Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-08-26
From the North American. June IL
TO RESTEiIN THE Use OF ADJEtIiiE>.

There Is a pressing necessity for the enact
meni OF a sumptuary law regulating the use
of adec;ives. Gentlemen at the south are
particularly devoted 10 this luxury, and artI
cles constantly appear in the press OF thai
! quarter, which indicate a deeply seated d.
sease of our common language there. card
printed by gentleman merely iOr the simple
4 purpose of announcing eternal hostility to
some friend of his, and determination 10
pepper HIM at the first opportunity, is made
| TO brlsile with adIeciIves enough To MI sea
| sIbe man outright. Why not simply say that a
man deserves la he eIunguIShed, and that The
writer will snuff him al the first chance that
offers, instead Of f0rturlng him with hung
adlectves Tor months and years together W =
protest against the Richmond usage, and pro-
nounce II absolute cruelty.
Everybody knows that II Is pleasant 10 de
for ones country, and M reasonable man Will
insist on continuing ms personal existence
after his friends have deliberately decitrt
that he has stepped on the sensIuye toes Of
another gentleman. or has done any other act
worthy Of death. There should he magnau-
unity on the subject. and there would be, We
sincerely believe but for the current Intem-
perare Indu gence IL adlecuves. When We
see an exchange Of cards covering two coz
know that the decisive solution of personal
difficulty can not be had. Neither party really
intends to be magnanImouS, and TO kIli or sub
NIT to be killed. The malignant form Of the
disorder Is at once established, and II i GER
tain that half a dozen men will catch II before
1t ceases TO rage. How much better 10 do
otherwise. suppose, for instance, gentle
man al Richmond wakes up some fine morn
ing and discovers that his friend has In>ulted
him. and that his unreServed coniitenceS Of
the previous thirty years were given 10 a traI
tor--we came near using adJectlveS ourselves.
Obviously he should, on meeting that friend,
simply and pleasantly advert To the necessity
that ore OF both should be wiped out that very
morning, and at once avail themselves OF any
means To effect the purpose which either
mi ght possess. The fates have all the issues
prearranged, and If the friend in question
should happen TO be carrying his loaded re-
vclvers and bOwe-knIie. while the insuited
man had none, why il would be the easy and
direct solution of the case for the insulted
party to invite his friend TO explode as many
barrels as might be necessary TO finish him,
and then the thing would be done.
But, in any case, there must he a restrain
ing law in regard to adjectives. Our language
abounds in pungent and expressive names 70:
every act or element Of character Several .
such occur to us, which, if applied TO the /
delicate moral cutice of gentleman, would
produce intense local irritation, and perhaps .
1raw a blister. Wrapping them up in adJec-
ives spells their effect, and prevents that SIN
gle, direct contact, which the moral as well
Is the physical physician always seeks. We
,ee southern gentlemen TO study the philoSC-
,hy OF the case, and TO Try abstinence from
detectives until the natural taste returns. Men
ed on made dishes of a complicated sort be-
;ome insensible 10 simple tastes, and forgot
he pleasure of their youth in bean porrldse
lot and bean porridge cold. Sometimes, after
/ long sleep of the simple senses under the
Dad of peppers and condiments, single
weeks abstinence will revive the intense
pleasure orig inally derived from The elemental
-lands. 1t is so in language. We beg our
nisled friends to come back to nouns, COM
non and proper, and TO the single acts. as ex-
ressed when we say John shoots James.
Why shonld John berate, poster, persecute,
orture and torment the SAID James, loading
i'm with opprobious adjectives until he sinks
rom actual physical inability to read them,
'hen the simple process above named would
once put an end to The whole matter! We
ause TO hear a reason.