The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-02-23

Letter from Mr.. Baldwin.
I RrcHxoxD, ID mo, 9sd. isse.~
Thy letter from Holeombe Is before ne, and tsr-
rble affair it is As far Richmond is concerned.
would nos stoop 70 notice it, Is bears upon its
face that heh will disgust the general reader:
have heard many ciBcns already express shemselves
But for those unAcauainted with the parties and the
facts in the case, Evil notice it briefly.
But must first express my latitude for the favor
thou hast bestowed in distributing my Circulars This
| was kind of thee And must congratulate thee on
thy good Ia procuring such 20 werfu aid from
distance, ~ such critical period Perhaps if thou
wouis also write to Spencer and Lusk thou might
coed in exciting their sympathy and anio.ity sim
i.r manner 20 ~ to s,Se little more variety Of
get thy powerful friends from distance to do up all
thy little dirty work for thee that thou would be
ashamed to do thyself, while filing the responsible
station Of head teacher. of q Friends school
Consistency thou art jewel :, This letter from
thy worthy teacher champion thou terms him.
Is doubtless regarded by thee able production
a master piece.-a display Of wisdom and genius. and
every way 70 the point. thou. of would not
wish to haye it made SO public And by THY name
Of course endorses every sentiment il contains 10
the labored attempt deme,ish system Of writing
be call. quite . number of business to
tai him and 'apprehends" they will do it and deny
my system with = unanimous-a thundering No.
Sublime apprehension A stranger might suppose
from such wholesale assurinea that he had fascinated
converted, and exercised such magnetic influence
over whole business fraternity, to them at
Will
But will have had little leisure Of late,
have called nearly ali who he mentions and will
report He frs. refers to the books and book
keeper of strattau Son. And this is the only bu
sness house n City where have hearI word spo
ken in favor of the spencerian hand for bus mess
will deineate. When called upon them, the book
keeper, who was Hoieombes pupil and best writer.
would only show the ledger with tho pitiabe plea
that it the only book he kept. OF always
posted with and filed with figures and brief ref
erences and not hne of writing in it. great test
surely Of >Pencerian penmsnship He next refers with
much Printing Offices Editors of both
Palladium and Broedaxe have decided that for their
siness they would all the time prefer angular style
they have time for round work and some of them
stating tina: they would not write it if they could
But all said it very beautiful to look at,
ornamental hand. At Bridglands found as neat
and complete set of books a have East
West. They are such as would do credit to any City
And all kept in complete and beautiful an guar hand
as was politely shown through eight ten different
books. Yet thy friend Holcombe claims them too as
Speneerian writers! hauzey remarked that he could
inform him that in doing the amount of business they
did they had to take the shortest cut for it. Newburn
keeps the regular books, and though formerly Spen
cerian teacher, thou will find his very plain
angular form. just such woui wish give it
myself. would advise thee by all means to visit
them and if thou ishes to contrast, take with
thee one of spencer's Copy Books. l took No. o
Young Mc"hinny, though Holcombes pupil. decided
that for rapid business he would prefer my style. He
next claims tho Railroad office. The Dennses were
business, and considered it impossible for any to
do it without running more or less into the angular
form. McNeans Of Spring Foundry is also claimed
who laughed at the idea saying he had TAX en-
lessons any system and knew nothing about Spence
rian. He keeps beautiful set of books, in q small
neat running hand showing a mixture OF round and
angular which he writes very rapidly E Bells, of
Collins store. also states that he knows nothing Of
the SPencerian and learned the old round and when
schooiboy. which be still partially adheres to Coffin
himself writes a smooth, angular hand.
Thou art also referred to Starr White. And thy
their gas for the better purpose than putting peaked
hand BY his leaving the country without settling
ms oiil theIe he must have apprshended that they
neat set of books SPencerian and decided with
out hesitation that he woue prefer my style for bu
sness hand to that Of Speneer's-
Thy friend also calls upon Esq. Poe to aid him in de-
nouncing my system The Esqr. has since stated be-
fore of my classes of Al pupils. that if he
young and wished qualify himself tor rapid business
writing he would undoubtedly choose the angular |
hand; because it was so much more easily acquired,
and that Spencer himself would certainly admit that
il could be more speedily written But added that if
he had two three years to learn in and wanted to
take old round hand that was taught abundantly
before Spencer existed. He considered that the
beautiful of any other and has long written it, But
when hurried says he finds himself running into the
angular hand. And last but not least, thou refer
red to Court Record at Centerve. kept by W. II.
Schlater and pronounces it Spencerian with extreme
emphasis possessing all the characteristic to
perfection. This is any the most plunge of
all. As every acquainted with Sehlater's writing
knowsi to be very acute angular hand extremely
rapid bold and uniform As speedy, uniform. bust
ness writer. he has few superiors equals
Holoombe speaks of our commercial cities where tho
,nguiar hand is not known He forges the celebrated
Prof RI and is that have visited nearly
every State east of the Aeghanies started out teach
from various points and have hand fine lot
of specimens executed by citizens of Philadelphia and
other prominent pl.ces But in all my travels there,
never once heard the Speneerian system spoken Of
Throughout the Mississippi valley, teachers from
der my instruc ton scattered broad And In
diana alone boast of forty fifty professors Of
who are now busy engaged liz the good
work Thy friend acknowledges my over
>pencerian teachers in securing patronage but If
they to descend to the level, the
same means, &c, they too could succeed To meet
this and very ungentlemaniy insinuaton ! must
tH a N Ice
ing the subject the street. Hocoube called my
and made direct proposition for to
ceive him into partnership in teaching. Not being
able to my advantage in doing, of course de-
cined He finally asserted in the presence of witness
es that ne gould 5000 hs could succeed as dad
tn procuring ctassesi' The earnest and emphatic
in which he made this statement. so impressed
those present that they have often spoken of SINCE
But this rather high price to offer think for
possessing a faculty which he thinks so low and
groveling. Its unfor innate for him speak of my
system being hnnnbaq' where it is we'll known
Those kind OF bugs seldom flourish longer than he did
in city. And one of our most prominent business
after reading his letter, remarked to the
street. that 'Hoicombe the greatest humbug thas
visited Richmond
1t is an interesting fact tina. of all the Spenceran
teachers thai have various times taught in city
not one, believe has dared pay u second visit
While have recorded the OF nearly three thou
sand citizens no have year after year filed school
room. for the last eleven years. And did they not
consider the thy friends low insinuation
would be quite compliment to their intelligence: that
they had been so long patronizing humbug and not
able TO make the discovery until he in all his wisdom
rises up away in Missouri and makes the terrible
nouDccment, while at the time, citizens who at
tended my classes ten and eievan years ago
sending 10 me their children. No. friend Hiram, my
long and walknown success only be attributed to
hat suits The 'aaats Of the people Anything aside from
this with an intelligent community must dwinie and
die. E. p. BALDWIN.