Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-02-26

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write the eIioWing: aIam apply,
ing lor slate Librarian and expeeki
q ct the position, a. ! have q
good dele of inGuense ] wish y0u
would please tsll me inyoars nexl
paper what Il the duties Of TIC
place, and how I want 10 dol
an q and think Of reading Law,
when I get In" The duties are
to keen precise and accurate 90.
count OF what may be entrusted
70 your care when you "get H."
This Implies the power to spell.
A moderate acquaintance with
the less abstruce rules Of gram
mar would also be an advantage
a tdele Of lnahense, however,
may supply these DEFICIENCIES.
Alas for the State Library"
Now Mr.. Bonner seems lnclin.
ed to poke a little fun at "W. d.
Why, we cannot see. He should
remember that this State is now
under Radical rule and the Off.
GERS are therefore not expected
to be able to read or write. All
that they are required to do is to
make their positions pecuniarily
profitable to themselves, and so
far as we can learn every single
mothers son of them has per-
formed his duties TO the letter.
Mr. Bonner seems to labor under
the impression that education is a
requisite in Radical districts. He
never committed o more grievous
error in his life. Ignorance, in-
competency and untrustworthi.
ness are the greatest recOmmen-
dations which an applicant
can exhibit. These little pc
culiarities even take prece.
dence Of "Ioilty" for they es-
tabllsh "loilty" beyond question.
But these reflection about Mr..
Bonner and his egregious error,
do not answer the questions at the
head Of this article which is, "who
Is w d? New we plead total ig-
norance, but We will prossibly be
permitted to reason upon this in
terestIng subject, by analogy.
And hence we approach the sub.
ject. If there should be a father
Of > family who spells God with o
little ''g' and who frantically rush
es into print with the most
murderous onslaught upon the
Qaeenls English with the lauda,
bic intentsn of Aloosidating his
eydears Of Stait legislashun,' and
II this father, afflicted with cacoo-
lies scrtBeadi, should have sons,
one OF whom should be twenty
neycars OF age, whose initials
are w d, who desires to read law,
who is employed as clerk in the
post office, who wears spectacles,
who imagines, heu posses an
immense amount of influence
and Who has expressed q desire
to receive the appointment OF
State Librarian, would not the
age, the initials W. D., the ambi.
ton, but more especially the SPELL
ing, point to him as the doomed
victim There is not a jury in the
world who would not hang a man
charged with murder upon such a
chain Of circumstantial evidence.
Mr. Bonner is decidedly in error
in declaring that ga moderate ac-
quaintance with the less abstruse
rules Of grammar" is at all neces
sary, or that a knowledge of spell
ing Is requisite. True some PEG.
pie are possessed with the fossil
ated idea that a State Librarian
should be a finished, polished,
and accomplished scholar, thor
oughly familiar with the rules OF
grammar and orthOgraphy, but
that was in the good old days of
Democracy, before the "new dis
pensation."
-- 80 -
ACCORDING to q recent estimate
the population of the Olobe IL /.