Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-06-29
CASTIGATOR-NO. /.
GBS. DUR GasEs. Editor Of the Teleg,

CBN. DUR GRsEH, Editor Of the Telegraph,
You cannot escape You daily publish to
the world, vile abuse, vulgar scurrilty, and foul
calumny. Shall you hope to escapei You too,
although below resentment, must receive the
casigatioa due to our magnity, and let your
d6ettor tremSle for the rod OF chasts ment, re-
served for him.
feel reluctant to touch you. You are under
an influence YOU Cannot escape. You are borne
along by current you cannot resist. will
follow you--trace out vour connections expose
your sssocaton--i'll disclose the secrets OF the
conspirstors, and bold you aud them up to pub
lie scorn.
You acknowledge, you were szsico rejected by
the Senate. That fact is enough. 1t puts the
seal on you. The veto is rarely exercised by
that body, and only in extreme cases. You had
fair trial before an impartial Court. You were
known as man and politician to Col Benton
and MIR. Barton, on WHOSE evidence you were
tried. There was no false witness against you,
You do not impeach their motives, or their con.
duct. You do not complain of injustice. How
do you escape the conclusion! do not take
"a Sarton and malignant pleasure in torturing
you. You are the mere cover, for other mems
niquity-a mere veil The veil is seen through
and the real man stands like figure on q
trans parency. But as you are set up for GEN.
sor OF morals, and the organ of truth--ss you
have the effrontery 10 talk Ut principles, and TO
sssail private character, can feel no delicacy:
must touch the sore with the caustic.
The objection was either personal or politi-
cal--you may take your choice OF the dilemma
If personal, would no further converse with a
man thus convicted--your avocation and your
connections would be worthy of YOU A man
without profession or trade, with no honest
means OF living, disqualified for any honorable
office, by Senatorial sentence, might be driven
to make his daily bread, by minlstering to the
ambition. and lending himself to the passions
of desperate asrirant--and even to retailing
the foul SANDERS and gross abuse, that would
make even Goblet blush. This connection as
the last resort--the only resource you had left
The abasement you feel--the contempt you in.
spire-is just chastisement OF your offence,
though it may be no correction of your errors
You will go on to your destiny You will sink
in that perturbed stream, whose waters you have
troubled.
Like vagabond flag, upon the stream. 60
to, and back, tackeylng the varying tide TO sot
Itself with notion" [ShGkspeare.
If your private character was fair. it should
have mtigated the sentence pronounced on your
political offences. But in what aggravated CO.
iours your faults must have been presented. it
good reputation, and an honest lie, could not
redeem you from the ooloquy, and save you
from the irrevocable decree that pronounced
you disqualified for POitical ConsideratiOns,'
from holding an humble, but honorable Office.
You were the dnpe then Gas you are now Of
a shameless intrgue-to ruin the fair fame of
an honest man and you were sacrlfesd--as Ed.
wards zeas. when he was exposed to public
shame. The execrable conspiracy in which
you and he were ased, was no seoef-and the
skulking manager who moved the wires, saw
you both disgrsced-but his enemy fallen: and
he gloried in his Triumph am sick OF this
false world
1t matters not, whether you were rejected
from exceptions personal or POLITICAL and with.
out concedlng any thing to your private charsc-
ter, yield you all the benefit of your defence.
You were rejected then for causes merely poll
teal Bst whether for principIes--or the zsailf
Of PRINCIPLES. does not appear--tske your choice.
II tor principles, what were tbeyl Are they
any better nowi Have you renounced them
or :s,as-sssd cemi !soa are now the organ ola