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June 10, 1846
Wheeling Times And Advertiser
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
What is this article about?
Newspaper humorously admits defeat after three weeks puzzling over the opaque opening sentence of Col. Geo. W. Thompson's address to a Grave Creek reform meeting, soliciting reader translations into English. (168 characters)
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We have been about three weeks studying on the following sentence, which is the opening of the address submitted by Col. Geo. W. Thompson to the reform meeting at Grave Creek. We did not like to submit it to the public until we had tried every possible way to find out what it meant; but we have at length given it up. If any of our readers will render it into English we shall be under great obligations to them.
"Society is the natural relation of man to man, and that therefore all men are, by birth or legal provision, subjects or citizens of their prescriptive governments; and as such have certain respective or legal and constitutional rights, subject to the limitations and extensions authorized by the existing governments, reserving to an oppressed people, as the final resort, a right of appeal by revolution."
"Society is the natural relation of man to man, and that therefore all men are, by birth or legal provision, subjects or citizens of their prescriptive governments; and as such have certain respective or legal and constitutional rights, subject to the limitations and extensions authorized by the existing governments, reserving to an oppressed people, as the final resort, a right of appeal by revolution."
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Mystery
What themes does it cover?
Deception
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Confusing Sentence
Political Address
Reform Meeting
Grave Creek
Thompson Address
What entities or persons were involved?
Col. Geo. W. Thompson
Where did it happen?
Grave Creek
Story Details
Key Persons
Col. Geo. W. Thompson
Location
Grave Creek
Story Details
Newspaper editors spend three weeks attempting to understand the convoluted opening sentence of Colonel Geo. W. Thompson's address to the reform meeting at Grave Creek but fail, appealing to readers to translate it into plain English.