Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-06-19
movDAx, JUNE Is, 1898.

MONDAY JUNE Los 4bJEe.
De Richmond Wing, speaking Of the resig-
q Of Mr. Stevenson, says:
IA has taken the only course which
ID have given him any chance OF
ag confirmed as Minister to En-
md. No doubt Mr.. Stevenson well
sE this, either from his own reflec-
ms, or from the information of others,
Hmdly to his appointment. The err
Mr.. Stevenson has committed, has
zen that of too great delay in coming
the conclusion, that duty to his
onstituents required of him to resign
i seat, and that due regard to his
oaor, demanded of him to vacate the
kpeaker's Chair as soon as he was no.
mated to the Senate for a Foreign
Mission. By this course, he would
ave escaped imputations derogatory
both, and gone far to retrieve the
haracter he once maintained in his
Ongressional District. As it is though,
70 must, in justice, say, he has done
BelI and wisely in this annunciation,
yen at this late hour.
The Coffee House Correspondent at
Washington, under date of Friday last,
avs that the Regency party in the
louse, are much incensed with Mr..
Stevenson for resigning the Speakers
Chair, and talk of violated pledges to
tstain his place to the end of the ses.
sml He says some Of them even
.ireaten to use their influence with the
President TO recall the nomination.
Ve shall perhaps hear more of this
Eet. 1t is difficult at this distance to
conjecture what may be the conse-
Quences OF this movement to the admit
lstration party. Had it taken place
Earlier in the session it was feared that
would have thrown out some staunch
bounds, who were running for the
lace. The Workers are doubtless
aware that such may still be the con.
equences, and as all the party ques.
ions are not yet concluded, or by a
exterous move, may be again brough,
up, they are unwilling to release thei,
old upon the present Speaker. What
must be the state of political morals
where such a subject of complaint is
publicly made and the violation only,
pot the pledge itseyr, considered by the
complainants as derogatory to the cha
Facter Of q gentleman.
OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT.
The Spy in Washington, relates the fol
owing anecdote. 1t is almost incredible,
ye the Spy has sustained character for
accuracy in his facts, as well as by the
most extraordinary shrewdness in his-spe-
culations. If this anecdote be true, it de-
serves public and explicit authorization;
b false, it behoves the President or his
Friends to make it appear so. Its>confir-
nation must and will damn his remaining
popularity, There are those who have
believed that the President had force in
contemplation as the ultimate sanction Of
bis course. We have not been of that o
fnion. This charge if sustained. is deci
Five. II would justly subject him TO i'm
feachment, conviction, and historical in
Fanny. We hope it may not be sustained
put it is too momentous to be lightly re-
garded. 1t ought to be sustained or else
feluted - Wing
81 perceive that some OF the journal;
Keep up the hope that an impression, IA
|yourable to the prosperity of the country
Fmay yet be made upon Gen Jackson.
will now relate recent circumstance
II consider it conclusive. A Maryland
friend of the President was conversine
with him on the subject of the pecuniary
|distresses of the country. Said the gen
Eteman. am extremely anxious as to th'
state ofpublic feeling. In Baltimore, there
is great excitement. The people appea
Ito be combining against you, sir, and
am apprehensive that they may comm
some imprndent act. "You need have M
fears, (said the General, } if there was an.
difficulty; would put myself at the hea'
of two hundred marines, and drive you
Baltimore mob before me-"
do not mean in Baltimore only, sal
the vislter; the people appear to be CON
blniDg throughout the whole country.
"Why. sir, (said the General,) | dlsrt
gard their combination. | have only I
stretch my arm out to the West, and
can have in thirty days, two hundred tho,
sand men in this city, at my command"
Such are the feelings, such the opinion
and such the language, of the Chief MI
gistrate Of mighty nation OF freeme,
May it not be. that our "passlve obed
ence and non resistance" to injustice an
despotism at home. has encouraged II
French Government in their wrong dong
towards us?
The SPY IN WASHINGTON.