Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-09-16
PRESIDENTIAL.

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Y. Statesman, with request that they
publish it, assigning his reasons fol
yoteing against the electoral Dill, and o.
Their concerns OF iae politics of n. fors
merely, the contents of which is uninie-
resting out of the state. That part which
relates to the Presidential Election. W,
have copied below:
II presume your correspondent al
ludes to the Presidential question, wher
he asserts that have joined the Regen-
cy; on that subject, nay sentiments are
well known and can assure you, gem
tlemen, that they neither have nor vii
undergo change. | am proud to be
| styled by your correspondent the leader
OF the Clay party in this state, although
| have never attempted to lead or drive
any person. Your correspondent may
therefore rest assured, that the "Reg gem
cy" will never prevail on me 10 throw
my vote into the scale of WIN. IL. ClaW
ford, nor do believe that there is the
remotest probability of Mr.. Crawfort'a
getting the vote of this state.
For my own part, disarprove the
manner in which he has been brough,
before the people by minorit, caucus
which, in MY view of the subject, is an
act usurpation, and altogether antIrepub-
lican. am also opposed to the anti-na-
tonal policy which he always has, and
| have reason to believe, he always will
pursue. lie is attached exclusively to
the policy of the seaboard, which is
what a certain member OF Congress.
from South Carolina, called "the United
States proper" and which he exclam-
ed to be the country for 90 miles into
the interior, parallel with the ocean. Mr.
Clay's policy is more liberal, and his
views of national policy exhibit him to
the world as a most profound statesman.
"The bold and independent Course
W it'll which his conduct has ever been
marked, whether when contendinS for
those great leading measures otnation-
al policy recently adopted, and which are
alike calculated TO promote the interest
and add new lustre to the character of
his own country, or when aiding the e.
Emancipation of the oppressed in other
quarters of the world from tyranny and
thraldom, proclaim in the most interes-
ting language a mind that scars far be-
You'd those grovelling notions which tie
down some men to sectional limits, and
VINO can know no other interest save
what may happen to exist in certain sec
tons of the Union-I have no hesitation
in saying that if the choice of electors
were given to the People, that Mr.. Clay
would get the vote of this state, and, as
it is, | can assure you that ! consider
his chance of success equal at least to
any other candidate. Be that as it NAV,
shall be the last man in the Union that
will desert him. These are my senti-
ments, which have signed, sealed, and
delivered, with request that you will
give the same pla ;e in your paper"
New JERsEY.-Ibis state, we have
every reason to believe, will vote for
Henry Clay. There is a powerful par
ty in that state decidedly in favor of him,
composed of 'he most respectable and
influential men there.
DGLAwARE-William ii. Crawford
will get the vote of this state, tho the
friends of Mr.. Adams claim it,
PGNNsYLvANIA.-C Considerable oppug-
nancy is shown to ''Old Hickory" in this
state. In addition to the Crawford Tick
ct formed some short time since at Har-
risburg, there is to be meeting of dele
gates from different parts of the state,
at Carlisle, Of the friends of Henry Clay
and of John Quincy Adams. We have
some hopes of this state YET; she has
been going awry for some years. 1t is
now thought by some that Clay will be
found by the freemen of that state, the
best material TO make President of.
MARYLASD.-ln all probability, this
state will be for Mr.. Adams.
VIRGINlA.-Meetings have lately been
held in the counties of Nelson, Bedford,
Hardy and Monongalia, by the friends
of Mr. Adams, and have named electors.
1t will avail nothing. Mr. Crawford will
get the vote of this state, unless the
friends of Adams and jackson unite with
those of Mr.. Clay; he being The second
man in Virginia; west of the Blue Ridge,
he is the first.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. calculations
have been lately published of the result
of the Presidential Election, which show
rather the wishes than the Judgment of
the writers.--The Columbian Observer,
for instance. paper in Philadelphia,
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