Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-08-25

@'NSp, "3os ~ VIII DC rcColtcCteu, Contc>ieu
the seat Of Mr.. LEA after the last election,
has been elected; the vstes being. for Arnold
ss2--Lea CAS-. On the subject OF this last
election We have received the following letter:
A SMALL SIGN, BUT a SPLENDID
! VICTORY
Our elections are over, and after contest,
TOR herceness and bitterness unparalleled in
the annals of even this district. Thomas ID.
Arnold has obtained signal victory over
Fryer Lea, backed as he was. by the power
OF press the most foul and reckless in the
land, still further backed by the power OF
General jackson and Hugh L. White. The
battle between the Russians and Poles GER
tainly did not sufpass this struggle in ardour
aud desperation, The Poles fightfer liberty:
while the friends OF Arnold have been con
tending almost for freedom 0. conscience and
OF speech, against faction --Qts central head
at knoxville)--the most intolerant, unrelent
ing and despotic, that ever disgraced any era
Of free people. Arneld is more obnoxious
to the jackson rroscrIptionists OF this conn.
try, than any other man, excepting Col John
| Williams.
We failed here, by small majorities in the
elections oil our candidates for the State lie
gislature Col Joseph a. Mabry was the
candidate for the House of Representatives.
and Joseph l.. Williams, the son OF Judge
Whites youngest sister, was the candidate
fer the Senate. In this election, even as in
Mr. Arnsld's. the Judge, although lately Of
iered the elevated station Of Secretary of
War, attended personally and ,ig,lantly on
the election ground, distributing tickets and
even cross examining voters, and hrawlin al
the ballot box To see the Judge thus en-
gagged with arelor and bitterness against Jo-
sepb l. Williams, was remark ed as curious
and unnatural spectacle This unaccounta-
Bile hostility OF the uncle to the nephew, is
to be deeply amented, as it has excluded fer
the present, from public employment, a
,sung man OF unimpeachable character and
Of splendid and unrivaIled talents, whose ge-
| MUS, though thus oppressed, must rise trium-
phantly over the malignant opposition of
party, and assert that station in society to
which il SO eminently entities its possesser.
| The late dlsgraCeful Developments at
| Washington have made a very serious i'm.
preston upon the virtuous portion of our
community.
"Hung be the Heaoens ,1ith black."-Mr
Van Buren, no longer lreads any oil the ter
ritorles Of the four and twenty States, but
has committed hlmsel--contrary to his ac-
eustomed policy of non con.s.iltaI !. TO the
wide waste of waters, and the perilous en-
counter Of wind and wave What If he
SHOULDN'T our mind misgives us, and our
pen refuses 10 finish the paralyzing interiec
ton. Surely never was such a freight en-
trusted To few boards nailed together and
sheaihes with acommodity Of copper Read,
reader, read:
| The Honorable Martin Van Buren,, ao4
lcompaned by MIR. Vail, Secretary of Lega-
uoD, and two sons, sailed this mornirg in the
packet snip President, for Liyerpool.-N. y
Post.
How wonderful the attachment of this great
little man to the name of President. In every
act and movement his eye isnpon the Presi-
dent has carried him through many difficult
lies, and he seems to regard il as his inter-
est still to trust the President. The Com.
mercial Advertiser notices the departure Of
Mr. Van Buren, in the following paragraph:
EMBARRArIos OF THE REPUBLICAN p AIRY.
Two summers ago we chronicled in what
we thought chastc, classical and sublime
manner, the departure of Mr. McLane, in
the Constellation, to solicit the boon Of
partial trade with the West India Islands, in
exchange for national honorand greater com
merclal adv antages conceded to g. Britain.
We then echoed in roaring prose the thunder
which proceeded from the batteries of the
gallant irlgate. We are now indebted to
General Jackson for another opportunity Of
showing eur powers in heroic prose, en-
still loitier occasion, the departure Of the ex-
premier himself, who makes an excursion to
England in the packet ship President, and
will larry there probably during the fall
months, and perhaps till he is recalled b. the
advice OF the Senate To day, however, we
have heard no thunder whatever, and the
new minister is gliding as quietly out of the
harbor, as he slipped out OF the cabinet,
when he did net wish ito disenfranchse him
SELF and begged that nobody would ask for
further particulars. He has net gone, howe
Yer, without signs and portcnts preceding his
embarkaton. The heavens have worn pc
culiar aspect for several evenings past The
sun Oh Saturday looked through dim and
sultry atmosphere, like a dnll shilling piece.
la the west an unnatural red light has been
observed just absut and after his setting;
while the color of the rest of the skies has
been at the same hour rather that of wate-
ry emerald than Of sapphire. The morn too.
has had a singular look. All these phenom
ena indicate that the shipment in one fraIl
bark of the soul, body. and identity, Of the
Republican party, is not matter Of slight
consequence. May the gales be proptious
and the sea calm; and may the republican |
party not have occasion TO write to bis con
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