Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-08-26
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Jaskso'1 has been nominated or reco.unaapd
ed as candidate for reelection. Mfr Col.
houn has been neglected and forgotten. These
movements are systematic. not accidental
The oay doubt which we have entertained
on tia SUBJECTS, whether the same influence
has governed out Of the state Of New York
which has controlled the Jsckssa party within
ID.
Rsmons-we have heard much on the
SUBJECT oil an arrangement of differences be
tween Mr.. Calhoun and Mr. Dsa Buren,.
preparatory TO the Rext campaign Details
have been furnished, ip which VIC nlace NO
confidence. A venerable and distia RUSHED
parsonage IN tirglaia has been mentioned a,
a mediator, and it is said. at proper t;me.
he IS to be made the scape goat, bearing with
hun, into the wilderness a large portion of
the sins OF the congregation. Can sur fellow
iaoorer oil the Richnlond Whig, threw auy
iIsht on the subject. But whether a treaty
mas, or has not been ratified between these
gentlemen, we consider important, as we
kh9" them both; and knowing them. we haz-
ard the opinion that neither OF the high con
tracing parties will feel themselves bound
enc Jot or title beyond what they consider
Tor their own immediate ntcrest-B
we lind the following passage in letter
published in the Colombia Times:
'.Poor Poiaest escaped by fiirhh Til.
amiable gentleman found Charleston as CON
Eulsed as Mexico; and if he was not in fact
osiraclsed, yet he saw prescription hot at his
heels"
''By great stretch Of forbearanee. they
nave not yet called Colonel Drayton a fool
aud traitor, but that forbearance will not
last. Ii Is regarded as a very unpatriotic vir-
tue IN revolutionary times. Judge Smth, the
great MoSul of the old radicals, will next be
denounced; for it is said he thinks the con
temp!ated measures Of residence un,gise
andinjudicious."
lhis intImation confirms w hat we have for
some weeks past suspected The null,fca-
tien disease--for a disease it is afiiic,s only
those who have breathed the air of the low
country, for years in succession Mr.. Pom
set, on his return home. could not enter into
the spirit which animates those who were
formerly his lntimates. We were sure, be-
tore we saw this statement, that the fact was
SO. 1t could not have been otherwise with a.
ny patriotic 'Soatheraer, who was out of the
reach oil the contagon, IL Mr.. Htyse, instead
oil Mr.. Pomsett, had been Minister 20 Mexico
| these last five years, he would have been as
much shocked at the naIhGing doctrines as
MIR. Po,lse1 himself. Not Int.
Idtpendsag Ref ras Ia an Arkansas pancr.
opposed to the Governor OF tsat Territory
(Air. John Pope,) IL IS stated, as CHARGE =.
ydinst him, that the day before leaving
Louisville for Arkansas, that hs Gov. PaDa'
came out pretty openly and violently az iiust
the course Oh the present Administration, and
extolied Mr. Ciays virtues and merits to tho
| skIes.'
II needs not the gift prophecy, We think.
to ioretell reform in the office OF Governor
OF the Territory. il the above, and more TO
| the same purpose that is told in the Afkausa.
paper, be true.
| Ii seems quito evident from the course Of
passing affairs that the next presidential cleo
ton will give rise TO alnaos: as much warmth
as was felt at the last. Mr.. Clayis now open
ly proposed as a candidate in opposition to
Gen. JACKSON The two old parties when
brought IN contact, will eaervesee like the
mesting OF vinegar With aitre, and the public
VIII again be annoyed by the unceasing ex.
plosioa of political war Mr. Clay will have
one advantage at least in the coming contest
the worst has been said against him, and G.
ven the ghost story Of tina bargain and sale"
has become SO s.alr and Improbable, as not
even to frig',teD woMen and children SEN
sihie politicians must seek for some ether de-
sace better suited to the state Of public opin-
iOn.
1t must be regretted that the press has o.
serstepped its proper modesty, aud sunk so
low ~ the estimation OF good men, Its issn-
/ tlousness must. however, cure itself: Ike
debaueh and riot in the human constitution,
| Its rancoroas heats wilt eventually render il
too inirm TO do evil. There must soon he
a separation Of the precious from the vile; for
We cannot believe that much suppression
of tFsth and suggestion of ialsebood in the
political Journals Of the country can long be
tolerated by the community such a state OF
things would argue nnsoaadness ia the
public taste and morals, only 10 he found ex-
listing IN nation or government in rapidde-
cline, or corrupt to the core. Connected
with the disorderly condition of tue press,
there are other grievances in the BODY polite
which ought to be rsfor'asd, and that which
might properly form the sabject of prcsenta
ton by grand juries--- that IS, the practices
ofcsrtain political traders. These gentry.
to be found ia most countries of the com
/ monws~l;h, stir up the passions of the people
by bringing them into collision and eugender-
lng among them disputes and colainotiens
about tlie affairs of state. Our honest yeo-
n4anry suffer much FROM drilling. and mar