Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-12-04

correct principles The Messages Of Ii
President breathed The pnrcst spirit o
Democracy. and Of respect for the right
Of the States. The Feto proved itself /,
be the Peoples citadel, from il the wiki
mania for Internal Improvement received
ist death shot, amt Democracy shoutel
when it fell "
Observe tho folly Of this extract:
heavy tariff was weakening aud depressing
the South" Who but Andrew jackson
voted for this tariif. in the Senate Of thS
United States Who but Andrew Jack.
son declared, 10 bis letter 10 DR.. Coleman
Of North Carolina, that he desired TO see
100000 farmers aud planters converted
into manufacturers Who but the far.
mer OF Tennessee when a candidate Tor
the Presidency, declared, in letter 10
the Governor Of Indiana, that he enter
tain0d the same opinions, with respect 10
the Tariff and Internal Improvements
which he manifested BY his votes in the
Senate--to wit: thorough going suppof,
Of both syslemsp Battle Banh-,,hc ii.
gantic Bank, was also in operation. Who
voted for the present Bank Not the
Federalisls.--they, with Webster at their
head, voted against THE Republican
Delegation from Virginia, or large part
of them. went For the monster" Philip
p. Barbour. rather than record bis vote in
the negative. convinced Of i,s essential
importance to the country, boiled, when
the question was taken. janice Barbour,
then in The Senate OF the United States,
introduced the bill into that body, and
acknowledgement it. James Madison.
the upright and uniform Republics ala Of 80.
signed the Charter--and all these things
were transacted before the eyes Of the he.
publican Legislature OF Va, then 10 ses
sion. and not one murmur Of disapproba.
ton was heard. There were not ten men
Of that body opposed 10 The Bank, such
was the universal opinion of the countsy
in favor OF lis necessity. But /" the lnstru
mcnt chosen by the people," says the ad
dress, :" TO overthrow this tremendous aAd
complicated system. all tending to one
end, was farmer Of Tennessee" II is
false. absolutely false, and the Convcntion
ought to have known it. 1--WE presume they
did not, that Andrew Jackson was CHOSEN
10 overthrow this system This same An
drew Jackson wac warmly supported BY
Pennsylvania aud other States. knowA 10
he warmly interested in the support of
the Bank. Internal Improvements aud the
Faiid. The vericsi tyro in the history of
the country is not ignorant OF The fact !;
nor has Andrew Jackson TO this moment,
expressed himself decidedly and unequiv
ocally upon these several points of policy.
Ia respect TO the Bank, did he mol express
IL say, that If Congress had asked the
boon al bis hands, he would furnish them
with The plan of sneh Bank as would suit
his purposes aye, an Exchequer Dsnk--
whose operations he could have governed
and guided 10 suit bis own sovereign will
and pleasure--a Bank which should be
under the direct control of the Executive.
aud with which, bis audaeions designs
against the liberty Of the nation, could
have been more oifectuslly executed.
Against the present Bank, every body
knows how deep rooted aud malignant his
hostility has becn---but is II because of its
onconsiitutionality !? Ridiculous supposi
ton! lie who is in favor Of "A Bank len
times more unconstitutional who treats
The Constitution, every day, as rotten
parchment, 20 ptatc about constitutional
serup'es.
But this pure and spollcss farmer Of
Tennessee, has hurled death-Shot al In
terual improvements. Has be, indeed ?
The blood rises in the veins, and the
cheeks mantle with Indignation, at this
impudent and oft rcfuted assertion Cen
eral Jackson has signed more bills. appro-
prfaiing sums for internal improvement,
since the Maysrile Veto. than all The pre-
cedlng Administrations put together His
Maysyille Veto, was vie electIoneering
impostare. That very measure was a
most dangerous exercise Of Executive
power, because it wrested from Congress,
and vested in the President, the right OF
judging what Improvements were consti
tutional, and what were not. Since that
very veto. be has granted innumerable APP.
preparations for the improvement Of rivers,
sc. in the interior of The country, in OK
press violation OF his own princlples--and
one especially, ne il remembered, for clear
ing Instructions in his own Cumberland,
on the banks OF which stands the far
famed seat Of the Hermitage. Such afro
cious par:iaiity and injustice, would have
hurled any other man from the Presiden
tiai chair, but one who had affected the
imaginaiions Of The people, by deeds Of
violence, connected with some supposed
advantages and glory TO the nation
Did Andrew Jackson overthrow thc
Tariff ?-rhc assertion is equally false
whatever the Convention may have be
iieved All who know any thing on thu
subject, know that but for the pstrioiis
concession and compromise of HcnrJ
Clay, Opposed 10y The leading jackson
men Of the Scnate) the farmer Of Tennes
see would have imbrued his hands in thu
blood of South Carolina. He overthrow
the Tariff. indeed! Nothing but part,
hatred and hardhood, would have dare'
to venture 50 absurd and ridiculous an as
ser,ion. Andrew Jackson and the infa
nous cabai which surround him. wishe
that compromise to fail and nothing bu
the declared sense Of the country and III
Representatives 10 Congress, induced hin
to place his signature TO the law.
But Andrew Jackson dragged th
Treasury leeches from their holds" HI
sum tcneatis amicii! Where are the Tres
I snry leeches now? Sucking the heart