Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1835-08-13

There wouid seem 90 Be IT least ~ great
probability Of Van Bursn's besng converted &
the right which he can sec. a. Of Whites bein,
converted to the truth which yet be has no
been able to perceive.
By way OF apology for this seeming perverse
pess and strange pertinacity Of the Wings 0
New Engiaad in still adheFing 10 MIR We bster
il may be remarked that ia supporting MIR
Webster, they are supporting their own princi
pies in the person OF him who is at once their
ablest expositor and most powerful advocate
one whose fame is destined TO endure like the
granite Of bis native hills, whose splendid
eloguencc viii long preserve from oblivion the
party topics OF The day. though il fail 10 pre-
serve the constitution Of his country. Peerless
in intellect, matchiess in debate, unsuIlied 10
character, the first constitutional lawyer Of the
nation in the opinion Of the late chief Justice
foremost and mightiest in the Senate on all great
occasions, how can the Wings deem strange the
love and admiration of New England for her
glorious son And who is the maa, in whose
behalfthe Wings Of Massachusetts are expected
TO relinquish the pretensions of their great couD
tryman! Hugh Laacson U-hite What are the
achievements Of Hugh l.. White that entitle him
to that proud distinctions 10 the camp, in the
forum, in the Senate what is he An honest
well meaning man If we are to believe his friends
but scarcely rising above mediocrity, undistn
guishcd, aud until of late almost unknown.
Can the Wing really fatter himself that New
Englandwill surrender her fayorite admitted to oe
a FIRST rate man, s her principles. for mere me-
diocrity without much as coincidence of opin-
ion and feeling TO recommend il, and with the
obvious hazard of having to maintain for the KIT
four or eight years the same contest that has
been unavailingly wagcd for the last eight? 1t
preposterous to dream Of such thing. IL is an
absurdiiy which the understanding rejects and
from which the heart recoils.
When the Wings of the western and middle
states brought out Mr.. Clay, sound and catho-
lie statesman, with views large and liberal as
his broad spread and magnificent country, the
Wings of New England accepted him cheerful
ly, aud supported him earnestly and strenuously
No,o, when New England presents a man Of the
same cast and calibre, she is gravely told, for
sooth, that shs is blinded by the eifulgence Of
her own brilliant son-that her favorite has not
even a. possible chance, that g no ticket, not
SO much cs a ticket, can be formed for him in
two thirds Of the states of the Union"-that "bis
nomination is working great and positive mis-.
chief" and he and she are seriously implored
TO relieve the Wings Of the Union from the
sceight aud inc,tnbranee of his nomination." aud
10 east her vote in favor Of a man of whom she
knows morning.. but that he is an original and in.
flexible Jack with the further recon.
dation of coming from southern slave state,
with the peculiarly friendly feelings towards
yankee interests and policy which .appertain to
The politicians of that section Of the Union
MY life upon il New England will do no such
thing Ii is as false in policy as it is in principle.
1t is only while battling for truth, for right, for
principle, that Wings have any strength. Re-
lnquishipg that, and entering upon mere
scI amblc for office, they are as weak as the He
brew giant when his locks were shorn Let
New England then. adhere stedfastly TO the
pure and lofty patriot upon whom she has fixed
her choice wisely & wel-and, lin or lose, she
will have the consoling consciousness oil having
done her duty. BERKELEY.