Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-01-25
Flashv Rhe.orio.

We have. at this late day. succeeded 10 our
sndeavor to read throueh the slavery portion Of
Gov. Dennison's Inaugural II was a hard
task. We e%onless. The reader is every where
beast By rhetorical sentences which cannot ha
called "A wen Of SPEECH" but rather very
heavy timber aud ImPonetrable underbrpsh.-
We congratulate our newly Installed Cover
nor upon the close attention be must have
paid to his studies while a boy At a p imary
school, for everything he learnt then, is fOrci-
bly, compressed into the last half Of his over
lengthy inaugural. The historical reminiscent
ses Of the Euxine and Of The Bosphorus. the
lamentabls faIs Of the declining Roman, the
expiring sovereignty Of the principle Of o1n>
stAntinople," the fading Grand S%eignor's EN-
Porium, the supremacy Of Egypt, Tun!s, Trip
oil and Algisrs and many other such sllusiOns
to 'Nitehrlrs Pictorial History Of the World"
= book so famous with ihe picture loving young
generation, sre admirably crowded into his
maiden message by the learned aud scholarly
Governor And he succeeds so astonishingly
TO connect them with the people Of Ohio and
their interests, that We instinetively ejaculsted
"take our hat, Governor aud that we would
feel still Inclined to offer him our Cover"
which once had an aspect Of being a true Par
isian, we're we not assured, that such a stylish
Governor as he would ouly wear one Of the
feRthered tribe, aud a cooked" Que At that.
But. in spite Of the depth Of bis historical
research nur Governor is exceedingly %unfortu.
nate in the use Of the English language. lie
calls our southern brethren all sorts Of hard
names, be LET'S them appear as pirates and rob>
brrs and then he al once pronounce, them
"OuY imitators." or course, the Governor
speaks only for himself and his party, snd IL
the South is their imitalor, and is really guil>
" Of all those horrible things that he charges
them with. then he aud the Republican party
must he the original criminals. who are thus
initiated by the South. Surely. the Governor
did not want to say that, aud therefore he is
most unfortunate 10 the use Of the Eoghsh
language.
But W. quote another sentence. The Gov
error saws:
III N"rthern wealth aud power can he driv-
en- to hand tvrT Cuba, Central Amrrica and
Mexicu, in u'%asaeles, to the slave States, they
would hen have capital To sci up for then.
selves, on the principle Of Cons'aatiHpPIe."
Now what durs hat meant Were it not for
The principle Of COnsiantnop's' so adroitly
smnggtrd ~ at The cl Sc, the balance Of the
sentence might, perhaps, with some dlfRcutly,
be mat, intrilgihlr. Some centuries ago there
uas a rits in Europe named TheophiAs'us
B.mhns,us Paracel,us, who DECLARED, that the
mere Obscure an author is the more learned
will he appear Probably our new Governor
hiss heard Of this mans maxim and he roS
ties hard TO become his imItator. Really, and
in all Earnest. what does he mean by that
'priuciple Of Cnnstantinople," upon which the
Saw States could set up for Themselves, as he
ssysi Does he mean the OnnStanlinop'e be-
fore or that after The conquest by the Turks
in the 18th century, l. that principle" in
any way conuscted with Mnhsmmed aud his
KorsnP With the do:,rine Of abstinence from
wine and of the plur aliiy Of wiy.s. Pray Gov
eruor, ~extricate us from this difficulty, or else
we cannot understand your meaning.
And then again "Northern power and wealth
is ITO hand over Cuba, Central America aud
Mexico. 10 msnacles, 10 the Slave States -
How Is thai To be done. since we have neither
Cuba. nor Central America, nor MeEieof-
Northern power and wealth" is TO be "driven'
TO do it. Good graciousl There is said to be
a very smart community Town east, who are
determined upon hanging none, except they
have him first. But our Governor seems TO he
smarter than they. He fears that Northern
power and wealth, " will be driven" to "hand
over" to The Slave States, what it does not pos
sess. For ITO hand over" means in plan
English, to transfer to another something
which the giver has in possession. II tn,
Governor had instead Of this acclaimed aboul
helping, aiding or assisting the Slave States tC
acquire or conquer, DC, he would have heer
plain. Ineligible and would have used gooc
English.
And again "hand over in mlnaeles." Thii
implies that Northern power and wealth" il
first to put "manacles" on Cuba, Central Amer
lea and Mexico, and is thus to "hand it over.
Did Gov Drnnison intend to say thatf Il
he the acknowledged advocate of unIversa
liberty and the free and unrestrained comming
lingo all races, also in putting "manacles'
on other uationsl No. But 1t was his fl LASH
rhetoric which made him say so, and the littl,
regard be paws to Lindlsy Murray. From sucl
GovernOr-L b-ra nos Domino
How 10 Choose a Speaker.