The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-15
0kedaddlinR.

This Is not q very elegant, but still n
siguifceut word, Of American ruanufac-
Tture. We believe the use of it is sane.
Toned by that grest Yankee authority.
Noah Webster, to whom many Am ericais
bend the knee, simply for the reason
thst he is an American lexicdgrapher,
but who has vulgarized the English Ian
guage, by the introduction of many bad
words into mis- dictionary, and thus in
hicted blow upon the purity of the
English tongue. whose effects will be felt
till bis parti-colored work is superseded
by one of standard authority that shall
respect the Presidents or Emperor's
English.
The word in question embraces a wide
scope. Cicero, to express its whole
meaning, employs four words, in de-
soribing the motits oper0ndi by which
Cataline left Rome, under the terrors of
his eloquence-d6iit, euosit, ercessit, eru-
pit. e. he has 6one, he has escaped
from our grasp, hp has left the gates Of
Rome behind hiu., he has run away as if
the Furies were ON his track Had the
classical taste Of the orator permitted
him to say in Latin, MS we do in English
Cataline has skeCladdled, he would have
reached the climax in step, which he
has now obtained by four bounds.
We have copied this concise mode of
expressing our thoughts from the In
dians. Civilization, with all its graces,
has committed this invasion into the ter
ritory of Indian literature. "Thon who
not loved by me-" six words in English,
is but one in the Indian dialect. We
have been urged into conciseness, al
though we have sometimes fallen into
abruptness, by our desire to initiate our
barbarous neighbors in this particular
We have invented words with view to
brevity, and in order to save time, which
is exceedingly valuable in a free country
and an utilitarian age. Were we to say
that the white clerks, under the rule of
the negro postmaster, Turner, at Macon,
have sloped we employ an Americanism
which is intelligibe enough; but when
we say they have sheddtllled, we. mean
that they have gone off in hurry, with
mercurial footsteps-that their motion
has been quickened into flight They
proceeding with the speed of Lot when
he fled from Sodom.
We pity these clerks. Pap is always O
sweet morsel-so sweet that they are apt
to cling to it with kind of death grasp.
We may be sure that something horrible
something quite 1ntolerable-has hap
pened when they voluntarily relinquish
1T. negro ruler over white clerks, with
the Caucasian element bounding in their
veins, is certainly monstrosity more to
be deprecated, in an age when certain
social distinctions are, or should be, re-
cognized, than the loss Of office-an Of
flee with fixed salary, or one with per-
quisltes attached, affording fine play
to the imagination or the fingers.
No one now doubts what is the Presi-
dents programme-radicali of the
blacklist dye--a feeble and fuctuating
Cabinet, and large scope for dictation
In maintaining executive supremacy, the
General will have to arm himself cap-a-
pie, and prepare, at once, for a stout
fight with the House of Representatives,
who, having played first fiddle so long,
are not prepared to acknowledge the
claims of any new pretender to musical
honors. s.-New Orleans Times.