Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1815-03-23
York Buildings, Janpary7, 1915.

i on will perceive b. the enclosed letter, in
casl the fact shall have faded to reach YOU thro'
any other channel, that the enemies whom 1t has
been my lot to mase IN the discharge OF the duties
Of the station 10 which 1 lTsd been called by the
public suffrage, seem unwilling to allow nte
the repose Of that retirement to which, afer mary
baffled efforts they have succeeded in persuad!ng
my late constituents TO consgn nae. ] shall not
sop to enquire how far such proceeding be ho4s-
of4bte, OF even polite, as It regards the views OF
those who have allowed themselves to adopt il
aitho' the people with whom it was once my pride
10 be connected, must have undergone some strange
sneaanorphosis, not less rapid and disastrous than
that which ouG unhappy country has experienced
within the same period ot time, II there be one a
mong them that does not see tliro' the motives OF
those HIo would entreat them to turn their eyes
from the general calamity and shame, and the
shameless authors OF them, to the faults and inds-
cretions, real imputed, Of an old dismissed pub
lie servant, whose chiet offence in the eyes OF his
accusers is, that, foreseeug mischief he laboired
TO avert ii. Nine years have now elapsed since he
raised his voice against the commencement of a
system of measures, which, attho a-tfusly dis
guised, were calculated, as he believed, to pro-
duce what we have all seen and are fated long to
feel Had they who derided what they were then
pleased to term his mournfil Vaccinations. the
reveries ola heated and disordered Imagination"
cunfided less in their own ar.pullt theories and
taken warning ere il was too late, they might now
be riding on 'the full tide of successful expert
ment," instead Of clingng with instructive and con
vulsive grasp to the wreck, which themselves have
made, ofpublic credit ofnatona honor, of peace,
happiness and security, and of faith among men,
The very bonds not only of union Between these
states but or society Itself are ioosened, and we
seem approaching towards that awful dissolution,
the OF which 1t is not gwen to human foresight
TO scan" In the virtue, the moderation, the forti-
tude of the people is, (under God) our last re-
Let them bear mind that trpm their
present Institutions there is transition but to mi
Itary despotism and that there is none more easy.
Anarchy is the chrysalls state OF deSpotsm and
20 that state have TIE measures a this government
long tended, amidst professions, such have
heard i'll France and seen he effects of, of Liberty,
Equality, IndivsibIltg None but the pc5pie can
forge their chains and to fiatter the people
and delude them by promises never meant to be
performed, is the stale but successful practice of
the demagogue, as ofthe seducer in private life
''Giye me only heive for my axe" sad the wood
man in the fable, the tall and stately trees, that
spread their proud heads and waved their hnopped
arms to the air Of heaven. :" Give ire an army"
says the willy politician It is only TO fight the
Englsh-to maintain " Free Trade and Sailors
Rights and dazzled by the 6 Pride, Pomp and
Circumstances of Glorious Wars" needless Of the
Tniseries that urll beneath its splendor, the peo
pie have SAID Amen OF these the heavy debts
and grinding taxes that follow in It's train are per-
haps the least. Disease ard vice, in new,
heard Of forms spread from the camp throughout
society. Not village, not neghborhood, bard
Iy family escapes the infection The searching
nseries Of war penetrate even into the hovel Of
the shiyering negro, whose tattered blanket and
short allowance of salt, bear witness to the eores
of that administration under which his maste. is
content to live. His master, no doubt some
"Southern Nahob" some 8 Naughty Crardee of
Virginia" the very idea of whose existence dis
turbs the repose of over-tendeF conscfences is
revealing in luxury, which the necessary wants Of
his wretched bondsmen stnted to supply
Such is the stufithat dreams are made OF That
master, consumed by cares from which even the
miserable African is free, accustomed to the de-
cent comforts life is racking his brain for ways
and means TO satisfy the demands of the tax-gathe-
rer You see the struggle between his Pride and
his necessity. That antient relic of better times, on
which he bends his vacant eye, must go. 1t is
itself the object of new tax. lie can no longer
afford to keep it. Moreover he must find a sub
st ute for his Youngest boy called into service
His eldest son has persisted in the tentess camp,
sile bloodless but fatal fields of the tcnny country
and even fer the cherished resemblance Of this
sasourite child he must pay tribute to Cesar The
tear that starts into his eye, as he adds tins Item
to the inventory ofeXaction, would serve but to x-
cite philosophic smile in the "Grimm" Idol
of the Levee and its heartless worshipers.
Such is the condition OF the better and more en-
viable classes Of society There IS more than one
L-bN"A'1 IL AhsOhiHJ N'iS SO.C support Ol WIG
and helpless children son., the only stay and
comfort of a widowed mother You have the OUT
line-hl up the picture-for you can do it and
with masters hand. We shall then see the patch
work OF the cradle and the party .coIoared rags of
squalid poverty Tutoring amidst the ensigffs and
standards which some Cadet for military promo.
ton lays at the feet Of our Presidents lady, on his
knees II at the price Of Ill this suffering could be
brought back the tone of public sentiment :" tina,
teit STAN Ike wound it might be even cheap
" purchased. But Othello's occupations gone -
War IS no IA business ot calculation by witch
bankrupt become contractor may poison cur veo-
manry at so much ahead, and in two years time
subscribe as many hundred Thousand dollars to
" the Loan thus riyettng upon the survivors of
those whom he has murdered, a clear perpetual
annuity OF twelve thousand year This is not all
The professions, to which, for The most mar. ,oIr
hAeSt Young men had devoted themselves having
deserted them, just as they were beginning TO RET
forward in life, and upon the faith Of their mr.,
poets had acquired families they viii have ma
other resource but = commission IN the army.
A.ie!r poverty but not their will conscnfs a,i
yen NC "a