Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-12-09
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MARTINsBURG, Drcrxs.n 9. 1850


Small Po.-We learn, by a gentleman d..
rect from Winchester, that as many as tbree
ne" Eases OF small pox had made its appear
snce 10 ,hat place, and that considerable a.
sdrn nad arisen among the Inhabitants. As
preventive, we earnestly recommend tbs -
an. vaccination Of every person that has
some warm paragraphs are circulated in
enc newspapers, touching recent removal,
nm ONCE under the general government
anu me state administrations We do mot
Io~ nouce the particular cases, because NE
no not as yet know what were the recom-
menaaiions or representations to the pes;
oeh. or other authorities, whs NAV have been
misied or oyerborne. But there are general
principles oil conduct, both for them and the
ciizens generally, to which we have more
than once adverted and the violation of which
Is Always reprehensible. When the cousrRY
Is wen served in any post.-when the func.
uonary sets no bad example-if he has done
NO = than exercise the common and in
deieasible right of political preference and
franchise-he ought to be safe. Any chance
expose the country to some risk; and the
public veal ought ever to be paramount to the
interests OF any man or any party. I'll ne
Jaut J~atnass," said Mirabean, . s,ettrc balance
an homne ct is aairie." ga man and the ma.
ton must never be put seyerauy into the
scales" The system Of forwarding partisans,
at the risk of the public good, and to the
excitement OF a scandalons ayidity for place
lis manifestly repugnant to patriotism.
II has, we acknowledge, been Just pursued
IN France, by the triumphant Liberals. but
they Piled for 'the fell swoop' a vast political
reyolution,-a great conflict of decisive prin-
ciples,-an instant responsibility for the cause
OF free government aud civil liberty. Their
organs, however, confess that the cause
and nation are disparaged by the multitude
and the eagerness ofthe applicant-of the see
kers of the loaves and fshes-in every part
'ofFrance. In our republic, the same or sim.
ilat excuses for substitutions do not exist
When they are made, merely to reaompensc
zeal in favor of one candidate for the Presi-
dentship, or to punish a simple preference
for another, the public evils are incurred,
without a compensation than can properly be
called public or deemed at all commensurate
We must confess that we feel surprised when
an applicant succeeds, who has sought an of
flee still In possession Of a respectable and
capable man, likely to he a severe sufferer by
ats loss. There is a grossness oc cupidity, in
decacy and assurance in the very pursuit g.
demand, which offends the sensibility of ge-
nerous honor, and argues in itself u~nfitness
for the public seryice.-The casuits have de
bated, without determining the point, wheth-
er, if two men be en- a plank at sea in the
last extremity Of danger, one can justifiably
push the other of, for self preservation =
This IS a much stronger instance than any
supposable one, Of pushing a worthy and ne
cessitous citizen ost o foffice and bread. Yet
even with the plea and alternative of life and
death, we should not like to meet, after such
an act, the feelings and looks of u%nsophisti.
Gated nature and reason. And still more, if
we were the distributors Of patronage, would
be ashamed to have gratilied the other de-
scflption o~fsupporters.
Another consideration may be intinatedin
this matter. II is that Of American birth, in
opposition to mere deaezenship. 70 be sure,
after naturalization, all are equal; but there
are still degrees, periods and forms Of con
nexion and affinity with the natives and the
soil, which should be taken into the account,
when office is solicited; and there are .9saeri-
tered in every American breast, and the want
of which would be a repreach.-.Nat. Gas.
INDIAN RIGHTS
Mr.. Jefferson, in a letter TO Gen. Knox,
Secretary of War, dated Philadelphia, Aug.
10th, 1891, declares
"1hs Indians haze a right TO the occspstioa
Of their Lands, independent Of the States ,ciih-
IN ,chose chartered lines they happen to be; that
until they cede them by treaty, or other
transaction equivalent to a treaty, no act Of
State can give a right to such lands; that
neither under the present Constitution, nor
the ancient confederation, had any State or
person a right to treat with the Indians with