Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-10

TAG Philadelphia Press, in long article in.
tended to stir up its people on the way in which
they do not honor the dead of Pennsylvania,
says of Massachusetts, and Boston:
Massachusetts has way of her own in cell
ebrating the performances of her children. 4
Boston painter, or sculptor, or poet, or states
man, or lawyer, or merchant, with reasonable
claims to consideration, is sure to be warmly
encouraged while living, and to be long remem-
of July classically celebrated as IN Boston.
When Franklin-who was in all respects
Pennsylvania StateSman-comes to be noticed,
he is appropriated, amid flood of excel
lent poetry and tirst-class oratory, by Massa-
chusetts to herself Mr.. Everett, while hon
orlng Washington, takes care to keep. his
own State constantly before the people Of the
Union. Mr.. Webster, New Hampshire born,
always placed Massachusetts in the foreground.
Charles Sumner, like the Englishman who
thought his own farm larger than the United
Kingdom, and the latter considerably larger than
the world, is absorbed in his idolatry of his
own State. Whittier never rhymes half so
sweetly as when he sings of the Pilgrim Fathers
'The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" lives in
mIcrocosm of his own, and that is Boston
Even General Caleb Cnshing-patriotic and ma
| tional as he is, whose pen adornS everything it
touches in science, literature, and law-never
was half so eloquent as when, more than ten
y
J South Carolina, making these the two great
States OF the Union, but taking care to put his
own in advance. Abbot Lawrence gathered his
wealth less for his own country than for his
own city, and died in the midst of communl-
| ty, giving not only good name to his family,
but splendid bequest to Boston.
I q These men have continued to make Faneui
| Hall as sacred as the Hall of independence, and
! the monument of Bunker Hill, an orator that
speaks Of the past, and to all the future, full of
the double glory of their own State and their own
country. Every county in Massachusetts, has it's
special historian, and, while ornamenting local
history, closes his culogy with an invocation to
Boston. Plymouth Rock belongs to Boston as
much as if, instead of fronting the sea, it formed
the basis of Bunker Hill Call this spirit what
you may; denounce it as self complacancy: abuse
those who indulge it under the phrase of Emu
tual admiration society,"" we honor it, 1t never
had more signal illustration than in the Choate
obsequies. Here again we have the poet weaving
his garland, the orator pronouncing his eulogy,
the lawyer worshiping his model; the divine
and the eLtOr come forward, each with his trib-
ute to citizen who filled his little place in life,
and is now remembered among the myriad, but
not forgotten, dead. Nor are these demonstra-
firms commonplace demonstrations When
Boston speaks, when Boston rites, when BoS-
ton sings, she uses good English She is all the
time making history. However we may doubt
whether her joy the Fourth of July, or her
grief over some distinguished grave, or he ex.
ultation over some local triumph of art or SCI
cncc, is wholly sincere, we can readily see how
eagerly postcrity will pcrLse the page She trans.
mlts to it, and how eagerly the children Of such
fathers will read what has been so claboratelv
prepared for them"