The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1821-09-04
MIS- gn,lGE a N.Y.
COMMINICATEn.
lel Patriots.

| Supplementary TO the remarks on Mr.. Urifords
System Of ParunGnShip.
III addition to what mas been already advanced in
favor OF Mr. WrILOrl ard nis method OF instruction Il
is deemed properto observe and require il to be well
remembered, that this is the sl and only branch of
art pertaining TO literary common education ever
reduced to principles OF order thod and system COM
tmlns TO practical mode OF instruction, by Amer
] iCan.s
In this sense and in this particular it must of right and
necessity be acknowledged the first born Of America -
and as SUCH ought to be nursed improved and
aged Oy Americans 1t is pretended that any great
Talents OF ingenuity were required TO have done what
thu author Mr.. W. has applied this art vet it re-
CURED much more than has ever been bestowed upon it
ever since our present form OF letters and style Of witt
Ing were lrst put In practice The mode of teaching
thus branch has ever been ard still continues TO be- by
continual practice, and without any definite object in
view, but vague and careless imitation And this meth
Cd also pursued by persons who profess to teach this
branch exclusively, In great degree The evils re-
sutng from this desultory mode OF practice great
waste OF time, stationary and contingent expenses and
the positive failure Of nine tenths Of nknd in ever
gaining that style Of writing which ought character
Ize the hand Of person geEteelly educated
By Mr.. WIS. mode, on the other hand, every person
Of good common capacity may acquire fair handsome
hand IN quarter part the time that is usually de-
voted to this purpose 1t is said, in British Encvco-
pedla, that the art of writing IS of all others, that
which is most useful society" &c. Ifths is an un-
denabe TACT Is 1t not important that it should be
other branches of education The reason that there
happens 10 have been many eminent characters in
world who wrote, or those who do write clumsy Or
binary hand or STYLE is not that they undervaued the
accomplishment OF geneel penmanship in the least
but 1t IS owing entirely deficiency any eectual
system OF instruction. whereby they could during the
fcourse OF their education with reasonable labour and
time effect that object 1t is believed that the re is
10 be found in any country cline whatever one who
would not rejoice 70 be able TO write in an easy grace
m no +ho ol-o
liberty IL infer that he who writes bad hand is def
cient and has defect in important part of his ed
ucauon- And the man Of education, who is careless
and indifferent whether he write well or not must
be OF dull phlegmatc temperament, and destitute of
all lively sensibility of pure taste Although may
not be any necessary mark Of profundity Of genius or
understanding yet nevertheless it surely is Of skill
and some degree Of refinement.
All other branches of education having been syse
lzed and improved, principles of order and method
in Europe, before reaching America il is sincerely
hoped that parents teachers and guardians throughout
the whole American Republic, will be induced from
motives of interest and love Of country, render all
due encouragement, and avail themselves of this i'm
FoTtan and useful devise of OF their citizens
And the writer again repeats what he first advanced,
that II IS from motives of gratitude and Justice a
spected instructor and desire to aid In restoring the
mets OF his works and labours just estimation in
the public view, which have occasioned these remarks
SO mach In detail from teacher Of Massachusetts.
T. NJ. @.
FShould any ask wherein does the mode Of Mr.
Nnrord differ from that OF others who have published
books and copies &c. claiming for themselves, author
ship OF systems Of penmanship-partculary the pre-
tensions OF Fir. John Jenkins who author Of sys-
TEN OF writing solicited and obtained the assistance Of
the legislature of Massachusetts in publishing il few
years slRce The answer is briefly this Mr. Writ
lords mode Is far extensive embracing the whole
variety Of useiul pcnmanship, copy hand capitals fig
ures and running hand while that Of j. only embraces
copy hand and copy hand capitals-N's system Is
founded on principles OF similarity of arrangement that
OF J. comprises ALPHABETICAL order; essentially
differing from former But than all, the
spieuous difference is in this that Mr. WIS. embraces
detail OF practical instruction, how draw every
principle end letter, and now combine them easily
and gracefully into words in regular and progressive
orders while that Of like all other teachers
left to chance the faculty Of imitation and without
any definite instruction, how write execute sny
palt whatever all is LEFT practice aud imitation.
The chiefoccupation Of ali the Arabs in the
interior Of Africa is slave hunting. They surround
the village they intend 10 plumber al day ligAt,
| and being 10 bodies 600 or 500 strong, they usu-
ally take all the inhabitants some times 1000 or
500 slares are procured a this wsy ip q single