He reiterated his position on public schools: they should not teach religion. The lesson of Great Britain—forcing the Crown’s faith on the people of Ireland—had never left him. And when Dimsdale, the British-born editor of the Montana Post, attacked Meagher for this stance, the governor fired him from his position as school superintendent. Later that year, the first public school in Montana opened in Virginia City—without the king of England’s Bible.
