Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-28
DEMOCRATIC REJoICINGs.
"Glory enough !" blaze Of victOry!"

"Glory enough !" "blaze Of victory"
The too-partal learned, addicted to believing
whatever they found written in Greek, have always
thought that the double victories of Plataa and
Mycale, by sea and on land, on the same day, were
very pretty triumphs over the Persians but had
they read the " Great Kings" own version of those
battles, or in Xerxes's own Court Journal the
Union of that day. perusod the thick-coming bull
letins of each glorious success it is probable
| they would have thought very differently Of mat
ters--unless, perchance, they had considered the
plain of the Esopus and the shore of the Egean
heaped with the gaudy foe and the barbarian chased
| from land and wafer. Had that efsemnate invader
of republics, that weak despot of DID, possessed an
organ like President Poks, (as he ought. undoubt-
edly, to have done0 who could figure it to himself
speaking OF The destruction oits masters armies
and fleets in any other manner than the Union is
doing Of the late rout in Ohio and slaughter in
Pennsylvania Who can imagine that it would
not have sung peans and chanted Te Deums over
them, as Persian victories the most prodigious,
whole grove Of laurels
| All this, then, is quite according to the ancient
usage Of palaces and parasites: a usage which we
find again faithfully followed at the Court of Gen.
CAss's friends, the Bourbons; for, in reading the
memoirs Of Marlborough and Eugene, we perceive
that Louis went in pompous procession to Notre
Dame to offer up solemn thanks for Families, and
had all Paris Illuminated for Blenheim. Just upon
par with this is the U,uon's celebration of Ohio
and Pennsylvania, except that, in its thankfalness
Locofocoism is accustomed piously to drop the
name Of God.
These Government gratulations have, however,
three merits in The first place, they seem to be
| scme consolation 10 the so-called Democracy !"
| secondly, they have still more cheerful effect on
the Wings; and. hirdly, they serve excellendy 10
define to us the meaning Of variety Of passages
in the Latin authors, where occur the words "vic-
tory" and " triumph" a uictory, it is plain, was,
among the Romans, las j: is among their classic mo-
dern counterparts, the Locoocos,) when they were
some Of them left alive, as at Thrasymene or in
Ohio; and triumph is where, as at Canne or in
Pennsylvania, whole armies have perished, to a
man. We will moi refer 10 the case OF King Pyrr-
! hus when he said another such victory and |
which our erudie neighbor has entitled himself,
from time immenorial, by its annual display, a:
every recurring election.
But listen how, upon these glad occasions, the
Union sounds all he clarions of success. In that
paper of the l7i instant, we met the following
proud annunciaon:
GAS preparing for pros, friends, the Demo-
crscy OF Washington, firing ECO gurs, and holding
large and animated meeting in honor of Pennsylvania and
| Ohio"
Now, what these mighty, these twin-victories
were, we collcc! rom another column Of the same
! paper and date
victory in Ohio, in far reducing the Wing make
the result uncertain In Peuns!van carry the ca
nal commissioner AL may reduce the Whg Governor
! to less than 500-perhaps carry our own Governor"
The known amount, then, of these astounding
triumphs was thai they had lost ersry thing ercept
| perhaps, a canal commissioner! In Ohio, the
Governor, majority in the State Legislature, and
consequently the choice Of United States Senator
are all gone against them: whereupon 100 guns
for 0hio!" Why, If they FIRE 100 guns for losing
every thing, what would they have done if they
had, like the Wings, Won every thing Surely,
his terraqucous ball itself, if pounded into gunpow-
der by the pcstle and mortar of Manifest Destiny,
would make but a mere squib in comparison with
| lhe salutes which Locofocosm would then have to
let off! Ye gods what detonation! The "crack
Of DOOM would be nothing to it, and prove "to
have been cracked up beyond its merits. In
Pennsylvania, it is still more dismal sort Of sue
ceeding: there they had last year popular ma
jority of above lS,0O0-it is more than swept
away: they had the Governor and patronage,
which are now departed from them: they had near
two-thrds Of the Legisla,ure--and now there is
majority against them; they expected 10 re-elect
their United States Sena,or--and it is noe who
will elect him But hurrah hip bravo
vivat! 10 pgan Hail Columbia! and Erin 90
Brah We've got canal commissioner and
all the thrice three hundred triumphs' of Gen.
Jackson's uncles, the Old Romans, were nothing
To- thatp
DENocRLTIc'' REPUBLIcASIss.-We find the
following statement in the Washington correspon-