Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-08-29

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H., for ,.early recollec,ions" Of tina. place.
We should Immediately have given our res
iers the result, Of our perusal Of these articles,
but our space w.s an .voi | .bly oc;npie |; AMI,
indeed, e have some tears that the transpa-
rent garb Of the story has already been sufi-
GENTLY scruteniied by its readers, and tina
shall, therefore, be deprived Of the pleas
ure Of being III. first to dissect the fosterling
A genius for language comes doubtless by
nature, but " Rem .niscences" stand - one
Of the les, examples We have seen, that a
knowledge Of il does not come in the same
way. The first sentence Of the " Reminis-
cences, after the statement of the purpose
or which they are written-wouli defy the
analysis Of the first logician Of this or any
.aher century. In all the range Of English
letters We have seen nothing that can be com
JARED with this piece Of composition; it is,
ike the . head-letter" Of the paper in which,
il appears, thoroughly unique. 1t is un-
like anything I'm heaven above, o. on the
earth beneath, or -" but We forbear.
In grammatical construction, it is thorougoni,
f . piece with that Of Davy Crockett and Sam
slick. How any one can deliberately sit down
md throw together such q medley Of words
with such lofty contempt Of sense, and mix
ture Of stupidity AMI tsst~lessness, We are
wholly At a loss TO decide unless he int en'e J
il for "a huge practical joke" He has rat
tied off his "Reminiscences" with a confidence
which is An insult to those who speak the En-.
clish language. For our own part, We have
been not At all prof,ed by the reading.
and the little amusement they have afforded US
was probably no, exactly designed BY the au-
thor.
Were it not that We claim, that the reader
Of even a small local print. should 10 treated
10 something more tasteful than the everyday
slang phrase gn& encoherent sentence OF the
.,skull that canno, learn We would gladly be
excused from remarking upon tie merely !it>
erary character Of the articles before us. But
hoping that parents may de induced to guard
their children. at least, against the contrac-
ton Of such slovenly habits Of CO position.
We proceed to lay before our readers some Of
the gems Of rhetoric, as unearthed in the
ar. minisccnces Of &c. B. L.
|, is a rule Of construction familiar TO many
wLo have never taken y single lesson in gram
mar, that the verb must agree with its favor
lite noun in person and number. How far
the following passages accord with this rule,
ne need not stop here TO say. "Our steamer
load Of living freight were now eastward
b mnd : .their chances for life was;' ''pieces
Of the wreck tina, was SOON 10 he and 'there
was settled n, :. i. Sugar Grove, Lyman, James
and Chauncey Isbell' are a few IF the many
stupid hlunders Of this kind, in the "Riminis-
cenc.s,' calculated TO invite the ridicu,e Of all
men Who learned to talk from their mother.
Again We are constantly reminded Of the
very important part which Mr.. c. D. I. played
in the "Reminiscences" Of Aurora. In a mats
ter Of this kind, once telling is enough; and
then it should be done so molestly MS simply
TO assure the reader Of the genuineness Of the
"reminiscences. All beyond this is purely val.
CIR. DMt here you are never for . momen'
rid Of the writer. lie GENES dragging his
'slow length on all tours, in nearly every
sentence. From jefferson county n. Y, starts
the family,-.our mother" three brothers and
~ sister lara, and mysey, aged y years;
the get as far - NiagnrA River, and on,
Journalist'-(mark the word lis y boy then.
Small is the difference between . young man
Of twonty. on . and - hoy" "He kept . close
watch on the captain and other officers ef the
boat" A marked instance Of larg' IsD'viDu.
ALlrv in - boy At sandusky Il found my
cousin Earl Bill. He, too,"-i.e e.. - we'll
Is the writer Of the "Reminiscences '-"has
held no mean position as a journalist" We
pass thy the ashes Of kI'-we don't know
whether Earl Bill or "your journalis,'s-
.lamentel MOTHER and leave them At San
dnsky, not being able to see their connection
with 'early recollections Of Aurora, Ind re.
turn for a moment while he &C.. B. ~ Every
wildly remembers the motion Of an officer
Who "made > graf for "a young man. full
s,eener than the rest Of Ne" (green enough in
al conscience,) and very impolisely, We should
s,y, caught him by the "nape Of the neck and
the sea, Of the trousers" because said "full
grerHer" fellow had very innocently and in
obedience to the first law Of nature offered the
captain hi. Rife" Beautiful expressions.
these displaying vast skill in the choice Of
words. Permit us to insert = synonym Of
s.~vivi.lly ; AMI see how il will read. II very
lucilly remember" But a very passible com
position could he made out Of the words in one
Of the long columns in .Cobh's old Speller,'
by simply arranging them in lines. Mr.. Pope
had . shameless Disregard for thru:h, wh,n he
said:
The sound mus, seem an echo to the sense"
Hamlet hid hotter. when, in reply to Polonins'
question: what read yon, my lorl?'-he ssid:
Words, words, Words webeg lesve also, to
become VI. humble medium Of returning the
thanks of the vulgar public. to mir. c. B. L.
for the discovery Of the fact that "Ride" 10 .
proper noun. Neither would We overlook the
same valuable discovery In regard to "faher.
m thor and Hauser." (tke latter, Of course, he
spells Incorrectly
Now il must really in justice be said that to
write "Ripinisotnces' Of ,ither persons or
places in such y lingo ~ this 10 an absolute
insult to the subject, and 70 are net conscious
oftreating his style unfairly. But We are rot