Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-10-30

eHS cautious management OF q cool, prudent, and
ienecting mind the management Of one at the
mead OF our AFFAIRS who has watched the politi-
Sh current win the eye of . politician-who
=" nmseii aDie 10 deal with her practised puS.
i'c men--who knows her resources. her policy
and her power-who has already measured his
strength with her diplomatists-not merely
measured his sword with her men of war.
| Now, fellow Citizens ask YOU rs Gen lack
son IS man h;ied for these high and respons
PIE dutest Don't say to me thar he Can get men
ehat VIII DO them Tor him. know better. lst.
Because no one can do them for him. You might
as well tell me that child could undertake IN
turn architect, aud plan a palace. and get the
Stone Quarters aud hod-men to rear il in all ire
TAR proportions and architectural beauty. AZ 10
| say mat the president of the U. States who in.
structs, and must instruct every minister-ubo
must propose laws bearing upon our foreign re-.
istons, and approve of them-who ms; preside
over, guide the cabinet where these questions
are discussed may be utterly ignorant OF them
and YET govern the nation with credit add safety,
sdmitted oy some OF his supporters that
TINS man is himself unfit for the high duties os
this station, and yet you are asked to eIec, him
| because others can advise with him, and con
trout him, and act for him. This, m the first
Place, IS an insult upon your judgment--to ask
you 10 vote tor man incapable of doing those
very DUTIES which you elect him 10 do: Would
you have man aprointeds Judge, who had me-
! yer read page OF law-or had never been in a
courl-house-to decide upon YOUR liberty, your
properly, and our lives trusting TO the LAWYERS
| and clerks to keep him straight Besides, the
very fact that he is ignorant of his business.
| makes it more probable that he 7viT not take al
wee, because ignorance and wilfulness GO hand
IN hand. l say, that il is an insult upon your un
Outstanding: 1t ~ prostitution of your high
privilege as voters TO ask you to elect man 10
t'i an Once, not because he can fill it, but be.
cause others can do the duties of it for him.
Fellow Citizens: We might as well have q
king at once, and permit the Son to succeed the
father. though he may not be old enough TO wear
breeches-because, like General Jackson, he
would always have his ministers, and secretaries
and great men in Office, who could do the bust
ness tor him.
And. in the next place, General lack
son, IT elected president, will not be able to
| manage these important concerns by substitute,
because his supporters are the very nen who
oppose the only plan by which we can render
ourselves independent of all foreign embarrass.
ments 1t We are enabled to supply ourselves
by our own labour, with all those articles of use
and luxury that We must now depend upon 70.
reign nations for, and chiefly upon England, we
shall not, IN the event of war with her, or the
passage OF any act of uon-intercourse, or the
establishment of a blockade, find ourselves pay
ing two prices for inferior articles of daily and
universal necessity. We shall then see the South
supplying the raw material to the North--the
country supply the towns; and within the range
of our vast territory, stretching almost from the
torrid to the frigid zone, with its variety of eli
mate and productions, we may trade among
l hut al III.
(which now goes abroad) TO improve and fertl
ize our own native laBd--to doite the States
closer together by the ties of interest as well as
of political union--and above all, to dtfiise in
tel!igence, and learning. and religion among all
classes of our population. But, fellow citizens,
the Jackson men for the most part are opposed
to this system The leaders among them, in
Virginia, and the CaroliDas and Georgia, and
New York, say that the United States have no
right to make internal improvements, and they
support their man upon lhese grounds. Has not
Your country prospered since the government
have exercised the power? Have you any OBJ
jeciions to great national roads like the Cum
berland road? Do you not look forward with
anticpations of better times to the establishment
of canal along your borders' know you do
But repeat to you, what no one Can deny, that
the opposers Of these measures are almost 10 a
man, through the whole land the friends of Gen.
Jackson-meD who even threaten to destroy tbs
Union, rather than submit to their exercise
Let him be elected then, and bring in his adhe
rents with him; and imagine for yourselves
what hope there win be of keeping at peace, or
upon fair footing with foreign powers, when
these vast and vitality important considerations
are to be handled by his knovledge, and the par
tial views of his partizans.
pass over, fellow citizens, many other i'm
portant considerations, combining myself TO this
one. Isit not important then, that you who
think with me, should do your best endeavors
to prevent General Jackson's election! NV
friends, do YOU wish to see Confusion, and Dis.
cord, and WAR brought about with foreign ma.
tionsl Do YOU choose that the ruling party in
Virginia-tbe men who have resisted, year at
ter year. your prayers for Convention and
Equal Rghts-shsll have another triumph over
your Are you ready 10 say, that every lncisn
fighter, or every man who may chance ogan
a victory, shall march into the presidential of
fee, Are you willing 10 give up the growing
prosperity of your country. roads and canals,
and manufactured Are you prepared to make
Gen. Jackson President, and Mr.. Van Buren,
and John C. Calhoun Vice Roys over him' III
YOU are, stay at home--forget your rights
yield your privilege of self government to the
Richmond party. II you are not, come to the
Polls, my counsrymen. and shew yourselves a.
wake to YOUR interests-able to decide for your,
seIves--true Mountain Boys--resdy and willing
to maintain and supper, the rea! interests OF your
happy country.
A Frseholder Of Berkeley.
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