Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-01-08
ELEGANT EXTRACTS FROM PRESIDENT
LfsCOLN'S MESSAGE.

The Albany IN. Y Argus gives its readers the fol-
lowing spicy extracts from running commentary upon
the last Message of President Lincoln
The admins ration journals have pretended that the
defects of the message be attributed the haste
of its transmission by telegraph. Ga the contrary the
telegraph has rather improved than jured it, Welook
into the official copy in the National 4neigencer and
find such sentences as thesC
II the condition of relations with other nations
is less gratifying than it has usually been at former pc
rods it is certainly satisfactory than anaon SO
unhappily distracted might reasonably have
app ehended"
For "apprehepded " read " hoped" We do not
opprehend what is satisfactory.
"A blockade, &C. could not be established &c, with
out committing occasional mistakes and inhctiDg
Intentional injuries"
Blockades do not commit mistakes. BockGders do
During the last year there has not been only no
change of previous relations with the independent
States of our continent, bat friendly Ssai
ents than have heretofore existed are believed TO be
entertained by these neghbors, whose safety and pro-
gress intimately connected with own
II there has been no change" how have the sent
mens become more friendly >?
Here is discrepancy OF another kind
I" In the month of August last, the Sioux Indians in
Mime attacked the settlements in that vicinity with
extreme fsrocty, killing iudiscrimnatey mel, women
and children. The attack q"hoify unexpected and
therefore, DO means of defence had bepu provided
InfOI nation GCGS 1eCcIUed by the Indian
Bureau from different about the time hosltie3
commenced, that simultaneous 0ttJcE to &c
made upon the white settlements by all the tribes be-
tween the Mississippi river and the Rocky Mountains"
1t seems, then, that the Indian Bureau had Inforna
ton that &" the attack to be nad9." How, then,
was it wholly unexpected -?
Speaking of the Agricultural Department, he says:
1t will soon be prepared TO distribute largely seeds,
cereals, plants end cuttings"
What is the difference between " seeds and cereals,
plants and cuttings? May cereals be seeds, and
plants be cereals, and cuttings be piauls?
Speaking of boundary Of separation be says:
Nearly all It's remaining length ARE merely survey
or's lines. Nc part Of THIS LINE can be
made any more difficult to pass"
confusion OF singular and plural which might easi.
ly have been avoided.
Here two profound remarks. The italics are from
the official copy published in the National Integ
Ger:
" Ald if with less money. money more eas Iy paid,
we preserve the benefits of the Union by this
means than by the war alone, is it not also
economical to do ?"
Certainly it is Rot so easy to pay something is
to pay nothing but it is easier to pay huge than
it is to Ply iotger one. And it is pay any
1Ohen able than it is to pay it before
able"
1t is impossible to add anything to profundities like
these.
eff there ever could be proper time Tor catch
arguments that time surely is not now"
The telegraph operator dropped the word eatch,"
not knowing what to make OF it.
The President says, on closing We cannot escape
history" No, but he has escaped grammar, logic and
arithmetic.