New-York daily tribune., 1844-08-13
Things and Thoughts at the West.

Correspondence of The Newly orl Tribune.
No.Vl CHICAGO. July. isH-
Why cannot our political nomenclature be re,
formed Suppose Chinese lan9s here the day
after Election-he takes up paper and reads
"victory victory!! Victory! Yesterday
was the hardest fought day ever witnessed.
From eight O'Clock till sun down did our unterr-
fed and immortal hosts battle with the desperate
and heterogeneous foes of Liberty and Equal
Rights We have routed them entirely. They
are used up community-there is not grease
spot Of them left-you will never hear OF them
again in this region" "Thcre," says the Celes-
,al, 81 knew these fellows were great haFs;
they told me there were no wars here, yet heEcl
the bloodicst battle ever read Of. Let me read
how manv killed All OF one side, every man
killed This is race of Cannibe!s-i thought
SOL will 20 home-no man is safe here
Now it strikes me that all this talk OF battle, and
fight, and victory, and overthrow, might De
bettered. Why appropriate the language oi
wac-a thing which we ceprecate-Io 10 mere
trial 20 outvote, for the establishment oi CERTAIN
set OF principles, by the peaceful choice o' par
t.cu!ar men to an ofice-impying that those
s.royed. Cannot we have d reform
have a growing conviction OF The difficulty OF
getting at the true meaning of the world on any
snbicct know it is q COMMON rule TO under
stand people as meaning what they soy. Never
was there talser conclusion. !" hat jars, what
losses, what chagrins, have grown out ol TINS
error. A man may talk 10 you by the hour OF
feelings, intentions and resput;ons-you my
take them at the face, but Il yoh tnink 10 reduce
them 10 action, you will find Some such tniitng
deduction as fifty or one hundred per cent Is I"
be made For every bona tide CON OF intent and
purpose hid away III the vaults nt the odik ol
individual and social action, At least three good
round WORDS or sentences must be III circulation
AS currency, and when word or sentence is pre-
sented at the counter for tile COIN, the thing oo.
aned more than half the time proves 10 be bogus.
Is it not good thug Does Il not keep The
wheels Of society oiled and IN motion Is not
Socio,y the cby chear,d d. by the clatter, into ihe
brlIef mat il is whirling ahead tremendously
Aud dces no, a ship require more hulk nnd show
of sail than nj ballast? " no will say not
In tho uat,er OF human courage, for Instance,
you would conclude one.holi of society 10 hs'
.eyuar aud constitutional! fre'a'ers, and The
oihcr hal occasional slppcr OF ti''ne; but who
does not know thai MANKIND are arrant cowa5cs,
lake them as they run Passing up Ciaik-
street Yesterday to oinuer, | saw a little piece OF
nistury reflected, which threw me ir,o these re
aec,ions Two boys. known IN typical p1r!ance
.s printers devs," met on the SIDE. walk II
seemed there had been for Il long time declara-
ton of war between them; hut that hitherto, II
had been "a sort of Mexico and Texas affair not
attended with any wear or tear of flesh aud huan-
ces; but kind OF d war undcrstood-gonG on
in the imagination, principally. wier the parties
had been a long time giving each other dreadful
drubbings- while in reality each had remained
at home, mindiDg his own business This con-
sder the proper way to carry on war-a great
Improvement OH the old fashioned way of get
ting together and blowing the souls out of each
other, and | would especially commend 1t to the
notice of ou- Government when next 1t gets INTO
snap with Great Britain, about Oregon. Now,
however, the youthful bellgeEents had met face 10
face on walk six feet wide and numerous
witnesses; and the occasion seemed to demand
some demonstration. The larger boy athletic,
bold in look, with eyes streaming fire, figure
drawn up TO full hight, and fist violently yclenchcd,
was perfect master of the whole vocabulary Of
defiance, disdain, conflict, and yictory-and in
torrents of hot words overwhelmed his adversary.
The other lad was smaller, mildcr, paler; and
apparently no match. He, however, evidently
understood words as he found them in Die
tionaries and other places Of that sort and with
out any clench of fist, but with muscles slightly
rigid, advanced up to his antagonist, with the
evident design OF reducing he ideal to the actual.
His opponent, unaccountably to him, did not
seem emnently practical; bat still shot forth
round explosive words, III cataract style. The
application of such triting hints cuff of the
ear, tweak Of the nose, 0! few hicks, applied
at such points as were convenient by the smaller
combatant, wrought no change on his foe, except
to produce little more red and brilliant display
of dcfyng talk. Discovering this, the lesser boy
went his way; evidently pondering on some
mode of reconcilins the popular use Of language
with the Dictionary. | think this wordy youth
sample of grown boys, all about. Suppose we
have language price current, in which all
known and talking men should be registered,
with their rate of discount-so that thereby We
could get at the actual amount of intent and
purpose in any given quantity of talk : Such a
Price Current should have but limited crcula-
tinn-for among most Of the world the systcn
works we'll as it is. Pent up wrath finds vent
harmlessy as small beer and prevents explosion:
and the peace is ereserved-How beautiful
JERRY ADAMS WEST.