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7/2/1848 Hurrah for Cass! Hurrah for Taylor!!! Take my hat! There's my old shoes!! Saw my leg off!!! What are those benighted Down Easters doing nowadays? Is George Edward Kent, Ex. Gov. etc. a true exponent of the Whigs, I mean those who dare to call themselves so; in the state of Maine? in Bangor? Never man said truer word than Judge Allen in Nat. Cons, as least as far as N.E.& this are concerned. "The Whig Part of the Union is this day dissolved. Why I do not know how far you would not have to go any where here in Mass, out of the cities. to find the first, single man, (Harrison Whig, Clay Whig, Webster Whig, what not,) who would this day acknowledge himself as belonging to any political party. You Down Easters I suspect know just nothing of the state of feeling here in Mass. The so called "Whig Papers", the organs of the Cottonocracy of Boston &c., the Atlas Advertiser, Journal &c. come just as near representing the Whig Part of Mass. as the Wash. Union does to representing the great Democratic Party of N.Y. or the John Pitt Hale party of N.H. They do not represent it at all. There are a few, comparatively a very few, rich men, in Boston, Linel?, Salem &c. men whose hearts were coined into dollars, long ere they can remember; who ever had any knees but india rubber, who are perfectly willing to bow down, no, to lie down to get down any way fifty times lower than the lowest dist there is between here & Japan, to the Slave Power, the South. The wealth indeed of Mass, as of the whole U.S. perhaps of the World in the hands of these men, or those like them. Their money buys & supports these so called Whig Papers. But to call them and see all their influence & all it carries with it, the Whig Party, the Whig Party Mass! why what a voice would come around from all these rugged mountains valleys & Granite hill sides, from the sterling yeomanry of the old Bay State. There are too many such as Old Senator White of Northfield, Blake & Stevens of Warwick, in fact there are too may Mass. men for all that.