Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-01-10
The Presidents Message.

We EfeSG0ent'S ulc>SdScs
GAS there cannot exist any real objection 10 the
Presidents Message, the State Sentinel grasps ut n
accidental blunder the part of the printers Of the
Republic. to ''cackle" about it"-State Journal.
The State Sentinel "cackled'' not over any blunder
accidental otherwise but over the fact, that the
Journal based its Communication of the Message upon
that very blunder, which it used as tert.
"No one ever supposed that Gen. Taylor wrote
The sentence transmitted by telegraph or as pub
lished by the Republic: does any body suppose
that IN pronouncing the sentiments of the message to
be correct that endorsed the errors Of the CON-
position that sci it up."-Journal
We have already said that we did not believe that
Taylor wrote the Message. there is need Of the
disclaimer by the Journal. But Neighbour in his
first commentary, said
''The message, like erery other production from the
pen Of Gen. Taylor, is marked by plain, good, COM
mon sense Ii viii be seen that h., is determined to
preserve the peace of the Nation. long it
be done consisten, with national honor. This deter
mination will meet The approval of every true lover
of his country"
And it can't escape from its position now, upon
the shallow plea that Taylor didn't write the mes
sage. officially printed in careful pamphlet edi-
ton, at the Office of his confidential organ, the "Re-
public" If Taylor did not write it, it was written
by some boor quite as ilerate the author of the
horse letter. is. it shaped it is desgnedy
in order to make people believe that the old fellow
did write it himself.
every body knows that errors do occur in every
printing Office The Sentinel is not free from them.
case in point.
''The Special message of Gov. Wright recently
published by the Sentinel, has the following SEN
tence
''From this consideration alone, it is submitted
that IT would be improper TO invest the directory of
any company with unlimited power to sell lands at
any rate of discount they may please TO make" &c.
snow, il is not 10 be supposed that the present
Governor distinguished he is for literary acquire
ments, used the word Glands" in the above sentence,
when the word bonds was intended; and yet i,
was printed in the Sentnel."-JoMnal.
Gov. Wright makes no extraordinary pretensions
to distinguished literary requirements y but the
State Journal is the first paper which has found
fault either with his Inaugural Address his hastily
written Special Message 1t is that typograph
ical appeared in fepc copies of the number of
our semi-weekly, in which the special message first
appeared. 1t was corrected after but few copies
were worked off; and that it only Topographic
cal error, apparent TO every person of ordinary
capacity. But, for fear that neighbor would not
see that it merely Of the printer, he
petuate it. If lie had not thus been told, he might
never have discovered it But is this like the case
of the official edition of the Presidents Annual Mes
sage, which, for two or three weeks, owing to the
failure of Congress to organize had laid in the IRE
public" Office and of course had been subject during
oil that time to the inspection and criticism of the
President, his cabinet, and his "Blissfu" private
Secretary! Our neghbor is very green if he thinks
co. and is just green if he thinks he make 9TH
ers swallow such "horse marine idea.
''If the Sentinel find nothing more obiectiona-
bic the Message than this, it would have looked
much better had it inflated the example by other
Democratic papers, and spoken of it in every way
credtable 10 the Executive of the nation"
We found great many things vastly "more OBJ
jectionabe," and pointed them out but the Journal
is cute enough to skip over all of them and to take
shelter under the ridiculous blunder in question
When our neighbor objects to our objections, we will
talk to him.
The Sentinel don't always think it expedient to
wait TO hear what others say before it speaks ITSELF
though is careful enough in that respect. 1t
times speaks Of its own votion and it will continue
occasionally to do so, though it should forfeit
the appreciation of Its worthy neighbor, the State
Journal!