Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-13

such as has existed for the last two years hope to
maintain their ascendancy in the State Govern
ment And there are other questions connected
with the contest, one of which is the Liquor
Law" and another the propriety of calling Con-
vention to amend the State Constitution
We learn from Boston that the vote of that city
is as follows For Clifford 7,400, Bishop 2,400,
Mann 1000. This vote is 5000 better for the
Wing ticket than the one cast last week for President
In one of his Incompatible letters to Sir Horace
Mann, HORACE ..WALpoLE says: ~ had my pen
in hand all last Thursday morning, but my pen had
nothing to say" We greatly fear that majority
of the Editors of Wing journals are just now in
the same category with the noble author. We
await the final summing up Of the returns of the
late Presidential election; not that we, or any of
us, anticipate any thing favorable, but because we
desire to put readers in possession of the result
which has terminated disastrously for our cause
and then, closing that account turn our attention to
something else
There are subjects of grave national concern to be
treated of, some of them depending upon the de-
cision of the accredited agents of the influential
party just called to WELD the Government of this
country for four years But there are others, hap
PLY independent of party influences, to which the
attention Of all of us must be called and on which
we may submit to our readers before long our own
views
We might instance the reckless spirit of progress
50 called which is only another name for retrograd
ing from the precepts which have governed wise and
virtuous men in every age of the world not only in
therpublic character but in all their private rea-
tons. One chief principle of this wild law is to
disregard the injunction, Keep thy hands from
picking and stealing" which might well have been
penned with express reference to the late and pre-
sent attempts to forfeit many of our claims to xa-
tional respectability and decency by the repeated
efforts of discontinued royers to infringe upon the
peace and integrity of quiet nation, with which,
though it is entirely uncongenial in policy and
laws, we still at peace. But we do not propose
to discuss this matter now, nor indeed any matter,
with the particularly which it deserves.
We might also instance another progress, init
mately connected with the last mentioned-so init
mately, in fact, that it may be called its parent
and that is the progress Of ro,odyism. We use the
word not because it is either classical or elegant,
but because it is expressive and most 6tly embodes
an idea not known until lately any great extent
in primitive Society, and in truth only revived
from a remote period of Roman history 1t then
fourished in full exuberance, but died away under
stringent measures, and reappeared in its most no
table and congenia form in the days of the Jacguee
of France and the Jack Cades of England. Again
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among our own people, but weakly and seldom in
the days of good fathers who trod it under foot
because (smple souls y they had some regard for
the lessons of their childhood and the example of
their fathers, both of which alike taught regard
for morals, for sobriety, for respect to the we'll
established usages and opinions Of the esteemed of
past ages. The very effluvia and essence of this
foul plant may be gathered in hour by those who
have leisure to read single play of Shakespeare, in
which Jack Cade, very type Of lawlessness, igno-
rance, and rolcdyism, is depicted with revolving
vividness.
But, as it is becoming the fashion to sneer at
any thing ancient, if only one generation old, the
time has seemed favorable for the growth of this
plant, which has put forth its buds in our time,
DlOSSOmeu, anu promises 10 Dear aDundant frult
The instincts Of misrue, of disorganizaton, and Of
utter heedlessness of all laws, whether human OF
divine arc rife, and to take any form suited to
the madness Of the hour And, to crown the whole
dread picture, we are now not satisfied that vul-
garity, ignorance depravity, should take command
ing part IN scenes Of violated national faith and on
occasions where the laws Of the land and of common
honesty are openly scofed at but we have resolved
it seems to enlist under the black banner our very
youth, even children. And that brings us to ano-
ther thing that is to be seriously considered There
is nothing more joyous and interesting than boy,
properly so called But we shall have to speak Of
different Of boys, precocious, misgoverned
under no regular authority and such boys must
We say It for the very good and even salvation o
society-such Wild lawless youths must be put dovr
completely, rcsolutely, or bearded men will not en-
JOY any security Of life, property, or amusement.
These arc some Of the subjects which arc worth
Of the notice and reflection Of the Press Of our cour
try Of the Press Of both parties, for they are en-
ncntly national; and, in urging them upon tn
consideration Of influential men every where, th