The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1851-02-19
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The announcement has been made, and
reeeiyed With ngrebt deakof interest h al
quarters, that 10 association 81 library men
has been { Smed IN New York, for The pnr
pose og distributing intellectual labor among
those whe devote their lives to such pursuits.
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The abOve paragraph gives rise TO many
lntefe0llpg reflections. Every department
Of business Is supplied with men. capable.
accessible, and ever willing to transact for
youany and all business IN their line, ''at
the shorles, not &c and with dispatch. ? ex.
cept in The department eflterature. If you
have bill Of exchange you wish discounted;
a broker establishment is next door; gro-
ceries to buy; commission house is hard
by; property to sell-an auctioneer with
hammer and red flag, is just ahead Of you
do you wish your chin reaped Of beard and
part ofthe skin--a barber with a dul. razor
across the way will do il for dime, and
dress yOut hair for nOshing-do you wish
to have your system ruined by Mercury,
and your hearing by quinine-a half dozen
doctors are in waiting TO serve you = are
you weary oflife, and wish TO lid yourself of
it-Ihere is the piOus apolhecary, Charley
for instance, who will furnish you with
quieiuS--the sexton stands leaning upon his
spade ready to bury yoh, and lawyers thick
as bIackberries and hungry as sharks. are
ready and eager 10 administer upon your es
tate. In word, you find dealers in every
thing but live brains II a love-sick swain
wishes some verses ndited to his fair one,
the brainless politician speech for Bun.
combe, and an uniettered editor treatise
upon political economy, and a lazy parson, a
learned discourse, fall of fire and birthstone,
they must scratch their heads, leok foolish,
and tug away at it themVelves, or go with
out. A proper distribution Of intellectual la.
Dor, would obviate all this. Convert brains
into a marketable commodity. and how easy
the thing would work, and what fine repu
tation a man could obtain with a small cRpi-
tai.
Seriously, much good might be effected to
the community at large, and much individu-
al suffering relieved, by such an Organiza>
ton of literary forces as is above contempla-
ted. The most helpless animal alive, is a
yonng talented, modest gentleman, fresh
from college, VIII a we'll cultivated and Wig
orous intellect quick and active, and anxious
to do something, he languishes. and finally
his spark Of intellect goes out, AMI he come,
to be- an idle Younger, drone, butt and
Rtbe, tor the course vulga minds around
HIM, whereas if he had met with emplo, .
tnen,, suited to his former intellectual pur.
suits, and that would have strengthened and
developed hi. powers, he would have be-
come an eminen,ly useful man, the pride o
his friends and an ornament to society.
Now and then the world is startled BY
the achievements Of a giant intellect. Iha
strikes boldly out, and carves its way amid
a cloud Of difficulties, fearIessly, during and
overcoming all obstacles, but they are like
angels visits ''few and far between" anC
where we meet with one such instance, we
meet thousand, whose real, modest meri
has been eIbOwed asid by somo inteliectu
al baboon.
True Intellectual worth is always diff
dent, or rather doubtful of its own powers
and needs usually tender, fostering care
10 call it forth. Any organization, therefor,
which will have such tendency ought I,
meet with general approval. There is an
always will be q wide field Cor intellectual
labor, and great demand for laborers, an
yet thousands may nevertheless fail to in
f employ, and as many more toll TO no goo
purposes. One branch of literature Is some
+ times ovetstOcked, while others go wi.hol
laborers as literary productions and lahO
: bear no sort of relation to the demand
t Commerce, and other branches of bushes
{ make channels for themselves, not so wit
. literature, hence the Importance 0! lettiu
: the former take care ofthemselves, aud
g giving favor and encouragement 10 the la
h ter. II the intellectual! forces Of the pre-
y emf age could by any sort of organization
d mustered into line, and each have lis a
u propriate sphere assigned him, there is
= computing the advantages which would 7
D sui. therefrom. they could without tiflicu
a y faseen Improvement to tho car Of time
$ and Imagination aud fancy would Jag as
h behind il, as the Numbering stage coach
.e present day does that of rail car. sF-