Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-10-30
ADDRESS
" me Antt Jackson Central Committee
TO The Peeple of V;ye;,,;a

freiiow. Citizens: rhe fest of November r.
Pdiy Apprenticeship moment is a, hand when
you must perform your part in the election of a
presdent-the highest, the most mnor,ant du.
~ TO which freemen can be called: and he Cen.
tfsi Committee, believing that an exposition OF
some OF the principles involved in that election.
'i'o consequences flowing from il, may be &C
ceFsaole, proceed to discharge this final act OF
'nelr ofIiciai DUTY That the office Of President
VI tnese United States IS the most august, and,
at the same time, the most responsible under
| Heaven, none viii deny. On the iudicious &C..
lection ofths officer. may depend the safety of
| these States--the success Of the great exner;
| nent OF mans Capacity for self government
the interests OF liberty in every quarter of the
globe. 10 the President are confded powers,
eat, various, and complicated. lie is Com
mander in-chief of the Army, the Navy, and the
Milttia, when called into service. With tbe
advice and consent the Senate, he makes trea.
ties, sppoints ambassadors, public ministers and
consuls-Judges of The Supreme Court. and All
| other officers of the Uoited States, whose an.
polDtments are not Otherwise provided for BIZ
the Constitution 1t is his duty also to give to
Congress information of the state Of the Union
| and recommend to their consideration such rnea.
| sures as he shall Judge necessary and expedient
To the adequate performance of duties so ar
duous, so various, 50 complicated, talents of the
highest grade, cultivated by the hand of sci.
ence- matured by experience, and adapted to
The Office BY practice, are necessary: he must
be deeply read in the school Of politics, or he
will not understand the constitutions ane! laws
of the Federal and State Governments, nor the
peculiar and relative provisions of each law pre-
sented tor his signature. To be the safe deposl.
tory ofso much pewer, he must have charac.
ter pure as unsunned snow and passions sub.
dued to the voice of reason. Such, ielow.eiti.
zens. IS the Office you are about TO fill, and such
faint outline, of the man worthy to occupy il.
Two candidates alone are held up to your view
Mr.. Adams and Gen. Jackson. One of those
you must choose. 1t is choice of awful re.
isponsbty; and in making it, we conjure you,
as Americans, as Freemen, alive to the deep
interests at stake, to discard all passion, all pre-.
JUDGE, all partisan zeal--to fx reason firmly on
her throne; and to obey, with unshrinkng firm.
ness, her still small voice. OF Mr.. Adams you
have had long experimentation his youth up
he has been in the public service; at an early
period of bis life, he was euIogised by the Fa-
Their of his Country'--as an ambassador TO Lon
don, at 81. Petersburg, at Client, he did the
State good ssrvice-as Senator he was faithful
to bis trust--and all admit, the ability with
which, for eight years, be discharged the i'm
Portant and difficult duties of Secretary of State
In reward for these services, the People OF the
United States, in the fair and regular constitu-
tional mode, elected him President. For nearly
four years he has discharged the duties Of this
nigh office, and what are the sins he has com
mIttedi Hashe violated the Constitution Has
he oppressed any c,izenl Nothing of All this.
Has he been extrsvagsnt, wasting the public
money. instead of paying of the public debit
So far from it, statements from the Treasury
cla4u Hat -, r. Lar ti.eoa Ia.
portion of the debt has been paid off, than with.
in any preceding three years. But Mr.. Ad
ans is friend to tariff and Internal Improve
ments: His predecessors all sanctioned mea.
sures OF the same character; and so have ma
jority OF the representatives of the people, the
laws which MIR. Adams approved. II is said,
too, land scarcely denied by his friends) that
General Jackson holds the same opinions. Up
on the whole, we think, fellow citizens, we may
say safely, that the first term of Mr.. Adams Pre-
sidency has inflicted no wound on the constlu.
ton, or the liberties of his country; and that,
Judging of the future BY the past, there will be
no danger to either, in his reelection.
1t becomes now our duty, feow-citizens, to
say few words of him who has oeen aptIy call.
ed the military Candidate Upon this subject
we enter with no feeling of pleasure: for as
Heaven shall Judge us. we bear Gen. Jackson no
i'll will. Had he been content with the station
for which nature, temper, and habit fitted bin,
we should have been among The last to disturb
his repose, or pluck one sprig from the laurel
be had won; but when be is so yehemently
pressed upon us as President-when our sup.
port OF him is demanded in tone. which seems
more like command than eHtreGty, we will not
shrink from canvassing his merits. In the per-
Eormance offhis task, il is not our purpose to go
over in detail the various charges which have
been urged against Gen. Jackson. The list is
long, and the items heavy--our limits would
hardly permit The bare enumeration of them;
and this is the less necessary, IS they have all
been laid before you, and amply discussed
some of them in the Address OF the Anti.Jack-
son Convention, others in the public papers.
We will remark, as to these charges, aud the
proofs accompanying them, that they have con.
vinced us that Gen. Jackson would be wholly
unworthy OF the Presidency, even it bis talents,
education. and experience. were vastly beyond
what they are. Wee said that President
Of the United States should be man Of general