the prison er
l
after being discharged. Now, we chat.
IRIJ;P • USW- illippnai , e.. v. - or -ago ....I.dillilliti- ' saysi what se s
rves the interest . of she e 'c i li i iim es .
ant, and rules out everything that serves Burns'
tration to produce a single -rebuke of
I interest. And is that Massachusetts justice ?
this-heartless and unprovoked outrage Remember, too, that Mr. Loring is the
from any one of the servile i whole court—a judge,not known to the C
Me' , stitution; jury, only k nownin the inqu isition. 011.
, that denounce the true men of Massa- There is no appell, from his decisio.. The
witness came from Virginia to swear away the
chusetts who stood , between the kid-I freedom of a citizen of Massachusetts, charged
who l ta l e o Te i n oo h n ia-e i
napper and his victim. - . - 1 with no crime ; and when the Marshal, and
Again,—these poor serviles, iittistosninil,maraekeashaonutatlineip„ciloonr
would have been tones in the time of that he is the fugitive—it was evidence worthy
I the Inquisition of Spain • and on that evidencii
the Revolution, are so anxious that thei Mr. Loring decides that he is to go into bond
slaveholders shall always triumph, that' age forever. Let doubts weigh for the pris.
i over, is a rule as old as legal attempts at
they do not stop to enquire whether,
, justice. Hero, they - weigh against - him. The
a:
the law hai triumphed, or not. So
case is fall of doubts—doubts on- every side.
4 He rides over them all. Ile takes the special
"nigger" has been caught and carrie d words he wants, and therewith strikes down
J
the prisoner s claim to liberty.
into Slavery, that is enough for .them'sone
-to shout over most lustily: as, witness
their silence when Thomas MILLER, of
Chester County, was killed by Mary
land kidnappers while trying to rescu4
RACHEL PARKER, a free citizen of this
State, from their ruthless grasp.
But about the triumph of law in
Boston. We say, that a greater vio
lence never was done to the law, anal
that a few such triumphs will annihi
late all law in Massachusetts. This is
the way the Boston case was com
menced. We quote from the same
sermon as above:
~q: i.F: L~y~ ~ :~: i i:y 4 f~
On the 24th of Hay, a Young man, without
property; without friends—l will continue to
call his hame Anthony Burns—was 'returning
home fromhis usual lawful and peaceful work
in the clothing-shop of Deacon Pitts, in Brat
tle street. He was assailed by six ruffians,
tvhocharged him with having
broken into a
jeweller's shop. They seined him, forced him
to the Court House, thrust him into an upper
chamber therein, where be was surrounded by
men armed, it is said, with bludgeons• and
revolvers. Here tie was charged with being a
fugitive slave. A man from Virginia claiming
to be his owner, and another man likewise
from Virginia, confronted' the poor victim, and
extorted from him a confession, as they allege,
that he was. the claimant's fugitive rilave,
indeed, the confession was not purely an in
vention of his foes, who had made the false
charge of burglary, for they who begin with a
lie are not to be trusted after that lie has been
told.) He Was kept all night, guarded by
ruffians hired for the purpose of kidnapping a
man. No friend was allowed to see him ; but
his deadliest foes, who clUtched at what every
one of us holds tenfold dearer than life itself,
were permitted to have access to him; they
came and went freely, making their inquisition,
extorting or inventing admissions to be used
for Burns' ruin.
If that is the triumph of the law,
then we say its defeat will be a bless
ing, and those men who rejoice over
such triumphs are themselves fit for
slaves. But let us see hOw the case
proceeded. The following is a true
deScription of the *testimony on - both
sides:
So then the Commissioner reduced the
question precisely to this:—ls the prisoner at
the bar the same Anthony Burns whom Brent
saw in Virginia- on the nineteenth day "of
March last, and who the claimant swears in
his complaint escaped from Virginia on the
twenty-fourth of Marchl
One man, calling himself William Brent, a
merchant of Richmond, testified to the ques
tion of identity. "This is Burns." He was
asked, -When did you see him in ruginia
and he answered, On the 19th of March last.
l' What a beautiful world the
mild June weather has. made.
is Hap
py
he who endeavors to bring him
self into harmcny ivith the 10. el
ness, and quiet happiness which is sur
rounding him. Is there any reason
why we should'pot all meet in cordial
and hearty sociability Yes, there is
just one reason. Some of us persist
in' doing violence to our nature, vio-
Jence to the laws Of God, and injury
to fellow our men. .Let us endeavor
to shame such -into good behavior ;
and as for those who will neither be
reasoned, persuaded, nor shamed into
getting an honest living without sell
ing liquid poison, ivhy let us apply,
the same Tneans to convert them from
the evil of their ways, that we do the
horse-thief and the counterfeiter.
LET FHEENEN Dirrrz IN DEFENSE OF
•
FREEDOM.
At the • Independent Democratic
State Convention of Massachusetts,
which met at Boston, May 31st, the
following resolution, among others,
was unanimously adopted:
"Resolved, That in this crisis, when
liberty seems doomed to utter destruc
tion, unless the whole North is rallied
to her defence, the Free Democracy
are willing to relinquish all party
considerations,t to forget all past hos
tilities, to. disregard all minor differ--
ences•, to sacrifice everything but their
principles, in order to secure an effec
tual union of. true men against the
mighty conspipacy of slavoholders and
dougkfaces that now threatens to over
throw the peace,: the honor, and the
Free Institutions of the country."
• lye subscribe most heartily to this
resolution, and *to . the following ex
tract from Henry Wilson's speech :
t I, wish to be understood here, to
day, in regard to our position. We
are ready to act with Democrats or
Whigs to carry out our principles.
We will forget organizations; we will
go into the rear; we will do the work;
if there is a 'forlorn hope' to he led,
we will lead it and others may fill the
places of honor, if they will be truo to
our principles, (great cheering; J but
our principles must be engraved on
their hearts, and written on their
foreheads ; and they must live by them
forevei." [Renewed cheering.]
••• ; •
The first duty we owe to the coun
try is to exterminate—to extermirtate—
tho forty-four Northern traitors in the
House of Representatives at:Washing
ton." [EnthusiasiiC`plaudits.l
• • •
"Our next duty is to sustain those
Representatives from the North who .
voted against this Nehru:slt iniquity,
and who will pledge themselves to the
country and the : , world that it shall
be repealed" • [Applause.]
•• • •
"Then we mean to repeal the FUgi
tive Slave Bill. [Enthusiastic cheer - -
ing.] No man must represent -the
free States of the Union, unless he
will consent to blot from the statute
book of this republic an act that dis
honors human nature, and disgraces
the age in which we live." [Renewed
applause.]
• • • •
Correspondtmoo of the Journal.
COCIDERSP . ORT, June 10, ISI.
MESSRS. EDITORS the Jcntrnal of the
9th inst were published what appears to have
been the official proceedings of the Conven
tion of the School Directors of 'Potter county,
held pursuant to an act of the Legislature, for
the purpose of electing a County Superin
tendent of Common Schools, from which it
appears that I have the honor of having been
selected for that important position. I think
that I fully appreciate the partiality, as well as
the motives and arguments of these friends
through whose influence and votes I have been
elevated to so prominent a -statiOn; and vrbile
I feel obliged to decline the acceptance of a
trust that would impose duties in additionAo
my present burdens, beyond my capacity to
discharge, I should:nevertheless, be ungrateful
to my friends, unjust to my own feelings, and
recreant to those high public interests to .
which I have, by implication, at least, com
mitted myself, were I to withhold the poor
'need of my sincere thanks, and the causes
that influence my decision.
When invited, in October hist, "to take
charge of the CoutlerspOrt -Academy, I found
it (to employ an expression of the Board of
Trustees) "in a depressed condition, and still
declining." My labors for the past tight
months have been extremely arduous, and it
is, as yet, quite problematical whether this
Institution is to take a very high rank among
schools of its own grade. That it might, is
certain; that it will, is barely : possible. At all
events, whatever may be its - fliture destiny, to
commit that destiny . to the keeping of Assist
ants merely, must prove fatal, The most
active perseverence on-the part of an acting,
responsible Principal, is indispensable to even
its present sickly existence, and much more to
its eventual triumph as a respectable institu-
tion of learning.
The office of County Superintendent, in
point of importance, is second to none. The
benefits emanating frotn a proper organization
of !our Common Schools, and their thorough
supervision and discipline, few can compre
bend, and none limit and circumscribe. The
act constituting•this office, placts a Single man
in loco parentis to all the scliocitsWithin the
ii nits of his jurisdiction. Sonic ,-fight years'
ex i pericnco in an adjoining State—a small !icor
thin of that time as an incumbent, and the
'reMainder in the enjoyment of the fullest
confidence of others holding-this office, has
afforded me no slight opportunity of knowing
s o mething about the practical workings of our
now system; and I hazard the prediction'
(siithent claiming any credit for extraordinary
cUnning or sagacity) that the -efforts of these
14w officers 'will be entirely. nugatory and
frnitless, and the people will regard the office
a sinecure, and pray for its speedy abolition,
unl e ss th e men erected as Superintendents go
oirth fully imbued with - au educational spirit
and prepared to find complete employment for
rtarly all their time, talents, and energies.
The business of Cotutty Superintendent is
n business per se. It cannot be hitched on,
lice the tail of a kite, to balance any other
bitsiness and assist it to rise; and whatever
41vantage might accrue to any other interest
by having this attached, there is a physical
limit to all human capability; that renders it
.1
idle for any man to undertake to perform in a
manner that will be satisfactory, both to him
self and others, nn amount of labor to which
he is wholly inadequate.
I have thus stated the main diffienhies in the
way of my attempting to undertake the duties
that this office imposes. 'Were I free from
iay present obligations, I could not hesitate for
a moment to enter this ample field of useful
tiess and labor, to „the. extent of my htuuble
bility, for the' promotion of the cause of
Jniversal Education.
I intended, in connection with this subject,
in review briefly the late school law of this
State; but, to avoid prolixity, I shall, defer
that matter till some future time, when, with
lyour permission, I shall be glad to-submit a
few objections to certain provisions co:twined
the law, together with a few suggestions
jfor public consideration:
Hoping that my friends may deem as good
land sufficient" my reasons for the nonac
i ceptance of the honors they intended to
cenfer,
I am, sirs, with great esteem,
- Your ob't serv't,
J. BLoonurcam.r.
Mrs. Judson, formerly well known
as Fanny Forester, is dead.:
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DENT.Lwr—li FIRORD, S . A. B. BOTS
-IL/Furgical
and Mechaniea/ Dentist, is stopping in town
for a few days, and may be found at the Tem
perance Hotel by those desiring his, proles
'dotal services.