Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-09-04

panying them with an apology for the
extreme haste, under which they were
prepared.
am, Gentlemen, respectfully,
Your ebedient servant,
CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER
Jtsssrs. Benjamin r. Tousncr. &c. CSC. 3c.2c.
Address
DELIVERED BY Chs. FAULKNER, ESQ
OF BERKELEY COUNTY.
Before a large and respectable meeting Of
he Friends n the Administration t,sm
The Counties Of Jefferson. Berkeley and
Loudoun, assembled Mt Cot. Sresring.
ems Spring near Shepherdstown, .aa.
gust sofa. 1873
Alter Mr.. Edmund | Lee had concluded his
remarks, Gil ARLES JAMES FAULKNER a
rose: He complied most cheerfully with the in
~vitasion, which the kindness of the committee
had extended to h,m, OF Addressing hrs fellow
citizens upon that interesting occasion. He
aceeded TO the request with cheerfulness, be
cause disposed to contribute Whatever lay with.
In the sphere Of his very limited Abilities, 10
advance y cause which ne conceived to be ieen
tlhea with the only true policy OF this nation.
This wss a crisis at which none who loved their
country, should slumber-the humDlest Of the
party might do something Whatever could be
done, IT became imperative 10 do. Feeling, IN.
deed. as he did, IN reference to this important
controversy -regsiding n as a struggle preg
naut with the fate got tho Republic, he
could not have declined tho task assign.
ed TO him. without proving false to his primer
p,es-to his conscience-and TO his country.
He meant not, however, TO permit the ardour
~ hig ppt,itrxft hetray I.,up tntn auy nt~.Cra
rate expressions of feeling. He should not
seek to excite psejndice-nor to inhsme hostiii-
~. His cause stood not in need of aay such un
worthy arti6ces--it claimed a support upon
higher and ioftier considerations Its appeal
was to the SOBER reflection aud temperate en-
quiry of the American people
tie psrto0h not OF that intolerance which was
disposed to ascribe ar improper or criminal
design TO all who might differ with him in OPT.
Mon upon a grave political question. He begged
most particularly to be understood during the
whole course of his remarks, upon The present
occasion, as Distinguishing bst ween the great
mass OF General Jackson's supporters, whom be
had no question were Influenced by an honest
attachment to the object OF their preference
aud that knot of unprincipled politicians, term
ed The leaders OF the opposition, whose reckless
and abandoned course left no doubt of the cri.
minslity of their designs. For the first, he felt
as towards American citizens, as members Of
the same body polite. Their feelings had in.
deed been most grossly perverted, and shame
fully mlsled by srtlhoe and falsehood. 1t was,
however, yet possible for those prejudIces TO be
removed, and thoss mIsconcep tions rectiied.
FoF the latter, he felt no consider atoms OF re-
spect-thes We're beyond the reach of principle.
he would denounce them in strong and TN.
measured language. where it became his duty
10 speak Of them.
u was his happiness to be a member of that
political party which supported the existing ad
minis.ration-whlcb looked to the possible c.
lection Of Andrew jackson, with the most gloo-
my aud foreboding apprehensions. His opinions
had been tn result OF an earnest enquiry into
the true policy OF this nation-ara an attentive
examination into the private and political histo
ries and characters of the two men. And with
out casting any reflection upon .hose, who, at.
ter a deliberate investigation, had arrived at q
different result from himself, he would proceed
frankly to state the grounds upon which he had
ionndee A:5 selection-trusting that the oppor.
tunity yet left for refeotisn, and that beneficent
which has so far so signally project.
ed the institutions OF this country, might yet har.
moRIse their conflicting opinions into a result
honorable and beneficial 10 the nation.
He could nst here resist sa appeal to gentle
men OF Dom political parties apan the import
ance of this controversy-chiehy, however, 10
bis political opponents, and beg them 10 pause
before they rushed into any measure which. By
possibility, might endsnger the liberties of this
HE would remind them, that since the
organization Of this government. a crisis more
pregnant with It's fate, had never existed-a
question more awtully important to the inst.
tutIons of this Republic, had never before been
to the American people. Let the
true Character OF this contes. be disguised as i,
may, II IS neither more nor less than a conflict
for empire between The sound and the corrupt
OF 1.-THE government conflict between
its vitality and dissolution-a struggle between
the principles Of its permanency and perpetui
~ on the one hand, and the principles of its
destruction on the other. If such be not its
true character, what is! IF ii be not so, whythis
distinctive array of pAFtiesl why the unhal. |
lowed violence aud ferOcity which has cLarac. !