Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-01-07
Presidential Rlulnsders.

III the third paragraph Of Gen. Taylor's Mes
sage, as published from the official COPY, by
some OF the papers at Washington, the following
sentence occurs:
I'VE are at peace with all the world. and we
J seek TO maintain our cherished relations of ami.
~ with the rest of mankind
''All the world,n and :sthe rest of mankiud.u
Why, (says the N. Y Herald,) this is leei,i.
mate Irish bull of the best klnd and must have
peen approved by the cabinet, for the purpose of
ca'chih9 the Irish votes The general style of
'he document IS extremely simple, brief, even,
quiet, and Anglo-Saxon. 1t puts us in mind of
refer Parley's ingenious method of bringing
down Inc history OF the Roman Empire, by Ia
cltus OF Livy, to the capacity of the young bows
and girls at school.
The ewing papers say it was an OVERSIGHT. ,
clerical error. But the N. Y Mirror, an orjpi
nal Taylor organ, swallows it as the real Flaw
and gospel and endorses the bold liberties ta-
Ken with the Kings English by Col Bliss as the
true writer of the Message. The Mirror thus
Justifies what it calls 'the Presidential Bull:n
he President may have been thinking of
sall the world and his wife, "when the triAipe
lqpsus was made but the Message will be liked
all the better for not being s'slickedup for show
by some hypereritical pedant of the press"
NTyro," in the Alexandria Gazette, rebels at
the idea of this being 'bull," and quotes Muir
rays syntax rule 81, E'to avoid disagreeablerep-
etltion, SC. y and the same book on pronuncia-
ton, chap. i rule 2, to show that the '.bus" of
the Message are no bulls at ALL He says with
cordial earnestness, n doubt whether the alter
alton made by the Union and Intelligencer, was
authorised by the President, lit either fighting
or writing, OIL Zacs hard to beatn We were
not surprised to see the eulogiss defend the doc
[trlne, "the King can do no wrong" not even in
reforming the English language. For we well
remember that some jealous vassal of Old Zae
actually defended General Taylor's famous say
ing, che them Wings, OF be them Democrats D.
Therelaay besome truth in the following anus
ing version OF the Pennsylyanians Correspon-
dent:
at is worthy Of note, that the message as read
to Congress, and originally printed at the ofTcs
OF the Republic, IS, III an essential point, very
different paper from the version subsequently
published IN the newspapers it having been re-
v1sed and corrected, SO far as the structure of an
important sentence is concerned, after hugh
edition had been printed by the organists. / have
matically, only with the view to create the i'm
preston, that a man as ignorant of his mother
tongue, as the President, wrote it. This inten.
ton was so evident i'll the paper, as to induce q
sense of shame in the cabinet, which brought
about lis revision day or two only before it was
transmitted to Congress. Washington is full of
amusing stories about the vexatious consultations
held by the Presidents constitutional advisers
upon this subject the grave dispositions ren-
tive to the posing Of this phrase, and the inodifi
cation of that SO that it would be in, at least
decent English while likely TO create the iln-
preston, that il is the work of one, VIGOROUSLY
incompetent to put together four consecutive
sentences of more than ten words each, gram.
matically."
But another bull, just as ludicrous, has been
detected in the Message, as follows:
"While enjoying the benefit of cab]e inter-
course wuh foreign nations we have not been III !
sensible TO the distractions and wars which have I
prevailed IN other quarters Of the acorld.o
Of course, this, too, is an 'oversight !"
1t is curious, however, that SO many blundefs, /
of all kinds, have been committed by the many |
headed Executive. They want master head
and handto lick their productions, even into de- /
cent shape,
As to the feeble, jejune character Of the Mes
sage itself, the N. Y Evening Post, whose Editor
the Wing cannot deny to bea ''man of taste,h I
well reflects the views of ourselves and Of the
Democracy here. Indeed many of the Wings
are E:disgnantled'' at the Messages ridiculous
notice of&the "Sub Treasury" as it improperly
calls it. With the Post, "our first impression OIL
reading it was that we were engaged in the pc
rusal of kind Of Queens Speech beaten out a
string of generalities like that which the English
monarchs pronounce at the opening of session
Of Parliament except that it was not so tersely
expressed So little is said, that we wonder the
Message should be SO long. A few recommen-
dations there are, but they are borrowed from
the reports of different members of his Cabinet
his Ministry, perhaps we should say-and are not
supported by any reason given in the message"
Enquirer.
ROBERT C. WINTHROP