Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-10-07
TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.

John ,. Barnes, Nlon1ngalla.
TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.
FELLOW CITlzE
We have now the satisfaction OF an
nouncing to you the success of our eff
forts ia 10. iornltlon Of an Electoral
Ticket, composed Of citizens decided
" in favour of john QUINCY ADAMS,
as the next President of the United
States; many Of whom now fill, and o
Tiers have heretofore filed honorable
stations in the service OF State, and the
public character and worth of all, EN-
titled them to our fullest confidence
In the performance Of the duty con
lided TO us, we claim no other merit
than that of an honest zeal in the cause.
The difficulties and responsibilities Of
our task have been relieved by spon
taneous meetings of citizens in most OF
the Electoral Districts, at which Elec-
tors have been nominated, and com
mittees organized, who have cordially
co opperated with US. In very few
districts has selection devolved upon
US, and in those cases our greatest diff
ficuIty has arisen flom the number OF
highly respectable names that have
been presented. Thus has Ticket
been formed for the support OF our can
didate, that might with strict rule be
called the PEopLEs TICKET, having
emanated directly from the people
themselves in the only unexceptiona
BILE republican mode practicable under
the genera. Ticket system-not dicta
ted by a self constituted po,oer, and
deriving no Fictitious Importance from
Legislative assumption.
The meeting from whom we derive
our authority as committee, nomIna-
ted by small ma ority. Gen. AN
DREW JACKSON for the Vice Presi
dency, and tha, nomination was Con-
cured in by several other meetings; but
it by no means met the general appro
baton of Mr.. Adams friends through
out the state. Some meetings declined
making any nomination of a Vice Pre-
sident:- One expressly refused to con
cur in the nomination of General Jack
son, and one nominated another in-
dyidual for that Office. Under these
circumstances, it has been deemed ex-
pedient and proper to submit to you a
Ticket pledged to the support of A
DAMS alone-and leave to the discre
ton Of The electors, the choice OF a Vice
President. This course, there can be
no doubt, will be more agreeable to
the friends of Adams, than encum
boring his ticket with the name of an
individual, however distinguished
whom many are unwilling to upport;
and it is believed that no name could
be selected for that Office that would
unite the appreciation OF all.
We have therefore, fellow citizens,
addressed to you our position ofrcason
for opposing the caucus system, and
our preference for Mr. Adams over the
other candidate. We will lot now OBJ
trude upon you repetition of them.
Ii there he any of our fellow citizens
whose minds are not already made up
on the Presidential question; or any
who honestly doubt of the superiority
Of Mr.. Adams claims to that high OF
flee; we would refer them to the hiStO
~ of our country during the period Of
our constitutional eXistence-to the ma
nv important stations which Mr. A
dams has filled under each succeeding
presidency, all which he has adorned
and digniiied by the spIendor othls ia
Tents and integrity of his contuct.-EX'
anime also the pretensions of his oppo
nents as well as his own-not III the
mi>representations OF the party news
papers of the day, where the most dis
ingenious perversions oil plain facts Is
reduced to a system, where unblush
Ing falshoods and black calumnies are
iaily uttered with the pretence OF en-
lightning the public mind, and the mos
leartless attacks made upon the pr.
vate cha actrr and private feelings OF
ne great and good, under the hypo
| rtical guise of friendly regard for
heir reputation and zeal Tor the public