The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-04-25
MIR. AICliCr's ECnnII.

We acknowledge beat. The Nec Or
leans PicGy,1e has solved the problem
which racked our brain in vain, what time
we performed the unforgoten Herculean
labor Of reading through Mr.. Archer's
celebrated Report on the Texas Question
AN achievement, for which we have been
pointed to with respectful establishment
by passers-by in the street, no other man
of woman born having yet been known
10 perform it. The editor Of the Plea
y'cne has dipped into it here and there,
and has with admirable ingenuity hit the
nail Of the matter on the head. We there
fore hasten 10 make the amcnde konorQ-
6'cto the honorable author of the Report,
for any dsparaging remarks we may have
ever made upon his singularly ingenious
performance, before the cataract fell from
our eyes so as TO enable us 10 see and un-
cerstand the principle on which 1t was
constructed. The PicoVme thus makes
it clcar:-N. ]. MOwing News.
"Whot may Ibis mean - Hamh,.
The necessity under which editors of
newspapers live Of reading public docu-
mcnts, gives them some right to ask the
manufacturers Of this species of literature
that they spin their lucubralions of tex
turc more palpable than the wool of
phaniom's ball dress. We have had oc-
casion, before now, 10 speak of Senator
Archer's report on Annexation as rather
a specimen OF nebulous composition than
state paper; yet the subject.m matter of
it demanded the pIaincst phraseology that
the dictionaries could furnish. In peru
sing this document, we confess that we had
forgot all about Texas, Annexation, war,
treaties, and protests, in getting at the
philosophy embedded in such expressions
as
''insi,u,ions have no exemption from this law
Of dispcnsalion OF io1eybe igor in all the posi-
bic notifications of contingency"
This sentence read backwards is quite
as Ineligible as when read forwards for
example:
"Continscncy of mod ifcations possible, the all
in risor inlexIblc of dspensaIion of law, this
from exemption no have institutions"
Barring the galicism Of the nega,ion;
The expression is quite as forcible and
correct read either way. After deal of
examination into the hidden meaning of
the author, it occurred TO us TO read it
backwards, and we think we have discov.
cred thereby the object of our researches.
The chairman Of the Committee on For:
eign Relations wished 10 inculcate the idea
that, by law Of nature, 'what goes up
must come down. and that if 'ins,itu.
tons are brought within the 'rigor' Of
this 'dispensation,' that circumstance or
contingency will not modify the i'm
flexibiity' Of the rule. The mode of en-.
forcing this law by laying it down in
terms that read both ways, was ingenious
in the extreme, as the return OF what goes
up through the very space before travel
led. when it must come down is hap.
PLY illustrated by turning BACKWARD
and reading the same law Of nature that
is contained in the same sentence when
read forward The perpendicular &C.
ton Of gravity is thus beautifully exem-
plifed by horizontal exercises in reading.
After giving Mr.. Archer all due credit
for the admirable concei. Of suiling The
action 10 the word,' or rather or arran-
gng his words so as to display the action
Of the great law Of nature cited, we yet
objec. 10 the propriety Of his introducing