Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-02-03


Gen. ANDREW JACKSON is announced. by
authority, candidate for re election of Pre-
sident OF the United States.
The Governor of Massachusetts,, in trans
uniting to the Legislature of that State, now
IN session, resolutions adopted by the Legs
lature and Executive branches of the State
OF Alabama, approving and euogizing the
services and public policy Of .4rldrcio Jackson,
and nominating him for re election, has TAX
en- occasion to express his sentiments upon
some ofthe leading topics which now agitate
and menace our common country. He has
done this with so much calmness, discretion,
and force, that we cannot better occupy a
portion of our columns to-day than by giving
this Message, which follows:
MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
To the Honorable Senate,
and House Of Representation
His Excellency the Governor of Alabama
has forwarded TO me a copy of certain Re-
solutions adopted by the General Assembly of
that State, and formally and officially appro-
we'd by him on the 18th Of December last,
which, although unaccompanied by the us ual
request that they should be laid before the
Legislature of this Commonwealth, vet could
have been transmitted for no other purpose,
ana are, therefore, from that courtesy which
IS due to the authority from which they en-
anate, now respectfully submitted 10 your
consideration.
The purport of these resolutions is an ex-
traordinary and extra le legislative nomination
oil the President Of the United States for re-
election tQrnther nf.f1
lied confidence in his fitness for that h;ob
office, and an unqualified approval of the
principles he has introduced into his ad-
mlnistration, the measures he ha, recon-
mended and the views he has from time to
time presented Of the true policy Of the Co.
verLment They also declare an opinion that
the best interest Of the Union requires his
Fe-eiecion, and recommend Lin to the 9th
er states OF the ULion for the Office of Pre-
sioent alter his present term shall expire
An appeal thus formal aud directly ad
dressed to the States Of the Union, pre- sup
poses an expression by their Legislatures
respectively, OF the sentiments entertaine d
ny them, on the same subjects. and suggests
consideration of the propriety of that ac
ton here, which otherwise might have seem
ca gratuitous, and would be as usual. as II
has been uncalled for. The concurrence of
massachusetts in the Resolutions of the L.
gisiature OF Alabama is not to be presumed.
out II may be due to the frankncss of COM
munication with sister state, as well as 10
the sincerity and support of orr own princi
pies, that an explicit declaration should pre-
ciude the misrepresentation of assent 10 pro-
Posi'ions TO which their reception, without
some expression of notice, might tend. An
interesting and momenfous crisis in the do
rnI ut Nf Al
ana 10 the General Government seems 10 be
last approaching The strength of the IT,
mon IS assalled, at various points. with me-
nacing and fearful import OF evil The laws
OIL Congress, by one Legislature, are de
nounced as the exercise OF usurped and ar
bitrary power, and, by the summary pro-
ceedingss of popular resolves, are declared
unconstitutional and void BY another Lee
gisiatnre, the authority Of the highest Judi
cal Tribunal, acting within the scope of is
accustomed operation, and with the sane
ton oil numerous precedents, is set at def
ance, and, upon sudden occasion. by pre-
cipifate decisions, without even argument or
time given TO elaboration, its prscepts are
condemned, and military force threatened in
resistance to civil process in its ordinary and
peaceful course Of execution. Again, the
faith OF the nation is claimed for the keeping
oil the State Governments, to be interpreted
according to the pleasure of each OF these
Sovereignties, while the policy of the Ceun-
try IS sought to be conformed to their over
varying interests, or to the cupidity and ex-
cited passions of opposing sections and con.
fllcting parties of citizens.
Is 1t not time, then, in this peril of all
which is valuable, that patriotic friends to
the Union, true men, whs loving, will go
for their Country. should rally to its preser-
vafion; that they should look for security,
beyond the men and measures of the admin
istrstion, TO the Constitution, the only shield
which can be interposed between the errors
OF Rulers and the sacred rights Of the Pee
pie; that, with faithful allegiance to the
Charter of their Independence, they should
give their firmest purpose and most strenu-
Gus efforts to sustain its strength against the
assaults with which it may be menaced?-
Much may yet be hoped from respectful,
temperate, and persuasive appeals to spi
Iit OIL ioroearance and patriotism, in opposi-
non 70 WOLF mt and sudden counsels. The
Union can only be preserved through the
vigor oil ITS institutions, and the con stiiut;on.
al independence Of its various departments
Abe General Government be sustained. if
sustained at all, in the unimpaired exercise
oil all Its legitimate functions There is no
other safety to the States themselves, than
IN guarantee of Republican form of Gov.
eminent by the Sovereignty of the pation.-
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