The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-07-29

WARLKE NAMEs.-The Charleston Mercury
censures the bad taste of using the terms of the
battlefield for the contest of the ballot.box L,
says:
Among the men of former times, hunting
was termed the image of war"-especially
the pursuit Of wild bears, lions and other
ferocious beasts. 1t had some claim to the
distinction 1t combined violent exercise,
personal peril, the submission to privation
and the distinctions, of success, skill and
courage. In our day there is enough said
about campaigns" battles," "victories,''
"defeats," " glory" and all that, 10 make a
stranger think we were engaged necessarily
in the business of knocking each others
brains out-that bloody and desolatng CT
vii war was waged from years end 10 years
end. What sort of fight and what sort Of
victory it is, we need not explain. But the
dialect is perfectly devilish, and its use is,
we are persuaded, of most demoralizing con-
sequence. Those of the opposite party we
call the enemy" when we put them out
of Office, we call them the vanquishsd"-
and contrary TO the laws of modern war, we
proceed to treat them as criminals. Dis
missing them from Office is known by the
terms, " slaughterng," gullotining," "cut-
ting off heads" and similar bloody-mindcd
phrases.
We believe it is the French philosopher, NJ.
Cousin, who says that all the wars which have
hitherto decimated mankind have been to secure
the conquest of some truth over some error; and
the political and moral warfare in which we arc
engaged is most undoubtedly the conflict of truth
against false opinions. Perhaps, if the Mercury
had taken another view of the subject it might
have concluded that the familiar use of these
terms is but an evidence of the decline of the
martial spirit, the consequence of increasing in
tellgence. 1t certainly is no indication of violent
feeling; it merely shews that if swords have not
been beaten into ploughshares, the military NOM
encature has undergone a metamorphosis fully
as strange. Battles are now become elections;
ballots, g those paper pellets of the brain" supply
the place of sword, cartridge, and grape; the en-
signs Of party warfare is, on the one side 'roos-
ter' rampant, on the other a 'coon pendant. AL
ready our presidential candidates are described
as g chiefs;" next we expect speeches will be
called bulletins " and great leaders such as CAL
houn and Webster, g monster guns;'' Cabinet
officers and Congressman, he styled g heavy ord
nance;'' shifting politicians the "fying artillery'
and custom house officers, marshals, district at
tornies, postmasters, &c. &c. g the rifiemen;''
while the higher grade of State Ulcers might be
named the g heavy cavalry" and the lesser Dig
nitaries the light dragoons.' Party hacks
sh ould justly be called 'sappers and miners"
and the people at large the 6 infantry" as they
bear the shock of battle. There is class
at loss to designate, and yet are tooimportant to
be omitted--we mean editors-the "iorlorn hope"
would most truly describe their duty in our cam
paigns: front place in the conflict, plenty of
knocks, wounds and bruises, but none of the
g spoils of vctory.'
In truth these martial words do not call up in
the minds OF the people the images of blood and
massacre which is their true Interpretation; their
use is innocentif the taste is questionable.
The Bank of the Metropolis at Washing
ton City, has declared dividend of 81 per
cent. out of the surplus profits for the last
six months, which will be paid to the stock
holders on and after the Sd of July.--N Y.
Tribune.
The Bunk of the Metropolis has Govern
ment funds on deposit to the amount Of
ttSHN 400 ,nJ tL;a - Lor h,J Cor full