The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-21
From ne New York Globe, Aug 10.
WING IMPUDENCE.

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| From ne New York Globe, Aug. TO-
| WING IMPUDENCE.
| The impudenes Of the wings in their presumption
on the ignorance Of The people, shows itself always
on great oecasons and sometimes on little ones.
The Courier Of yesterday contains a long article on
the ignorance and stupidity Of the people Of Penn
sylyana, IN which the credulty Of It's readers is
| extensively drawn upon that IL would seem they
(the readers OF eourse) the greatest asses in
Chrisiendom. The editor Of the Courier, in this
instance cuts with a two-odged sword; for while he
| is telling such wonderful and most unparalleled
tale sboUt the folly Of the Pennsy vanians, he must
imagine that all who peruse Il are unmugated asses,
| or they would no believe il; and yet he tells il with
| the hope and expectation that il will be believed.
Was ever impotence more broadly and conspicu-
ously displayed He says that the people Of the
| Keystone State cheated and defrauded by the
election Of Polk and Dallas ''simply because the
great mass Of those on whom the fraud prac-
| tsed excessively ignOrani!n So it seems that
more than one-haf the Pennsy vanians are so sex
cessyey ignorant" that they were cheated and VIC
tmized by those who electioneered amongst them
| for Polk and Dallas, and told lies about Mr. Clay
and the wing party Ii this be the case, then they
are the most ignorant creatures in the Union, for
| we have wings in this city who were so stu
pidly ignorant that they hardly knew their knees
| from their elbows, but who nevertheless could not
/ be convinced Of the wrong they were guilty Of in
/ Young lOT Nmy ny means OF
embodied and put forth in the shape of irrefutabe
| arguments, but would vote with the wings "for a
that, )" as Burns says.
II, then, the wings of Pennsyvania-for, OF
course, wings only cheated, it being the height
OF folly to suppose that democrats would cheat dem
ocrats to secure the election Of Mr.. Pok-if then,
| we say, the wings Of Pennsylvania were cheated
and deluded into the act Of voting against Mr.. Clay,
| they more stupid than those above described.
However, we think there is great mistake in the
calculations of the editor Of the Courier, and that
| the people Of that State not so ignorant as he
represents them to be-. Moreover, a majority of
them are democrats, and all the cheating that was
done perpetrated by the wings themselves, for
they can lie, cheat, bride, swinde, and bamboozle,
with better grace and with more effect, than any
party that ever existed in this country. They had
their orators and coporteurs scattered all over the
State, some paid in advance, and some looking to
the future for their reward who told lies unequalled
in the life Of Munchausen, or the travels Of Roor-
back, and endeavored by the most INSCRIPTIONS
snd outrageous cOntrivances TO seduce the "ignor-
ant" masses from the path of political honor and
rectitude We will not narrate the various tricks
to which they resored, for we have neither time
to do so but that they did their very best
and worst to carry both New York and Pennsylva-
MIA by presuming upon the ignorance of the people,
is well known and the fact need not be repeated.
How singular it is, then, that the Courier should
say they failed in the enterprise account Of that
umph. Oh, folly of follies!
The Courier goes on to tell in what way the Gig
norant" Pennsylvanians were cheated, and states
some things which were never published before
from which infer that the editor has much poetic
and romantic talent, and that mo other paper has
the news of those frauds and forgeries. 1t says
that the "fraud" having succeeded so well in 1884,
there is little doubt that it will be repeated, and adds
owe should run little risk in predicting that, at
he very IF the ran vas the neople IF
Pennsylvania will be told that the ,ohtgs hape Destroy
ed the tariff Of 1872 and that they alone respon
sible for it,"
So, then, it seems that there is no doubt the poor
deuded, Ignorant creatures will be cheated again
in l64S, on the opening of the great canvass bag
and that there is nothing this side of future state
that can prevent it, except simple remedy which
the Courier proposes with the most profound gravi-
ty in the following terms: r.s.
seThere is but remedy for this state of things
and the people of Pennsylvania should see in recent
events a demonstration of the overwhelming neces-
sity ofapplying il. is TO beJound in the EDUCATION
OF THE PEOPLE"
What pity it is for the wing party that this was
not thought Of before, if it would really serve the
purpose of that most queer and ridiculous mass Of
contradictions. Let the wings 60 to work, them
and educate the Pennsyvanians, and If the project
works well for them, let the democrats walk into
kentucky, which Is about the strongest wing state
in the Union, and the most backward in point Of
education and sec what they do for our par
ty there; and in North Carolina, too, the Rip Van
Wrinkle of the confederation, where wing governor
has lately been chosen by about 900 majority!
Ignorance, indeed! 1t would be far more becoming
in the editor of the Courier pull out the beam that
is in his own eye, before he attempts to remove the
mote from that of his neighbor There is an old
proverb, which says that "charity begins at home;"
and if the editor of the Courier wishes to display his
he had better commence with the two States last
mentioned, "for he who provideth not for his own
has denied the faith, and is worse than an nfde"
High times, when the people of Pennsylvania are
set down as fools and ignoram in the columns of
the same paper that auds the inhabitants Of the most
benghted States in the Union for their triumph over
the democrats by increased majorties at elections
held within fortnight! Pennsyvanians have cause
to be grateful to the wings for the compliments which
have been showered on them through the medium
of the Courier, and we see no reason why they
should not take occasion to express their gratitude
at the polls the first electon-day that comes about
II they too Ignorant to appreciate the beauties
and blessings Of whigery, we have no doubt they are
capable of demonstrating that they know how to rel
ish a compliment, and we hope the wings will soon
be convinced of that solemn fact.
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