Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-21
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
POLITICAL CAJOLERY.

ayow that we have for some time neglected tina. i'm
portan source of public enlightenment. As for
those-probably much less innumerabe-who do
peruse the official lucubratons in the Union, they
WILL very possibly, but TOO well comprehend the
many and dreadful reasons which have caused our
feet gradually 10 wear less and less that pleasant
and peaceful path to the temple OF political wisdom,
of which the Union is the toll-gate. This latter
sort will less wonder at us than they will envy: but,
as the bewilderment of the others will doubtless be
immense we must not 1. let them burst with ignor-
ance"-ihe double ignorance--which they at once
suffer as themselves not students Of the Union, and
as martyrs to their surprise at learning that we but
seldom do. .......
The fact is, then, that we owe it to the unfortu-
nate, we owe it to humanity, to clear up fact so
mysterious to all but few; perhaps we owe it to
our character even. Nevertheless, there are rea-
sons of State which forbid us entirely to solve the
mystery and compel us only to breathe the expla-
nation in dark hint, soft and low" At present,
we are not in mood melancholy enough for eluci-
dating subject SO dismal as the Union or so dire
as the inducements which any body may have for
not uersare-ing il diarna manu- and Uersarc-lng it
nociurna: not ourselves afflicted, we do not wish
TO aflict Others with the effect defective of this
cause But there are pleasures too keen too in
toxicatng, which discreet people should not in
dulge-conentin themselves with minor gratiica-
tioas Heaven itself, in making knowledge one Of
the most precious of human things, has ordained
that its price should be much toll and it would be
flying in the face of that decree if we were, by read
ing the Union, to supersede for ourselves all neces
sity of further pains for getting information. Then
The best OF us are great sinners, little worthy of the
blessings vouchsafed so that it is good voluntarily
TO renounce some of them. Why should we not,
by way of an all-suticing penance, give up read
ing the Onion? Saint Chrysostom did that very
same, when he found himself too wickedly fond of
Cicero In truth, while did dissipate in the pro-
fame eoquence and high thought of our contempo-
rary, we perceived ourselves contracting a disgust
for all other literature. He who reads the Union
becomes unfit TO read any thing else grows to be
his Koran and he should, like the caph Omar,
order all other books to be burnt: if they have in
them what is contrary to it, they deserve to be
burnt as heretical and burnt as useless, if they
agree with it.
Our readers will now understand why it is that
articles from the Court Journal pass us unperceiv-
ed, until we meet them in the columns Of some
other newspaper. For instance, here below is
piece from the Union, which has first met our eve
in the columns of that excellent paper mo wonder
its editor is not self-ostraczed from the highest
source of Instruction. the Nerark .Hduertiser of
the 9th:
.sNEw JERSEY has usually been classed belonging TO
e
US our chances cf fully eqna those op
ponen New Jersey The spirit Of the Democracy fair
~ up among its industrious and enterpsng people The De-
ocrae press awake there the discussion Of the true ques
ton issue and every thing indicates good in No
vember large number Of the Society Of Fnepds scatter
ed over that little commonwealth will either go the
pos or, they do, will against Taylor. They belong
almost exclusively to the Wing side Of politics. -Uaion o
Sunday.
Our readers will, we trust, not have forgotten
how, few days since, we commemorated, in an
Esopian extract, tho adroit and forcible arguments
by which the New York Ersning Post is striving
TO win the peace-loving followers of William Penn
in New Jersey 10 the support of the Barnburner
branch Of the party who plunged into the iniqui
ty of the Mexican war-a thing to which they
(those Barnburners) then professed 10 be just as
utterly opposed now. Their uddenconsciencious-
hcSs II Hhc hidN VI d dmOHS
who, after helping rob deenceless traveller, all
al once pretend to be displeased with the sin Of
dividing the booty. Ingenious, however, as is that
piece of sincerity, is it not still more direrting
effort of impudence, when, 10 match this tardy
scrupulousness, comes forward the adverse faction
Of the crew, with their captain, and gravely insists
that il is hey-the avowed advocates Of wholesale
destruction and rapine, Of killing by the continent
and rohbing by the repubc-who have the genu-
inc claim to the confidence Of the mildest and most
equity loving Of Christian sects
Perhaps there are folks who remember certain
scene in "Master Humphreys Clock" where the
innocent Nell, having fallen with her grandfather
into the company of certain strolling showmen, be-
comes the object of The contending Establishments
Of two chief members Of the gang-the worthy
Sho,t, whose prefix was probably Martin and the
amiabIe Codlin who had perhaps been christened
Lewis. Short, i, will be recoIlected, makes sundry
very skilful advances; and Goblin next assails her
IN this wise
"Ate bidding the old good night, Nell retired 10 her
poor garrett but had scarcely closed the door when was
gently tapped al. She oIencd directly and was a little
startled by the sight Of Mr. Thomas Codn whom she had
Ieh, to all appearance, fast asleep down stairs
"' What's the mser y said the child
Nohings the matter, my DEAR, returned her visi,er
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