Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-12-20
Beauties Ofsbc Message.

The Administration journals have Pre-.
tended that tie defects oftho Message were
to be attributed to the haste Of its transmits
sion by telegraph. On the contrary, the
tclegr aph has rather improved than injured
it. We look into the official copy in the
NotonoE Iielignce, aid find such sem
icnces as these
"lf the condition of our relations with
other nations is less gratifying than it has
usually been at former periods, it is Ger.
tainly more satisfactory than nation SO
unhappily distracted as we are might rea.
sonably have opprehended."
For "apprehended" read chopped -
We do not ofpreheM what is Satis:actory
"A blockade, &c, could not be estab
lished, &c, without committing occasional
mistakes aud inficting uuinteutional in.
juries."
Blockades do not commit mistakes. -
Blockheads do.
During the last year there has m0t 6eet
on(y no change of our previous relations
with the Independent States of our own
continent, but more ftieadiy sentiments than
have heretofore existed are believed to he
entertained by these intimately connected
with our own"
If there has been no "change, how have
the sentiments become 'more friendly p
Here is discrepancy OF another kind
"In the month of August last, the Sioux
Indians, in Minnesota, attacked the settle.
ments in their vicinity with extreme feroety
killing, indiscrminately, men women and
children. IHe aHoek rus WhoHy uneT.
pccted, and therefore no means of defense
had been provided. Information
,cas received by the Indian Bureau from
different sources, about the time hostiities
were commenced, that u simultaneous atlack
'caS TO 6e moae upon the white settlements
by all the tribes between the Mississippi
river and the Rocky Mountains."
1t seems, then, that the Indian Bureau
had information that the attack was to be
made How, then, was "wholly unex.
pected."
Speaking ofthe Agricultural Department
lie says:
| at will soon be prepared to distribute
largely seeds, cereals, plants and cutting y
What is the difference between "seeds
and coroais, plant and cuttings 7" May
not cereals be seeds, and plants be cereals,
and cuttings be plants
Speaking Of a boundary ofseparation, he
says:
I NEARLY all its remaining length are
merely surveyors lines. No
part of this line can be made any more
difficult to pass
A confusion of singular and plural which
might easily have been avoided.
! Here are two profound remarks. The
italics are from the official copy as publish
ed in the Notionot iateisgenccr:
"And if With less money, or money more
easily paid, we can preserve the benefits
Of the onion by this means than we can by
the war alone, it it not also economical to
do itY
Certainly it is not so easy to pay some.
thing as it is to pay nothimg but it is
easier to pay a large sum than it is pay a
fdrger one. Aud it is easier to pay any
sum ochea we ore able than it is to pay it
before we are able"
1t is impossible to add anything to pro-
fundities like these.
elf there ever could be proper time
for mere catch arguments, that time surely =
is not now y
The telegraph operator dropped the word
''cafch," not knowing what to make OF it,
The President says, on closing "We
cannot escape history" No; but he has
escaped grammar, logic and arit hemetc.