Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-10-09
THE 9N1BTTBo
MARrINsBURG, oeroura 9, 1928.

" las. 4 M - khC ~
nopd Constitutional Wing, the follow.
- extract from a Communication ir
nat paper signed "Cri,c.' This com
mnoication, was in reply to an editoria
.o,ee of Mr.. Faulkner's address, which
..,sared in the Richmond Enquirer
n Ritehie's attack upon Mr. f. is calcu.
h,sd to do little credis TO his head OF
hart.
"Bat to be more grave. Notwithstand
rs he poisoned shaft which Mr.. Richie
N, aimed at the reputation o. this gen.
,sman, there is good reason to believe
ea, sone at least will read the extracts
ogbisbed in the Wing from his Grafton.
sad Judge for h themselves For my own
,arL sincerely wish we had more such
yF4edy politicians among us. The bold
and nervous eloquence, and spirit Of fer.
,sot patriotism, which breathe, through
Nh. Fauikner's production, will enroll
am. in despite of the pitiful and malig-
gant attacks of envy, among the distin-
rushed young men OF our Common
wealth. CRiIO.
Query 1. II Mr. Faulkner had prais.
ed General Jackson and abused Adams
and CLAY, VIVA, would Richie have said
about his oration?
Query 3. Ii Richie thinks as despi.
eabiy as be pretends of the aforesaid o
ration, how came his lofty and indebene
dent spirit to stoop so low as to notice
il? - CO.
If Says the National Intelligencer,)
there is one principle which is more
deeply implanted than any other in the
breast Of a real Republican, or friend of
human rights and freedom. it is, that
arge standing armies, in time Of peace,
re dangerous to liberty. 1t is one for
hich our fathers and our fathers faith.
10 have contended with unvarying ear
a~stness and perseverance,; which has
zen handed down from father to son
r countless generations, and, in our
government, and among our People,
as become an axiom.
II this principle be an indispensable
ngredient in the creed of every Repub-
lean, much more is it so in that of any
l~dividual who is presented as a cand;-
date for the highest office in this Govern
ment, because the influence of that of
fee might enable the incumbene to put
in practice theories which, in humber
stations, would be comparatively harm
Hess, and would be promulged only to be
booted at.
Let the candid reader, who admits the
tnth of those plain proposition, direct
bis attention to the article to day trans.
fsrred TO our columns from a Philadel-
rhla Print. lSee the first page of this
PLAYS Gazette. In that article it is au.
khentically established, that Gen. JACK.
FoS did utter the sentiment, deliberately
fudin writing, to an officer of the Army,
laf, instead of the military establish
nent being reduced, as it was some
bears ago, from twelve thousand to six
hoasand men, the Government sought
% be DAgfNgDn for such reduction, and
or not mere asinG 1t to ten times its a
|lDunt-say, 20 the extent of an army of
|ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
THOUSAND Men! 1t is established
on the same authority, that THE MI
|LlrlA was derided and deprecated by
Ethe General: Yes, these verv Militia, who
are dTammed and Gfed together in the
Old fields and training grounds, to huz-
"a for the General; to whom, indeed,
they seem to have thought themselves in
some sert q kin; they now see. under his
own hand, how very fond he IS of them.
Comment upon this important disclo-
sure would be superfuous. 1t will so
completely open the eyes of thinking
men to what they are about, that - may
oe Confidently predicted that this single
nolcatlon of what are the Generals ma
Aed and undisguised principles, will
'usnse many thousand votes at the APP
p'oacbing election. Do we not all re-
collect that, even with an army of ten
thousand, the Gensral's partizans have
ssa that he might, if he chose, at the
I'oSe OF the late war, have assumed the
imperial Purple? if he could have done
much with ten thousand men, what
night he not do with a hundred thou
'%1 men, disciplined troops, in arms?
FFeemen, are you ready Tor the yoke'
Melancholy accident On Sunday
!'Sl, Mr., Elijah Wilson of this county,