Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-04-10
FoR THE GAZETTE.
TO THE FREENEN AND Voters OF
BERKELEY COUNTY.

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lie? Are you prepared to accept the substance
and essence Of Despotism in place Of the Govern
ment, Liberty and equal Laws bequeathed to
you by your fathers2 If you are not-come to
the polls. The occasion is new-the emergency
lis pressing-the appeal is to you. Look not to
this Congress for relief. Those who would can
not-those who could iciH not grant it. Look
to yourselves. The custody Of Freemen's rights
is in their own hearts and in their own arms
Will you surrender to Andrew Jackson the
sword and the purse, the Currency and the Con-
stitution' Shall he be permitted to usurp and ar
lrogate TO himself the powers expressly granted
by the Constitution to other departments Of the
Government; and shall there be found in this
great nation no spirit to resist and repel his I'M
disguised and daring attacks upon the palladium
of its liberties? Look at the facts. Why has
Andrew Jackson resorted to the Vetopo more
frequently than all his predecessors put together,
Does any man believe that the real occasions for
the use Of this extreme power have occurred
more frequently within the last four years, than
during the preceding forty? or that Andrew Jack
son is a wiser or better man than any or than
all his predecessors What is the practical effect
of this new and unprecedented use of this power?
To strengthen the executive arm and to "paIsy
the wilr' Of the People as expressed by their
immediate representatives. Has he not seized
upon the public trcasure-the Peoples money.
forcibiy withdrawn it from the place where il
was by law deposited, and by its natural guar
dams declared to be safe, and deposited il in
banks over which Congress has no control, whose
solvency is unascertained and where there is no
reason to doubt il will become fund for the spe-
culations Of political gamblers, and the means of
political corruption? If he may do this, what
las men Of sense ask you)--what is to prevent
him from putting it where he may please? And
what is this but absolute control of the pubcpurse?
Upon this subject listen to the cool, cautious,
lightencd Albert Gallatin. In the Report Of the
"Union Committee" he says, can anxious wish
and design to concentrate all the powers Of gov
ernment in that department, {the Executive, }
and TO subject the public purse, the currency and
the commerce Of the country 10 the ,ciH of one
man, is apparent throughout oil the arguments
and acts of the Administration, in relation to
that subject
In relation to the constitutional participation OF
the Senate in appointments to Office what has
| been the conduct of the President? Is il not no.
torous that Gwynn, twice nominated to the Sc
nate and twice rejected, at this moment holds
the office by the appointment Of the President a
lone' Have not the public Directors ofthe Bank
OF the U States, nominated to the Senate and
rejected, been nominated again with threats and
menaces to the Senate in case of their refusal a
second time to register the Imperial cdict? BY
what right does the tool and minion of the Pres-
stdent, through whose agency he removed the
public money from the Bank Of the U. States,
by what right does he hold the office of Secreta-
nv of the Treasury? Could not the President find
time to nominate him to the Senate during the
three or four months it has been in session. or
does he propose to maintain him too in office in
defiance of the Senate and the Constitution?
Freemen of Berkeley! Virginians! Sons ofthe
Ancient Dominion! Whose sires struck down the
myrmidons of the British King for maintaining
the theory of despotism-Will you tolerate its
practice? To THE POLLS, Though the minions
of power, and the despot at their head may turn
deaf ear to the expostulatons OF enlightened
merchants, and the cries OF starving mechanics
they will listen to the language of Freemen at
the polls. That they can understand. To the
polls, then, and teach Andrew Jackson that,
when he "assumes the responsibility" for abuses
and usurpations of power-for broken laws and a
violated constitutional is not light, but fear
full thing, "to answer the walked wrath" of an
abused and insulted People.
Ne,c York.-The most striking proof of the
ruinous tendency of the measures of General
Jackson in relation TO the currency, which has
yet appeared, is the proposition recently made
in the message of the Governor Of New York,
that State stock should be created to the amour,
of five millions, to be distributed on loans among
the Safety Fund Banks of that State, to sustain
them under the present pressure; by which the
Governor admits that their stability has beer
perilously shaken. We say this is a most strik
ing evidence of the ruinous tendency Of the ar
bitrary act of the President, because there ha
been much Boosting in Congress by Mr.. Wrigh
Of the Senate, and other New York jackson
men, of the soldity of those safety fund institu
5 tions. MIR. Wright, we believe, went so far a
4 to give kind Of pledge for their stability. Blu
, the experiment" has proved too strong for them
and the Governor of the State has been forced t
e propose most odious expedient, TO prevent thei
sinking among the wrecks of private enterpris
and industry, which daily go down in the TEN
pest which the evil genius OF the Executive ha
K raised His Excellency gives the following
statement of the condition Of those institutions:
y 81 am furnished by the Bank Commissioners
with a statement of the condition of the bank
subject to their supervision on the 4th of Marcl
inst, by which il appears that their circulation
had been diminished since the first day of Janu
aYy last, more than three millions of dollars ant
III that the country Institutions, those located
of the cities of New York and Albany, Will,
they had reduced their loans and discounts only
n about 5000 ,000 had reduced their circulation
about two millions of dollars. The entire re
sources of the country banks on the fourth o
> March, excluding the bank fund, amounted t
$2l 9S4 $50, and their entire liabilities to $Sl2,
= 462, 900. Notwithstanding the redemption, be
tween those dates, of about two millions of thei
paper, the reduction of their specie was les
r, than $25, 900; and their immediate means of re
i demption, consisting of specie at home and fund
on deposites in Albany and New York, subjec
: to be drawn at sight, amounted TO more than 3
: per cent. of the whole circulation.
4 $50 far, therefore, as the banks themselves ar
concerned, ] entertain not the slightest doubt
either Of their present or future ability to NEE
any crisis that can occur; but under a state o
things which may be imagined, proper regart
for their own safety. may put it out OF their pow
er to afford those accommodations TO the public
which its interests may require"
The remedy which he proposes is thus de
scribed:
sit has occurred to me, that a remedy as wei
for the existing evil, for the Inconvenience
which may in any event result from the with
drawal of the capital now employed by theBank'
in this State, may be provided, by the issue of {
State Stock, if necessary 10 the amount of or
millions Of dollars and by increasing the ability