Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-08-21
moNDAz, AUGUST lie, asaa.
THE Issue.

tion are put, 10 sustain themselves, and as tho
only means of doing so, TO deceive their follow
ers into the belief that very different contest
from the real one is now going on throughout
the country.
Whether Mr.. Van Buren--that rogue of
rogues-the cunningest man in christendom--
first discovered that the only hope of salvation
for the party now in power, was to induce the
public 10 believe that the true question now be-
fore the people was Bank or 10 Bank-we do
not know. We dare say the idea originated
with him. If it did not, he promptly adopted it,
and gave currency to this watchword of cor
rupt and desperate party in the following toast,
sent by him 10 the Tory celebration of the 4th of
July at Fredericksburg.
" Unqualified and Incorporating opposition
to the United States Bank. The interests and
honor Of the people demand it.
This is then the text of the jackson party !;
and il is evident that, upon the supposed hostil-
ty of the South to the Bank of the United
States, Mr.. Van Buren, rests his hopes Of
the succession. The Editor of the Richmond
Enquirer reiterates the countersign of the party,
and, with most laborious logic, endeavors TO sus-
tain the position that the continuance or non-con-
tinuapccbf the Bank of the United States, is the
most important, the essential question to be de-
cided al the approaching elections.
The advocates of the administration set aside
as inconsequential, those assumptions Of power
by the President, which if tolerated, would alb
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free representative government mere rope of
sand-assumptons at which the people Of the
United States have looked aghast, one by one
they have fallen upon their almost unbelicving
senses and which the lovers Of liberty in other
countries have observed with solicitude and
trembling for the result The Globe, the Enqui
rer, the Albany Argus. Isl New York Evening
Post, and their humber followers, pass over the
measures Of their Idol, which have agitated, and
win agitatc the country 10 the centre-and START
ing full mouth d, upon false scent send forth
the cry of Bank or no Bank Like the lap
wing, they cndeavor by their fluttering around
this subject of minor consideration, to draw of
attention from the monstrous acts oftheir politi-
cal head.
Now the truth is that the re- chartering Of the
Bank is a matter which sinks into utter insignifi
canoe when compared with the monstrous mca-
sures Of Andrew jackson in his capacity of Pres
ident of the United States. We are fully con-
WINGED that the rechartering Of the Bank is ex-
pedient, is necessary for the regulation of the
currency of the country, and we look npon the
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his minions, with adherence. But we would
sooner see the Bank destroyed beyond redcmp
tion--aye, every Bank in the country swept
away, than yield to the usurpations Of the arbi-
trary Dictator who has endeavored Of late years
TO rule the destinies of the country single hand
ed. There is perhaps as much Of qualification in
the sentiment of liberty as in its substantial en-
joyment. Could we beliere ourselves free while
cur liberties were left at the disposal of single
man, a stole philosopher might advise us 10 be
satisfied with the delusion, and give ourselves
no trouble as to the reality. But we cannot de-
ceive ourselves. General Jackson has claimed
for himself despotic power-and no must be re-
buked, or the nation stands eternally disgraced,
as incapable of protecting its rights or furnishing
those who assail them.
In this struggle then, the question of Bank or
no Bank is totally lost, and he who falters on an
obstacle so trivial cannot be true friend OF his
country. hottie question is Liberty or Despo
tsm, and the people OF the United States have
now 20 choose which of them they will transmit
/ to their posterity.
We observed short time since, that the EdI-
tor of the Enquirer quoted some joke OF the ceie-
( brated Alderman Faulkener. of convivial memo
nv. and we commend to his attention very good
! anecdote of that worthy, which we think quite
appropriate to this Bank or no bank ciamor. 1t
! is related that one night when the Alderman
expected his guests to sit late and try the
! strength Of his claret and his head, he took the
| precauton of placing in his wine glass straw
/ berry, which his doctor, he said, had recon-
mended to him on account Of its cooling qualities
on the faith of this specific, he drank even more
deeply, and as might be expected, was carried
away at an earlier period and in rather a worse
state, than was usual with him. When one OF
J his friends condoled with him the next day and
attributed his misfortune 10 six bottles Of caret
which he had imbibed, the Alderman was ex-
/ tremely indignant, " the claret' he said twas
sound, and never could do any man harm-his
discontinue was caused by that ID single
strawberry which he had kept all night at the
bottom Of his glass.
! Just so with the Globe, Enquirer, &c. The
vials Of Executive misrule under which the IN
terests Of the country staggering, could
never do any man HARM" the mischief has all
been caused by 'thatd--d strawberry, the
| Bank, which lay al the bottom.