Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-01-28

are, in reference to political men, political
principles and political practice, assuming
sufficiently distinct shape, to endtIe them to
az lsast passing notice. From the moment
of General Jaekson's triumph, aad--'Vhst is
far more important than any individual tn
umph or defeat--cf the triumph Of the men,
the doctrines, the feelings, and the passions,
of which he was merely the type, we felt that
this Government was positively lowered, that
the standard by which candidates FOR the high
sfiices in its gift were wont to be measured,
was degraded; and that personal. and not
public considerations and services would
hcnc sforth be the only accommodation to
confidence and employment. ''How did you
vote at the eiecton?" not "What are your
character and qualifications" is the question
now virtually put to every applicant for of
fice---and so that it be answered satisfactorily,
it is quite immaterial as to what answer
could be gwen to the other question. The
effect Of such practice is obvious: All men
DESTROYS 10 obtain or to retain place, the rela-
tives and connections to the tenth degree al
taost, of such persons, If within the sphere Of
observation Of any influential partisan, ara
converted into personal adherents--manwer-
.hippers--in effect, slavish tlatterecs-who
dare not give utterance to their honest tho'ts:
and speak, when they venture to speak at
al, ''with bated breath, and in bondman's
key's." Not at the Court of Ferdinand the
absolute, not by the press of our'F'very good
friend King Miguel the remorseless--is there
more abect sycophancy exhiIsted, than is
daily !avished upen the President and upen
those who are repute1 30 have influence with
him. As this lie homage which the meapest
of mankind ara the most ready, as well as
the most unscrupulous in eaying--and as it,
ifpersevered in thoroughly, ia supposed, and
we presume has been found, TO be the surest
road to success, perpetual contest for pre-
emnence in establishment 10 carrying on a.
mong ''the brotherhood of Hepe." This hon
orable competition naturally leads TO close
observation by all of the conduct of each; and
every apparent 'atermlssion of zeal any gem
utieXion omitted, when the mighty chieftan's
name or fame is seunded-my failure or he.
STATION TO join IN the chorus Of praise, which
ever ard anon asif, to try how far interest
cd credulty win go--is raised each or any OF
these is forthwith seized upon, noted, and
reported TO the governing powers. Spies a.
bound in thistree and happy land--not paid,
enrolled, and daily commissioned, but spies
made SO by their own vile natures and cfuv-
ing wants-who hope by these base and ready
yelahons Of others, TO supply theiack of me-
fIt IN themselves; spies who watch and re-
port whom public or political man frequcnts:
1vEat houses, what individuals; what news
papers he reads, what opinions he ut;ers,--
Arewe stating mere suspicioDsp No! posi-
tive facts, kRown 10 US as such; and, as such,
avouched 10 our Feaders--Porty discipline,
and the revival of old distinctions, are also
much relied on, The reform of Pres lent
Jackson is male to mean no more nor less,
than that, having obtained the control of an
immense patronage, entrusted TO him for
public purposes and the common veal, he is
not only atliberty, but is bound, for the sake
efprcserVipg and encouraging party fidelity,
to use 1t, to reward the services of those by
whose aid he attained this centred. Jnhap-
pny, lie party numbers very many more
claimants than Offices; and thence the neces-
aty of recurring TO another test of older date
than jackson fcderation Tie republican, pafu
rs so synonymous with 3acksonisnl, thatthose
Jacksomans who aFe,oT ever were, fedeyatsts,
andFho either want, or happen TO hold. Of
fee, cannot be permitted to plead their later
virtue against their ancient offences, bat are
TO be disappointed or derapitated. as the case
may be. Exceptions, indeed, viii occur; but
those, for n,e most part, will be found to rest
on individual and personal grounds--we do
not say, merits. The word has gone forth
from the Department of State, that the dis
junction Oh federalists ssnd repu bfasass is to be
revived, and all former fires between them
are to be rekindled 1t has reached, and been
already rc-echoed from TIE capitol of this
State: it intimates the resolution. eli the Gen
eral Committee of Tammany Han, ii inspir-
ed recent euleGy in the Common Council |
on venerable individual, who should have |
been spared such praise on such an occasion, |
and rom such motive; and it dies away a. !
and the Kisses of scorn, and the sneers ofde- |
rIslon, IN the columns of the Evening POST /
The object of all this is plain one. 1t is |
so other than, bymeans Of party discipline, |
founded ON corruption, and of party dis
Inctions, IN which no man OF common
sense and common honesty believes, to per
petuate in the unworthy hands, which have
now, through the President, possessed them
selves of the power of The nation, the exercise !
Of that power (
On another occasion, we may Illustrate
BY some examples the accmacyof these OBJ
'ervations which for the present we must
submit to the consideration of the public, as
iisIs Of the times.
The Governor and Senate of New York
nave appointed James Vandsrpool, an emf
lent lawyer, TO the office OF Circuit Judge, in |
he place OF Mr.. Duer, who was lately elected |
President of Columbia College Mr.. Van
lerpooi is styled "a web known and distin
pushed federalist" This distinction has be-
;ome merely historical No patriotic ap-
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