Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-03-11

of Kentucky has done himself great credit,
by the ability and elJguenee, with which be
has indicated the cause of truth, against the
dangerous doctrines Of a new @DanieI come
to judgment" CThis Mr. Rowan, by the
way, is an old Federalist. whi,ewashed by
Jaeksonians, or as Mr. Webster expresses
It, dyed IN the seod OF all politicians, the
Lord deliver US from those whose creedis old
federal warp with modern jackson SLING
the howans, the Baldwins, the McLanes, the
! TaDeys, the Walls, the Greens. the Inrhams.
! the Van Bureas, csIEa Bsssttis dltis They are
the men who have least federation for honest
difference of opinioa-vho are the RepubIi-
cans of this day--wbo scruple not 10 call
James Madison a Federaiist, and who ex
enpilfy the Truth Of the remark that new con
vcrts are ever the most jealousy
Me. RtchIe says again--'sbut the truth is,
he (Mr Webster) thought il best TO pass
| over Mr.. Benton (who had thrown down the
| guantieD and make his blow ut Mr. Hayne,
| ltbe editor has special knack at compliment,
! mg) Tor the purpose, no doubt, of waging war
! upon tue present politics Of South Carulina.
Several letters concur in the opinion that we
shall not see his speech as it really was, but
as he may please TO make il, ANY thing in
deed, but II was," So tar tte Editors. The
extracts from the letter alluded to, are as fol-
! lows:
"Mr. Ro,van's was am able and patriotic
speech He expressed liberal and emil htened
sentiments in relation to the public lands,
conciding with the opinions expressed by
Gen. HayDe. THAT is to say, that the Y.
States had oppressed the West by selling
lands to settlers and that justice demanded
that all the public lands should be given
awayi3 The main part. and il may so
n fha b,A, an ID 81 Ia
was directed against the doctrines promuL
gated by Mr., Webster, in relation to the
States and u. States Supreme Court On
this suhiert, hei(Mr Rowan,) was full, point
ed and powerful He plead the cause of the
States, with energy, ability Sand indignant IN
dependence of spirit. He treated Webster's
doctrine as going to reduce the States to the
condition of Provinces, &c. Sc" The mo
dest writer concludes by an intimation that
MIR Webster did not hear Mr. Rowan, fearing
10 face the storm which he had conjured up.
Fiddle Stick)
We have inserted these remarks Of the
Enquirer and its sapent correspondent, for
the purpose Of asking and insisting with the
reader, that he shall compare them with MIR.
Wcbster's speech which we are now repub-
fishing. Most especially do we ask it OF
whomsoever may see this para graph, atten
lively to compare what is said above BY the
Enquirer and its correspondent, and Duff
Green's assertion that MIR. Webster contend
cd that the Federal Government had unlim-
! tied control over the States and the People,
with The Constitutional part of Mr. Websters
speech. II the reader shall not then find all
those opinions of the character and spirit of
| Mr. Websters constitutional terels most
completely falsifed, SANDERS of the dirtiest
most envious description--if he shall not find
On the other hand, that Mr.. Websters con
| struction of Federal authority, is that Of Fir
| ginia herself, affirmed by the Legislature of
| 1919, in the unanimous adoption of the report
| of Mr.. John Howe Peyton, on the Pennsyl-
| vania proposition to erect Constitutional
! tribunal if besides all this he does not ac-
knowledge to himself, in the most explicit
| and unqualified manner that Mr.. Webster's
| construction is that of common sense, without
which it is impossible for the Union TO last
trslre months--ii, we say, all these impress
ions are not made upon his mind, most deep
I ~. most convincinglv, most irrevccably--
then we give him leave to brand VS. with the
epithet which shall mos. forcibly describe the
extreme of folly and stupidity. Daniel Web
ster is nothing to us. and we even less If pos
sible to Daniel Webster; but the systematic
efforts to forestall public opinion as to the
character. of his speech, by filling the public
mind with falsehood and misrepresentation.
deserve exposure, reprobation and contempt.
The gigantic system oifalsehood and detrac-
ton resorted TO for the election of Gen jack
son, cemented and rendered irresistible, by
the union of two hundred presses, which rung
the changes throughoutthe u States in endless
succession, and COMPOUNDED and carried
away the People, by confidence and repiti-
ton of assertion, has recommended to retain
the People in their fealty TO Gen. Jackson, to
destroy all who dare assail his administration,
and secure the succession to the heir appar-
ent To sustain this system, we need not
: wonder that tools in abundance are found
: when forty presses through their Editors and
Proprietors are in the direct pay oftheTreas-
ury of the United States.-Ricltniond Wing.
The Richmond Enquirer publishes card
from the Roanoke Orator, disclaiming ga
speech imputed to him in that paper of the
18th inst" and designating a particular pas
sage as being directly the reverse of what hs
: said Mr.. Randolph accompanies the specifi
: cation with the significant commentary
, "Er rso disco on,nes;;" and Mr. Richie pub
, fishes, without murmur, the conteinptuou
, rebuke. In what admirable training Is th'
whole ''mercenary squadron"
4 Henry Clay has declined an invitation
I from a number OF the citizens Of New Or
: leans to public dinner. His visit to tina
Q place being exclusively of private characte
= | (being to his SON in law he has resolved no