Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-02-14


of Gen. Jackson, to suspend his own
account of them you cannot suppose
that the honorable gentleman would
have felt himself atliberty to offer TO
the world any thing but what bore
the true stamp and colouring of the
views of his party, so we'll defined by
Swift as the madness of the many for
the gain of the few and madness, alb.
solute, downright madness it was, to
expose the veteran to the modification
of such reception. Never was there
a more complete failure from begin
ming to end. For years and years the
day had passed by without any OF those
exotic demonstrations OF Joy which on
the present occasion and by dint of
long chemical process of the great
political alohymists of the moment, had
been conjured from their miserable cru
cibibles; a mass at the Cathedral, an i'll
attended Militia review on the public
square, and pick nick dinner in Da
WIS., ballroom, would have celebrated
its return. Why after lapse of thir
teen years, such celebration should
have been deemed ne cessary, could be
no secret to the rejecting part Of the
community, who always kept themselves
aloof from the macy restless and reck.
less adventures with which this state
abounds. who ever found in Louisiana
a convenient focus from the despera-
does to whom any change must be
change for the better; from the great
mass of fools, who basking in the glare
OF sun Of their own creation, expect
ed to be emancipated from their habtu-
al, perhaps, constitutional insignia
canoe by its genial rays, TO enter the
road OF promotion By notice, to which
they could not otherwise have been
entitled, and were at all events, at all
hazards, 'conte que conte,' as the gle-
rious commander OF ouI city cavalry,
Pierre Gallon would say, determined
TO curry favor with the rising luminary
from the woods of Tennessee, and its
satellites from all parts of the Union -
This day this solemn day-the mighty
preparations for which had been made
to rcsound through the Union, alas!
has passed by with bitter modification
to the least sanguine partsans OF its
great idol. The Legislature OF this
state, who had invited the vetei an to the
feast, had forgotten, as our Governor
told them in bis late message, to make
appropriations for the purpose and
had no, number Of citizens subscribed
a certain sum, the old General would
have been obliged to partake Of pot
luck as the saying is. the committee
OF arrangements had not, for long
time, been able to digest a suitable plan
for the reception. The masters of YES
sells who bad been asked to form body
and JOIN The grand procession met, ac-
cordiDg to a notice in the papers, to con-
fer on the expediency OF the proposed
measure, when in the midst of them
appeared Captain Alfred Hennon. usu-
ally not considered naval man, being
well respected member OF the bar;
and Captain George w Morgan, colo
mel of the regiment of town militia,
aud sheriff Of this city, who, with more
than usual fervor, wished to impress
them with sense of their bounden duty
on the occasion. But the masters did
not agree, and merely declared they
would, with few exceptions) hoist their
colours in commemoration OF the day,
as usual Notwithstanding this most
explicit declaration. they were mention
ed 10 the play bills as part of the show.
Every thing was managed in the same
style and spirit. About eleven o'clock,
about dozen steamboats, brought the
General, his suit, and some Of the
militia, down from Liyandais' plan
tation-the steamboat Pocahontas, with
the Gsneral on board, taking the lead.
This was the only impressive, not to say
imposing. sight Of the day. In the bow
ofthe Pocahontas were discerned fifty
square bales of the Generals own crop
of cotton. Our militia General BIanch,
although by trade cotton broker, fan
cied that Iincinnatus in his retirement
had devised some new plan OF, fortifea-
tons, and two of the New York dele
CATION, Mr.. Saul Alley and Mr.. Thad-
deus Phelps, it is said, were quite san
guine in their expectations. that il was
the Generals intention to reward their
zeal in his cause, By dividing the con
Segment between them. But no such
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