Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-12-11
JOHN II. COOKE. ESQ.

! have observed, with great pleasure
that the Wing party" Of the Frederick
Congressional District have nominated
this gentleman to stand as the REPRESENT.
alive OF their holy cause, before The PEG.
pie, at tho next spring election. IL elect.
ed. he viii bring a great accession to the
weight and responsibility of the Virginia
delegation in Congress. aud add clear
head aud valiant heart 10 the herois band
10 the House OF Representatives, who are
STRIVING to maintain our Institutions against
Executive PoFer--i know him we'll, and
| am sure all who do not know him we'll,
wili cheeriully concede that he is man
oil whom any party might be proud. Here
toiore unambltious Of political honors, and
devoted exclusively TO the practice of a
iaborious profession. Of which be has long
since attained the highest point of emf.
nence, now securely occupied by him-he
has never appeared In public hi,. except
as member Of the late Virginia State
Convention, called to revise the constitu-
ton and in this able body, the mastery
ability and untiring zeal displayed by him,
as one OF the leading champions of the
great popular right Of equal representa-.
ton, are fresh in the recollection of all,
anu remain imperishably stamped upon
The pages that record its discussions. To
talents oil high order. and an application
to business unremittinglg intense, he unite:
ioify and unsullied personal integrity "a
noble and almost romantic sense Of honor,
which would ensure his perfect fidelity to
any cause that he might espouse, and
plant hun, as firmly as his own native
mountains. in opposition to the corrupt
practices OF the profligate crew who now
pear sway IN the country. In these awful
times oil political profligacy and corrup.
tion on the one hand, and popular folly
and delusion on the other, when, in view
oil The actua! posture Of affairs, the patriot
bosom Is almost ready "to despair Of the
Republic" and give up all for lost, the
approach "to tie rescuep OF two such
spints as Benz. w. Leigh and John II
Cooke, is well calculated to rekindle tho
expiring hopes of the Wing, and re. nerve
hls arm for another and more determined
blow fos liberty. These gentlemen are
not politicians by trade"-they are none
OF your miserable, parasitical, Office hunt
ing gentry, whose chief aim is to propiii
ate Power, by every species of self pros
tuition. ia order that they may share
what Power has to give. No: they are
high minded, honorable men, fresh and
pure from the great body OF the people, -
rIreiuctant to leave the private pursuit il
which they have won so large u measur,
Of honor and distinction prepared
even in these frightful times Of calumnl
and outrage -when. If ever, il may be trG
| ~ said, :. the post Of honor is private
station" to leave all, give up all--at III,
summons of the people, to battle for thu
constitution. They are men, "who know
their rights, aud knowing, dare main
tain"-who can and will look Power un
ilinchingly in the face, and give the stern
warning, " Thus far-and no fartherp
This is the sacred boundary of constitu
tional liberty--and we are sentinels APP
pointed by the people to guard it from VIC
laton. If you PASSION pass over our
dead bodies IF we fall, let us fall
freemen we perish, let it be in defence
Of our rights % Such are the men, and
such the spirit, that must save the Repub.
lie, in this its day Of greatest extremity
From the depth Of my inmost soul. greet
them with hearty "God speed you'll"