One particularly meritorious article was copied in _The Temps_ and commented upon editorially.

This article created a great stir in political circles.
A search was instituted as to the authorship.

It was traced to Belton, and the politicians gave the school board orders to dump Belton forthwith, on the ground that they could not afford to feed and clothe a man who would so vigorously "attack Southern Institutions," meaning by this phrase the universal practice of thievery and fraud at the ballot box.

Belton was summarily dismissed.
His marriage was of necessity indefinitely postponed.

The other teachers were warned to give no further support to Belton's paper on pain of losing their positions.