The daily union., 1854-11-21
From the Belfast Mel Rspuslicaa Journal.

MASSACHUSETTS ELECrION--"IT is YOUR BULL
THAT HAS GORED MY OK" "AHl THAT ALTERS
THE CASE"
Massachusetts has gone from the wings just as Daniel
Webster going to protect the rights OF the barnsabe
county fshermeu-" hook and line bob and sinker" Some
time about the middle of September found all the Masss
chuses whg papers growing Justify over the result OF the
election Maine II the whig party in this State
was demolished but what OF hatf Were not tho democrats
defeated Was not the administration repudiatcd? II
was in vain cite that little passage Of Scripture
tonng him who thinks he sandeth 10 take heed lest be
fall There end to the rejoicing by the whig press
of Massachusetts over the defeat of Gov. Paris
But now the tables turned. la old federal Aassa
chuset the whig party has been defeated gnominouy
The boot is the other leg The tables are turned 1t
reminds of nothing much as the old scboo-book
story of the farmer who the lawyer about the
that was goed death by the bull. SO long as the law
yer believed his OK had been gored he waxed In the
advocacy of redress and payment but when he learned
that his bull had gored the farmers Ahi that
alters the casep II that the wings have raised this
knownothng infant until it has become not only danger
GUS but certain destruction In short the backbone Of
the whig party broken. Its Sebastopol has fallen
I" The eagle towering in his pride of place,
Is hawked at by mousing owl-and killed.
These Sams' pick up the poor skull Of Massachusetts
whiggery, smell it with "pahT and cry "AlaA poor
Yorick p
We are not all surprised chagrined at this result
The democracy had nothing in Massachusetts beoreony
one member of Congress- and he not demoeraAc ano~gA
ITO hurt We have less now, and the wings have
nothing We are not surprised that intoerant party
should carry State like Massachusetts,, where 20 much
Cotton Mathersm is left to this day 1t is only two bum
drcd years since they hung Quakers and Anabapsts In
Massachusetts, and put the test to witches by cApping
them into sack and throwing them into the river where
il guilty they would oat and must be killed, inno
cent they would sinkrest their souls 1t not strange
that this intolerance should rpen into that restrictive and
ant-repubcan system called whig that now It should
cuminatc in ascendant party based upon the idea Of
| religious prescription.
On the whole the faithful democrats Of Massachusetts
have to congratulate themselves the result That pow
erul party which has long ruled that State b dead
by visitation of Providence they say in coroners
ports
The singular thing about the result is that upon side
questions the know-nothng party have taken positions
exactly opposite to that occupied by now-nothngism in
Maine Here they the "Maine-law and freedom colt
In Massachusetts, their candidate until recently Web
whg and clearly not pattern temperance man. besides
being How this party acting upon contradictions
and by purposes different States is ever to resolve
itself into national party do not know That not
an immediate question But there is one lesson to be
drawn from this election by those presses that still
call themselves whig-and that is that it will not
do to put down such results as "condem1ations OF
the administration" since, in this case the man stay
of the whig party has been swept away on the cur
rent Again we hope there are no know-nothngs
living far off the road have idea that they arc
party In Massachusetts, the names Of all their
candidates published beforehand well a. the d.
ngs of their meetings. Henccforth let have boys
play but open of principles and candi
dates The idea that the majority Of grown-up In
any town, State country maintain secret political
relations with each other unbeknown to the rest Of
kind is rather frivolous So, throw away your Sans,
and grpe and oaths and hierogyphcal constuton and
all that of thing that makes us think that men are
but children of larger growth and stand up like strong
party as you Come Of the chapparel where you
are sure to be disl0dGed and hAs ou cnn ever sue
| coed rs national party.