Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-09-18

TO show me where ii is said 10 the Consti
tuition that Congress haInt got the right
Can't Congress pass law sayin that no
steamboat shall be made with bller down
in the middle ontp--or pass any law reg
ulatin steamboats, for the safety Of lives
and property and why not? because
there Amt nothin in the Constitution asin
it, and if Congress thinks the public good
requires it, they can do it--just as they
have got the right Of sayin no foryner shall
vote at elections unless he has been IN the
country certain time-or that no loryner
shall own vessels with our nag-or that
no foreign vessel shall do any coastIng
trade, and so on.
But what lifts my dander most is, that
such folks as Mr.. Van Buren, and his par
ty say that Congress has got no right TO
make bank in which The hull people own
one fifth part Of the capital and profits,
and at the same time go for bull batch
of State Banks in which none but " The par
ty'' can get finger, when the Constltu
ton says as plain as A d T., that no
state shall have the right TO issue Bills
of Credit" but that Congress alone shall
have the right to regulate the currency"
Now if bank bill amt bill of Credit, |
should like TO know what kind Of crittnr
il is. And folks find paper money some
times more convenient than hard money
TO send about the country-just as they
now find steamboats, more sartin than sail
boats-then if paper money amt currency,
what on earth is il
Let two Just such Countrys as we have
be put right along side Of one another
and let one use hard money and sail boats,
and tother use good safe Bank paper and
steamboats,, and see which will go ahead
fastest: 1t is pIagy curious piece of
business when one comes to think on t, to
see how things have got twisted round
right rong eend first on this Bank ques.
tion--and to understand it, must tell you
that story about old Squire Peabody.
When the Squire first went down TO
Socco he bought considerable Of farm,
and seem it was more than he wanted to
fence in at first he let good piece ont go
out into commons, and all the neighbors
used TO pasture their cattle ont; but to
right, the Squire's boys began to grow
up, and one OF his sons, who had been
studyin with lawyer Joslyn, he come home
and just about that time the neighbors had
calld town meetin about this commons,
and past resolutions, and one of these res
olutions said that seein that squire Peabo-
dy's farm lay right along side this com
mons, and other folks had to drive their
cows over 8 miles to pastur on't-squire !
Peabody ought either to pay the differ |
ence for pasturin his cattle, or not be al
lowd to have any cattle at all ont, and
Ezra Gleasing, that squirt ey'd chap
you've heard me tell on before, and a rale
politician, be went so far as to give toast
down in the Bar-room arter the meetn
broke UP SAYING" Eternal hostility again
old squire Peabody, and his cows, and
that the honor Of all the cattle in the
required it."
The Squire was peaceable critter as
ever was, and never did nothn without
Law on bis side-and bis son being now
along side on him, as soon as they heard
of this they begun to muster up the old
deeds, and got the compus and surveying
chains, and the next day there was terri
bic to do all about Socco. when folks be
gan to see the posts and rails going up
round every acre of that common, for
there warnt an acre ont that the Squire
hadn't paid for years ago-So arter the
and they all had to mock under, he let EN- |
paster their cows on the comon as be- |
fore-but to keep EN- from .akin too many |
liberties, he used to turn in a few of his
old ring tail roarers list to keep the rest
in some kind of order, and SO that all
should have fair play.
Your friend, J. DOWNING Major,
Downingville Militia, Cd Brigade,
l am goin to Saratogue in day or two,
to see what is goin on there among the
folks of the neat Government Bige-
low tells me Mr.. Van Buren, is there put
ting things in order among em-them
chaps when they get together there so
nigh Albany with rail roads runnin every
way, require sharp lookn ar.er.-Sara-
togue, for Politicians, is jist like the bush
houses KILN for pigeons-the folks all go
that way, and when Mr.. Van Buren, gifts
there he can fly his stool pigeons cunnn
enuf.
From the Winchester Republican of Sept. g.
Wuch ado about nothing! Great c,y and
title root!! a mighty fuss about little
piece Of pork!u Be it known to all man
KIND, that after three or four weeks of
dreadful anticipation, the Van Burenites
held their meeting in this quarter last Mon
day, TO immediate MIR. Leigh. About 10
O'Clock we strolled into the Court House,
and saw Mr.. William Wood orPughtown,
Perched upon the bench, looking profound
~ wise; as the occasion required. We
thought Of a grand inquistor, racks, tor
lures, and thnmbscrews, and shuddered
Tor poor Mr.. Leigh. Some ten or twelve
persons were within The bar. looking list
lessIy about them, as if they did not care
much about what was going on. and one
OF them, onshtlessIy, was standing with
his back towards Mr.. William Wood of
Pughtowh! This was next to sacriege.
These constituted we presume, the meet.
ing proper, for in the lobby without the
bar, we saw number of old national re-
publican phzzes. SO Invested of the lonai
tide that used TO mark them. that we hard
y knew them They constituted the au
dience, and behaved remarkably wei! con-
| slderlng all things I'm the lobby too Tue