Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-10-08

contact with him. in the way Of business,
also doubts It. He is described as the
beau ideal of an irrssoluis, inefficient,
pompous compound of nothingness
One who has had much to do with him,
asserts that be has such constitution,
or instructive, or habitual mode of he
station, that ask him how much two
and two makes, and his answer would
be, IN think OF it, He thinks frsm
morning TIL nighi--thinks as be doses
in his chair-thinks as be snuffs the
smoke from bis long pipe-thinks as he
walks TO and from his sffiee thinks as
he rides bis Rosinate, as lean and as
thoughtful as himself thinks always,
but never oeis until be can no longer
avoid action. The Captains quiz him =
the Lieutenants chew their guilds with
sutlen contempt, and the little Middies
never cast eyes upon him but they feel
longing to him. He seems TO be
as little burdened with the respect OF
the officers Of the Navy as any person
| VII, was suddenly lifted up To station
| Tor which nature never designed him.
Nevertheless he smokes his pipe, and
spends 1.-THE OF his salary with as much
self complacency as can well be ina
sned to belong To such moral and
physical composition Of mind and mat.
teri --~-
Prescription in Virginia Whoever
has imagined that Masnn & Dixon's
line formed Gordon saaifaire. to- stop
the ravages o! prescription southw ard!y,
is likely to be disappointed - Another
Of Virginia's sons has fallen a victim.
Col JAMES RoBsRrsoN, Jun. has been
removed from the callectsrship of Pc
tersburg, and CHASLEs ID. McINpsE ap.
pointed his successor. or Col Robert.
son we know nothing personally: we
shall not, therefore, indulge in an eulo
gum on his character We are pleased
TO, find, however, that the Old Dpminion
oi Petersburg. jackson print. assures
US that no fault has been fund in rela.
tios 10 the management Of the office, in
which, we understand that Col. X. has
given general satisfaction Fer what,
thsn, was he dispacedi The same print
tells Us, "the course he pursued during
the last presidential contest brought bin
STRIFE is within ths rule which appears,
and very Justly, tn have been laid down
by the pre- sijeDt OH the subject of reno
walls from office. arising from political
con sidefations" That's, gentle reader, |
Col Robertson entertained an opinion
in regard to the relative qualifications
of the two candidates for the Presidency
perhaps had Independence enough to |
express bis PREFERENCE for Mr. Adams
nay, we doubt not, actually appeared at |
the polls aud gave his vote for him, be-
ing 50 aid fashioned in his notions Of . |
freeman right, as never once to think |
that he was thereby committing an overt
act Of petit treason. Did be prostitute
his Office to party purposes Or neglect
its duties:--far from i've are assur-
ed that he VAS faithful officer, aud
gave general Satisfaction. lie is pun
i.hed. the rsicre, solely for opinioss's sake
lie had, when forming his estimate Of
the public characters of the day, trusted,
too implicitly, to the opinion entertain.
ed and expressed of the IN by the Enqui-
rsr He had been taught by that paper
10 believe hard things OF Gen. jackson.
Mr.. Richie had conclusivsiy demon.
strated the utter unfitIess of the Hero
for civil office; and con6ding as he did,
in the honesty, sincerity, and patriotism
of that print, is il strange that Col Re-
berison should have been convinced by
its iorcibls reasoning and illustrations,
that Gen. Jackson's election ought to be
"deprecaied as CURSE upon the coun-
try.n Ten to one, the case 10 as We have
supposi.iously stated it, that Col. X. was
misisd by the editor OF tbs Enquirer in
forming bis opinion OF Gen. Jackssn,--
misled by that man,--virtus art thou but
a Bame?--who is now the Prose Lau.
rsats of the present administration, and
who, we venture TO predict will seek to
Justify or pailiate his removal--thsugh
caused by those abstract opinions which
be, Col. Robertson. derived in all prsba.
biity, from the Enquirer itself
The Old Dominion assures US that
"the removal has surprized nobody
net even Col r himself.o The course
of the present administration, il is true,
| has been Of such character that the
public is no longer surprized At any act
however fatuous. yindiciive, or Injurious
to the nation. When Col. Robertson
and his friends were told by the organ,
before he came into power. that Gen.
Jackson would reward his friends and
| punish his enemies; when they saw that
age, irreproachsbis character, revolu
| tionary services, and faithful devotion