Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-04-28

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posite the clerks Office, where he respectful.
~ invites bis friends and acquaintances to visit
at pleasure; restricted only from carrying off
any paper.
Serious .7ccident-On Monday evening last, .
Mi. John Mcgowan, of jefferson county, was
thrown from his horse near Charles.own; he
had one of his legs broken, and otherwise
much injured. 1t is represented to us, that It
Happened by two young men ruhing their
horses on the big road for a half pint of whis-
key. and one of them run his horse against the
one on which Mr.. NJ. was rideMg, ard knock.
ed him over. How serious a thing this Cf run
ing horses on a public road; there is a Law
prohibiting it, ard it ough, to be enforced.
The Election for a member to the nine teenth
Congress, for this district, has closed, and Mr.
Armstrong is elected by a majority over his
opponent, MIR Colston, of 262 votes. Jefferson.
county closed the contest. We were present,
on Monday last, and heard Mr. Colston address
the voters. Hs exposed. in a concise, eloquent
and convincing manner. the glazing calumnies
that have been industriously circulated agaiasl
him; and, if we mistake not, left a deep i'm
preston on the minds Of the people, that great
Injustice has been done this worthy fellow
citizen. 1t is with pain we state it. that mer
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get the obligation they owe to their God and
country, as to be guilty Of propagating the
most bare faced falsehoods against their fellow
nan-but such is the fact. No stone was lsf'
unturned to defeat the election of Colston; and
they have done it. We mention this, with q
hope that the actors in this scene, viii. never re-
act the sams over again, that henceforward
they will sin no more. OF his competitor, Mr.
Armstrong, we have the highest opinion. we
believe him to be high minded, independent.
man. and that he spurns such conduct as has
been pras,ised by his friends. He has conduc.
ted himself throughout the csnvsssing, with
the greatest decency and d~ecorum-ihat it ne
yer was his wish, we belisye, that his friends
should go to such lengths.
correspondent in tha WINCHESTER Reppb.
Iican Of last week, asserts that the statement,
published in this paper Of the 18th inst. with
respect to the number OF Illegal votes given In
Morgan county for congress, is false and that
we had no authority to make such statement
this we do most positively deny. We rever
have, nor never viii, make d state ment of that
kind, without having authority SO to de. But
ii is just as easy for him to say that the state
ment we published is false, as it was for
to state that Colston had received forty.ninc il
legal votes in the county Of Morgan! In the
statement furnished US for publication, by MIR
Graham, was the name Of Mr., Ogden We had
supposed it to be Mr. Phineas Ogden, and inser-
ted it ss such, but it should have been Mr..
Stephen Ogden. Within the week, we have
had an opportunity of seeing Mr.. Stephen Og-
den, & in conversation, appears willing SHOULD
the correspondent Of the Win. Rep. unmssk
himself,) to investigate the two statements.
We were extremely sorry to witness 80 much
of the cid is0vsn. subsisting in or neighbors in
jefferson county, as was eyinced at the lsts G.
lection.