Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-09-28

In the tOm0 tnaI Jesus DleSt.
Pathology. &c-Some three or four
weeks ago there was an article in the
Boston Courier, which we read with a
good deal of interest, and would have cop
led but that it was very long, and we had
a number of communications and other
deferred articles" all waiting very inn
patiently for insertion 1t was in the
form of a petition and solemn remnn-
STRANGE, the petitioners being some forty or
fifty words in the English language; and
their remonstrance was against certain in
dignities to which they are daily subject
ed by those who make use of the SAID lam
glage, either in orthography, pronuncia-
ton, or application. They made out
quite strong case Of oppression and
hardship; and we should have been glad
to afford them whatever aid might be in
our power, in their endeavor to gain re-
dress.
The truth is that our language IS sadly
corrupted in general use and the news
papers do the most of the mischief Ev-
cry body reads them, in this country espe-
cially, and many read nothing else. Of
course they become, to a certain extent,
authorities and models; and we are con-
strained to say that, taken altogether they
are pernicious bad ones The Kings
Engtishis worse treated by them than
even the Kings dignity-which every
republican newspaper of course thinks it
brave and becoming TO hold in utter con-
tempt. There is a small army of words
that have, strong grounds Of complaint,
and perhaps we can employ our time and
types, for brief space, in giving voice
to their remonstrances, with as much prof
it to our readers, and glory to ourselves,
as would be derived from a political dis
QUESTION, which nobody would read, or
horhily upon immoralities, which every
body might read, but nobody would take 10
himself as call to amendment.
One of the most ill-used words in the
Kings English aforesaid, is the relative
,oho. Lindley Murray took no small
pains to secure for it certain preroeatiyes,
to which it is strict yentitled, but IKE the
prerogatives of the crown, in England
and France, they have been sorely invad-
ed. The principal and most honorable
of these, is the privilege Of being employ
I'd, exclusively, in the service of mankind
and leaving the plebian achich and that for
the inferior classes of the creation. No
| thing can be more explicit than the good
Quaker's rule touching this matter; "toho
is applied to persons-tOAich to animals
(meaning beasts, birds, fishes, insects, &c J
land inanirnate things" tits as plain as
the presidents letter to governor Cannon,
yet toho is daily employed to desingate
dogs and horses, and monkeys, and oh
horrible diet1 even the filthy detestable
hog! THE horse toho had become a.
Harmed" The bear qcho. by this time
had recovered from his fright''=-" The
bristly monster I0hO Was now tired Of wal.
lowing In the gutter'"-&c. &c. &C.
Such are the perversions of rectiude-
the violations of propriety-the offences
againt toho and Lindlty Murray, with
which the papers abound And aohicb or
the other hand is brought forward an in
voluntary usurper, and compelled to in
wade the territory rightfully belonging tc
its relative but superior. We read O
soldiers tohich were advancing''-" ma
rines '0hieh were employed"-" prisoners
which were taken" &c. Now it is yer,
true that soldiers, marines and prisoner:
are all animals, and that good old Lind
lley's rule appears 10 admit, of the applica
ton of aohicA to human animals, as wei
as to quadrupeds and other irrational be
ings; but, as we have said before, the oil
gentleman meant to exclude all manner O
human beings, when he directed the an
plication of tohich to the animals as afore
said.
Which. by the way, is an exceedingl,
ill used word in another particular, to vii
il being tied by the neck TO an and, wher,
- the two have no earthly business togeth
Ter. We constantly meet with such phras
es as this" He was now presented witt
an excellent opportunity for the displa,
Of his talents, and 1Oktch he took ZOO
care not to lose" The and might Just a
well be in the bottom OF the Red Sea, a
Hacked to the a0hieh in this sentence mucI
better indeed, for there it would do no mis-
chief, and offend DobodyIs perceptions O
fright and wrong. "The army was nov
weakened by desertion, and 1ehieh wa
4 scattering also from want Of provisions.
kick cut the which in this sentence, an,
you make decent English Of j, but as
you would find it hard work to con
struct one more awkward, inelegant, in
correct and altogether atrocious. Ye
we read paragraphs every day, into which
Master Which is lugged, by the head am
shoulders, with no more reason-o
h rhyme either. The general rule is tina
> ichied must have and before il only wher
! there isanother ,ckie6 or thai in the sen
|, tence. relating to the same antecedent.-
"The house which he had bought anc
winch ne was now to pay fos," is a law.