The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-11-25
THE KINGsTREE EXAMINATION.

lnlnSS more lmpOrauV having oeSePio-
my tina last week, was under tue neces-
sity of deferring until this week any reply
to the second attack of the Enterprise upon
me concerning the examination.
In his first attack Mr.. Nettles made the
following statements:
az sThe examination did not begin un-
til Friday afternoon"
(2.) "Mr. Chandler alone conducted the
examination"
These statements I have already shown to
be utterly false. I have the best of evidence
to support my statements in contradiction
of his
In this second attack. Mr. Nettles has seen
ft to question the accuracy of my statement,
that the adjournment over night could not
be avoided. He says ave assert, without
fear of contradiction, thaeit not only could
have been avoided, bu. it should have been
avoided" venture to contradict Mr.. Net
ties, and will prove the contradiction to be
true. Like the majority of poor reasoners,
Mr.. Nettles has confounded the impractica-
BILE with the impossible. The reasons why
7 had to adjourn the examination are the
following: The applicants had progressed
with exceeding slowness, and there was no
prospect of their finishing until late in the
night if before the morning. Mr.. Hayns-
worth had declared that he could not re-
main, and had gone. For myself, l had
other duties to perform, and the next day,
knew, would lave to do the whole work
| in the Office of Clerk of the Court, generally
on Saturday particularly irkscme. had
been up the greater part of the previous
night part Of which had been spent in
copying the questions for the examination ;
and could not afford to Cn6t myself for the
performance OF duties which | was under
obligation to do next day. I think these
quite sufficient reasons for my 'adjournlng
| the examination" Mr. Nettles, am told
used to be in his youth an angler OF renown:
So was Agassiz. Agassiz was teacher, and
Mr. Nettles is also teacher. But Mr.. Net
ties seems to have been imbued with the
pixies own nature. De rushes forward and
grabs at what he intends to manage; but
alas he catches the hook. lcommend him
to Solomon's remark, Prov. AFlH chapter,
! 18th verse.
Mr.. Nettles further states "Alr. Hayns-
worth positively refused to have anything 20
do with declaring the result of the examlna-
ton Tie statement will not hold. In the
schedule Of marks sent rs by the Citadel
authorities reading was accorded ten per
centum. Mr. Haynsworth heard the appli-
cants read, aud with myself graded them
upon that branch. Mr. Nettles has again
misstated the fact As to the charge Of
partiality in the conduct of the examination,
Mr. Nettles has only the testimony OF the
defeated candidate When Mr.. Nettes's
first attack on the beard was published 1
immediately sent it to Mr.. Wolfe, the sue
cessful applicant, asking if the charges We're
true From Mr.. Wolfe's reply, dated Oct.
25th, quote as follows: II can certify that
the charge of your pe-emptoriiy closing the
examination is untrue, and. also, charges
both of undue partiality and yonr suggest
ing the rewriting of my papers"
certainly know that no part Of Mr..
Wolfe's papers was rewritten ut my sugges-
ton, except as indicated in my former arti-
Gle, which shows the suggestion to have been
made to both contestants. The assertion
that was. '.rebuked" by Mr.. Wilson may be
witticism '.in some sort. It's not incum-
bent on me to resent an insult offered by a
baby. certainly never replied that 1t was
Fillmore" to any question put by Mr.. Wolfe.
| Of that am perfectly assured, and my
memory is very clear upon the point. II
Mr.. Nettles will take my answer as it was,
he will be wholly unable to discover in it
one iota of any design to help the question
CT. But let rs allow Mr.. Nettles all the
things he has brought to sustain his charge
of partiality shown. What are they? An
| alleged suggestion of rewriting, and an al
leced answer which would have caused an
error if acted upon. Vast evidence upon
Which to base q serious charge! A sugges-
ton merely to rewrite q paper gives no aid
in better writing it. But oh ''the tone in
which il was made r. There's the rub y
A very vast evidence, truly! And like it's
basis is the whole charge of partiallty 1t IS
merely the "baseless fabric OF vision" en-
| tertained by the morbid imagination Of q
prejudiced mind.
Mr.. Nettles desires to keep me from 60
ing off on tangent" Another vision this,
coHtracted by reading about cubes and cube
roots. No man can see anything like $50
ing off on a tangent" in anything I said, un-
less he knows nothing about tangent.
know MIR. Nettles had to thank somebody
else sfor teaching him that word; be mere
" saw it in some controversy, and sought
with it to embellish his style. "Alas. poor
Yorick"
Mr.. Nettles quotes from letter Of mine
to sustain one of his charges. evil ind,
however, upon careful consideration, that
the letter and my article are in perfect har-
mony with each other. I agreed to Prof.
Aliens findings for reasons assigned by that
gentleman, and have no desire to conceal
either my findings or my acquiescence. Mr..
Nettles stated tha: 80 different result was
reached by the two examiners and as this
statement, made in sinister manner,
might mislead somebody, I made the ex-
PLANTATION in my former article.
Mr.. Nettles SAYS, arithmetic had not
been disposed of the first day." assert
th:t it was, that both applicants so under
stood it, or should have so understood 1t
from what was told them, and that neither
made q mark upon his paper on arithmetic
the next day.
Mr.. Nettles says again, ''both applicants
had not failed to do one example glxen. y
Possibly be knows g. but I do nos tuo that
either did it, and offer proof that both tried
it. Besides my own testimony quote the
following from Mr.. Wolfe'S letter above re-
ferred to The other applicant tMr. Will
sony told me on the morning Of the 18th
ult., that he could not get that example"
MIR, Wilson worked at arithmetic and gram
mar from before noon until nearly night
time of about six hou1s-and did not make
an elaborate paper upon either. If IN all
that time he had been working at what he
submitted upon those branches to the board
be is too utterly slow for a military man.
The enemy would shoot him to pieces before
he could arrange himself. Mr., Nettles says
Mr.. Wilson "was perfectly familiar with the
extraction of the cube root. Possibly Mr..
Wilson acas once so but The facts did notso