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I will correct the error in these two sentences. I 

 was ordered, as I have shown above, to admit six. 

 I Hid not admit one without claiming an increase of 

 wages. I refused to admit two of the six because 

 there were no seats for them, and thereby followed 

 the direction of the chairman. I did not admit one 

 who had not been transferred, as may be seen by the 

 committee's first order. 



I agreed with the prudential committee at the be- 

 ginning of the year to teach one year on conditions, 

 and the promotion of scholars from the grammar 

 schools nullified the contract. I was twice re-engaged 

 and at an increase of salary each time. 



This is a sample of the whole report, and I now 

 assert, openly and definitely, that the whole document 

 is pregnant w 7 ith falsehood. And malicious as that 

 falsehood appears, it is very mild when compared with 

 that which a few other men have carried about the 

 district during the past winter, whispering it in the 

 ear of every man who was not acquainted with the 

 facts. Many of these men, not knowing the facts of 

 course, were made to believe what they heard re- 

 peated so often. I do not censure them ; they were 

 as ready to believe the truth as falsehood, if it were 

 only told them. Such infamy should have stamped 

 upon it "the indelible stigma of the public abhor- 

 rence." This falsehood called out nearly a hundred 



