Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-02-09

e1S NetNtS 4afC sWUiCU - ouCu n degree
20 intercept our mails I'VE have received no
nichmond papers for several days The
epequon is still impossible.
A gentleman in Washington writes To the
editor of the United States Gazette. thus;
do moi think that the President is in that
immediate danger Of going of the stage which
some appear to believe. He was out taking
walk on Saturday There is no doubt that
great change has taken place 10 his health
and appearance within the last tive months.
and The opinion Is very prevalent, that his
constitution has given way, aud that the
sonrt physician IS requiredts be In pretty con-
slant attendance, takisg daily observations
Of Pfoshsstic OF diagnostics which present
themselves. He has beea subjected to eros.
ses aud vexations since the meeting of Gen.
gress, which have haC considerable effect on
sne temper oil the various materials OF which
ne IS constructed; and The chances are, that
ne may, IN one Of the parsxisms to which be
d sahJect, suddenly go off
Col. Benton, in bi, late speech, thus speak.
OF the Bank Of the United States:
III carrles all before i'll 1t bestrides. a, a
Osiossus, the postrate charter WHICH Con-
gress gave 1t 1t claps foot upon a word
form above all law-and boldly place, an
empire at defiance! And vet there are peo.
pc IN talk about new restrictions te bind This
gigantic power; as If it was an the DESTINY Of
man that the weaker should ever bind the
stronger party! No, sir. We are engaged
with the real presence OF the tabled monster
once believed to be the fabulous creation of
irehzled poets-that monster which no art
nor power can ever bind! Which changed
his form at will, from bird to beast--frcm
iioh 10 serpent-irom serpent to water from
a river Of fewing water, TO a column Of bla
gag ire! and thus eluded, in the act of re
sewing them. the grasp and catch Of every
cham that vas thr0wa upon him"
The comment upon this specimen of the
Rombastic. given by the New York CONNER
eial. is the following.
"Blood an 'onnds! what critfer this Bank
must be! AndH nobody don't believe nothing
oil all this ere what senator Benton says,
why then he don't know nothin about it as
nobody knows on, that's fiat"
Th. peroraion of the Colonels speech is
as follows:
'Sir, stop; not that have finished, but
that every thing must have an END even
the everflowIngs of grief and indignation at
vlewisg the frightfui progress which grea,
monied oligarchy is making over the sinking
liberties oil the land The cause demands a
different advocate 1t calls for that rare man
who rebuked and owe rthrew The audacieu.
enterprise OF Walpole-who overturned the
judgments of the Kings Court; drove back
Z the royal patent across the Irish Channel, &
saved the people of Ireland from the evils oil
an illegal currency, and their government
I from the degradation of seeing private in
dividual exercising the high power of issuing
Q national currency within her limits. The
crisis calls for that man II calls forthe daunt
less spirit, the mighty genius, the lofty scorn
OF hopes and fears, which belonged to the
illustflous Dean Of ST. Patrck's! and If we
are now destined to sink in this contest
which heaven of its Infinite mercy avert -hu
If we are destined TO sink then do say, il
Is not for want of cause less just less right
eous, less national, less holy, than that ir
which Ireland triuDphed, but because ths
combined powers OF all Americas patrio
sons are unable to scrite the Dsapier's Letters
i The National Gazette remarks on this a.
81 foliows:-
d Certainly, "every thing must have an end;
II and 1.-The cause" to be successful, "demand:
b a different advocate" In the art of "Siuk
ing the Colonel has given aspecimen whIcl
surpasses any adduced by the Deans here
Il .Martins He has triumphantly followed th'
Il track "chaiked out to arrive atthe profound.
or Bathos He must now think the Seaat
d particularly incapable of writing the ORA
piers Letters. Citizen Genet wrote to til,
PRESIDENT
Quod Cesar fecit
jackson superayit
So we say to the Colonel