Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-07-23
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We take the following from the Philadelphia
North American:
THE POSITION OF PENNSYLVANIA.
! The position Of Pennsylvania in the present
crisis is not merely unfortunate; il is piliablY
/ humbling and degraded. Her enemies
where can she now look for friends mock
I at her calamity. The friends Of the tariff in
/ other States point TO the destruction about TO be
leonsummated, and say Behold your handi-
work You affected TO favor the tarif--a
policy
Where either you npusi live or bear no Efe -
You, whose hills and valleys rung with the
songs Of protected labor, and whose vast hopes
OF ahigence and prosperity knew no existence
bat 10 the taflH-your hand il is that has strick-
en- il down. You have ruined yourself and
the country to win sugared word from par
ty that spurns you. Now take the desolation
that you have wOoed: see your mines deser-
ted your forge-hres extnguished, your shut
lies stilled, your labor outhope, your cap
ital without profit. Pay your State debt, il
YOU can, IN drafts upon the party, or sink in
10 bankruptcy, dshonor, and misery. and be
the scott Of the world as the State that sold a
glorious birthright for wre;ched mess of DO.
tieal pottage." Nor does PENNSYLVANIA, tur
ming in her extremity TO the party for which
she had sacrificed all, and en,reating that she
may be spared the ruin with which she is me
naced. find an accent of encouragement or
consolation. The free trade men tell her,
THE repeal Of the tariff is in the bond bY
which YOU sold yourselves to us. il is TOO late
to murnur. You voted for free trade, and
against your mines, your manufactures, and
your farms, in voting for Polk. The Presi-
dent may truly say
She had eyes, and chose me-
What avails it TO say that your leaders prom
ised you the tariff? Ifyou will select leaders
who will betray you'll, with your eyes open,
you are dull enough TO be betrayed2-you
should shame to bring the self-accusing plea
TO US. We Judge. your wishes by your acts
You voted for Your own ruin--yeur name is in
the compact---it IS now too late for pulling and
repentance. lfyou are an IDIOT it is not our
fault; if you have preferred ruin, take It with
out grumbling. You had the facts before you,
and can complain of none but yourself"
We had. Yet, shame upon the statesmen
who perverted those facts, who pledged their
own honor to a reasonable falsehood and stole
the votes Of a trusting people by ielon fraud
Shame upon the people who, believing
crime SO base and black impossible in such
men, trusted them! For derision, disgrace,
and defeat must follow equally the betrayer
and the betrayed. But, though Pennsylvania
may blush for her cTedulty and weep over
her downfall, she is not yet so fallen that the
wrong doors may hope 10 escape her just re-
sentiment. The truth will vindicate itself, and
violated faith and disregarded honor will drag
those by whose crimes Pennsylvania sees
"IIer life's life lied away
before an outraged people. She may be dull
enough 10 be gulled, but is not craven enough
patiently to bear it.
We were warned by thousand voices
But they fell on ears as deaf as adders. The
following extract from speech delivered by
DANIEL WEBSTER will be read with bushes,
but should be read notwithstanding. lis words
fall, Ike the red hot sand thrown from Tyre
upon its besiegers, burning their way to the
bone. What incapable sin has poor Penn
sylyania committed that her punishment should
be so crushing