The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-04-18
j OMENS! OMENS! OMENS.

b OMENS! OMENS! ONdENS!
Seeing the desperate condition of their party,
and observing the numerous OBJECTIONS Of the
people from it's ranks-having no argument to
urge in favor of their measures satisfactory to
the great mass, and unable to win them back by
any inducements they could hold out, as last
and desperate resort, that unmatchable couple,
"the Globe man" and Heaven born Amos" set
about alarming the fears and appealing to the SUI
perstition of the ignorant-the last resort of de-
signing knaves and misbegoten unbelievers-by
arraying series of "Omens" before their eyes, as
evidences of Gods displeasure towards the Wing
party, and as proofs that they had become the OBJ
jects of his wrath, and were devoted to destruc-
ton.
This attempt to call into use the superstitious
notions which the par mobile tratrum must have
supposed governed the minds of large portion
of the American people, was as insulting to the
intelligence, as it was base and hypocritical. 1t
isa maxim that Ignorance and Superstition are
twin sisters, and inseparable from each other.
This the Globe man and Amos know as well as
any one. What, then, must have been their es-
innate of the intelligence of the American peo-
pie, when they attempted to influence them by
means which can only operate upon the grossly
ignorant! Certainly, they virtually said. " You
are an ignorant set of boobies; we have hereto
fore con,rived to bamboozle you ard lead you by
the nose, TO make you believe that we were your
friends, that the Wings were all Federalists, and
that Federalists are traitors, and enemies of the
people and the country and, finally, that : the
moon is made of green cheese and 1t will be
strange, after this, if we cannot make you believe
that the Wings are doomed party, forsaken both
by God and man. Such we have not the least
doubt, was the reasoning of the two truth loving
honest men, who have Of late been parading O.
mems" before the public in the Globe, and in those
Tracts which have become SO notorious. But
there was one thing they seem to have forgotten,
namely :. that when men have broken the spell
which bound them, have cast off their bonds and
breathe freely the fresh air Of liberty, they begin
to think for themselves, and the anathemas and
maledictions, the
-8 "Gorgons, hydras, and chimeras Dire"
of those who would frighten them, as mothers
sometimes do children, with raw head and bloody
bones stories, have lost their terrors, and instead
of terrifying them into submission, only excite
the most iDefable scorn and contempt. Such
feeling has the parading of these "Omens," and
"the dispensations of Providence" created in the
bosoms of the American people; contempt
more intense, though of different kind, from
that which it is apparent the two Siamese twins,
those paragons of honesty and virtue have for
the understandings of the American people.
Thanks to the good sense of the country, they
have had their effect, though not that which was
intended and expected: and we only wish their
authors may always effect as much good where
they design evil, as they have in this instance,
and also in that of writing and publishing Tracts
upon Duels. We are satisfied, and SO are the
people, that cause which requires such means
to sustain it or which is indebted to such men for
Its support is desperate one indeed, and un-
worthy the support of good men,
But how happens it that no " Omens' are per-
ceived in the results OF the various elections that
have taken place within the last two or three
months? In the election of an entire Wing dele |
cation to Congress from Maryland, In the cleo
ton Of Wing from the Giraffe district Of Maine
(Morse's? y In the election Of Wing bv tho
2lst district OF Pennsylvania In the election
of Whig also, in the 18th district of Pennsyl.