Press enter after choosing selection

A Modest Board Of Supervisors

A Modest Board Of Supervisors image
Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
January
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Supervisors are proverbially modest men, but the Wayno eounty Board eclipses all othcrg. At a recent session il passed various and sundry resolvos, atnong whioh we notioe : lst. Oue providing for a committee to procure from the Govefnor an order against recruiting for any county without the limits of a'Jch county. Wayue must be privilagea to enlist all the transient men who find (hé'rt way into Detroit, and then to steal all the residents of other counties they possibly oan. - We think we sec the Governor issuing Buch an order ! 2d. One aaking tho Secrotary of War to disband the Provost Guard, on oondition that they enlist in the volunteer service, to tho credit ot V ayno county, of course. How many of those 'nen have already been paid bouDtioa by other oountie8 ? 3d. One calling on the Legislature to refund to the several countiés, towns, and cities, tho amouct they have from time to time expended in paying bounties to volunteers, etc. We should caution the Legislature to pauso long before it adopta tliis suggestion. Many towns have filled their quotas, from their own patriotio citizons, without a resort to bounties; others have paid bouutiesi Kmall and l'irge, with private subssriptions ; and others have paid large bounties, and stealings, by a pledge of bonds, etc. It can uot be cqualized at this la day, and it would certainly be únjust to tax couuties and towns which have filled their quotas without any bounties or by paying smal! ones, to refund to counties and towns which, tbrough a lack of patriotism, or something else, have paid large bounties to aliens, etc, or squandered their money on recruiting brokers We would favor a liberal, uniform State bounty, but not tho refundiug of expended moneys to counties or towns, whioli wpuld. ttivolve gre:it inequality and injustice. jLg" We give place in our columns o-day lo a coramuniootion pertuining o Univerfity matter, not beeauce we ndorse its statements or conchiions, but because it is our cuntorn to let corresponderás whom we will admit to our columna at all speak their own views in their own manner. Wc think, however, ihat "A" has expended more powder than his special subject was worthv. and has over-rated his ence and the influenco of both ihose who lead and foliote him. After exirossihg at length our views upon the reinoval of Dr. Tappan, at the time of ts ocourrence, we have presorved sience, thinking that newspnper discustjons - at least in our city - with their oriminutions and recriniinations, were 11 calculated to subserve tho i.nterests f the University or preserve discipline therein. Aud, now wo mre willing to CftVe the matter in iho hands of tho new Board - a Board which must take the responsibility. We don't think tho nen composing it will act iueonsiderite'y or hastily, or that they will give tha governtnent oi the University icto Iho hands of the stuaenta who have no business with it, or of outsiders whoso ipinions they rnay consult only as opinons, but by no rueans aa authority. Having the interests of the university m charge, they must consult tho best eources of infurmation 01 draw on their own esperience. Tha quostion for thein to decido is, not hether Dr Tappan was wrongtally removed, but whether the future of the Uuiversity, its rea!, best interestp, demand his reinstatenient. And thii question we leave vsith thein. J5S" The old Board of Rpgents of the University wire in session yesterday and the day beforc, finishing up their labora ; and to daythe new Board meet for the purpose of organization, and for the transaction of :my otber business they may find necessary. f Tho 3d, öth, 7th,9th, and 16th regimenis of Michigan Infautry have all re-enlisted for three years or the war, and will npply on the quota of the S'ato under the pending draft. L3T As an indication of the feeling of tho most conservativo men of the Southern Confedenicy.we give placo to a letter f rom T. Butlek Kino, of Georgia, upon the subject of reconstruction. There is certainly a wide diflerenco betwecn the terina upon which he - thorgh denounced as a reconstructionist- would accept peace, and the term like ly U) b fïered by or goveraaet.

Article

Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus