Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-04-24

anu all That you dread. ls IN your hanus,
And the events. to which have Just al
luded. demonstrate that those of US have
not been deceived who have always re-
lied upon the virtue, the capacity, and the
intelligence of the People.
| congratulate you. Mr.. President, and
| hope you will receive the congratulation
| with the same heartfelt cordialty with
which tender it. upon the issue of the
| late election in the city of New York. !
hope il will excite patriotic glow in your
bosom. congratulate the Senate, the
Country, the City Of New York, the
! friends OF liberty every where. II was a
| great victory. II must he so regarded in
every aspect From a majority of more
than six thousand, which the dominant
party boosted few months ago, if il re-
tain any, it is meagre and spurious ma.
jority of less than two hundred. And the
Wings contended with such odds against
them. A triple alliance of State place.
men, Corporation placemen, and Federal
| placemen amounting TO about thirty FIVE
/ hundred, and deriving, in the form of sa
| laries, compensations, and allowances, or.
/ binary and extra, from the Public chests,
the enormous sum, annually. of near one
million Of dollars. Marshaled, drilled
disciplined, commanded. The struggle
! was tremendous; but what Can withstand
the irresistible power of the votaries Of
truth, liberty, and their country? II was
an immortal triumph--a triuu phi of the
] Cons and the Laws over usurpa-
! ton here, and over clubs and bludgeons
! and violence there.
G., on. noble ethyl Go on, patriotic
wings! follow up your glorious commence
ment; persevere, and pause not until you
have regenerated and disenthralled your
splendid city, and placed it at the head Of
American cities devoted to civil liberty,
as it now stands pre- eminently the first as
the commercial emporium Of our COM
mon country Merchants, mechanics.
traders, laborers, never cease to recollect
that, without freedom, you can have no
sure commerce or business; and that with
out law you have no security for personal
liberty, property, or even existence.-
Countrymen of Tone, of Emmett, OF
Macneven, and Of Sampson. if any Of you
/ have been deceived, and seduced into the
support OF cause dangerous to American
liberty, hasten to review and correct your
|
the green fields of your native island to
escape what you believed the tyranny of a
British King! Do not, | adjure you. lend
yourselves, in this land of your asylum,
this last retreat of the freedom Of man, TO
the establishment here, for you, and for
us all. Of that despotism which you had
proudly hoped had been left behind you
| in Europe, forever! There is much,
would fain believe in the constitutional
forms Of government. But at last il is its
parental and benefcsnt operation that
must fix its character. A government
may in form be free, in practice tyranni
cal, as it may in fs.m be despotic, and in
practice liberal and free.
1t was brilliant and signal triumph of
the wings. And they have assumed for
themselves, and bestowed on their oppo-
nents, a denomination which, according
to all the analogy Of history,i is strictly
correct. 1t deserves to be extended tbro'-
out the whole country. What was the
origin, among our British ancestors, of
those appellations? The tories were the
supporters of Executive power, of royal
preTogative, of the maxim that the kmg
could do no wrong, of the detestable doc
trines of passive obedience and Don-resis
lance. The wings were the champions Of
liberty, the friends of the people, and the
defenders of the power of their represen-
tatves in the House Of Commons.
During our Revolutionary war, the to-
ries took sides with Executive power and
prerogative, and with the King, against
liberty & independence. And the Wings
true TO their principles, contended against
Royal Executive power, and for freedom
and independence.
And what is the present but the same
contest in another formp The par,izan.
of the present Executive sustain his pow
err in the most bonndless extent, They
claim for him all Executive authority. =
They make his sole will the governing
mower Every officer concerned in thu
Administration. from the highest TO tn,
lowest. is to conform to his madstes Ever
the public treasury. hitherto regarded a
sacred, and beyond his reach. is PLACED
J bv them under his entire direction anG
control The W hIgs Of the present day
are opposing Executive encroachment
and a most alarming extension Of Execu
) tive power and pTerogaiive. They ara
ferreting out the abuses and corruptlon'
Of an Administration. under ChIei Ma
pistrate who is endeavoring to concentrate
in his own person the whole powers o
Government. They are contending TO
the rights of the people, for civil liberty
for free institutions, for the supremacy o
the Constitution and the laws The con
, test is an arduous one; but. although tn
struggle may be yet awhile prolonged, b.
, the blessing of God and the spirit of GU
ancestors, the issue cannot be doubtful.
The Senate stands in the breach. read,
to defend the Constitution. and to relieve
7 the distresses of the people But. with
out the concurrence of another branch o
Congress, which ought TO be the first {
weld il, the Senate alone can send fort
no act of legislation. Unaided, 1t can d.
no positive good; but it has vast proven
tive power. II may avert and arrest evlI
if il cannot rebuke usurpation. Senator:
E let US remain steadily by the Constituto
and the country, in this most portentou
Z crisis. lei US oppose, TO all encroachment