Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-02-25

We. the citizens Of Lewisbarg, and Green
bries county generally. viewing with feelings
OF dissatisfaction and disgust the Amended
Constitution, and believing itsproyisions par
Ssni and DISTINGUISHING to Western Virginia
Have resolved to call Meeting of the good
pesple of said County, at the Academy in
lewisburg on Friday the 18th day Of this
msnth. in the evening, for the purpose OF
discussing thepropristy Of separating the Old
Dominion ia order to obtain EeuAL kIGHrs
1--WE take ieave to differ from our trends
or the West. II 10 not the way to do business. |
J'he Valley certainly cannot nor viii not go
for this proposition. They cannot gain any
hing by it, Let our friends Of the West
think much and ponder well upon this before
they sctl
2hs Nao Charlottesville think that
this instrument will not meet with such gene
raj favor III the Valley as we at first supposed
We never reckoned for a moment upon the
unqualified appreciation Of even q moicty OF
the voters, but we did suppose thai its supe-
riority over the old system was so apparent,
that its ratification would not be seriously
opposed any schcrs, except in the small coun-
ties both OF the East and West, which viii
lose by the change the power to which they
have SO long unjustly chung. Our latest IN
formation, however, induces the belief that
many of the people Of Frederick and Angus
ia viii go agsInstit because it does not give
TO the West all to which we were justly emit
tied Most heartily would we join in the OPP
position. could we have any solid hope of a
better to rest upon. But as matters now
staud, we are astonished at the opposition
manifested by part ofthe Valley.
We venture to predict that the people Of
II G.. "a. e. al.
anauimously.-Fres Press.
rye are inclined to the belief, that there
will be but feeble opposition to the New
Constitution in Berkeley. Thspeople general
u, give it a decided preference to the old one
Mn. VAN BuREN-The editor Of the Viii
Eamstswn (Nlass,) Advocate has, fer several
weeks past, been amusing his readers with
an interesting account Of "tour," which he
has recently made through some of the beau
tiful towns and villages which are scattered
along the banks Of the Hudson. One of the
villages through which he passed, it appears
is the native place Of Mr.: Van Buren,, Secre
tary of State. The editor thus notices thi.
gentleman in connection with his birth place
''One of these villages. deserves particular
mention. 1t is Undertook, situated ON the
below Albany, and containing about 5000
inhabitants. 1t is the birth place of Mr.. Var
Buren,, the second officer in the present, ano
designed for the first in the next Nationa
Administrations parents were extremely
poor-so much so, that when a thirst after
knowledge prompted him to employ his long
winter evenings in reading books loaned him
by friends, they could not afford to furnish
him with oil and candles, and he was forced
y 20 search the forest FOR pine KNOTS, which he
Split up and used for that purpose ASto- ae-
quiring enough of the rudiments of science
to appreciate its value, and being prevented
by pecuniary circumstances from obtaining a
public education, he commenced the study
OF law In his native village, and was admitted
to the bar at the age of %. He subsequently
practiced at Sandy Hill and at Albany, and
has rapidly risen through the various grades
OF civil office to the distinguished station he
now occupies. He is emphaticaily what has
been said OF Franklin, Rittenhouse and Ro
ger Sherman self made man. Loud COM
plants have been made 10y his opponents
that he has ruled the State and oppressed
the people; but if they had spent half the
time in endeavoring to elevate themselves
that they have in fruitlessly trying to under
mine his standing, they. and no doubt the
public, would have been better off The
only fault to be found with Mr. Van Buren, i.
that his habits of intense thought and unit
ring industry have raised him above his fal
lows who trusted to the advantages conferred
upon them by high birth and princely wealth
II has been said that whatever has been done
by man, can again be done by any man.
Whether this is a true maxim or not we shall
not attempt to decide; but we do say, that
industry lies at the very foundation of all true
greatness. and no man can rise mach above
bis ordinary level without exerting it, All our
young men cannot occupy the chair Of the
Secretary of State, but all who are indu.tri-
Gus and aim high, win most certaily reach
m enyiable eminence.n
1t seems to be agreed, on all hands, that
the present Session of Congress is to be We
~ long one; and the members have quietly
Get themselves down, with Eastern gravity
and composure, to spend at least the next
-FOUR months in Washington. With some
thing OF Eastern feeling, too, perhaps. thew
are Hing, on this head, to be fatalists, and
TO bow, with submission, to the destiny which
dctains them at the moderate rate of eight
dollars per day "for services rendered.
Whether, during all this time, they are (still
hkening them to our opium eating Mahome-
dan brethren across the water wrapt in the
illusions of a brilliant fancy, whose colsring
Is heightened by the aforesaid eight dollars a /
.day-whether they are sailing, on the wings
81 lmaginatoa, through the airy regions of
ambition or mostly dreaming Of oysfars a,d .