Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-06-03

! Soute how or other, the opinion got afoat, y
an early stage Of the Presidential contest tia
Mr.. Crawford would obtain the vote of vinsi
mia, but We have always been at loss 10 con
ceive upon what ds "a it was predicated n IS ou
sincere convictions and we think il is based upor
strong grounds--the expression of popular sent,
ment. wherever an attempt has been ma le &c
embody it.-tlsat his chance for the vote of thi,
state. which has been dubious, Is every day be
coming more so.--whcn we ask, upon what data
the suppostion of kfr. Crswtord's supremacy in
Virginia is founded. We are referred to the grea,
majority Of the Legislature. who preferred
him. But we humbly conceive we are borne ~,
by facts in the assertion that the voice OF the last
Legislature was not fair expression Of the
voice OF the State DID not the delegate from
Norfolk borough vote for Mr. Crawford, and are
we not told that in that place Mr.. G. Is in lean
minorityl Did not the delegates frnm Norfolk
and Suffolk counties vote for him, aud have we
not irresistible evidence that the people Oh those
counties are against himi Did not one Of the
delegates from Franklin vote for him, and has
he not been, IN consequence, left at home, and a
firm and influential friend of Mr.. Adams elec,esl
IN ms stead To what extent the spirit OF OPP
position to the caucus mandate may have mani.
tested itself IN other parts OF the State, we are
yet ignorant. the instances we have atlsluced
are sufficient Tor our purpose---to show that Mr..
Crawford's popularity in Virginia Is not to be
estimated bv tue voice Of the legislative Caucus
In Patrick, Henry, pi.tsyIvania, Campbell, Bed
ford and Franklin, and IN tia, part OF ~ Caro-
lima which borders on this session OF Virginia. we
haze good rexsoG to believe that either adams
or Jacks can heat Crawford call hollow, The
Norfolk Herald htimates the same OF that section
of countrywide people about Fredericksburg,
tinta
lex and Shenandoah, are represented to be OF
The ike sediment land yet. we are told tina,
MIR. Crawford is certain of the vote ofvirginia,
Lay not this tiauering unctna to your souls,
gentlemen. The trick OF the Crawfordies has
been discovered II was designed by this or,
10 cham down the energies OF their opponents
until il was too late to rally their forces for the
field. But they are rallying. in time to save
the State from blindfold adhesion To King
Caucus and when the tug Of war shall come,
if the whole Union, calculating upon the vote
OF Virginia being inevitably tor Crawford, b.
not deceived by the closene,s Of the contest. il
not the defeat of his ticket. We viii submit tt
be considered as mere tyros ip prophecy. 1
behooyes the friends of Mr. Adams in, frede-
| ricksburg Ito whom the staie is already u,uc.
| indehtedl to go one step further--to form
| ticket for that gentleman az speedily as poss /
BILE. Every thing depends on despatch ant
concert to release us from, the shackles of til,
caucus nomination, allegianceto which is cIain.et
upon the ground that the scvere'gns of Eursps
claim the unqualified obedience Of their sub
Jects On the score OF hereditary right in the ONT
to command, and hereditary duty in the other I,
! obey. The chains are nearly worn out. Ano
Their effort, and they are forever burst as,,nder
The other parts Of cur State look with anx,et,
to those VINO had the honor of giving impulse