But the man WITH A FUTURE has almost of necessity sense enough to see that any odious trick of speech or manners must be got rid of.

Doesn't Sydney Smith say that a public man in England never gets over a false quantity uttered in early life?
OUR public men are in little danger of this fatal misstep, as few of them are in the habit of introducing Latin into their speeches,--for good and sufficient reasons.

But they are bound to speak decent English,--unless, indeed, they are rough old campaigners, like General Jackson or General Taylor; in which case, a few scars on Priscian's head are pardoned to old fellows who have quite as many on their own, and a constituency of thirty empires is not at all particular, provided they do not swear in their Presidential Messages.
However, it is not for me to talk.

I have made mistakes enough in conversation and print.

I never find them out until they are stereotyped, and then I think they rarely escape me.