Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-09-14
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MIR. E.ATnN,S LETTER

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MIR. EATONS LETTER.
! The communication of the Hon John II
Eaton, from the Rip Raps, To the Indian BOARD
IN New York. is one OF the nnst excent,on.
able pieces of composition | have ever seen
especially as coming from one who has write n
a Book-amongst lis errors, which are most gla.
ring, are, wrong punctuation, explosives. false
! syntax, and obscurity.
| In the eleventh line of the FIRST parserepb
! Constitutional Whig) we thus read. con.
strained him as matter Of concerted duty 10
adopt. lin this phrase, the word concerted. -
is not only an expelive, but make. the son.
| tence exceedingly clumsy.
Bu again. in the fourteenth and fifteenth
ines. we ind the following compound sentence /:
" evidently misrepresenilng and calculated 10
produce incorrect impression" -" rvidently
misrepresentlng' wiat why, INCORRECT IN.
PREssIoHs.'
In the sixteenth line. same paragrapb II
reads thus -" the great cons Dlation -nleftaine d
by him though is,"-the word THOUGH. is
here eIpteHpe aud awkwsr1 In The ..Atr,fne ::
the punctuation Is also wrong there should be
no point between the pronoun aud the verb.
In the beginning OF the aext Paragraph, we
read a. follows beg leave 10 assure ,ol.
that nothing off, compulsory course, TO effect
the removal of this unfortunate race of people
has ever been thought OF by the President Nc
II ough' TO have read, II beg leave 10 assure
you, that a compulsory course, to effect tue re.
mosal OF tins unfortunate race OF peopls has
nerer been" &c,
In the very next sentence, same paragraph
there are gross errors in syntar. II read. thus /;
i" The cons iderations Which coniroited IN the
course pursued Dere such, as he really AID IN
fact beitered, were req red, rs well by re.
gard tor the ISt rights, which the State Of
Georgia WAS authorised TO assert, as from
conscientious convciIuU thai by II humanity
towards the indians would, &c.
In the first place, the vera I" controlled" is ac-
tive and should have objeci but :" control.
led' what Way suppose HIM The Preside nj
again the poinI after the word such" be-
fore a" as is improper; in this connection they
never should be separated by point.
But again, the phrlse, " lie really and in fact
believed, is a tauoloey INV rlby the veriest
Tyro. :" He really BELIEVED aud in fact be.
Heucd, and where is the difference
Blu, lastly, we read, Mnl by IT humanity"
thar IS considerations for is word IS Clearly
the nntecedent. Hare is n violation OF one of
the plsinesl rules Of syntax-and under
vii argues great want OF perspicacii,.
H. the same paragraph again in h. .,rqenth
a I'D tweliih lines, We read, d" Of TINS thu ave
been assured aud IN that assurance no OTHER
disposition lDds had than 10 explain fully 10
them &c The Fl st word here Noticeable is
T" hey" OF his hey;" that is, the State Of
Georgia or tn Ind d1s-but it manifest, must
meaa tn Iididns. iHstea9 of The ptonOun il
ought to have been the noun and ought to
have been written, oftbis The Indians &c. A.
gain. " no otner disuosItion WlS had Now
had IS one ofth1s active verbs "rch never
can be used u''h proprIety, in the prssire voice
Members Of Congress, 10 lie sIIe. Il gu MY
msk- SO of the compound HAD HAVE tpd
Growing COTTON, and the spIp sBEIN6 aUILT.
Ac. s. but Members of Congress . not vt
good authority, either in pathology or p, dss9l
ogy.
Although aim 1st every line OF this leIter of
he Secretnry is obnoxious 10 criticism we wall
mass on To the sixth paragraph, in winch we
will po,ot oul some of the most glazing blum
ders.--ln the first line, il thus re DIS Ftom
the ccnversalion- hud 18th he Pr 'srdent &c.
Here the word "had' i agt:h used with neu-
ter siga6caton.--I is used ID, particIple, m
stead ofb lag used as "A verb il ought, in or
ier TO make the sentence perspcuous, TO have
cad Thus From the Conversations phich
hare had, &c" In this construction the relative
- the ii ct o the daiire perb.
One more remark upon the concluding lines
>. his 'nth paragraph of this most extrahrdi-
nary composition, Il reads, &c " for your
efforts, and those associated with you in con
ton. .turihering this liberal aud only pr0cti
cal scheme, SIC. first the word those. in the
mind of the ,oriter. must have referred to per
sons " associated - but in the composition, il
dramatically refers To the word eBori, A
gain. " furthering," &c.-it ought 10 have read.
in fuiher, g, nc. JUS as We wonId say, our de
sign in promoting, Se.-rhe word practical, IS
not the bes, word he used in this pace---it
ought to have been practicable
NO OFFICE SEEKER.