The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-09-03
From the National Intelligencer.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

From the National InteHigencer.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
SHOWS the day and now's the hour" we
have already said, for the friends of the
present Administration to come forward in
their might. Sleeping in their strength,
they have been ignorant themselves how
great it is. The vociferation and clamor o.
an organized Opposition have almost over
powered the voice of reason and of truth ;
so as, in connexion with the staggering
tone Of the busy instruments of the party, to
leave an impression on the minds of the ap-
prehensive of our own side, as well as OF
the more quiet and sensible of our oppo-
nents, that the Opposition was the majority
in the country. For our own part, our
readers will bear us witness. we have al
ways expressed, as we have felt, full con-
tidence in The intelligence Of the rejecting
part of the community; a firm trust that
they would save the country from the dan
ger of the precedent, if not the actual dan
ger of the act, of placing at the head of our
civil concerns mere soldier-a successful
one indeed, and therefore the more danger
Gus; but still mere soldier, whose temper
is known 10 be favorable to the most arbi-
trary exercise of the powers he possesses,
and to the assumption of power to do any
thing that suits his current purposes or his
notions of expediency. We have TRANQUILITY,
because confidently, relied upon the redeem
ing virtue of the people, to resist, and in
turn pursue, the Combination (of the disaf-
fectah nf all narties with the friends of the
Generall TO put down the Administration,
right or wrong. And by recent events the
people have, so far, justified our confidence.
The elections in Louisiana. Kentucky,
and Indiana, of the results which have been
uneQuivocally demonstrative of the prefer
ence of those States for the present Admin
istration, upon its merits, are but the fore
runners OF yet more brilliant bloodless tri-
umphs. We now hope that we shall have
the vote of Pennsylvania in favor of an Adj
ministration characterized by fixed princi-
pies of policy; by scrupulous regard for
the just rights of the States and of indiyid-
uals; by a love of peace; by liberal toler-
alton; and by steady devotion to the best
interests Of the country-in opposition to a
party whose opinions, on the great questions
of American policy, is uncertain and I'M
known; whose establishment of the claims
they set up as p" rights of the States" would
annihilate the General Government; who
would involve JUS in foreign wars, whilst
persecution and prescription would be the
order of the day at home and who having
come into power by the success of cabalis-
tic charms, would think of nothing else but
how to perpetuate the power thus arrived
at. Yes, we hope for the vote of Pennsyl-
vania, which will leave the General with
fewer electoral votes than he received at
the last election. We say that we hope for
it-nay, we might say, we calculate upon it.
We know, from information to be relied
upon, that the people of that State, deceiv-
ed for time by the arts of demagogues
and intriguers, are rapidly awakening to
the Importance of the questions involved in
the present contest, and arraying themselves
on the side of the Administration and the
principles of epublicanism, and of true
American policy, of which they have been,
heretofore, the firm and most efficient sup
porters. And it Is now the opinion of the
best informed men, that we shall obtain the
whole vote of that State.
But, aVithOut Pennsylvania, unless there
be treason III the camp, we shall undoubt-
edly gain the day. Albeit little given to
counting noses, we will, for once, shew to
our readers upon what computation we
| found this certainty of conviction. Until
the election was over in Louisiana, where
Whatever face they put upon it) the Oppo-
sition has sustained a most disastrous and
irretrievable defeat, we did not venture to
cast up an estimate of the relative strength
of the two parties at the approaching cleo
ton of Electors. We had general conf
dence in ultimate success, but we had not
I ascertained in our own minds where the
forces were to come from. The result of
the election in Kentucky has ended in our
mind whatever doubt we entertained on
the subject. We reckon up with certainty
votes enough to elect Mr. Adams and Mr..
Rush, leaving out the whole vote of Penn
sylvania, as well as some other votes which
we expect to get, and giving up North
Carolina and Virginia, in which States the
result is at least doubtful. We do not give
up either of them to our opponents, in al
lowing them to avoid disputation, to be
placed for the present to their credit. We
embrace in the following estimate nothing
but what we consider certain:
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