Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-08-21
To J. Munroe -
SECOND LETTER.

"Dea. Ir take the liberty 10 enclose
! SD. certain proposals. which speak for
I themselves. The people need only cor
rect Information, and the proposed paper
will give it on the cheapest terms. 1t is
intended TO reach every neighborhood in
the Union, and it is peculiarly desirable
/ that it should be circulated through all
Kentucky. 1t will render essential ser
vice in all your elections Will you take
the trouble, for the sake Of our good cause,
to raise subscription in your quarter, to
make a speedy return of names and mo-
ney. The time for action is at hand.
The President is well, and in excellent
spirits. | do not doubt that the people,
whom he has honestly served, will trium
| phantly sustain him
With great respect, yours truly,
AMOS KENDALL
! No 5. Retrenchment, too, was among
the promises-there were too many Of
iicers living upon the public crib, fatten.
ing on the people, they must be reduced.
This humbug, also, told excellently well
at the elections. Like the rest, too. it has
been fulfilled. The officers have been in =
creased in every department of the Go
yernment.
No 6. Economy was probably the most
conspicuous in tie list of humbugs &C.
neral Jackson was to bring back the Go
vernment TO the halcyon days of simpli-
city aud economy. The humbug succeed
ed to charm-the people were exaspera
ted at the extravaganza of Mr. Adams,
and economy was loudly demanded as
national want. Jackson came into power.
and under his glorious reign, the expenses
OF the Government have been economical
from thirteen millions, the maximum in
Mr. Adams time, to twenty one millions,
the actual expenses of last year,
No. 7. The next humbug in order of
time, was the glorious achievement of the
payment of the Public Debt, by and
through the sole exertions, wisdom and
cunning OF General Jackson. 1t was made
manifest, that Gen. Jackson was born for
the express purpose of relieving the Peo
pie from this burthen, that none of il had
been paid till he came into mower. that no
arrangement whatever, was previously
made for paying it, and that be himself
was paying it off out of his own private
estate This was a glorious humbug, and
told well at the second election. 1t be-
gins, however, to be generally understood,
that General Jackson is not paying off this
debt with his own money-that the whole
system OF the sinking fund was arranged
long before he was thought of for the
Presidency, that the debt is paid with the
public money, and that Mr.. Adams paid
off forty five millions during his four
years.-The humbug has had its day.
No. The splendid diplomatic achieve
ments, the successful negotiations of Ge-
neral Jackson, cannot be forgotten in this
list OF humbugs. They covered him with
a "biaze OF glory" about the time of his
last election, and what was more to the
purpose, gained him a good many votes.
There was the West India arrangement,
which abandoned the carrying trade to the
BIltish-then there was Mr. Rivess trea-
ty with France, which abandoned twenty
millions of dollars for five millions, and
which we are likely to lose, through
splendid piece of diplomatic vanity on the
part oil the negotiator. There were also
some snail matters adjusted with Den
mark, Brazil, Naples, SC. which have
been magniticently exaggerated, and part
Of which were settled by Mr.. Adams.
1hese humbugs are now worn out. The
People universally began to find that thew
were sheer humbugs to buy votes; the
days of mountebank ship, of trick. and
chlcanery, appeared TO be drawing to a
close, and so gross was the deformty of
Jacksonlsm, when Invested of its Harle-
gum robes, that it was evident some new
humbug must be got up, or the whole
machinery would sink under the execra-
tons of an abused and injured people
Something must be devised to excite the
passions and drown the reason of the PEG.
pie, something TO divert them from the
naked realities of Jacksonism. Then arose
Humbug
No. 8. The Bank .Monster-this has
been the most lucky conception of the
whole family of humbugs. II is worth all
the rest. 1t is the parent indeed of
whole litter of humbugs. The Bank is a
Monster, an Aristocracy, a Monopoly; it
interieres IN elections, brides printers, cor.
ruPts Congress, subjects US to the SWAY of
Foreign Capitalists and British noblemen,
and threatens to ingulph in its tremendous
stomach, the Liberties of whole People!
lhls humbug has succeeded gIoriously;
the people have joined pell nell with Ge-
neral jackson in hunting down this Chi
mera and 'rescuing their almost devoured
Liberties from its grasp Talk Of Don
QuXotte and the Windmill, st George
and the Dragon, Hercules and the HYDRA.
.or ans other authentic exploit, ancient or
' r" how rffably insignificant
Vemenfs appear, compared
a OF Gen jackson and the
Happy humbugl Exqui
s lJ! how admirably do Won
work together and enable General Jack |
son TO conceal the fatal stabs he is aiming
at the Constitution. From his fruitful de-
wee flows another and the last humbug,
namely,
No. 10. The Gold humbug, or the
golden age revived; Gen. Jackson has re.
stored il. Every mans pocket is TO be
hlled with Gold; it is to ''flow up our ri
vers,' md men will have nothing to do |
but fish for it, or pick it up in the streets.
I'm eight or nine months from this time
says that chaste and veritable organ, the
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