Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-06-19

The JudicIaFy--oura ark OF safety a.
mid the storms of political contentious.
Our Army and Navy may those who
have erected the moDume Mt Of a nations
glory, ever find il shelter from a ma .
tons ingratiiude.
The Massachusetts, Delegation in
Congress. These are our jewels. The
world sees their lustre-0e know their
worth.
Internal Improvements-she SAYING
Bank, in which our rational wealth may
be securely deposited, 10 be drawn for,
with interest, when needed.
Yhe stream OF New England enter
prise, which has so long yielded its
mighty tribute to our nations wealth.
may it ever flow with increasing majes-
ty and strength.
BY Mr. Sears, Chairman of the Com.
mittee of Arrangements: Mr.. President.
Being requested by the Committee of
Arrangements to prepare and propose a
sentiment, Immediately to succeed the
regular toasts Of the day, I will, with
your permission, offer one, which hope,
and trust, will meet the cordial appro.
baton of our assembled friends. II is a
small tribute TO the worth Of an enlight-
ened Statesman, fearless Patriot, and
an enlightened man. Ipropose to you,
The health of Henry Clay; in the worst
of times, ard at all times, the friend and
very champion of civil liberty. He is
hailed with admiration and gratitude
by other Republics; shall he not be
cherished and sustained by his owns
We give the following extract from Mr..
| We5ser's address, delivered at the dinner:
81 would not trespass farther on your at,en-
ton, If did not feel my duty to say few
words on the condition OF public affairs under
| another aspect We are on the eve of a new
election tor President; and the manner in which
the existing Administration is attacked might
lead stranger to suppose that the chief ma
gistrate had committed some fragrant offence
against the country, threatened TO overturn its
| liberties, or intended a military usurpation. On
former occasion. have in this place expires.
| sed my opinion ct the principle upon which the
( opposition TO the Administration is founded,
without any reference whatever, to the person
who stands as It's apparent head, and who is
intended by i, to be placed in the Chief Execu.
live Chair. think that principle exceedingly
dangerous and alarming, inasmuch as it does
| not profess to found opposition to the Govern
ment on the measures of Government, but to
rest II on other causes, and those most person
al. IS combination, or association OF per-
sous holding the most opposite opinions, both
oa the constitutional powers of the govern.
ment, and ia leading measures of The public
concern, and uniting in little or nothing, ex.
cept The wish to dislodge power from the hands
IN winch the country has placcdit. There has
been no leading measure Of the government,
win perhaps single exception, which has not
peen strenuausly maintained by many, or by
some OF those who CO operate, altogether, me-
lveriheless. in pursuit of the object which
have mentioned. This is but one of many
proofs that the opposition does not rest in the
principle Of disapprobation of the measures Of
government. Many other evidences Of the
same truth might be adduced easily. re-
markabe one is, while one ground Of objection
to the Administrations urged in one place. its
precise opposite is pressed in another. Penn
/ SyiSania and South Carolina, tor example, are
mot treated with the same reasons for change
! of Administration but with fatty contradictory
reasons. In one, the Administration is Tepre.
/ sented as benz on particular system, oppres-
slye to that state, and which must ultimately
| rlin 1t; and for that reason there ought TO be
| change. In the other. that system, Instead of
beng ruinous, is salutsry, is necessary, is in.
aisS ensiole; but the Administration is but half
IN earnest III supporting it; ard for that gesson
| .here ought to be change.
"Heiiecting men have always supposed, that
~ there were weak point in the Federal Con.
smslion, i. was in the proysionIfor the exer.
else OF the Executive power. And this, per-
J haps, may be considered as rendered more
delicate aud diksult by the augmentation of
the numbeP OF the States. We must expect
that there will often be, there was at the last
ELECTION, several candidates for the Presidency.
All but one, OF course must be disappointed
and it the friends of all such, however other.
wise divided, are Immediately to unite, and to
make common cause against him who is elect.
ed, little is ever expected but embarrassment
and confusion. The love of Office will, ere
long. triumph over the love Of country; and
party and faction usurp the place OF wisdom
and patriotism. If the contest for the Execu.
tive power is thus to be renewed every four
years, if tits TO be conducted as the present
has been conducted, and if every election Is to
be immediately followed, as the last was fol-
lowed, by prompt union of all whose friends
are not chosen against him who is, there is, in
}my judgment. danger. great danger, that this
great experiment Of confederated government
may tail, and that even those of us, who are
not among the youngest, may behold its ca.
tastrophe.r
| a venerable parsy-A few days since,
a number Of gentlemen, friends to Mrs.