Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-10-18

nous letters to Mr. Munroe, signed by Gen.
Jackson. we're written by Robert Goodloe
| Harper'-- The New York Commercial asserts
that General jackson lis utterly incapable Of
himself. OF writing the most common iDstru-
ment, with ordinary correctness aud intel
ligibillty;" and adds:
'sThls is no random assertion, In making
II. we "spea k that which we do know" We
bad in our posse sslon, some months since, a
letter sol bis own composing under his own
hand, which. had we been at liberty to take
fac sia:ae copy TO lay before the public. would
a, once have settled the question of his re
election, not only by reason Of the gross *
norance of the writer, but from the atrocious
sentiments IL avowed."
We subjoin paragraph from the same
paper relative TO the subject of this article:
II has been the good fortune of Gen Jack
son, generally, TO Keep around him some one
or more persons capable OF writing his pa
pers; and Il would be an amusing study Tor
any one who has tact in distinguishing
different styles Of writing from internal esl-
dcnces, TO collate and arrange. and credit 10
their proper authors. the various letters aud
public documents. which, since the year lSli,
have bourn the signature of sAndrew Jack
son " During the campaign at New Orleans,
he had Edward Livingston. now Secretary
OF State. IN his suit, and even at his elbow,
TO write his behests Subsequently. the late
DIR Bronaugh occupied the high station or
has confident and scribe, The next instru
ment of putting the Hero's crude thoughts
,oto inteilgible English, was Judge Rrecken-
ridge, who has recently informed the world
OF portion of bis labors 10 this capacity
All his orders, dispatches, addresses, SIC, du.
rInI his military uovernorsbip Of Florida. 10
& her with his farewell to the army were writ
zen ~ Judge Breckenridge. After Major
Lee had contaminated his infamy near the
seat OF government, by "a deed without
name," he fled from the public Indignation
at Washington, and found welcome III the
| family OF Gen. jackson. Holding All auie
aud ready pen, he dri the Generals literary
| work for several years, and until he came in
| to the Presidency. His reward was the Con
sui Oeneralship OF the Barbary powers; but
his domination was indignantly rejected by
| the unanimous vote oil the Senate. Now il
is believed that Mr. T#'ss, from Tennessee,
who lives with him, has been his principal
writer, since he came INTO the char of state
| He wrote the greater part of the Message of
| 1880. except the grandiloqueut passage re-
| specting the Indians, which was from the
| smooth pen Of Mr.. Berren The Message
| OF December last was written chiefly by the
| Secretary Of State, aided, in those portions
respecting their own Departments, by the
Secretaries Of the Treasury and Of War;
| These gentlemen, it is but justice to say sue
! ceeded in getting up a much better message
than the scribe Of the former.
| b, "Self made men We are forcibly re-
/ minded of the remark Of the Hon. Triestram
Burgess, at the Town House. by an article in
the last number 81 the Quarterly r. gister,
! under the title of 'sels made men Il have
been,' said he, "a farmer--i have been me
chanlc. My hands fellow townsmen, were
as hard as yours But God knows feel
not the more humble. yield homage to no
man, and humble myself before none, but
smch are my superors in knowledge, in
worth, and in talents TIE Quarterly gives
the names of nearly thirty of the most emf
psnt men OF Europe has ever produced, who
have risen from the most humble lineage and
occupations, to stations of nonor anil reno sn.
English and French history, and that not re
/ mote, furnish us with names sufficient to
swell the list an hundred fold Aud IN our
own country, how distinguished the catalogue
OF self made men. Franklin, Riitenl,o,lsc,
Sherman, Vest, Fulton, and numberless o.
Tiers OF by gone age-and at the present
day, how many DO you see who have been
sands who wosld have looked with pity on
the pennyess farmer boy, have listened to
his eloquence In the national councils, to
which his talents, ass,duity, and integrity had
raised him. 1T is the mind that makes the
body rich, and the self made men come be-
fore their fellow citizens with confidence.
They have studied IN a severe school--they
have won for themselves the reputation which
they possess Such are practical public men
Such are the men for the people. They
boast Of no long line of ancestral dignitaries
They are OF the people-they enter into theil
views, their feelings, and their interests
Such men are ClGy and Webster, and other
prominent public men of the union
[Proridenee Journal
Mainland Eicciioa.-We have the returns
from all the counties in Maryla land The Hous
of Delegates will be--Antl jackson So; Jack
son IS The Senate al Anti jackson. The
Anti-Jackson Counties are Prince Georges
Summerset, Worchester, Dorchester. Caro-
line, Talbot, Kent, ST. Mary's, Charles. Cal
vert, Montgomery, Annarrndel, and Annapc
lis City. The Jackson Counties are Wash
ington, Baltimore City and County, Hartford
and Cecil. .Allegany sends | Anti JACKSON
Jackson members; Frederick, 2 Anti Jack
son, Q jackson; Queen Ann, 2 Autl-Jacksoa
| jackson. From present appearances "
' presume Jackson will get but three OF the {
, lec,oral votes Of the State.