Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-12-06
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MARriNsBURG. DIcsns4a 6, 1897.
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triguing, and shifting, be is content to
go thro', merely to be thought man Of
plain dealing:-ihree grains Of honesty
would save bin all this trouble ALAS.
he has them not"-
10 the last Enquirer, its Editors, in a long
and labored article, under the head of A RE.
VIEW OF THE PAST, have attempted 20 ex.
pl1n or at least TO palliate, the tergiversations
and Inconsistencies of their course in relation to
the Candidates for the Presidency. With the
hope Of shielding themselves from the contemp,
and Indignation, which are beginning to mani.
fest themselves in the most unequivocal and a.
larming manner from one end of the sold Do.
minion" TO the other.
They have been pleased 20 refer, particular.
r., to the unkind cuts they have received
from King George, from King and Queen. from
Louisa and from Jefferson. Let them not fat.
ter themselves that the same sentiments have
not been felt ana expressed in the other coun-
ties of die state. What is known to be false
and counterfeit, will be equally despised and
rejected every where.
The Editors, in trepidation at these ominous
signs ofthe times,' labor suenuously TO show,
tina, they are not so vsry, Very Inconsistencies
utterly base as their own printed statements
show them 10 be.
Iue PARTICULAR attcHtiOn OF the puniiC Is niNl-
ted to this same Review of the Past in the En-.
quirer of the 18th Nov. II is = carefully writ
ten srticle, and worth the patient study OF those
who wish to form a correct estimate Of that
widely circulated, influential, and celebrated
print
The Editors say, that those who have ar.
ragned their conduct should in charity have
Fecoliected, that Gen. Jackson is no, response
bic for the acts of his snpporters--th tina, cause
may be very excellent, though supported by
very miserable advocates &c. Now there is 0
homey proverb, which says'a man is known by
The company he keeps and although Gen.
Jackson certainly IS not responsible for all The
bsseness and fsisehood enlisted in his support +,
yet the supposed fact that such qualities are ar
rayed to sustain his cause. goes far to show that
the cause self is none of the hesi.
The Editors say, we would respectfully ask
these gentlemen, whether they expect TO con
vict us of inconsistency in prefering Jackson to
Adams no1c, by showing that we formerly pre-
fered another TO both of them. And yet this
is exactly the state of the question. Whatever
terms of disqualification were applied to Gen
Jackson or 20 Mr.. Adams in the last election,
were predicated of them in competition with
Mr.. Crs~ford. Who was our frst, our last, our
only & g.
The seems, that what was then asserted
by the Editors of the Enquirer, of Cen. Jack.
sons want Of qualification, for the Presidency
which was then so great and manifest, that
these honest and consisten' gentlemen did no.
hesitate to say. that bis election would prove
curse TO he country was not true absolutely, but
only relatively. by excluding from the Chief
Msgistracy w II. Crawford; whose quafica.
tons were every way clear and ample. So that
man may be, in 1924. so utterly unfit for the
hal 10 Il.
ctrss TO his country: and in 1928, by means Of
integrity patriotism republican feeling.
natural grod sense &c. mir. Crawford being
out Of the way,) he will do exceedingly we'll,
and there is no Inconsistency az all, at all.
What pity these Editors had not lived in the
1ourishisg times of the School men or the Je
suits. fancy they would shine particularly in
the discussion of the question 'Whether mere
being, without life or existence, is better than
not TO be At all, or not
They ask, 'But is there Q considerable man
an the nation, who does not admit, thai while
the character Of Adams is sinking, that of his
competitor has risen upon his esteem'i Yes,
Messrs. Editors. however strange you may
deem IT, you may rely upon the fact. that there
are such men IN the country, and ofthem not a
few. beg leave, in all humility. TO intimate,
that such men as Chief Justice Marshall,
Judges Brooke. Cabel', Coalter, and Carr, and
Chapman johnson are quite as considerable, and
very nearly IS wise, as the Editors Of the En-.
qurer. What has Gen. Jackson said or done,
since The Election Of Mr.. Adams, tina, is caleu
lated to enhance his claims to the important
and responsible ststisn TO which be aspiresi---
l is admitted, that his department to Mr.
Adams, Immediately after the election, was
/ o'gnhed and becoming, upon the superstition
| that he deemed MIR. Adams constitutionally
and fairly elected. But if, IS il subse quently
appeared, he believed that his election was
oegotten in sin and brought forth in iniquiiy--
that it was the result OF 'manag emsnt and in.
Ggue. bargain and corruption how could be
otter the hand of Soldier. and the congratuls
uoDs OF a Patriot to the man who bad damned
llmsefand dlsgrseed his cosntryl How does
The known agency of the General in bringing
before the public, second time, the bargain
and corruption charge, aud his manner Of do.
night tally with the Editors notions Of what is
Proper and betting in q man, standing 10 the
relation in which Gen. Jackson stands to this
hstlonl
iheEe were some strangers at the Generals
taole. and the late presidential election became
The subject Of conversation. He had, perhaps.
some confused molten in his head about intrigue
and management; he certainly had bad some
Conversations on that subject, with certain
members Of Congress, Of bis own party. His
IDEAS appear TO have been about as clear and
correcsas his construction OF the Second Sec.
uon. Ha informs his gaping and astonished
eles's,thai be could have been elected with the
s'eatest esse-aye. in one hour. if he could
usSe consented to soil hmseli with the intamy
4 81 bargain. asthose who were successful had
u0he' Now, beg the Editors of the Enquirer
- iOIget, II possible, for one moment, that
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