Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-06-07

t~eliieent citizens Of this repuhlIc-men who
mingle as freely as they are accustomed to
do IL al The political transactions Of the day,
men who are taught from infancy 10 reve-
renee the public order, Institutions, laws, lib
crty, and honor OF their country with all the
fervid enthusiasm OF American republicans,
can survey the present distracted stale oil our
once harmonious Union can Tecur to the
late degrading cabinet dissolution, which seat
tered its members throughout the country to
publish the petty schemes Of ciectioneerine
le~gerdemain, which were TO struggle INTO
power the prime ~favorlte Of the Pfesident;-
can witness the still more porientous dIssoln
ton with which those orthodox TRENDS Oh the
President are threatening defiance to the led
eral iudiciary,- that they can tameIy witness
these anomalous enormllies IN The history Of
our government. and vet with blind and heed
less devotion suffer the mere magic of a name
TO charm them into mute submisslonp No,
sir-thanks TO that neutrality-suspicious. which
is still our boast, da'ly experience proves the
fact that this state of subservlent vassalage to
mere man, is fast fading before the spreading
influence of wholesome truths, as the munky
folds OF a mountain mist are dispersed by the
rising spiendprs of a morning sun. And shall
we stHl be told that our cause Is desperate,
and that the morbid enthusiasm WHICH once
blinded our reason shall still bold us IN sub
JectionP Even though it we're not entirely
extingu,sbed the cause Of the candidate whom
we now support, arms US with an ardour OF
superior strength. if their lives a man who,
from birth, habit. educatIon-an open, hon
est. frank and chivalrous split, is above all
others calculated 10 excite the enthusiastic
attachment Of the people that man IS iiEN
RY CLAY Far from possessing in early life
Shrga .Ia,Dt xl.,w ,tnN,Mnt,r
appendages Of wealth and influence, TO usher
him into notice-with no heritage save the
treasures OF the mind: whilst yet a beardless
boy, a portiouless and pa,ronless orphan, his
lot was cast in a land Of strangers, amid
whom he has risen from office to Office, from
height to height, until he has reached an emf
Dence IN the affections Of The people, from
which calumny itself. though hurled with gi-
ant strength, never yet could hurI him lie
political, not less than his private life, has
contributed TO this popularity. Seldom has
it fallen TO the lot Of any one to have been so
intimately Identified with the many promi
nent proceedings in the history of his gov
eminent. Perhaps the most striking feature
IN the long course of his political career, has
been his early ardent, and unwaverlng al
tachment 10 the cause of universal freedom
Whenever a nation, struggling TO escape The
shacsles OF government oppression, hath APP
pealed 10 our kindred sympathies for sue
cour, his soaring spirit. ever in the van. has
been the first TO hail them with the iervor OF
n patriots love. and uphold them with the
natchsess powers of his mighty mind TN
cramped in the objects Of his benevolcnce by
the restrictions of a cold and calculating Pc
hey; with no sordid, selfish, or timorous views
TO curtail the range of his boundless love OF
liberty, the oppressed Of every cline, wheth
err claiming kindred with the injured Indian,
the exiled African, the suffering Spaniard or
enslaeed Greek-alI have in their turn shar
ed the powerful Influence Of his eioqnence, in
tones that shall resound to after ages, the i'm
perishable proofs of bis polished genius and
patriot devotion.
And il is upon a life time spent in such ac
tons as these, that we found our hopes for a
jealous and successful support; that we ex
pect a display Of enthusiasm not founded on
the fleeing phantom of military splendour.
but established on a basis that shall endure
when the ephemeral renown of the soldier,
cherished only by the ''bannered pompt of
war" shall have faded and been forgotten.
But even should we fail in the coming cIi
SIS, still vii! orr struggle be wholly destitute
of beneftP--Can we be deprived at least OF
The cheering consolation Of having done our
duty TO orr cause and country?
What though malice impugn our motives,
or conceited assurance scott at our zealp
what though the pampered pets of the Adj
m'nistration menace our persons, or our cha
racters be sianderously assailed,
From the loud roar of foaming calumny,
To the small whisper Of the paltry few"
SILL we should be sustained by the broad con |
seriousness that ours was the country's cause.
anu mat our efforts to stem the current of
corruption may have possibly checked those |
icentioas propensities which, if anresirained. !
threaten the speedy ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF our !
Cnion. Let US not trust too confidently To
the tired strength and upon the ability of our !
institutions: there seems TO be a selfish secu
rity IN the nature of man, which disposes us
10 place too light an estimate on the bless.
mSs that surround US, so long as their eioy. !
ment remains unrniiled-lke the careless
mariner who heeds the storm only whilst its
elements are in uproar around him. but whose |
Tecoiectlons OF past, or fears of future peril. |
are as fleeing as bis path across the wave |
us true our political armament hath as VET
oeen Inelonded. Its welkin dome, iIlumina- |
TED only by that sparkling constellation, the
cherished symbol Of our Union, hath hither-
10 dehed the warning elements of party strife.
and preserved its azure hue unsullied hy the
violence OF iactious deuagosues, or foI eign
Toes; but the gathering gloom, which now for
'he iIrst time daIkens horizon, warns US to a.
'oid the threatened storm. Let US. therefore.
rally under the banner Of one, whom the Re-,
paofc has. ~ IFS better DAYS, acknowleged as
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