Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-11-11
THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY AND THE oFFICRL
ORGAN. ...s


The Union of Sunday morning in its parting
exhortaions to the Democracy of Pennsylvania,
and of such other States as are within reach of IS
last words, encourages while ii exhors, by proms-
ing TO its party glorious victory tomorrow. 1t
reviews the Democratic prospects in various Stats
to give assurance Of trumph-including in is
array the States Of North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, Georgia, and New Jersey. Our neig-
Dor OF the Union is famous for playing the prophe,
but is not quite SO famous Tor the success of hs
predictions indeed, so signal have been the failures
into which his imagined faculty of the second sight
has led him, that We wonder they have not some
what corrected his inveterate habit of reading tn,
signs of the times" But he disd4ins TO profit BY
experience, and seems to proceed on the hypoihesi.
that the failure of one prediction must ensure the
success of the next. The sanguine manner in
which his paper of yesterday regards the approach
ing election, naturally brings TO mind his wonderful
essay in the prophetic line in 1910. On the eve of
the election of that year, we think he claimed | 5
electoral votes for Mr.. Van Buren,, gave 60 to Gene
raj Harrison, and for argument sake put down the
remaining ] 10 as doubtful. The result turned out
that General Harrison got not only the Is. but the
doubtful ll9, making 234-leavlng to Mr.. Van
Buren, himself only 60.
1t was not, however, so much to occupy our
space with any comments on the harmless habit o
our neighbor harmless TO all but himselr Of play
ing the prophet twas for much graveg purpose
that we thought fit to make it the subject of any
mark to-day.
In its number of yesterday morning, in the course
of its speculaons the result of the elections in
different States, we find the following
"PEsssYLyAsIA, FOR THE LAST TIaE.-Befo-e another
issu, of the Union will reach much of this State TIE great
battle will be in the good old Key " ard
put by the side Of old Federal Massachusettsi Can such
association be anticipated possible No; viii
not thus dShon0r the and character of that
powerful Commonwealth. The shcde Of Jefferson u!bds it,
The image of Andrew Jackson, with hands uped, proclaims
10 US, stay the unnstural pollution" .
When the excitement OF the moment shall have
subsided, men will be incredulous that such SEN
tilaen as the above should have found its way into
an American newspaper. Yet i. is copied literally,
with no variation, except that we have italicised
some words, from the Government paper of Sum-
day, which, by the by. seems to be favo-ie day
with that journal for uttering sentiments of more
than ordinary virulence. That any State i'll the
Union would receive " pIsHoNoR' from an asso-
citation" with Massachusetts Massachusetts, the
first battle ground If the Revolution Massachu-
sets, the blood of whose sons was poured out like
water in defence of our infant iberles and whose
bones whlten many wel-fought fields, from Lex
ington 10 orktoxn; Massachusetts,, the mother Of
so many young republics in the vigorous West
Massachusetts, whose system o. education may
furnish example TO the world; whose benevo-
lent institutions and the muni6cence Of whose sons
are the admiration Of her sister ola'es' "t>
-. --.snt and speaking example OF
equal rights and individual enterprise whose hardy
sons have carried the story of the American name
10 every cline, and made il honored every where.
Is 1t by the side Of such a State which Penn
sylvania is told it would be "Gishonor," nav,
"poAmicn," to stand The /" Keystone State
stood BY the side of the Bay State in achiey.
ing our liberties. They will now stand side by side,
as we hope and believe, in throwing around those
liberties the safeguard of virtuous Republican Ad
minisraton. Pennsylvania will feel that the only
dishonor" in the case is the supposItion that she
is capable Of listening to this insulting this unwor-
thy arpeal-a libel on Massachusetts, so timed as
which it was uttered shall have passed away.
When tie Editor Of the Union penned this libel,
could he have remembered the glorious tribute paid
to Massachusetts, hy the most gifted of her sons
Let him read ii and hang his head in shame .
"I sh4l enter upon encorums upon Massachusetts
she needs There shp is behold her, and Judge for
yourselves. There is her history the world knows hy
heart, The past, at least is There is Boston, and
Concord and Lexington, and Bunker Hi and there they
will remain forever The bones Of her sons, fallen in the
gre, struggle for Independence lie mingled Wih the
soil Of every State, from New England Georgia and
there they will lie forever. And sir, where American lib
ery raised its infant voice. and where its youth was nur
ured and sustcned, there still lives in e strength of it,
manhood, aud full Of its original spirit
A Letter from the Hon. DAVID WLMoT, to the
Editor of the Free-soil paper at Philadelphia in
dgnantly denies the report Of his having gone over
10 the support OF Cass and Butler. The letter is