Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-10-09

oress OF the wing Convention Of New York. -
The condition Of the country is admirably por
trayed, and the consequences hanging upon tn,
approaching election are strongly enforced. :
IL truly and forcibly declares that the question
now before the people presents at once tn,
solemn alternative Of The continued existence q
our Republican institutions in their purity or
their certain corruption, already feGrfuly begun
and their eventual speedy and ineritabie destrue
tion."
We have room only for few extracts. Ii
the subjoined paragraphs, the importance Of tn,
New York election, and the corrupt combina
tons of State Office holders. are Justly drescibed.
Fellow Citizens: the election. which is
now approaching, is not only an election for
state officers-but for officers who are to
represent the people bothin the government
at home, and in the government at Wash
ington. The bearing which the result of
this struggle is TO have on national politics
is immensely important We do not hesitate
to say that, in our opinion, il may decide
the fate of our Republic. We believe that
the Wings Of New York will have the
merit and the glory of saving their coun-
try, II, at this election, they shall rescue
this great state, from the hands of those
who have betrayed and sold it, aud now
hold It, merely in trust, and ready for
transfer to the purchaser-bu if they fail
to do this, who, among us, will undertake
to say, that we shall not then have seen
the last popular election which will ever
take place in our country, this side or
revolution? We tremblo for the result
as men, as patriots, as brothers. aud hus
bands. and fathers, as about to see all the
lo(tiest and all the tenderest interests of
life put at fearful hazard, we tremble for
| the result.
IL the administration in this state were
itself pure, there is one fact, which alone
| ought to be enough to rouse the most de,
termined oppostion--the fact that the pc
Iitlcal power Of the state is thrown into
the scale in favor of the government at
Washington as it now exists, and at the
same time, is held in readiness to perpetu
| ate the new state Of things already estab.
iished there, and complete the destruction
| of constitutional aud American liberty,
| by bringing forward an individual, in
whom the principal corruptions Of the
times originated, and who is identified
with all that is most odious in the conduct
| of the administration, to take the success.
sion TO an executive authority already
resting on the ruins of the best portions
of the constitutional system But we re-
| gard the state administration as partaking
| largely on IFS own account OF the same
rottenness in which that of the govern
ment is involved--n indeed the whole did
not originate here. The same system Of
corruption, and the same system of decep-
ton are freely practised.
Every place and every employment IN
der the government, and within its con
troll, is made the means of ready payment
for services rendered to the party. No
man takes or retains Office but on cond
ton OF allegiance. and OF active and effici
ent service. The least symptom Of disaf
fiction, or even of doubt about the cor
ree,ness and purity Of the measures Of the
administration. is followed with prompt
expulsion, and with as much obloquy as
can be heaped on the offender. The man-
ner in which the public duty may chance
TO be performed is Of little moment If
the incumbent, the contractor, or the job
| Der, whoever or whatever he may be,
shall take care to be faithful himself 10
the political interests Of his employers, to
contribute his time, his money and his in
| fluence literally, and bring in to the cause
which he has espoused, all whom he can
control about him, he is certain TO be
deemed entitled to reward, and finds him
self in the way Of glorious promotion"
! Our readers have heard much of the Safety
Fund system of Banks in New York, notable
bined political and financial power in the hands
of his party We have description of this
many headed MONSTER which shews that all
other monied monsters in the country, sink into
| insignifcance, when compared with Van Buren's
and Marcy's paper money Briareus.
"Perhaps so perfect trick OF polticalle-
gerdemain was never played off upon any
people, as that which gives to the people
of this state the only security they enjoy
against bank insolvencies, in pitiful fund
set apart for the redemption of worthless
paper. The whole system is device TO
cheat the community of its money and Of
it's political rights at one throw. Ii Is
device to enable the banks, by show OF
false security to violate every sound and
safe principle of banking in their issues,
for the sake of enormous profits made at
the peril Of the public. 1t is device by
which the aggregate capital of upwards
of SEVENTY BANKS, amounting to some
TWENTY FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, IS
managed and controlled as one fund, TO
swell the pecuniary profits, and perpetu
ate the political power, of the Albany Re
gency. Ii is a monstrous engine, contain
, ing, indeed, within itself, a body Of explo
siye materials. and just ready TO burst IN
ruin over the heads Of the people, but as
siduously watched and preserved, by eve
~ means honest and dishonest, and care
, fully directed for political operation anc
, effect. We ask the citizens OF this state
/, to remember how promptly and how eff
: GENTLY the administration. with all th'
0 means in its hands. has uniformly stepped
. forward to the relief and succour of thu
banks, whenever the avarice of the partie
concerned has demanded large profits, o
/ whenever their fears have been alarmed
:, FIR the safety nf the system: we ask YOU 1