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FRIDAY. JUNE 18,,1889.
UNION REPUBLICAN TICKET.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE DISTRICT COURT,
JOHN M. KIRKPATRICK:
ASSISTANT LAW JUDGE., COMMON PLEAS,
. FREIrK. H. COLLIER.
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STATE 42.14.ATR.
• THOMAS HOWARD-.-
ASSEMBLY,
MILES S. HITMPHREYS,
ALEXANDER MILLAR,
JOSEPH WALTON,
JAMES TAYLOR,
D. N. WHITE,
JOHN KERR..
SHERIFF,
IMGI3 B. 'FLEMING
TRELSUREE.
JOS. F. DENNISTON
CLERIC OF COURTS,
JOSEPH BROWNE
RECORDER.
THOMAS H: HUNTER
COIMISSION&E,
CHAUNCEY B. sosrivlcs
REGISTER,
JOSEPH H. GRAY.
CLERK OP oarusro , cotrEr.
ALEXANDER HILANDS. -
DIRECTOR or POOR.
ABDIELHcCLURE. •
Ws Pam on the inside pages of
the vsokines tamarTrz—&eond page:
New Pubiceations, Correspondence, Miscel
laneous. Third and Sixth pages: Com
mercial, Roaneial, Mercantile and River
News, ilar4etil Imports. Seventh page:
Poetry, Ephemeris, Miscellanneous.
U. B. Bosna at Frankfort, 86®86i
GOLD closed in. New York yesterday
it 187 i.
PETROLEUM at Antwerp, 46if.
TUE Slate Guard at. Harrisburg has
suspended publication, temporarily, it is
claimed, by its conductors.
WE learn authentically ;that Governor
GEARY has notbeen offered any position
on Gen. Gium's Cabinet, nor has he
been approached on the subject at all.
- EilogovExxon CURTIN is accompanied
o St. Petersburg by Mr. Trrual J. COF
FEY as Secretary of Legation, and by
Ronsurr E. GRATE, Esq., fLB Private Sec
retary. These two gentlemen , compose
his suite. • I
• eon
BBrATOW BuowsLow Uf Tennessee
haa.given"in his adhesion to the policy of
-removing all political disabilities growing
out of the rebellion. He has been slow
in coming to this wise and necessary con
clusion.' but he now accepts it with his
natnnavehemence.
VI expressed some, days t ago our con
viction that the conceited but vague out
cry raised in certain, quarters about cor
ruption in the Republican party, was
designed to cover a plan for .its destrue
tion. A. telegram from Philadelphia,
given elsewhere this morning, confirms
this prediction. The new organization
'has been so far matured as to be brought
to sight. A. few daYs more will Impart a
yet more definite shape to the movement.
Dun= the populax beliefto the con
trary, such things as consciences have
abiding places in - mot a few American
heats. Since 1861, the United States
Treasury has received in moneys re
ee i l
turned, through the 'agen y of troubled
, consciences the sum of A 38.99, and
the amount is increasing t the rate of
t 3,000 per month. Th' statistics do
velope the fact that many men are dis
honest when a chance to so is put in
their way, but are not so b
ter the theft has been coral,
wrong perpetrated, they
them which ovum not to
titration be made, and the
Ton anthracite coal era have re
solved tozesuma work, 'going as one
of the reasons the . diem/ lion excited by
their strike to have the ,my on foreign
coal repealad. The min= did not take
the hint a moment too • on. It may as
Well be taken as 'settled • r, the COnnll2l- .
era of no leading artiele will consent to
shut out foreign gom - on by impost
,duties, and then to have • omestic compe
tition annihilated by in combina
tions. The policy of • .iection woild
become a stench in the nostril's of all
right:thinking citizens w re It to be used
to that end.
IT is wain, perhaps!
'to dispense with •as Met
and circumstance of eke
but there are some things
perhaps be as well for esl
a republic to attend to. ,
tlemati Attemds a ball or
' public festivity he Is ex
what hi known as "full d
liar there is a full unifo
our army officers, yet we (
nal supwr, iit the il
Point, sippeigii Lisskidd
• vox smodassmi
'"
4,31 Z -.
y
ROL4c, Atf.e.zo
etc. It Would seem as if the cadets could
scarcely be%lained if they followed their
General's example of the neglect of the
strict requirements of military etiquette.
TUE anti-Grant newspapers, looking
abOut for a man to attack, found Mr.
Boum, whose heinous sin was that he' had
always minded his own busines well, and
had avoided public lite. He immediately
became the target at which most of the
blunt jokes and would-be sarcasms of the
enemy were leveled; but even under this
provocation he has proved his strength of
character by pursuing the even tenor of
his way and attending quietly to his duties
without paying any attention whatever to
his violent detractors. We do 'not be•
neve that a single instance can be brought
forward where the present Secretary of
the Navy has not performed his work as
well as any of his predecessors, or indeed
as well as any of the other Cabinet offi
cers
POLITICAL SCANDAL.
Most men and women have a natu
ral appetite for scandal. They have a
piquant relish for reports by which the
reputations of other people, not closely
related to them, are assailed.. If this
prevalent characteristic is so discredita
ble, as not to be generally acknowledged,
it nevertheless exists. One eminently
shrewd observer carried the point so far
as to affirm that most individuals were
decidedly pleased to hear bad news even
of their intimate friends. Certain it is
that if every body should know precisely
what their chosen companions say of them.
behind their backs, self-complacency
would suffer in a vast multitude of in
stances. Ana this further must be said.
that the lower'the individual organization
and the more liable to special infirmities,
the greater.will be the delight at reports
inculpating the conduct and character of
others. .
This general love of scandal is not con
fined to incidents of ordinary social and
business life„ l but appears quite as conspi
cuously in Matters in which politici and
politicians are involved. It is safe to say
that all politicians are neither patriots nor
saints. The same average of scamps will
be found among them as among men en
gaged prinuirily.,in other pursuits. In-
deed, few politicians make politics a
trade, but
i devote the greater ` . part of
their time and energies to common bust
hess affairs! But, can . any person
specify any i l i considerable class of men,
engaged in ny particular vocation, who
are all as himest, truthful and sincere as
human beings ought to be ? We hear of
such masse, rather by implication than
otherwise, but it' has not been our luck
to come , i to convincing contact with
them. A 'ail can be found in every
,
county, and one or more penitentiaries in
every State, and most of them are not
wanting lb occupants: These dwellers
in prisons iare drawn from almost every
rank in society. No facts have come to
our notice, indicating definitely or even
probably, that most of these people are
politicians.i . Indeed, abundant proofs es
tablish the act that there are very few
politicians, in the popular sense, among
them. So, too, quite a number of men
get hanged every year, by judicial de
cree. Theis) victims of hemp are recruit
ed from alinost every calling and profes
sion; but we do not understand the t'there
is an unusual proportion of politicians
in their rnks. We make these sugges
tions deferentially, as being entitled to
some consideration and weight.
It will bS found, however, after all the
abatements, that may be necessary and
equitable that rascals, of all degrees, can
be found in political classes. Some poli-
ticians get' rich by dishonest practices,
just as a good many builness Men dot
Daring the war were the pollticians the
only inn who defrauded the gov
ernment? Did no manufacturers get
more than was honest?. Did no
contractor , for army or navy sup
plies? Did no ship-builder. take undue
advantaze of Ahe Navy, Department?
Did no ship-owner sell to kolientinent old
sail vessels or steamships for at least
twice what they xere actually worth?
Did no clothier cheat u to quality and
price? How &out flour and meat dealers
—were they *immaculate? Have busl.
nue men since the war made no fortunes
dishonestly at the expense of the govern
ment ? Axe all returns of whisky, of in
comes, and 'what not, to the Assessors of
Internal Revenue, scrupulously exact?
Do not importers resort to fraudulent in
voices to cheat the custom-houses? We
opine that if the whole facts were out it
would appear that buslueu men defraud
the gOvernment of a hundred-fold more
than the politicians. A hundred millions
a year on whisky, and as much more on
imports, shim startling results. Let all
persons look about them and then decide.
We incline to the belief that while politi
&hoe make diShonest gains by hun
dreds; the regular business men pile up
their fraudulent sums by thousands. If,
on this showing, we should denounce all
business men as rogues—with organizing
and maintaining plans for the express pur
pose-of swindling the government
and private individuals—ivohld not busi
ness men feel that we were common
scolds. The political circles of this
State and nation embrace a vast array
of men who are the full peers of any
equal number of their fellow citizens that
can be designated,li intelligence, in en
terprise, in disinterestedness, in purity,
and in patriotism. They do not shrink
from comparisenPind yiey defy ecru
tiny. If business men were individually
subjected same
nature. Af-
Med, or the
ye that within
out till rea
• nd left easy.
'or Republicans
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1k of the • pomp '
i •
ette as possible, •
lihich it would
n the citizens of
private gen•t i
thee' private o
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specified for
read that Gen
lew at- West
,coat and but
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criticism, they would 800 ,
that their blemishes, vices an
been discovered.
It is easier to destroy a
clan, of prominence, than
honest man in any other
human activity. All that
lay him out, is to makr
him, and he will be conk
Nay, in most cases, a stri
of culpability raised agaii
to rnin.a politician. 1 11
Will the bulk of citizens
who stands impeached? If so, what
shall be said of the virtue of the masses?
t.l
e,
Now, we a.re far enough fr m objecting
to having proof of delinq ency made
against any man in public' or political
life. What . we object to, is a indiscrim
inate denunciation ifitall men who take a
prominent part in politics swindlers
and plunderers. Least of al , have we
patiencewith these tirades when they
proceed' from men who are themselves
politicians, in as unqualified a sense as
any other men. All experie e confirms
the assertion that whenever th lapse of a
woman is reported to a part of ladies,
MI
those of them whose reputatio
My is most open to
went, assume to be
shocked and are loudest
dation of the deliquent. It is precisely
so among politicians and political jour
nalists. When public attention is aroused
against persons who abuse the popular
confidence dishonestly to enrich or ad
vance themselves, all the contaminated
politicians and newspapers join with the
heaviest voice in the chorus of vague but
emphatic objurgation.
There are corrupt politicians, just as
there are bad men in all walks of society.
If any body Imagines they will be got
rid of by wrathy but general exclama
tions he is miserably deceived. Evil
spirits of the political genus, the same
as their brethren of other sorts, do not
go out by that sort of incantation.
Two effectual ways are open for those
who wish to correct political abuses and
to punish political delinquents. The
first is to attend the primary meetings
and help send the right men to Nomi
nating Conventions. This is especially
needful in populous districts. If voters
in a ward will not go to the primary
elections and discluirge their duty
in the matter of selecting dele
gates, their own culpability ought to close
their lips from making complaints about
their neighbors. If good men will not
meet their responsibilities, bad men and
adventurers will find their opportunity
and avail themselves of it. Besides,
nothing so takes the conceit out of self
sufficient mortals as large towns or cities.
In them each individual counts for
very little. However important a man
may be in his own estimation, or in be
half of his family, he counts for little or
nothing to the swarming multitudei.
When men have• fully performed their
own duty as citizens at the primary
elections, and bad men nevertheless suc
ceed in getting upon the lists of candi
dates, there • remains another mode of
redress, which consists in voting squarely
against them. This right-nay, a duty—
no party organization can debar any
voter from. But, we insist that when
members of a party claim .to exercise this
right or fulfill this duty, they should pre• .
sent clean hands, by baying discharged
their own preceding obligations. •
What we condemn, then, is not fair
and just attempts to keep bad men out of
office, or to render them odious when
ever they get in, but those unspecific and
broad impeachments of whole classes,
which overwhelm alike the innocent and
the guilty, the good and the bad, in com
mon denunciation and proscriptions.
This latter method tends powerfully to
disintegrate every party organization that
tolerates it, without conferring the slight
est benefit upon, the public. It evil is
done in politics, we demand that the
offender or offenders . shall be named, and
that due proof to sustain the charges shall
be made. Thre is no other honest way;
and whoever resorts to any - other is him
self, and to an infamous degree, a wrong.
doer.
•
Tux Harrisburgh Patriot says
McCool° wine by a "foul" on the part
of his antagonist. Seymour would have
been awarded the Presidential prize, last
fall, for a similar' eason but the code of
honor among the Radi cal desperadoes is
not qui% as high-toned as that of the pro
fessional shoulder-hitters. -
The Pattht - * t empts to present the
truth of history, for it is a well known
fact that all the "fowls" werePetpetrated
by the Democracy. Bee the mimpalgo
Post of last fall.
NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES.
Mauna. Borrons : Much dissatisfaction
exists in regard tO, the nomination of can.
didates under the present delegate system.
Many persons are in favor cif what is
called the "Crawford county" plan of
nominating by a direct vote of the people
The objection to the latter plan is, , that in
our county we have two large cities, and
it is feared, that owing to the large vote
that would be polled in the cities, it would
be a very difficult matter to properly ap
portion the successful candidates through
out the county. In other words, that the
country districts would be overborne by
the city vote, and too many, of the candi
dates would be nominated the cities.
This difficulty can be avoided by adopting
the following plan
order to secure fairness let
there be made a 'vestry of. the Republi.
can voters in each ward, township and
voting preCinct, Wand let that be corn-
Aided two months before the primary
tneetingo, and let none votelor the nomi
nation ott candidates but the registered
voters • .
$. 00411- 4 4 soon a. the reglatq s
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:Ern : FRIDAY, JUNE 18,
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completed let the County Committee
issue an order for the said voters to meet
in their several localities.and elect ajudge,
two inspectors and two clerks to receive
the vote. Let all the candidates be voted
for by the people, and the officers of such
meetings shall certify the names of the
persons havihg the highest vote, and
those having the highest vote shall be en
titled to one vote for each district so car
ried by them. One member of each
of the Election Boards ' shall meet
the next Tuesday thereafter at the Court
House, and there all of the certificites
from all the boards in the county shall be
examined, and the persons having the
highest . vote shall be declared the candi
dates. This will do away with the dele
gate system. The officers would be re
turn judges, and one member of each
board would be selected to meet and count
off the districts carried by the several
candidates and announce the result. By
the registry all fraudulent voting would
be cut off. By 'slaking the.registry two
months before the primary meetings, we
would escape all danger of interference
by candidates; and by calling a meeting
of thecitizens, say ten days thereafter, to.
select the election officers,_ that would be
done before the heat of the contest had
stirred up the partizans of the several
candidates, and thereby the strife of se
curing an election board in the interest of
this or that candidate would-be avoided.
The return judges would be bound to
honestly record the will of the people as
expressed at each voting district.
To further insure fairness, those certifi
cates from each district should be preser
ved and handed over to the chairman of
the County Committee for examination
by all members of the party who chose to
do so. This board of return judges fot
the county should also appoint the county
committee for the ensuing year. , ,
find out
crimes had
liti
dis-
it of
Ainst
side.
)tion
'ugh
not?
man
for chas
impeach-
he most
n denun-
This plan will relieve ourfriends in the 1
country from the fear of being overborne
in the nominations by the city vote. This
plan will confer -a nomination on the can
didates having a plurality of the voting
districts of the county. If he insist on a
majority, then we may not be able to
nominate without as many references back
to the people as there are usually ballots
in a county convention under the present ,
system. By the plurality rule there would
be nominations in all cases except a tie.
In that case the matter would have,to be
referred back to l the people. Why(
should we require a jhigher vote to nomi-I
nate than we do to elect ? We elect ell
our officers in this State, from the Gov
ernor down, on plurality of votes. Byl
this plan there can be no button-tiollngi
or trading with delegates. The electioni
officers who meet at the Court House„
will come from the people with their cerq
tificates in lording, declaring what per.
i
sons have received a majority of th
votes cast, and these certificates .bein ~
preserved, and the vote of each distri
published in the newspapers, will be stirn.c .
to prevent fraud.
the several
The clerks at the several election
boardsr should be required to keep tall
lists, on• which the names of every voter
should appear who voted at the primery .
meetings, and i these tally lists should be'
preserved, and handed over with the cer;
tificates to the Chairman of the County
Committee. 'I
By this plan the candidate gets no more
than the one vote of the district carried
by him—his majority Is not carried over
to his credit to overwhelm some smaller
district—and this is the Federal plan;
this is the plan under which we elect the
President of the United States; no matter
what majority one State may give on the
popular vote, the Presidential candidate
gets no more than the electors.
The writer of this respectfully submits
this matter to the Republican voters of
the county, and especially to the County
Committee, for consideration, hoping that
if_it is not approved in all its details, it
will lead to a fair discussion and the adop
tion of a system that will give more gen
eral satisfaction than the present one:
The Crops in Egypt—Unfavorabi
Prospect for Corn-Railroad A CCOIII.
mahatma.
(Correspongerme of the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
ST. Lours, Mo., June 15th, 1869.
An absence of a fortnight from the
• ,
city brought me back Saturday event&
by way, of the Illinois Central Railroad,
from Cairo to Odin • and thence by the
Ohio and Mississippi. Thrciugh Egypt
the wheat cropl look well; in a single field
only, so far as I saw, assuming its golden
hue of ripeness. Corn is b . ackward and
unpromising, in most fields only just
starting from the ground, and in some
fairly drowned out. Persons from other
directions have spoken to me of the - pres.
pect for a corn crop as most unfavorable.
The cold weather of May seems to con
tinue very generally. The nights here,
are chilly, and last night might havebeen
called frosty. Pleasant weather, indeed,
for running about, but poor enough for
the farmers. The old Yankee I used
to know, who always noticed that the corn
grew most rapidly when his wife kicked
the bed-clothes off, would look in vein
for that hopeful indication. Such nights
as these he might be thankful, rather, if
in her generosity she didn't leave him to
shiver unblanketed.. -
We are just going through the arming
examination of our public schools, and
our papers are crowded with reports of
them day atter day. Somewhat Mole%
but on the whole just, are most Of these
reports, The fact is, St. Louis has' first
rate pubic schools and cannot be blamed
for tithing pride in them. My absence
prevented me from seeing any of the lex
ercises, except those yesterday, in Which
the colored schools exclusively - figured.
Miserably provided in every respect as
these schools are, except in the qualifica
tions of the self.denying ladies who con
duct them, I doubt if any white children
in this or any city, in schools of the same
tirade, can surpass these poor freedmen, to
whom half a dozen years ago it was a
Penal offence , in this State to teach ' , the
alphabet. -
Who wants to gis to Boston t Now's
Your chance. The. Ohio and Mississippi
are selling tickets for the round trip Over
the broad gauge route for thirty-five dol
lars. Dirt cheap, let alone the music. I
don't want to say anything in disparage.'
ment of other routes, particularly of those
favored by the Pittsburghers, but as the
poet says, " I
Foe choice of routes let senielees seslots rage.
He can't be wrong who takes the six
foot gadge. The O. & M.ley° recently
put in their day ihie a parlor oar, which
'for elegance of finish and luxury '
appointments; le'iiPerior• to Aosta g of
the kind it has been my fortune see.
Without 'attempthig' to describe sr•
rE!SEMI
REPUBLICAN
ST. LOUIS.
UE!
,ts, I will simply say it is finish
: of polished walnut with ash
r d furnished with arm chairs and
!. slant, covered with crunson
built (which is not the least
thing about it,) in their own
a cost of seventeen thousand
rns now through to Cincinnati
I n to New York.
rangeme
ed insith
panels,
sofas of
tips; was
creditable
shops at
dollars; r
and is to
To exprss the honest opinion of many
a traveler he greatist if not the only corn.
fort of a al •eping car is in getting a whole
seat to yo •raeli—one that you pay for,
and can k:ep without danger of being de
prived of t by a loafer if you happen to
stretch yo legs, or of being expected to
resign it to a lady who won't thank you.
The whol • bath business, 'fine sheets,
stifling a ..osphere, the two bits for
blacking y •ur boots, &c., is an unmitiga
ted humbug. The parlor car meets a
great wan , with its comfortable arm
chairs,
and its arrangements for seclusion,
and along ith such eating cars as now
run on \ so eof our roads, and soon will,
I hope, on : long routes, goes about as
far toward= removing the discomforts of
travel as w may reasonably expect: A
good many are talking of going, and a
good many will go, to the Peace Jubilee.
By the wa • , if "Hub" means Boston,
and "Bub" means bantling, why not
Hub-bub, which is a short and decidedly
expressive designation for the forthcom
ing demonstration.
The boy. are shouting the evening pa
pers with 'All about the prize fight!"
I don't Ica was it makes much difference
whether ~ ike smashes Tom, or Tom
smashes Mi :e, or both get smashed, but
you will k ,ow all about it before you see
this letter. HITT'S MAGrEN„ ,
THE COIJIITS.
ourt—Judge Kirkpatricit.
1 , June 17.—The case of Ir
k ely,.action in ejectment was
the District Court yesterday
rial when Court adjourned.
District
THIIRSDA
win vs. B
taken up in
and was on
Seeslonit—Judge Sterret
Quarter
TELURSDA. , June 17.—1 n the case of S.
T. Miller, i • dieted for larceny, previous
ly reported, the jury failed to agree and
were discharged.
In the case of the Commonwealth vs.
Jacob pablnson indicted for seduction
orrn
and
,iz et eet, reported yesterday, the
jury Iretnrned a, verdict of not guilty and
required the defendant to pay the costa.
Patrick Farnerer was held on his own
recognizance in the sum of $3OO, to keep
the .peace.
James Hays alias Thomas Smith, plead
guilty to a charge of larceny, and was
remanded for sentence.
The next cases taken up were the Com.
nion*realth vs. Kinney Golf„ indicted
for assault and battery, Mary Whacker
prosecutrix, and the Commonwealth vs.
Mary Whacker, indicted for aggravated
assault and battery, Kinney Goff prose
cutor. Goff, if appears, was the possessor
of a cow, which left his premises in the
Thirteenth ward, and was found by him
chained up in the stable of Mary Whacker
in the Sixteenth ward. He proceeded to
release the cow for the purpose of taking
her home, when Mrs. Whacker and two
or three other German women interfered
to prevent him from taking the cow.
*Mrs., Whacker, who, it appears, is a
owhacker" in truth, "whacked" the old
man l over the head with a broom stick,
and jher companionsebeat and abused
him with other weapons, and linall • laid
hold of him, and attempted to take him
to the office of a Justice of the Peace.
The jury found Mr. Goff guilty Ss in
dicted, and Mrs. Whacker indicted for
assault and battery. Sentence deferred.
Stewart Sampson, indicted for sesault
and battery, was brought into Court, and
plead guilty, and was , remanded to jail
for sentence.
Common Pleas Court--Judge Mellon.
THURSDAY, June 17.—1 n the case of
Kirk vs. Snowden t Son, previously re
ported, the jury returned a verdict for
plaintiff in the sum of 510,000.
The next case taken up was John P.
Helsel vs. John Mischa% Action' on a
nromisory note. Verdict for plaintiff in
ihe - sutn of 5164 09.
King vs. Honley. Action to recover
for work and labor done. Verdict for
plaintiff in the sum of 1115 75.
On motion of M. A. Woodward, Esq.,
Jobh A. Miller. of Steubenville, was ad
milted to practice in this Court.
Vanderhoven dc Blakeney vs. Yellow
Creek Iron Company. Action on a con-
I tract. On trial.
Corporal Pantsnment—A School Director.
EDITORS GAZETTE: In your Monday's
issue is a communication signed "School
Director," in reference to corporal pan-,
ishment,which, because of its loose, Indis
criminate and skeptical character, de
mands a passing notloe. Had the Direc
tor applied himself alone to the task of
regulating these punishments in school,
so that the weifof the pupil might be
beat promoted, a tbe greater efficiency
ari
of the teacher at t e same time secured,
/
imre might have passed his communism
thin unnoticed. But in his defence of the
innocents he indirectly disparages the
teachers, who daily have not o nl y very
unruly children to manage, but in addi
tion thereto very unreasonablearents,
and, shall we say, injudicious an cincom
petent directors, to control at th same
time—a task and position sufficient mean
while to require at our hands, at all
times, at least fair treatment. t
The Director in his communication also
turns theologian, biblical critic, historian,
dogmatist, &0., &0., by turns, and in these
several capacities and characters i makes
me apprehend some mistakes in his re
marks and conclusions. He parades the
/ex talionis of Moses, deprecates it, off
sets it by a devout reference to the Lord
of Love, with an air which might lead us
to supiiose that these quota Mons are
somewhat ,relevant to the subject of
school government. But as well might
he quote let Chronicles, lst ()balder and
let verse, correlated with Jude, chapter
9, verse 10. Punishment propel. is a part
of the Divine government, andnnot be
divorced from society, neither in the
family, the school, the church, nor the.
Slate, and it is in no case to be under
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stood as a species of revenge—to be
mis
taken for retaliation. Puniahme t, when
judicious and discriminative, is not only
legitimate but an absolute necessity in ev
ery well regulated school. It is never de
signed to gratify revenge or any feeling
of the administrator, bat to be suted only
for the good of the punished and as a
oonservor of society, the latter of which
is the higher object of puniiihment.
And he who prates against punishment,
and quotes Christ in justification. of his
vagaries, should remember that \ whilst
the Lord blessed little children, he at
the same time found it equally necessa
ry to drive from the temple
el tith a
scourge of cords those who w pro.
faxing the holy place. The Dire° rdep.
recates Moses end . adMires Child That
his judgment may be j eat, - let hi 11.
'note
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the philosophy of these words !him the
gentle thrien "Ye serpents; 'ye-,sen;C
stationiOtvine* how can ye 050 0044'
damnation of WV' This' *Semi, vim iii,
th er e 15 14 11.10410541001 Add ' Ott 1 yiw-or
love, to border somewhat upon
en i s h )aw of Moses—“An eye
and a tooth fora tooth." '
But poor King Solomon is ne made to
runlthe gatitnlet and submit t. the mer
ciless rhetoric and , excrutiatin logic of
our Director. We'have a slap - at his in
spiration, a dieparagennent of his char
acter, a witticism at the expense of poor
~M rs. Solomon,"and a questioning of the
Ring's teaching, all doubtless well cal
culated to promote reverence for the
Scriptures in general, to give us an
exalted conception of the Book of Prov
erbs in particular, and to rectify the ,
wrongs and,merdify the imaginary evils:
of corporal punishment in schools. The
Book of Proverbs has always been re
garded by all the 'learned, with the ex
ception of the Director, se among the
richest and rarest gems of antiquity, and
he apprehends will Bp retain
this character,manger the ' Director's
disapproval. But - Solomon taught
that spareth the rod 1 hateth
son, he that loveth him cbasterieth him
betimes." Well, what is wrong about
this? The Son of love teaches the same.
The Apostle Paul, worse than Solomon,
teaches that a parent thus acting is like
God. He declares ..whom the Lord
loveth He ohasteneth and scourges every
son whom he receivetb. If ye endure
chastening God dealth with you as with
sons, for what son is he whom the father
chasteneth not," Heb: 12. 6. 7. Choose ye
now between Solomon, King of Israel,
and Paul, the Apostle of Christ, or the •
School Director, as a guide in the matter
of corporal punishment, and we submit
that it is of doubtful propriety to turn
out these ancient and tried teachers for
the admission of this modern one.
The Director next turns his attention
to "Mrs. Solomon," and classically asks
"who is'to spank our daughters? perhaps
Mrs. Solomon," &c., &o.
Will we enaanger our reputation for
gallantry by venturing to suggest that
even our daughters might be somewhat
improved, and the Interests of society
aunserved, by a little more restraint, phy
sical or otherwise, exercised upon them.
There are many dark and portentous
clouds in this part of the social horizon
which prophecy to us no good. It seems
to us that reflecting men, with all the
facts of human depravity before them,
with the tendency, most apparent, of
even children to degenerate and fall
into crime, ought at least to write upon
the subject of school punishment with
careful discrimination, and always to
second the well meant efforts of our
teachers, who occupy, upon the whole
subject of school government r a most un
desirable position. Called daily to
discharge most onerous duties for ,
poor pay, under the triple crossfire
of rebellious children, foolishly in
dulgent parents, and skeirtical, and if not
totally incompetent, at times singularly
injudicious, directors. Whilst we should
certainly discourage brutal, hasty and
excessive punishments, it is well to re
member that human nature ie not al
ways most lovely in its manifestations,
and 'frequently needs a "scourge of small
cords"—something more forcible Akan
moral suasion, something more potent
than the exhibition of the Golden Rule;
as our criminal courts, prisons, houses of
refuge, &c., &c., most clearly demon
strate. When these fail of inmates, we
may begin to take -rose-colored views of
the immaculativeneas of human nature,
but not until then.
It is not wisdom for a nation to govern
too much by force, but it is always well
to keep in reserve the appliances.of
bloody retributive war. SO the judicious
parent and teacher, whilst governing
with all gentleness, if successful in: the
work of education, will always hold in
reserve the right to inflict corporal pun
ishment as one of God's ordained means
for the reformation of offenders. And
when the right to punish evil doers is
taken from our schools, will good govern
ment remain, and our schools be ren
dered more efficient as instruments .of
education? S.
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