Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-04-03
From tie New YORK FFeSnan,s journal and
Catholic Rcgista.l !.
Faisifying Paitisanship of
Webster'S Dictionary:

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cey 9. Burr whose alert atten'
tion was first drawn to the fact
that Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary had been deformed
; in its latest edition; published
: since the civil war, and from an
impartial pathological work
had been turned into d text
book of radical i1actisapship,
! Criticisms have, Since then
been published in sundry Dem.
ocratic papers, and, in a Daily
paper Of the city we find the
following general statement Of
some of the corruptions that
partisan folly has caused to be
introduced
DEFINITIONS in wEBsrER's DICTIONARY
Was not DR.. Noah Webster
qualified to give correct defni
tions of political terms used in
the United States? He enter
ed Yale College IN 1774, the
same year in which the Cont
mental Congress Of the Colo
mics held their session in Phil
adelphia to discuss the great
questions at issue between them
and the mother country. These
discussions d awakened deep in
terest throughout the colonies,
and led to the declaration of
Independence, on the 4th of
July, l776, when the colonies
took their departure from the
condition of dependence into
the condition of sovereign and
independent States.
His class caught the fire of
the revolution, and earnestly
discussed the principles upon
which it was founded. Among
those of that class who were
afterwards distinguished as
politicians and statesmen were
Joel Barlow Abraham Bishop,
zephania Swift, Uriah Tracy,
Alexander Wolcott, and Oil
yer Wolcott.
In 1888, the State of Con-
necticut was greatly agitated
on the subject Of the half pay
for life granted to the army by
Congress, and the Communication
Of that grant to full pay for five
years. To allay that agitation
Mr.. Webster wrote a number
of pieces under the title of
"Honorius," which had so
much influence in accomplish
ing the object for which they
y
were written that he received
the thanks of Governor Trum-
bull, the Brother Jonathan "
Of General Washington.
ain the winter of 1784-5, Mr..
Webster, whose political and other
valuable writings had made him
known to the public, proposed, in
one of the publications, q new sys-
tenn of government which should
act, not on the States, bat directly
on individuals, and vest in Congress
full power 80 carry its laws into ef-
."-Madison Papers, page 11s.
So much importance did
Mr.. Webster attach to his
views expressed in the pamph-
let containing them, that he
carried it in person to General
Washington, at whose house
Mr., Madison read it in the en-
suing summer.
In 1857 he published a
pamphlet entitled an EXAM
ination of the Leading Princi.
pies of the Federal Constitu-
tion."
In 1893 he removed his FAM
lily to New York, and com
menced a daily paper under the
title Of the Minerva, and after
wards a semi.weekly paper
under the title of the Herald;
names which were subsequent.
ly changed to those Of the
Commercial Advertiser and
New York Spectator. These
papers were devoted to the
support Of the administration
Of General Washington under
the new Federal Constitution.
He was encouraged to this en-
terprise by such men as Rufus
King, John Jay, and Alexan
der Hamilton.
In 1895 he published a Sc.
ries ofpapers under the sigma
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