Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-05-27
Tbi. !. the proposition which h.. excited /.

uehn ouNpouflng OF wrath and venom, by a
set oil would-bs politicians who have made the
truly original and brilliant discovery that
wisdom and piety, and patriotism arc csnii
ned TO themselves. To hear them talk, ore
would imagine that the valsr and resources
Of South Carolina and Georgia had carried us
triumphantly through tie peril ssd blood of
the Revolution. You san hardly see Virginia
and Massachusetts upon the new South,rn
map of the United States. Nsw-Y York is not
even mentioned, moreover, We are informed.
and with IN finite gravity too, and il is proved
to US by mathematical solicitation, that 5.
Carolina and Georgia always have paid about
, two-thlsis, or between two thirds and three
iour,hs, Of all the revenue of the United States
And thea If we viii net believe al their doc.
triRss asd swallow all their constitutional
dogInss-if we viii rot at snce admit ,hat
what appears 10 US "two-pophy leaf Of stale
brown bead. ia "a good shoulder of mutton
as ever was eateH," tkey get iito towering
passion-swssr ard rave, and bounce. and
spntter, and talk 10 the most msgniloqsent
aud sWagsenag style OF what they will do
They'll withdraw FROM the union and leave
US TO seuisl2 for ourselves. 50 they will.
Now we have read in book, written.
we suppose, by some lying hereto. that these
saae magHifcent and fiery Seuthrons had
not force enough 81 their own ia The Revola-
ton, to keep down their owa Tories; and
that they were rescued from the grasp Of
King George, chiefly by Virginis pifiss and
Yankee bay onets, led on by Yankee Black
smith. We hope the Southern Review will
show, in its next number. that Massachusetts,
was saved by South Carolina, and that the
Georg,ans took Corawallis As TO the rsve
nue. OF the United States, we do believe that
South Carolina pays nsGr!y as mach as little
Connecticut. In 1915 the value eflsnd and
houses ia South Carolina was estimated at
scarcely seventy seven millions OF doliars.
whit Connectieut was raied at eighty eight
II tee same proportion still holds, we have
no doubt that Connccticutas being the richer,
"a somewhat the larger consumer OF the
wo, and therefore contributes moro to the
revenue. 'sAl our members" says the mem
Der Of Congress, 'declarc without scrupls
their owa iaotility and insignihcance." What
makes them useless and Insignificant but
their own perversty, wrons hsadsdness and
follyp The South, especially South Caro
Lima, is held in utter, undissuised, sneering
contempt" If by the South" is meant the
Coopers. Haynes, etidsenus omns, truly we
are right glad Of it, for never was contenp.
mors sbundanty earned or more richly mer-
tied
"if we are asked, ought we 10 hear thess
injuries any lsnscr?' he say NO" Very
fierce and pugnaeioss indeed! We trust,
however, that evon after the South Carolina
proportion of the revenue is Withdrawn, the
United States viii still be able to afford, at
pinch, stsel and gunpowder for rebels, aud
hemp for traitors. We have enc suggestion
to offer TO these Southern leaders, drawn
from the history Of the Whiskey Instruction.
II wss evidently not the intention Of the
ieaters in that miserable tagi comedy to
urgs the people into open rebellion and war;
bat by dint ofclamour and lying, aad all sorts
of infamous nnisTepreseB ations against tho
purest and mlldest government that ever sx-
listed, they exalted The passions of the people
10 ssch pitch of evaporation and fury that
I they could not and would not DO controlled -
! They could not allay tho STERN which they
had excited. Let the Southern leaders, then,
beware, for although the leaders oil the West-
ern insurrection were psrdoned by the Presi-
dent, they will fall into the hands Of man,
who, though he is not Washington, 10 sol
der, and not very apt to blench, and has
natural penehant for hanging and shooting.
The Seiota Gazette, (Chllisothe,) thus no
tices tic confirmation of the "Aeasenrborn"
in the Senate of the U. States by the casting
vote of Vice President Calhoun:
1--WE candidly confess that we were rot pre-
pared TO receive the news, conveyed to the
pablo, in the first part oil the above para
graph. That an American Senate. with ils
tice-fresident at its head, should hayo %
far osscsEaed! from its fsrmer personal and
political dlgalty, as to have confirmed the
nomination Ci such man AS Anos Kendall,
TO an office, but httla below ia responsibility