Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-12-07

Not newspaper Of any description by the last
mail. The following note from the assistant
Postmaster at Shepherds Town, will account
for il;
APP o. !Slspisriis T5ssa, Td.2
Tuesday night, Dec s. :
"DsAR Sin: The Mail due at this Office %
night, failed to arrive, in consequences of its
having been put into the Stage Tor flagerslown
in lieu OF their own, at the boonsboro' L. o.
Yours Respectfully.
ISAIAH KRoESEN, .3Ss'a PM"
Consequently, We shall be compelled to wait
until the Mail is returned from Hagerstown.--
Mr. Shaw is getting into his last winteE tricks.
Shoald be make many more such saps, we shall
be apt to complain.
The sibjoined letter from Mr.. Crittenden
to the Editor Of the Kentucky Commentator,
entirely refutes one OF the a5omlnaole SANDERS,
which have been lately 50 lndustriously crcu-
lated by the Jackson prints, with view to check
the rapid advance OF MIR Gays popularity
II will be remembered. that at the
session of our state Legislature which
preceded the last Presidential election,
Mr.. II. Clay was recommended as eau
ddate for the Presidency by the almost
unanimous voice Of the members of both
branches Of our General Assembly, aud
that Mr.. Barry, Mr.. Rowan, Mr. Patton,
and myself were appointed, at the same
meeting, committee OF correspondence,
for the purpose of communicating and
receiving information and promoting his
election. And it may, also, be recoIlect-
ed, that the committee some time after
wards, lin September, lSa4,) in dis.
charge of the duty assigned them, and
in furtherance of the object of their ap-
pointment, addressed circular letter to
the public, under the signature of each
of its members.
1t is with some surprise and mortifca-
ton, have lately observed, in news
paper published in Washington City,
1.-THE Telegraph of the ] lth ult.) an arti-
Gle containing some allusion that to
that letter, particularly the following
paragraph:
I'VE believe the truth to be-, that the
letter was manufactured by Messrs. Clay
and Crittenden, and that the names of
some, If not all, the other members of
the Committee, were procured upon
NItuout tuClI AuONiSuSS VI tJS
extraerdinary use intended to be made
OF them. Such, we are assured, was
the fact, so far as two OF the Committee
were concerned. We make this expls-
nation in justice to those gentlemen,
who mustfeel deep modification at see
ing their names to such document"
The letter here alluded to, with the
ton ,x,,tfo, h..
an acquaintance then, and now residing
in this place, was written by me, and
I caused the signatures to be affixed to
II. Mr.. Clay never saw it, or knew of
its contents, until after its publica-
ton. The charge therefore, which
is made orinsinuated in the above para
graph, that the confidence of the other
gentlemen of the Committee had been
abused, and an unauthorized use made
of their names, in subscribing them to
that letter, is applicable to me, and !
alone am responsible. 1t is untrue in
every sense in which it can be construed
TO castthe slightest imputation upon me.
And shall consider it as an aspersion
rather to be spurned at, than replied to,
if it was not made to derive some claims
of notice from the assertion Of the edi-
tor. that he was ''assiTedo Of the truth
of his charge, SO far as two OF the com.
mittee was concerned, and from his use,
of confident sort of phraseology, which
would Justify the inference that his assu-
RANGES had been received from them
The editor must have been imposed up
on, and grossly msed in relation to this
matter. 1t is denied that the names of
any of the Committee were Nprocured
upon trust without their knowledge of
the extraordinary use intended to be
made of them," or that there has been
any abuse of their confidence, or I'M
authorized use made of their names.
Twill state the facts--When the Com
mittee, to promote the purpose for which
they had been appointed by the Repre-
sentatives of the people of Kentucky,
. determined ia address Circular Letter
10 the public upon the subject of the
Presidential election, was designated
BY them to prepare it, and to have pab-
lished: and to obviate the inconyeni-
ence and delay of communicating it,
for the signatures of the other members
of the committee, who lived remotely
from each other, ! was requested and
J,actad nv all and each of them. 10