Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-05-07

I uis Oaseness, ne mas
ate mpted to smuggIs himself into office.
oy offering two men as his securities
one notorious bankrupt, and tina 9TH
er an obscure mechanio-who are not
worth dollar on earth. Bot If. there
IS any part of this mans conduct. tina,
deserves the lash in any manner. il is
his attempt to impose his securities upon
the Judge, who must necessarily have
been ignorant of their private circum
stances, as men of property and res.
possibility. 1t was, in our judgment, as
dishonest as it was impudent Taking
the whole transaction together, it is
without exception or qualification, one
OF the most bavefaced and Infamous Al,
tsmpts,to impose upen the public, which
we have ever known: fraud, which
merits, hot only the most marked re-
probation, but the widest exposure
The less we have of this kind of Re
form the better.
We will conclude with the language
Of a contemporary, that, observation-disclosures
the cries of prescription and extraya
gance so loudly uttered against the Ad
ministration of Mr. Adams, which was
solely intended to deceive the people,
we well knew, that IL General jackson
came into power, the loudest brawlers
Ia favor OF reform and economy would
be even more prospective and extrava
CANT in reality, than they wished to
make the people believe Mr.. Adams
was We do not know that any one
would object TO General Jackson's ap.
pointing his friends to office; il is no
more than what was expected; but we
did expect that be would select qualified
individuals for the various stations he
had to fill. II, however, we might Judge
for some of the examples before US, the
only qualification required, even to off.
ees in which scientific knowledge is re-
CURED, is, whether The candidate had
either good voice for crying "huzza
for Jackson!" or the more enyiabie ia
lent of obtaining votes,whe Their by pluck
ing buttons, or punching the ribs of the
People -
Law Intelligence ~ We understand
that a bill of indictment was found on
Saturday. against a quotation from
Shakespeare, as being lbelIous. We
have not heard whether Shakespeare
was indicted for writing the libel or
somebody else for quoting il. Ii it be
the former, the old gentle man may be
compelled to run away again, as he did
once on time, after having fixed a
lampoon upon the gate Of one Nj De
Luce. Will the people bear this!
" Y Com .4dU.
Liberty Of Tie Press.--The late Grand
Jury not able to End cause of complaint
against any of the persons engaged in
the abduction or secretion OF Stephen
son, did not seperate, we are told. until
| they had taken measure calculated, *
il could be enforced on this free com
muuity, to keep the public as ignorant
of the Williams engaged in that abduction,
as they themselves could desire. We
are told thatthe foreman OF that Grand
Jury, bg direction, presented Us Of the
Morning Herald, To his honor the Re
! corder, as persons who had offended
against the character aud dignity of his
court The Grand Jury were so deli
cate asnot to indict US in their own case,
but we understand the Recorder handed
over to Mr. Maxwell the district Alter
ney, who will bring il before the next
Grand Jury. We understand the article
to which the Grand Jury took exception
was that in which we quoted two lines
of Shakespeare. The !ibellous matter
is as follows:
Gin the corrupted currents ofthis world,
| Offences giidsd hand may shove by justise'
We made no application of the lines,
and do mean none 1t seems the Grand
Jury have, and tell the werid-"you
NEAR us.o SO much for being stall and
sober and never crac kinga joke. The
merry editor of the Enquirer has quoted
Shakespeare ten times over, and no
Grand Jury ever thought of indleting
him for it, The Pest is forever pokeing
his latin at all who come in the way,
and the learned editor of the Cemmer
cial keeps dictionary of quotations
re ady for every occasion The lot has
fe,l upon Jonah. What is meant by the
procedure, time will dstermins'-But if
that body of men, or any other equally
or more or less potent, think to silence
mems thoughts and tongues by such
threats, they will find themselves mista-
ken. The time has not come when the
| liberty of the press is to be thus trammei-
ed, and when high names 'and gilded
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