Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-02-27

en- Cabinet, has abandoned the sinking
ship. and now rallies with the friends
Of the country.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED,
Greensburg, Westmoreland Co. I
Pa. F'eJ. IL, 1884.
ave are ruined. The removal Of
the deposites has destroyed us. 1t was
bad, a tyrannical, a mad measure,
and was an act either Of the grossest
folly or the foulest perfdy. Perhaps
you do not understand me. Let me
explain. The act was one Of folly of
the Kitchen Cabinet, as the opposition
call Kendall, Whitney, Blair, &c. de-
signed it for the benefit and political
! advancement of our common friend,
| Van Buren--lt was one Of gross per-
fdy, if, knowing that Van Buren, would
be compelled to assume the RESPONSE
bility, they urged the President to
commit the act, and then urged Van
Buren, to concur with the President, as
he has since most foolshIy done, know
ing that it would work his palitcal
ruin. No matter, however, who are
the authors of the evil, or what their
motives, unless something is done, and
that speedily, to recall or to obv;ate
the effects ofthis measure, we are all
lost-Van Buren, is lost-and all who
act with him in Congress will be swept
from their places by the voices and
votes of an excited and indignant peo-
pie, as chaff is swept before the wind.
Rely upon it, this is true. lwrite from
a remote spot in Pennsylvania, but
even here the storm RACES, and the
murmurs of Indignation are loud and
deep. There is no time to be lost.
Consult our friends, pray you. Tell
them frankly and decidedly all that |
have written here, and if they can per-
suade or drive the Pennsylvania dele
gation--our portion of it mean--to
vote against the removal, for Gods
sake let it be done.-Penn. Ina.
GEN. JACKSON VS.. Mr.. DUANE.
1t will be seen from the following
paragraph, which we copy from the
editorial columns of the Globe of Sat-
urday, that General Jackson, on whose
authority no doubt the paragraph was
written, backs out of the denial which
the Globe ventured to make a short
time since, in reply to passage in the
letter Mr.. Duane addressed to Gov.
ernor Tezewell. 1t is therefore clear
that the honest President did attempt
to bride Mr. Duane to resign, by the
offer Of a mission to Russia. We give
the Globe article entire, in order to
show the bascness of that print. 1t will
be seen that its abandoned editor de-
scribes Mr.. d. as the 'emissary Of the
bank" What madness.-Mr. Duane
ever has been, and still is, decidedly
opposed to the institution, as at present
organized, although we do not doubt
that he has before this discovered that
General Jackson's opposition to it is
unpriucipled and vindictive:
Mr.. Duane.-ln the notice which
the editor of this print took of the at
tempt of this emissary Of the bank to
make the impression that the President
had rendered him the mission TO Russia,
we argued from we'll known facts, and
did not pretend to predicate our infer
ences upon direct inquiries. Weknew,
Mr.. Duane had at the very threshold
given the President to understand in
writing that he would resign if he
could not carry out his measures in
relation to the bank. We knew too
that after he had undeceived the Presi.
dent with regard to his fair professions,
much shorter way than the rounda
bout of Russia, to dispose of one so
false to his pledges, was Immediately
lntlmated to him.
Whether the President, when under
the impression that Mr.. Duane, in com.
Pllance with his written declaration,
was about voluntarily to leave the sta.
ton he held, offered Mr.. Duane any
appointment as mark of his continu.
ed favor, we know not. We have not
inquired, nor will we take the trouble
to do so. Mr.. Duane's admission of
the facts as stated by us, is sufficient
for our purpose. Improves conclusive
ly that Mr.. Duane attempted gross
imposition on the public, as to induce.
ments held out, to procure his resigna-
ton.
The above more fully than any thing
we could say, vindicates the course of
Mr.. Duane. 1t proves that Gen. Jack
son tempted him to perform a dishon-
est act, by heavy bride; and that
Notwithstanding his friendship for the |
President, and his desire to conform to
his wishes, he resisted the base tempta.
ton. The people will say to him
"Well done, good and faithful SER
want. p. Inquirer.