South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-06-27
PRINCIPLES!


PRINCIPLE!
The Kentucky Reporter is facetious
at the expense of the Virginia Delega-
ton in the late Baltimore Convention.
1t says:
"THH GREAT Caucus, il seems,
BROKE UP IN MOST ADMIRED DISORDER.
Old Virginia could not stand every thing.
l, is strange that Virginia should ques-
tion for moment, the political orthodoxy
of the good Colonel. Every body
knows that the Colonel is for Jackson,
and what else would Virginia require?
If he is for the Bank, he is still for JACK
JACKSON! If he is for Internal Improve
ments will not his boundless devotion to
Jackson, expiate that sin? 1t is unreason-
able in that old fashioned Common
wealth to be criticising with so much
precision the abstract political notions
of candidate, when he is known to be
CHUCK FULL OF JACKSON DEMOCRACY
AND GLORY But it is little singular
that Virginia--when we say Virginia, we
mean the Delegates in the Convention
should, without even wry face, swal-
low down Martin Van Buren,, and yet
With loathing and disgust. reject the
Colonel. Virginia may know more a.
bout Van Buren, than we Of the West,
but here has political opinions are shrou-
ded in as ifnpenetrable veil of secrecy
as ever were the Colonel's. But HERE
we are not so squeamish, as they are in
+ 4he odd Dominion Do you BELIEVE
in , --xsoN, is the only specific question
we care a-sut, and as to catechising
candidate about the Bank, the Tariff and
ihtefnal improvements, the Proelama~
ton or any other such trash. we never
are guilty of such INDIscRErroN. We
are really afraid that Virginia, will make
herself very ridiculous. To get I'D in
National Convention and gravely talk
about PRINCIPLES, to parcel of New
York jugglers, is surely the most extra.
VACANT piece of folly which has been per-
petrated slnce-since-Be Benton UNDER
took to give us GOLD CURRENCY. But
Goes Virginia want to make this nation
believe that she has any body within her
territorial limits whose merits can COM
pare with old Tecumseh's! DID Mr..
RlvEs EVER KILL AN INDIAN? Did he
ever write Sunday Mail Report p
What has he ever done to cover himself
with glory And yet Virginia sets up
William C. Rives against the gallant
Colonel when too it was DISTINCTLY
known that Jackson and Van Buren,
wanted the Colonel to run. We are
afraid that the old Commonwealth is
inanifesting her rebellious spirit too late.
She has struck her flag to the Albany Re-
gency aud all her struggles to free her.
self from the chains of that corrupt junto,
we are afraid, will be Intellectual"
SMALL Pox.-An opinion of no
small importance, if correct, was stat.
ed by DR.. Gregory before the London
College of Physicians, on Monday the
9Th OF April, ia the course of an essay
he then read. on the mutual relation
between the vaccine and small pox
virus. He considered the vaccine
lymph to have lost much Of its virtue
from having passed through the sys.
tens oftoo many persons, thirty five
years having elapsed since matter
was obtained direct from the COW, for
the purpose of vaccination. He was
led to this conclusion by the preva-
lenca of small pox al this time in Eng.
land, and the number of established
cases in which the disease has been |
taken by persons who had been vac
cinated. He thought it indispensable,
10 insure the proper effect of this pre-
ventive process, that fresh matter
should be obtained from its original
source.
THE VICE PREsIDENcY,--The Peters
burg Constellation, the strongest collar
press in Virginia, speaks in the following
decided manner of Col. Johnson. The
Regency game is up in Virginia.
"His talents cannot be considered
above mediocrity his long experience is
all that is in Bis favor as public man.
His bank, tariff, & internal Improvement
opinions, are such as Virginia cannot har-
monize with and will not, am persuaded,
countenance, by supporting him for the
office for which he has been nominated.
y & = y
It is not my purpose, however, here or
elsewhere to become Col. Johnson's
apologist. His advocate for the Vice
Presidency, on ANY OTHER OFFICE, |
NEVER CAN BE, without sacrifice Of prin.
cple as a politician. which l always
have and hone ever shall. hold dear.