Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-07-14
Aanirersm'g of our Kdependence.

.dnnseeTsRy OF our independence.
Our national prosperity is due to our orr
ginal principles and circumstances. and to
the institutions which may be said to have
grown out of them, to be shaped and fortifi-
ed by the public wisdom and virtue of our
foreiathers, under the favor of a Divine Pro-
violence recognised and adored in the Chris
tan faith and spirit. To preserve those insti-
tstions is the chief interest and sacred obi
CATION Of the Americans of the present day,
as it will be Of our posterty. Their inesti
mable value is proved by their immediate
fruits at hsme, and has never been Indirect
ly shown with more force of contrast than
since the last anniversary, by the oecurren-
ees abroad.
We have but to compare our general con-
dition and the probabilities before as, with
the recent convulsionsaand doubtful results
in Europe, to be convinced that we should
cherish our social and political system with
the utmost fondness and vigilance The pro-
digous advances which we have made-the
unriyaled security and comforts which we
enjoy--the anticipations that we may indulge
must not be ascribed to Presidents, cabi
nets OF legislatures, who are all, however,
necessary as instruments for the efficiency
and duration of our republican order of
individuals, no official bodies, can destroy
that order or vitality impair the public wei
fare. The Sovereignty Of the People, with
the fixed maxims and arrangements fer en-
tightening and exercising it, forms safe
guard against the designs and attempts of
inordinate ambition against all fatal abuses
of delegated authority. .'Happy are ye,"
said Moorish emperor to bis subjects, chap
he H. - l. 4,
by your representative, through the prophet,
and am he" Happier, say we to our coun-
trymen, ye, who have to obey no laws but
those which are made by your representa-
tves, whom you can peaceably change at
short intervals, when you so will it, and who
depend upon You for all theirpower and con-
sideratloni Submission to the will of the ma
Jority, expressed and exerted according to
the constitution end the laws, is the perva-
ding and conservative principle of our whole
system and veal. All are enemies to both
who wish to make exceptions to this rule
pleading partial disadvantages from its ope-
ration, IN one or other part Of the country
or TO one or other class of citizens. Thi:
plea, II admissible, might be so often raised
upon real, spurious or imaginary grounds
maj no regular scheme of polity or admins
ie lost, VI oo prevented from ue
generating INTO business of mere expedi
' anu ruinous concessions. The Union
t.es Ueen accepted by every member thereof
"for better. for worse;"-the good will pre
Ponderate for all; the casual inconyeniencf
or suffering must be borne as the lot of bu
mainly, in whatever relation.---Not en-
rComing events cast their shadows befere
FROM the Franklin Republican, jackson nan
"A consideration of circumstances ia,
some time since, impressed upon our minds ,
oehei that Gen. jackson should NOT. anr
W. YOU'D not, be candidate for re election =
ne reason drawn from these Circumstance,
are IN our view strong. though we shall mo-
5SaIs 'hem at this time.-And although IN,
GENERAL has signrfied different disposition
f opinion oil ths matter is not changed.