Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-06-28


The CHAMPIONS OF THE AMERICAN System!
The WORKING MANS ADVOCATES.
1HE FRIENDS OF LIBERTY IN EVERY CLINE
1t appears that DIR. Edw. 5. Davis, who
has made himself notorious in late transac-
tons at Washington, has recered SOME con-
tracts for carving the L States mail IN South
Carolina-So much for his Literary" visit,
as he called it, to Washington.
We have meyer read a more scandalou:
article than the leading Editorial article in
Yesterdays Globe. There are missiles in po-
litical, as well as in military warefare, which
civilized men scorn to use-and desperate
and reckiessas that print is, we are shocked
to find it so abandoned as TO use such a YEA.
pom as il does in that article, for political eff
feet. VIII il be believedewIll not those
who do not see the Globe think we are SIAN
dering that print, when we inform them that
in the article we allude 10. the Editor at
tempts to charge the Opposition and the
Supreme Court with stirring up the Indians
60 war!-God knows we have been long con.
vinced, and have so expressed ourselves re-
peatedly, that it would be better for all par
Ties that the Indians could be induced TO
emigrate-but we have long feared that the
course pursued by the present Executive to
tUICc lIttli dWdyy " tbhaiS - a. ~
gardless of every consideration of right and
humanity goad the miserable wretches to do
some deed Of desperate revenge. This the
cruel course Of the present Executive has
urged them to-and now behold those who
have done the deed, fearing TO meet the
consequence, endeavor to turin the current
of public indignation from themselves, and
set it against the innocent. Shakespeare
was not more injurious, nor Lady Macbeth
more villiaiHous, when the innocent guards
were made to bear the guilt Of Macbeth -
Shamel Shame! shamei-Hhig.
1t is said that the President has re. nomina-
ted Gwinn to the Senate. This man has been
aS.ce before proposed for a land Office in Mis-
sissippi, but the Senate promptly rejected
him Exertions have been made 10 get up
petitions in his favor, and the Senate are
now called upon to register the Executive
decree. We shall see what will be the re-
sult.-lterandria Gazette.
The Washington Correspondent of the N.
York Daily Advertiser says, that when lIous-
ton went TO New York, it was expected he
would see Mr.. Van on his way TO Washing
ton, whittier he had been summoned as a
witness before the committee, appointed to
Investigate the fraud attempted 10 be prac-
tIsed in giving the contract to Mr. Houston
tor supplying the emigrating Indians. Mr..
Van was the person who put in bids under
the direction of Mr.. Houston, and was said
TO have had several letters 10 his possession
very important TO the investigation It's uR-
derstood that a supona duces team was serv-
ed on him, TO bring all such letters and pa.
pers as he had in his possession, touching the
subject of investigation. Mr. Van came; but
on examination, IT is reported, he stated that
Mr.. Houston had claimed that the letters were
private. and he gave them up TO him. 1t is
thus that this investigation is 10 be stified.-
IL is thought very likely that Mr.. Van may
be appointed Indian Agent at Chicago, as a
reward for this act-Ibid.
Clay Meeting in North Carolina The
friends of Mr.. Clay in Cumberland county,
held a meeting at the Town Hall in Fayette-
vile. on the 9Th instant, at which DIR. Ben
jamin Robinson presided, and f. l.. Win
stow. Esq. acted as Secretary. Resolutions
were adopted in favor of HENRY CLAY, as
President, and JOHN SERGEANT as Vice Pre-
sident. The meeting is said to have been
large and respectable.
i. Home 1hrust-Judge Breckenridge in a
recent letter to Gen Jackson, gives this thrust
which must have stung to the quick:-
II is not for me to defend Mr.. Calhoun, he
IS at4e to defend himself, and like Judge Der
rien, he "signs that which he writes, ard
acrites that which he signs" ] will merely
remark, that it is possible the idea of my hav-
ing an understanding with Mr. Calhoun. may
have impressed itself on your mind. from the
circumstance of my having, on a certain oc-
casion. filled a requisition of yours for a
toast. with The following: "John Calhoun
an honest man is the noblest work of God"
That gentleman was then your Magnus A
polio; and merely took your measure for
the sentiment.
The varied emotions that the perusal of
this paragraph must give rise TO in the mind
of the person TO whom it is addressed. can
be no other than highly painful ones.
Seventy three thousand five hundred dol
lars have been subscribed in kanawha coun
~ to the new james River scheme-and IL i:
believed the subscriptions will reach Si00,
eco. In Richmond, on the 4,h inst. the sub
s~crpticns amounted TO 10000 dollars.
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