Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-08-09

Erlract Of a leEier from Boston, 2sl JliIy.
81 send YOU an account OF one OF The most
melancholy accidents that has occurred for
many wears. Mr. BaeSus, Mr.. Belknap, MIR.
Gibson. .apd Mr. Bend. rode out on the QuiH
CT Railway, and by some accident TO the
machinery. were thrown from the car. Mr..
Dackus was killed, and Messrs. Bend and
Gibson we're materially injured. Mr.. Belk-
maps legs are broken.
Mr.. CASTOR, in bis excellent Address to
the Youth Of the University Of North Caro-
lima, holds this language.
"on you will devolve the duty which has
been too long neglected, but which cannot
with lmpunity be neglected much longer, OF
providing for the mitigation, and us It too
much to hope in North Carohna?) for the vi
innate extirpation Of the worst evil that at
flicts the Southern part Of our Contederacy.
Full well DO you know TO what Feier, for on
this subject there is, with all of us, morbid
sensitiveness which gives warning even of an
approach to it. Disguise the truth as we
may, and throw the blame where we will, 1t
is Slavery which, more than any other cause,
keeps us back in the career of Improvement.
II sllnes industry and represses enterprize-it
is fatal 10 economy and providence-it dis
courages skill-Impairs our strength as
community, and poisons morals at the foun-
tain head How this evil is to be encounter
ed, how subdued, is indeed difficult and
delicate enquiry, which this is not the time
to examine, nor the occasion to discuss. |
felt, however, that could not discharge nv
duty, without referring TO this subject as one
which ought TO engage the prudence, mode
ration and firmness of those who, sooner or
later, must act decisiveiy upon it,"
Method of making the President supreme,
absolute, and safe in every trausgressIon.-
Assume that the Senate is a faction and the
House of Representatives corrupt; OF course
whatever measure, adopted by either, does
not suit the wishes and AIMS OF the President,
may be treated by him as null and voId:--As
sumo moreover, that he is at liberty to inter
pref the Constitution, independently OF the
decisions Of the Supreme Court or those OF
Congress, and to refuse to exccu~ any law
| which he may declare unconstitutional: of
course it resis with him whether a law shall
be, or not, dead letter:-Assume that his
intentions are uniformly excellent, whatever
his proceedings; that ali opposition 10 him is
lactous and looks TO the success oi the worst
possible candidates-that. in any event, he
the People will approve or overlook all he
may do With such a theory OF his power
and popuarit, with patronage so extensive
and causing so such avdity IN so large a
number OF citizens, he must in fact possess
more influence and prerogatlye, and be more
sure of Inpunity on every occasion, than a
monarch OF Great Britain or France.-.Aat
Gas.
The Editor of the Richmond Enquirer is
! daluding himself OF his readers into belief
that the Veto of the Bank Bill is a popular
measure Nothing, we are satisfied, is mofe
I untrue. Do we not see the throes and con
vulslons oil 1.-THE party" struggling TO main
( tain itself 9anst the shock OF the Veto? For
what purpose were the prodigious exertions
| lately made at Philadelphia The. oratory OF
! Mr.. Dallas, and the drumming and fling Of
! the lower leaders--the gen eral rally Of Office
/ hunters, but to ceunteract, if possible. the
effects OF the Veto upon the common sense,
and upon the common interests also of the
People? What were all those, but the exer-
tons of the political Doctors to arrest the
progress OF the Cholera in '.the party" of
WHICH undoubted symptoms were dlscOyera.
bic IN its emaclated countenance and spas
7 modc contractions? tits the same in every
part OF The country not under the control of
the Farmers and Mechanics Bank at Alba
ny, or rather of the moneyed combination of
which it stands at the head The only pub
/ lie journals, of any note, which applauded
The veto. are those most deeply interested in
sustaining the present Reign OF Misrule IN the
government, such as the Albany Argus, and
the Richmond Enquirer Net. Int.
BALTIMORE, July 81.
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