Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-01-06

There is an old and rather vulgar saying
about amongst mankind. which at length we
have lived long enough {, see PROFESSIONALLY
established as true. 1t is. that loo mHch
pudding atill choke dog. Somewhat to
our satisfaction VIC must confess, we have at
length seen our people turn tail little upon
Kossuth. For the Hungarian Martyr we
have no inconsiderable respect although We
don't believe him TO be any thing more than
mere man. There is something fine after all
about the Magyar--and about his whole
race they bear indeed very strong re-
semblance and in more ways. too, than one,
to our own Virginia people they like to
rule over their own people in their own hui
name way, without any Austrian intermedliug
Just as we do, and iriR do, without any inso-
lent. insane intcrmedlng Of the somewhat
pushing Yankee Doodles dwelling upon cur
northern border
But kossuth unfortunately for our predis-
posed good will, has rather too much over
stepped the modesty Of nature, in his de-
meanor towards Us; and We of the south at
least, feel ourselves called upon to elevate
him peg or two lower in the scale Of things
that is, to call him down to his proper eleya-
tion. Now, this melo dramatic New York
extravaganza, is in fact, no very important
matter after all said and done. 1t wouldn't
indeed, be worth any really serious consider
alton, were it not that out oft has grown the
occasion for large majority Of the Senate to
effect very lamentable lowering of our esti-
mate Of ihat body--which we have heretofore
cherished in great respect, as our safeguard
against all popular madness and folly.
That the Senate of the United States
should be so lost to all sense of its own prop
er respect, as to ponder so weakly as It has
lately done, to the supposed popularity of the
kossuth dedication in New York, is certainly
degradation Of some import That the
Senate, as it is now in the main composed,
should be disposed to play the demagouge is
not at all wonderful but that it should do
so, with such utter folly, is unmistakeable
evidence Of its deterioration.
Mover was there anything ofdcmagogueism,
SO poorly or so meckly done. in all our histo-
ry. Why, what man is there outside of our
Lunatic Asyiums, who has ever been yard
/ from his OWE door, been out in our Ameri-
can world at all whether he has or not, who
doesn't know that this New York populace,
would h.,zza and shout, and eat and drink at
corporation expenre, and make triumphal
professions blow out the lights ard fight and
rage in Tammany hall, hiss patriots, or tear
down flags, or 90 any imaginable folly what
ever upon the adveat Of anything strange or
out Of the way, in their midst? These things
are the ordinary manifestations Of the mon
ster. And yet, certain very wise, deep
sighted Senator'S whose efforts for their ccun-
try's good, consist chiefly in throwing ont a
tub every now and then, to propitiate the
popular Whale and keep him on pleasant
terms with themselves --yet these Senators
endowed with the power OF second sight as
they suppose) have seen in all this eyanescent
hurly burly. nothing but the certain and as
sured voice of the great popular body Of the
country something irresistible in the pub.
lie mind Of the United States, which, it would
break down any poor presidential or other
aspirant, to oppose.
1t don't mean anything, gentlcmen.-Its all
sound and fury signifying nothing--as we
express ourselves here in the country, and
don't signify. This New York populace
would defy anything that it suited their
within to fall down PROSTATE before. 1t
would defy Seward; it would defy Greedy
it would defy Wendall Phillips; it would
defy Abby Fulsom; and why not? Man is
the same animal now that he was when the
deluge swept him for his sins from tho face
of the earth. He is the same creature prone
to folly, as when Solomon studied him out
and wrote him down au ass. Why not then +?
doesn't the Egyptian worship the rat Ichneu-
mon And don't the Celestials worship the
bird IBIS? Why then shouldn't this New
York populace be allowed to follow its in
stict of idolism 1t has and 1T will, and no
Don Quixotte of liberty--lct him come from
where he may, can ride in among them, fresh
from the encounter Of any windmill of any
sort, without being dismounted from his Ro-
sinante and compelled to get upon their
backs for the monster will be ridden upon
by something or other that's the way he
worships; if it cant meet with an Ajax to up
lift. it will have its Thersites always per-
fering the Thcrstcs.
1t is not many years since, that this self
same monster. amongst its other extravagan
ces, dei6ed Matthias, as Christ himsef--not
his precursor. Has the Senate forgotten
this z 1t is true, many Of its members are
too young aud uniformed IN any real knowl-
edge of our country. to know this But then
there are the older ones--tbere's Lewis Cass
now three score and ten, who certainly knows
how Matthias was proclaimed God, and
worshipped by some sixty or eighty thous-
and followers. How he. old Palinurus as he
deems himself, who has been now. for SO ma-
ny summers. so many winters, sailing about
upon the political sea. trying all the while to
steer safe between its Scyllas and Charb-
discs, shifting sail, now taking it in before
the approaching storm, and now spreading it
out to catch the expected breeze, how he
having attained to old experience (Which is
said to make a man sage, but which in his
case is not so certain) how he could be so
miserably taken in. is scarcely credible!
Upon reflection. however, this may be phil
osophically accounted for--by philosophical
y, we mean--a just comprehension of the
Cass physiology. This distinguished citizen,
some years ago was resident Minister at
the Court of Saint Denny, and whilst there.