Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 17, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 8 March 1834 — Page 3
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TOT&irtTr B MJ lTa Mr. Editor, It must be known that REFLECT! jNS ON TIME.
I no where, many way lound lault with i ,hnM nn lim SPf.m'd 0 rise
Nutlirday .UOT11IU5, Jtarcn s. our language, or oroached me loousi From voids that ;t'd above the skies,
' ; : : ,oca OI !l cnange in it. l nai wnac i Anj f.,r be,mv tV 0;,r,i, lhe Pca We have several communications on faulted was not the language, but that Strelch'd out in t ;-nmenity ; file which were received too lite for now generally used system of grammar And where the rolling planets move, this numuer tl ey "ill appear in our by which it is taught. And it is quite jn no!v harmony above
ticxt. unaccountable to me, How any one could a Krtl,nJis f,0u An wi.ln nnA tll
.1.... " "v'u'u"r' ' . '
sueuovc, mat someuiioi; was neeeMti mr m,,i ncc r.', c ,.n.lf H r.
Dud: In Washington Lit. on the ho be done " to sustain the reputation
J Slli Feb. the. Hon. Willi -m Vi;;t, in (of our language," when nothing had Then what is time, I said? I he round,
the G2iu tear of Image. been said to degrade it. If a plan or Revolving spheres and orbs are lound
Cm. nior Uttr.xTMirr died at Frank- system of grammar, worse than what To measure ; whose own changes prove
I- I . . I 1 . J . , . T! I. . . . ' I 1 -
Jul. w. on uie ami wa mnirod nc have was to !e formed, it would no mem unoer certain laws to mue:
on the succeeding day. with every dem- more hurt the language than the Sure this is lime, nor time, could be, on.traio:i of respect for his personal bad system of a spelling-book. Lan- (But all was wide cternify.)
gtnge ;nd the svstcm by which it is I ill earth am! sea and skies were made,
faughl. are as widely different as any And rill the hosts above displayed
r two things. And the mistaking
of one for the oilier, bespeaks the ig
noring of both.
Tac's harangue"' is u a ide of the
However, I will notice i', h-sl
find official ch -trader.
cOMUUJOCATlb. PHILOLOGY. The purpose in Mud ying language i to acquire a capacity for e.tcn-ivc com
munication, and by n knowledge of J mark
governing ni monies to rcctilv practical lie shoi
ill think ltimelf great; hut 1
nd whence are these? (O, thought loo
deep!)
In what d iik caverns did they sleep?
nd thou, O man, who tie, id st earth s
soil
nd j-rid'rl thys If upon its spoil,
I ell, in li.y Ka-tcd wisdom, whence
Thou art and when thou parted thence; S ty if from ehaes thou didst fpiing Or whether from some holier tiling?
1 I 1 I .1 I ? 1 ? i i I I I.I I
-rrors. lingual sum aopenus on ine wish u to ee rnimieti. ' :ni w nai is pass-
acquisition of idea-, correspondent signs ed minified is coniJered silly or lo
nnd a l'isl mode of exhibiting them, reign
But it was not m design to show know- He first inentio; s the nolieinj of "a
!fd'rc of I tnguage. or to tin I f.tull with communication under the signature of
language, but to state some conclu-ions I Sigma.' He must mean Hannibal's,
drawn from facts admitted by the lear- for Sigma's communication i-not undrr
ned. and lo show my reasons, eve. his signature, but over it. A pretty
That there is something radically good onset
wrong in the sv?(cm of our grammars,
is abundantly evident fiorn s. mud criti- Piaizarn ! ("Mr. Editor, get a our know
cism: and that the same is true of tint grammar, and dictionary too "not Wal- Aught but concerns thee here below ;
mode of teaching, which the force of ker, Worcesier or Webster, but his die- All else belongs lo Him who reigns
fashion and popular opinion constrains tionary !"' And, if that wili not do, ask Eternal o'er his vast domains
Thou canst not sav. Thy coming too, I
Like theirs is far beyond ihy view
Much too mysterious for thy mind Within such narrow walls conlin'd.
ting that he haa taken it upon himself as we there have no opportunity t lo teach any thing contrary to this be heard. J. B. Craft. title-page, then his assertion or title page N. 13. Mr. Lewis's borrowed books, of the book which several bretheren which he wishes to be compared with have in their possession mut be incor- A. Campbell's 1st edition are of the rect. Hence comes "discredit" let it London edition: I have a book in my rest ivhere it may. Here I would be possession, which informs me, that the willing to let friend Lewis's testimony London publishers have departed from decide the matter, for he says "Veritas the original work of Campbell, Melius doubtless given the tiice title- Knight and Doddridge hence it isnot page." (I would here make one com- what it purports lo be, viz: Their
plaint, viz: He might have said he literal translation. J. B. C.
knew it to be true not only as it re
spects the third, but fourth edition also, 07-The printers of Albany held a as he examined both editions minutely meeting a few weeks since, to consider a few days since, in the presence of se- the expediency of forming a Temper-
veial persons.) lance society. May they prosper.
JS'ow, bir, ask yourself it i told the
truth let Mr. Lew is answer and he It is rumored in New York, that Gen.
admits 1 did, then ask yourseif it trull. Jackson had endorsed Mr. Van Buren's propagates error or any "discredit" in note for ,9100,000 that the note has truth: the answer must be ready been cashed in the District of Columwhere then is the "d scuedit?"' The bia,and the money forw arded to Albany.
joci is simply this that which Mr.
Lewi3 now admits to be truth, was con- A company of Circus riders lately
tradicted in one of his public exliibi- arrived at Montevido, having been ship-
tions not long since for truth this be- ped from Boston. They had in the ing the fact) who then was the cause? concern a poney, and an assortment of In thus reducing it to so narrow achan- dancing Cats. There is no end to the
m l, I fear not your judgment. enterprise of the Yankees.
Discovering when too late, as he
thought to retract his first assertions, A new blacksmith's bellows has been
us to follow, b but loo apparent from him whether it came from that "un
things before state! and alluded lo. It known land, where words have no
i? thought that scholars are not at gram-1 meaning."") To insinuate false ortho-
mar until form ulv stud) ing a book rail- graphy would be crime; that must not
we discover him reiterating the asser- invented at Charleston, South Carolina, lion in writing, and clinging lo the first by a Frenchman. It is so constructed
He s;iys I am too guilty c p!aijansm. 'Twas not desigu'd that thou shouldst and second editions, as his only hope 1 as to keep up the blast in ascending as
now lelt to sustain himself. Why did well as descending: they must come mhe not name this at first? But no, he lo general use, as they enable (he smith must come out and cast a reproachful to use the hard coal, and the blast can name, "Campeeli.itf.s"" on us, and brand he regulated to suit the convenience of
us with receiving a translation which the operation.
was not what it purported to be. My
self and bretheren are the only persons The citizens of Brooklyn have pre-
p(i hv that name. And it a teacher wa
to keep them at spelling until they wcie
acquainted with orthography as they
ought to he, he would soon be out of employment. When they come to have
be done.
Yet much in condescension He
Has graciously revealed to thee;
Which, if thou would but use't aright,
Would swell thy soul w ith sw eet delight.
That nil by His own hands were made,
I undorantl him as stating that my Anj in ho b an,iycd. second "p.ece is borrowed but I pro- Bul , ()f xvllor whorc is , mulgale it as my own. psow as his .... . , . . tn ,,1V
lot
in this neighborhood w ho have that sented Commodore Chauncey with a name cast upon them, and ) et, strange pair of elegant silver pitchers, as a
as it may appear, I would feel myself mark of their esteem and respect.
bound to prove, were he to call on me,
that we have not the 1st edition, nor Pun Grammatical. "Jeff'? cried
ever had it; and the first one I ever Cumberland, ''tell me in word, if a duty
Plifi ltif;i lilirn cititoft In thv 1 f
l-illtlrl fn m 1 I-r a iini-n itniul.il I tt iti i I - r I -
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grammar books tlievaie to be led on to me appear contemptible, his surer way Next, history the tale will tell,
frvnt.ix speedily; and a teacher that would have been to give the proof. How sad and wofully man fell
would undeitak'1 to nnke them study And I think, that, until he gives prool r rom good to bad estate, and how,
i-umologv thoroughh, before svntav, (hat that piece is borrowed. Ins state- O ice happy he is wretched now
menl should he considered fil-e. Hist rv that in golden ras,
In his second p-iragraph, he makes a Reflects the deeds of by gone days,
wild evcursion ; and in returning sneak As Horn uie minor oac w is snow n
of "a language baed in being, found- Whatever forms areci it thrown
Scholars can not i -.ossihly do wr 11 in ed in the nature of things;- and then
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pvntax, without a rood know ledge of says, I have no doubt where vearV the presumptuous desire lor un-
etymology, h belong to this part of j silent,"' Sec. This requires an inter- bounded knowledge is the grand source citizens on the laws of Indiana , assert maston, Maine.
show the derivation of I preter as ac roam vtic as ils author. ot mhJehty. 1 he philosaphcr can rea- that they might obtain 1 00 prr centum ai nr i i;rS7
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"'llll'i ll'H "l in Ullll, mil m null!! J 1 I Oil UIIUi; l llll.ll (.-ivn inn mn.n ill. "inu .1 11,113 iihimi.-i-.h m( f(;s; pillMUlU II WHS IlilllieU Oil lilt. , I.. I .
.-1. ... 1 1 1 1 hi. 1 in .1 11 it
would perhaps he thought quite besid
liimiilf. How prepo-.terous tl;i is, is
but too well known to experienced
teacher.
saw was at his house a few evenings were laid on all my peccadilloes and ir-
since. Now, sir, admitting that he has regularities, what part of Murray's saiil the "Campbellites"' have such a Grammar would such an impost resemiranslation and it is a fact that we have hlc?"' "Sin tax,'' answered the intel-
nol one cop of the A edition among ligent jagcr, with the utmost readiness.
u-. or ever had, would it not follow
logically that my friend Lew is is incou- A suit for libel, the damages laid at
rect in hi - charge or the only "CAMP- ten thousand dollars, has been comBELLITE"' in this vicinity? menced against the editor of the East-
Should a person, while lecturing our fin Argus, by Jonathan Cillcy, of Tho-
generally. But cu-l'-m and system al- I person knows ; a e, and w i ! bout insult- lo some, !o his own views ; but the foul f;1ec of the article and some "Veritas'
low scholars to pa" over it by a little ing him, the grammars tell thing which because he cannot sound the secret op- should obtain a publication of the law
attention to the modification of the verb, even children know ere they can read eia'ions of infinite w isdom and unravel passed 1 831-2, which prove his asserNo part of ai:y study s ems to be more the grammars. What a sage remark! all the mysterifs of creation, thaws the flon incorrect, and then for the first Mip riaially p i-sed than this pait of His saying that I had " ridiculed our irrational conclusion that its hi-tory is (ime, the said person informs the public
grammer. I dount wheth-r half of language," needs no contradiction, for false I oor creature! He would fain ,at ,n KUJ reference only lo a law, tho-e now at syntax could give even it can not be believed by those who comprehend all things, while every day's t!,at wa3 u, use some years since, and the etymology tf f.'vr.n'y. The no- know the difference between language experience proves that he can't under- insists that it was the fact such a lawtion id syntax has got to be too nearly and mode of studying it theory and stand even the simplest substance in was passed? Would you not conclude the exclusive notion of grammar; and practice. Anil about others I am quite nature. J. that the centi.emw was unacquainted
that ol par-mg the m ini requisite ol a unconcerned. w ith the thread of his discourse? Would grammirian; and tho. consequence is J In his fifth paragraph, he discovers For the Riisng Sun." he not be as likely to produce error a?
his true character. I here he shows lo Miss (Jn her Birth Day. dulh? To Produce a false impression.
On the Oth inst., by Jones, Mr. Joseph
Close to Miss Mary Durbin. All of Dearborn county.
what I stated before, concerning stu
dent. i h it lucre are exceptions i-
wtu knmn; nut certainly not more
tii in are found to grammar rules.
among the thousands who have formal
ly studied grammar, the (rue number of good grammarians could be ascertained,
lliat number would undoubtedly bear a
ery sad proportion to the whole.
I have nothing to do with individual
persons or institutions; I onl ventured
that there is a great want of honesty or Now sixteen years have past and gone, or that he depended on a mere quibble
of knowledge. It is altogether un
manly, and quite unpardonable. His
words arc be Sigma says, "?ramwr
has remained essentially the same," fcc.
" I h: is palpable contradiction, (viz
to a former statements "Well, what
i the truth is not a lie," &c. (insinuating, that by contradiction I had lied.)
It he had studied, lie would not Your snowy bosom now so white,
And you're in maiden prime: to sustain himself? Are not the real
Your cheeks with rosy blushes dawn and supposed cases analagous?
Unfaded yet by time
E jX TE R TA IX M E X T. THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends, and the public generally, that, having taken the house recently occupied by Mr. Samuel Howard, Esq., the sign of Com. O. II. Perry, on Front street below Maine, he is prepared to furnish travellers with as comfortable entertainment as can be found in the western country. His table w ill at all times be furnished with the choicest viands of the season, and his bar
Ere sixteen more shall pass away, They will begin lo fade; Perhaps in the cold grave may 1 iv, Or wan with sorrow made.
to state what I conceived to be faet ; have been t aught in the aho e thfiicu!
V.' Coulr.'didi'm! Ccviht !! Difit-
l.i l
i iuc mdticcnit'hl u ;is ;i eurMonir
endured and painful consciousness of an existing oil in thi matter. I h ive not been singular in this; others have been like minded, and free in declaring it. Yet popular opinion bore sway. But whether it will alwats be so, is a question which will receive its proper answer in course of lime. Pcihaps it may be thought that I consider myself quite or nearly perfect. 1 certainly do not. But 1 impute my imperfection to this very evil against which I onveigh. I once thought as rnot others now think of book-syntax;
but when I came to feel the force of
that maxim of truth that makes good sense the foundation of all correct communication, I began to think otherw ise. And finding that the id-a of nunc, ac
tion, quality, number, time, kc. Sec,
was count ( ted with the very meaning of word-5, I became persuaded that the main business of one who wished to
speak and write with propriety was, to obtain a definite understanding of the true import of term5. A:id that having
this, he would not be greatly wantin
in grammatic construction, though unable to give iinv technical rlasilica(ion
of words. From the great importance
attached lo them, one. might think every
tning depended on formal rules. But
the plain reason w hy some certain word
can not properly be used w ith certain
others, and in certain ways is hecaiiM
their meaning will not admit of it. And
this plainly leads me again to a former
ly drawn conclusion, viz. that if one has
a just knowledge of each single word, then the les formal syntax he is per-
pifxen witn in rucr. sigm.
t
tltv!!! My statement was this not
withstanding the great changes which the systems of other sciences have un
dergone, that the system of grammar has remained cssr-niiallv the same. &-.
Because I said the system of grammar
remained She same, while mental science
was getting more rational, therefore I
contradicted myself! How profoundly
logical!! If any have believed him,
they will do well to read again. It is certainly not hard to set; how he quoted,
ind what his design was. I would not
be guilty of so mean a thing on aiy account. But I must greatly err, if this does not fix the character both of the ni.r,."' .....I .ii.ll, TI
perhaps (here was no malice: " perad-
venture it was an oversight." But if
he did not discern the true "nominative'' to the verb, has remained, what
becomes of the boastful grammarian, who "can teach the principles of our
mguage thoroughly, in six months."
Or has he not been at it that length of
time I think tl is said to be much
longer and if so, it is no small argu inent in my favor; and it would seem a
if hr ought lo "take up some of our
elementary grammars and learn them better than he has.
Having shown that he altogether
mistook me; that he misrepresented my sentiments; that his animadversion
shows a want of honesty or knowledge it can not be necessary lo notice him
any further; and therefore I add only thai, by his sillv advice to me, he ha:
hound him-elf to defend the wrelchet
technicality and system of " our elemen .. M feiui
With innocence array'd,
v;jos that sweet .--.ndriiXi; de'ic bt, Of irtue unbetra'cl.
No vexing cares pcrph x thy breast,
hb: in l!i v parents care;
O may vou long with peace be b!c;-t,
Secuie from every snare.
iili (lir hps! linoiori. lfta ctnldno .
ell, suppose be meant the hrst ed.- , and comn,0(H(HJ, and wC Slipplipj lion of which he has given us a part of 0ats. Corn and Hay, and attended the title-page (for be it known, he has by n carf.f,, Q;i(,er said nothing ol the different transln- ' JOHN C. WAGGENER. t.ons of eminent gentlemen which may (Former customers, and travellers
i t loumi i . toe ..ppe. u.a.; ....u w.., .r.in().a are invi(e, ,0 call
Why, when the simple facts - R.. Sun. March 1th. 1834.
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follows?
arc known that A. Campbell proposed
to publish this edition by subscription;
j "ami it is a fact which can be proven in
any court of law or equity, that the woik is as exactly executed according
lo the prospectus as it could be, with
TO JILL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN!! i MEETING of the stock holders of
the Rising Sun Library Society,
thisonc exception, viz: That he did not will be held at my office in Rising Sun put upon the margin the different trans-1 on Saturday the 15th day of March, at
And should some lovers winning smiles, lations for reasons assigned in the gen- 12 o'clock, to devise ways and means
Engage thy youthful heart;
learn to detect those artful wiles Avoid the tl tt'rers art.
And should it ever be your lot,
In wedlock lo engage,
You'll find, though now you know it not,
I hat cares will come with age.
communicated.
WILL YOU HEAR BOTH SIDES?
COME AND CASH UP.
ALL those indebted to the undersigned, will do well to call and
pay (heir respective dues immediately,
eral preface; but placed them in an to reinstate the said society on princi-
nppendix, see preiace, p. 10. Now if pies of equity lo the original members the book filled the description in the (hereof. P. EASTMAN, prospectus,! ask who could have been Late Lirrarian. deceived with its contents? None who j B "V H "H" A "T t received it. Because in their judge- lj 1 I D H j jiA '
mems it mieu ino i oM-e iu aou was w hat they expected, or else they would have rejected it. Now, sir, if in prop
agating error, lalse impressions are i'ulfi -v tflA i 1 1 1 o r i' rC intr iiti-lliliikl
Mr. Editor: In perusing your last can vou think the ninth commandment c '" '5 '.my
paper, I discovered my friend, the Rev. has any bearing on it? a,m,,M ,A':u l" 1 1 ) .?
IV. Levis has been informed, that some Do not wonder whv the 3d and 4th rV" "V A r
persons put a construction to his " d:s editions differ in the title page from the V .iWt A , . V , ' ' i. ..-. i.i:,i.,.a .i... ... t. :..... ..,a. . ...i...... HOW ARD, will do well to fake the
1 . I . l- n -trnM in Inn ci mn miiimc
"virniT " As was ho author o hat ... ,A ..:.Smn.-U von know pvpvv II - " o..... ......v..-.
n.:,i - ;i iw h. .. ,. I i.i., .....i 'i-.i i.;i ; .m.ki.i..i I SAMUEL II
Ul K I liUllilllUIMVIIIItMi II I I IV, j 1J 11 . f 1 1 I VI 1 . 71'Klll.lll H IIILII 1 M10"IICU ascertain, if posMhlo, w hcther this pro- now, in the title-page reads thus "And tluclion has a tendency lo render any with the former translations or latest
'discredit" lo my friend, and j f, lo London editions diligently compared remoe that cause: but if to the contrary, .n revised" and will and must natulet it be settled on him who was the rally conclude, if some men have taken
cause. llie pnviicdge ol revising King .lames
accounts wi
HOWARD,
For himself, and Agent for the late firm of SCOTT Sf HOWARD. Rising Sun, Feb. 2Slh, 1831. Knt Notice Without Cost!:! ALL persons indebted to the estate of SAMUEL S. SCOTT, late of
VF.RiTAs"only required ihelitlc page translation and altering the text, anolh- Rising Sun, deceased, are hereby noli-
of a hook published (several of which er at least may he allowed to add to lied, that unless they make payment
I have sold) for (he correct information his ow n title-page w hen publishing other immediately to John H. () Neal, who of those who had not this book, without editions. is authorised to receive all money due introducing the name of any individual, I w ill now close by assuring my friend said estate, their accounts will be placsect, or parly of this place. How a and fellow citizen, W. Lewis and all ed in the hands of a Justice for collecpuldication of that kind could tend, in others that I have no antipathy; hut lion. JOHN H. O'NEAL, the least, to "discredit" my friend indi- really desire such a friendship that shall SAMUEL HOWARD, vidually,! cannot conceive; hut admit- secure us from castigation in the pulpit Fb. 1834 Adm'rs.