Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-04-12

man CO honor, toe delicate and strict to be a
minion and while the influence Of Mr.. Gal
latin triumphs over the mind OF the presi-
dent none Blu. his minions can expect to re-
tain those stations of high trust, which honor
and fidelity alone should oecupy--but which
no man of honor and honesty can occupy con
jointly with him.
Nor does it stop here the postmaster ge-
nerafs Office is about to be applied, and ap-
piled in New-York too What Another de
tachment from the Clintons, the reader will
promptly ask2 Not This proposed DISPOSE
ton OF Office marks the Machiavelsm of the
proceedings, this Office is destined for one OF
the most intimate, confidential and faithful
friends Of Aaron Burr
In making these facts public, the course
which will be pursued by slavish prints, re-
quires to be anticipated-it will be said we
are influenced by the Smiths, by the secre-
tary Of war, we are influenced by the post
master general-that we are hostile to Mr..
Madison-that the Aurora is turning federal
ist, or some other equally pertinent and ra-
| tional motive
We may now say of Mr. Robert Smith
what we should not have been so ready to
say had he the favors or patronals of Office
to bestow, because men in power are gene
| rally too apt, and the practice of the world
too much authorises their suspicious men in
power are too apt to attribute the applause
that may be bestowed on them as the coin
that is rendered for their official favors. 1t
happens that we never have been under any
sort of obligation to Mr.. Smith-and the in
tercourse we have had with him has never
passed beyond the casual incidents of three
or four visits on business and that there
fore, when we speak OF him it is upon the
unbiased feeling OF motives wholly public,
which revolts at seeing man of high res
portability, who has been for thirty years one
of the most prominent, useful, and active
men in the respectable state of Maryland, in
suited and sacrificed to crafty the malice of
man, who ought to have been content with
the high trust already bestowed on him, with
the enormous fortune he has acquired under
that trust, and who has nevertheless, left no
public man with whom he has been connec-
ted unnJured, directly or indirectly, and
whose friendship is more fatal than his eni-
nifty, the Smiths of Maryland, the NichoIas's
OF Virginia too well known and as the con-
versations with Ersbine in relation to Mr..
Jefferson, and the recent proceedings in re-
latlon to Mr. Madison too clearly shew.
In reference to the secretary at war, those
who are best acquainted with the subject,
will not suppose US governed by his influence:
and the removal OF DIR. Bustis being contem-
plated upon principles of public utility, had
1t been even as matter Of political Justice
Tor the cruel part he has had in the persecu-
zion OF general Wilkinson, we should have
appiaudcd change, because almost any
change could not be perhcious in the existing
state OF that department but when the re
moval Is considered as arising from the re-
slstance OF DIR. Eustis to the influence and per-
nicous counse!s of Mr.. Gallatir, we consider
the merit OF the secretary at war in that re-
sistance, as comforting some credit on him,
and exhibiting sense ofright and justice we
could have wished to have been in his more
particular province
In relation to the post master general it
will not be supposed that we entertain any
very violent bias towards that gentleman,
much less are we governed by his inllu-
ence.
In relation to Mr.. Madison himself, we
confess strong sentiment of respect for his
personal virtues and his fine talents we feel
a most earnest and keen concern, in witness
ing the course into which he has been pltlng-
ed or led; we deplore that he has not seen in
those old friends who were his contemporaries
of the political field 90 years ago, who have
four years stood the shock of political conflict,
and bufieted the pillows ofpolitical adversely,
when he had withdrawn into harbor from the
conflict, and who on the return of the halcv-
on days of the republic, hailed him, and
forced him against his reluctance into that
station when had led him to the highest of
flee in his country.
No tbar It.,
flee those men of his time who have marched
with him, arrayed in the same battle--to the
mon VINO could traduce Mr.. Jefferson TO Frs
kline, or VINO could betray the confidence of
the cabinet to John Randolph. We regret it,
because, great as the merits and virtues of
MIR. Madison are, they are not enough to sus-
tain Mr.. Galatians political vices, nor to rem
der them tolerable to the people of this ma