Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-01-28
Is not likely to keep the station to which party
feelnghas elevated himn

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Whether the above il merely floating on
the breath of report, oris founded on fact. we
DO not know, but that such viii be the course
which Mr. Van Buren, will take, we believe
lhe reputation which he has acquired, is tia,
oil an lntriguer, whose peculiar talent consists
IN managing caucuses and whose only aim is
sell The presidential chair is one due 10
long services and pre-eminent talents. Bot
what services has Mr. Van Buren, conferred
upon the country which will entitle him 20
look forward TO this high office? In what
great National question has be stood forth the
ooiu, Incorporating and ardent champion
Oh either side, that the country might have an
opportunity of sounding the depth of his tai
ents9 10 the courtly phrase ofour War min
| ister, recollection retains lnotl the fact of
| any important measure, either proposed or
| advocated by him, but the single one of the
banking system, recommended by him whilst
governor of New York, in his message to the
legislature; and which had ike to have
| brought ruin aud dismay upon the CONNER
cial and financial operations OF the State No,
we never find him stieneously and fearlessly
advocating an important cause, regardless
whether itwere popular or not, and prompted
osly by the impulse of humanity and the
good oil the courftry;-it is only when the
storm is over aud the current sounded, that
be spreads his light skiff to the breeze.
Yet Mr.. Van Buren, is IA pleasing and grace
ful speaker, and there are but few men, with
whom we have become acquainted, who
possesses more Of the stnriter IN mode: He
has all the finished grace and courtesy of
chesterfield. and carries it into public life
1t is to this, and to his qualifications as a
managing politician, that be owes his present
elevated standing. II has been correctly said
OF him, that Nature seems to have intended
him for sphere in which the passions and
prejudices of party prevail, and endowed
hum with power, like a master spirit, TO call
them into action or TO put them in play by
the subtleiy and energy he employs.
Frederick Eraminsr.
Who, knowing the Hon THOMAS MooRE
while IA Congress, could have believed he
could have been so suddenly transformed in
to q great man and an unequalled diplomstists
Yet that such a transformation has taken
place within a few months, your readers are
already certified by the Presidents Message
IN the Gazette of to-day His "judgme1.f,n
his ''discretton." his assiduity," his sspron,p-
tstnde." and his "capacity,n have all been
most signally manifested in his having bro't
TO successful result in Jire weeks negotiations,
which had batiled the skill of his distinguish.
ed predecessors for years. the coun-
try cannot sufficiently express its oblgatisns
tothe President for has selection of Minister
to Colombia, nor be sufficiently grateful 10
such son IS Thomas MooRE:
What is to be done with the Medal which
the Libcyator Of one Continent sends to the
Regcaerator OF another. What? Why the
Constitution must be altered, and this pre-
cious medal must be rcceivad, and go to the
f,,fA L
suspended, to serve as another "n,isrm to
siinsulate to further deeds of glory and bene-
voicnce!"-y4leg. Gazette.
The Southern Excitement" as it has
been called, has apparently beea narrowed
In its limits, and mitigated in IFS rage. The
climate of Virginia was too pure for its con-
tagion to spread there; and its progress is
not netc alarming even in the hot region of
Georgia. In South Carolina, alone cit walk
eth as the pestilence in darkness We be-
ieve, however, that the efforts of the wise
will again restore that State to health, activi-
ty, and chserfulness--nseraa sand u, sano cor
pore.
The people of Charleston, for their late
movements with regard to their Rail Road,
have drawn down upon themselves the de-
nunciations of all the uitrGs and disunionists
Z I'LL DVutH CdIuIth6 phTuSdlfs VI W.T. VAL
HoUN being particular severe in their ami
madversions upon the patriotic city. With
what good grace this can come from them,
may be known, when it is recollected that
before, during and since the last war, Mr..
Calhoun was the most strenuous and actire
CHAMPION of the Tariff and INTERNAL In
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. now denounced and
! CONDEMNED by .iA and bis party.-Cer-
tainly, of all men in tleworld, Mr. Calhoun
and his Southern friends should b the last
to tall about State Rights-State Rights
/ Why the time was, and cot long since either,
! when Mr.. Calhoun was spoken Of in the
South, as themost dangerous statesman in
the Government, on account of bus political
views and opinions; when he was stigmatfzed
as 4 'latitudinarian'-ss an advocate for a
"splendid overshadowing government" and
all those other epithets which his partisans,
for Effects sake, so literally showered upon
Mr.. ADAM during his administration. We
are led naturally to enquire what reasons
have operated to produce this wonderful
changer We look at all the facts which have
trsnspired in the political world on Ibis sub
ject. and the conclusion irresistibly forces it
self upon the mind, that "vaultins ambition"
party design, ana interested purposes, have
operated in some degree both upon the leader
and his partisans
We will not refuse TO accord to Mr.. CAL
uoUN the need of praise for his hixh talents,