Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-06-16
THE GAZETTE.
THURSDAY, JUNE is. 1881.
From the National Journal Of Jane 4.


Ger TO our columns, the annexed article from
the Telegraph. The views whichit presents,
nd the statements it makes of the recent po-
Gtical state of things, the mysterious iniiu.
noes which have been exerted over the mind
of the President, are, and have long been,
yell known in this vicinity. We have fire.
Onently referred to them in our owncslumns
Ne have repeatedly proclaimed our belief,
,bat the imbecility and the vanity, of 'the
ala nan" laid him open to imposition. We
have long believed that If his friends posses
sed common caRdor, they would admit that
the anticipations in which they INDUCED, and
the representations they made in relation to
the manner 10 which he would administer the
a affairs of the Government, were wofully dis
4 snnoirted--we have constantly appealed to
their protested principles in 1929, and asked
them to reconcile them with their practice in
81 lss0.-We have now a full confession OF the
truth The notosiety Of the facts developed,
precluded us from questioning the accuracy
Of the statement, and we present TO our rea-
/ ders delineation OF Gen, Jackson, of bis ad
ministration. Of his hollow professions, of his
iusincere pledges from the hand OF one who
cannot be ignorant, and who, we really be.
has no interested motive in abandon
y ing one whom he has so long cherished.
From the Washington Telegraph, hu,e 2.
To the agency of an unseen, irresponsible
influence, is to be attributed, the rupture
between the President and Vice President;
! and to it is to be attributed the late extraor
binary dissolution Of the cabinet
General jackson, SO far from removing
4 them on account of the manner inwhich they
have discharged their official duties, in his
letters to Mr. Ingham and Mr.. Branch, says:
sin accepting of yourresignation, it is with
great pleasure thafI bear testimony to the
integrif, and zeal with which you have man
aged the fiscal concerns of the nation. In
your discharge Of all the duties OF your Of
fee, over which have any control, have
been fully satisfied
Wherefore, then, were they dismissed?
Was it because the public interest required
I their REMOVAL Mr.. lngham is explicit on
h the point. He says in his letter lately pub
HGshed,
Departments with each other, and with the
President, has never, TO my knowledge, been
interrupted for moment, nor has any diff
4 ference of opinion, as to the measures ofthe
government, divided the cabinet in a single
instance; SO far as | recollect, according to
I the line of separation now 50 generally as
cribed in the public papers"
Its apparent that public considerations did
not control this movement What did, Co.
vernon Branch has said, that he went as far
as man of honor could go, and in a late
letter he consents to be candidate for Con-
gress. expressly upon the ground, that he
dares believe that his country will approve
/ the course which he felt it his duty TO pursue
in he's intercosSso ,cith The citizens Of Washing
/ ton, dou5ag has late residence among them Mr..
lngham and Governor Branch were dismiss
ed for political and private causes. Neither
9 have been avowed, because neither would he
Happroved by the people One of the causes
was, that they would not permit the Execu-
! tive will 10 regulate their private intercourse
\ with the citizens Of Washington; an attempt
4 10 do which, although often threatened by
an irresponsible combination, of which Maj
1 William B. Lewis is an acting agent, was
4 for many months resisted by General Jack
son, and was not acquiesced IN until sur
bounding him here with their chosen agents,
and operating upon him from abroad through
prepared channels, they persuaded him that
his popularity could stand any thing"
The same influence which revolutionized
the late cabinet seeks SO, to organize the
1 new one as to confirm It's power and sub
serve its purposes, as well Of private pique
as Of political control The change OF cabi-
net was a measure dictated by the mingled
influence of mortified vanity, disappointed
ambition, and revenge Who can believe
that their work is done? Who does not see
that that measure, which they would have
| the country believe was intended to promote
! the public good, was adopted as means of
grasping more power? We have said that
the change in the cabinet was the work Of
mortified vanity, disappointed ambition, and
of revenge. We have said that William b.
Lewis is an acting agent. He is the bro
fEer inlaw of the Secretrry of War, who is
| lie biographer and personal friend of the Pre-
dent, possessed of bis private papers, and
pon whom he relies as the guardian of his
lture fame. Gen. Jackson has been persua-
Led that .he character Of the hero is identi-
ID with that of his biographer, and thus
Il ,4e devotion Of an old friend, and Tire vanity
h nd self love Of an old man, were enlisted
n We will not now speak Of the peculiar s'cir-
E@lmstances" which gave TO that Partially,
'hich is neither concealed nor denied, an abb
81 rblns and controlling influence. Nor will
"e now examine the political arrangements
n which those circumstances" form the ba-
n Us These may hereafter be unlolded, upon
theatre so elevated as TO raise them above
lie common prejudiees of The day.
Our object is TO state fact As far back
rs the 2ist of October, 1929, Major Lewis
IN 4