Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-10-25
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burg, opposed to the election OF Gen.
Andrew jackson 10 the Presidency OF
the United States, held at the Franklin
Hotel, on Tuesday last, Christopher
Wiufree, Esq. (Mayor) was called to
the Chair, aud Albon Mcdaniel, Esq.
(Recorder) and Richard IL. Tolcr were
appointed Secretaries.
On motion, a Committee, consisting
of Messrs. Jesse b. Harrison, George
w. Nelson, John NJ. Obey, James New
hall, David Il. Edley, James w. Pc
gram and Patrick Ii. Cabell, was ap-
pointed to prepare resolutions for the
consideration of the meeting; who, at
ter having retired, made the following
report, which was agreed to:
The Committee appointed to prepare
and offer 10 this meeting resolutions APP
propriate to the present occasion, beg
leave to submit the following report:
Your committee, with most of their
fellow-citizens, have not tailed to form
an opinion on the two COLLECTING con
strnctions of the constitution which di-
vide the country-and were the ques-
ton now whether a candidate protesting
the one, or a candidate protesting the
other, should be preferred, there is not
much doubt that a majority of this
meeting would be found on the side of
strict construction, and favoring the
candidate who SO professed himself, un-
less, perhaps, that candidate we're such
a person as General Andrew Jackson.
But it appears to your committee, that
there is no p%retence now set up, that
the cause of strict construction IS to
gain one lot by the substitution OF Gen.
Jackson for the present incumbent; and
the condition of things may vel. be
Judged by the ludicrous exultation Of
the leading journal of Virginia, hal the
many endeavors to convince Pennsyl-
vania that General Jackson is adverse
TO the tariff. will fail at last 1t is a
matter of consolation that the individual
members of the committee, that, If now
at variance with the majority OF Virgin
ia, all scbism will be healed the moment
of Gen. Jackson's election, and ViIgi
MIA will be opposed to him and his lati-
tudinous measures with united buck
lers and u%nbroken unanimlty.
Your committee declare, that after
considering the whole course of the OPP
position to the present administration,
thev are convinced, that, in by far the
larger part, tits factious and unprinci-
Piled, pretending no foundation, but the
bahed, refuted, and wholly dissipated
charge of corruption in the late election;
but resting, in fact, first, in hatred of
the North, and second, on personal
jealousy and malice against the Secfeta-
ny of State heightened, if not original
ing, from hunger for office. That there
has been reason for opposition from Vir-
ginia aud the States, PROCESSING the strict
construction, TO about the same degree
that there was to Mr.. Monroe's last
years, your committee agree; but the
opposition of the Virginia
school, when it has even inclined them
TO Gen. jackson, who, with his thousand
peculiar faults, has, 10 common with
the President, ~latitudlnous principles,
they can only attribute to an irreconcl
liable hatred of the once federal North,
and to the portentious circumstance,
that the tone to feeling in Virginia has
been given by two senators who never
had a place in the heart of Virginia, in
the glorious days of Jefferson; aud final
IL, that a NAL has risen to the helm of
the State whom the mild voice of Madi-
son may rebuke in vain.
Your committee declare that there
are very few public characters in Amer
lea whom they would not prefer to Gen
Jackson. With not one earthly quail
fcation for the Presidency, that is not
in its essence merely military, through
a life marked up to a late age with al
most every species of vicious habit, not
inconsistent with personal honesty, he
had never imagined himself qualified
by nature or education, for even subor-
dinate civil stations, till this unequalled
crisis has made known to him and his
friends, the innate fitness of a pure mill
tary chieftain for the highest civil Office
in the land.
Your committee cannot consent to
substitute this man, thus to be brought
in, for n who, though he dissent from
US in the construction of the constitu-
ZION, has had the confidence and APP
plause of Washington, Jefferson, Madi-
son and Monroe in the most important
civil posts, pronounced by them all to
be a wise statesman and an honest man