Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1836-09-22
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! Messrs Editors have let one paper mass
70 see whether yourselves or any one else
/ would takeup the cudgels agans. me. have
shown Willingness by waiting TO let YOU
ana your party reflect and consider. whether
you would take up the gauntlet where The
! ouds Is SO much against YOU And as mo-
man seems disposed 10 enter the list with me
am encouraged 10y the force of honesty
truth, and the principles laid down in NV
last article, 10 write again And as hold IN
! the maxim that "honesly is the best uolicy -
mean IN all my writings To stick 10 it. And
am now repen!ing because | did not fill up
Inc blanks IN my last piece, TO show how
huch John Adams had spe' in his admins
tFalion, and how much II. jackson had
| spent The truth is, tina; this does moi loo;s
like honesty. Aud now To be honesr, as a
Van Buren man, IL would have been better
moi 10 have said any thing about it, as Jack
son mas Ocen SO much more extravaganza than
adams; ami as we know too, that Van Blu
rem manages things at Washington. And
our party complain about some other thinos
that said. They think ought not TO have
said so much about Van Buren, being cun.
nInS man Now, said this 10y way of re
commentator for say give me sly, cum
n'hg man, Tor slick managing man. Aud
my party think ought not Ia have said any
tning ABOUT Dick Johnson They believe If
van Buren's elected that johnson will be
ana That DICK is such trihing fellow, the
best way Is to say nothing about him. and
particularly about here. But the truth i
the truth, and could not help saving il
Ana they would rather | had not said anv
ining about The Roman Catholics suppDriiDp
an bureh, as the people are becoming a.
ARMED at The way they are coming among
Us, and The way they all stick together
Knowing TINT the Roman Catholics have al
ways been opposed tn liberty. Another
thing my party did not like. Our preamble
and resolutions sand great deal about cheer
ing news from every where. Now they say.
a'G II Is the truth with many people, that
""u news injuries cause, and that ought
MOI 10 nave sand any thing on that subject.
Du' say lei us Know the worst, that we
may call 10 action all our energies. The
generous spirits Of my party, we're secretly
rtJoiced a! the manner spollc of Gen Uar.
rison. Ii does their hearts good 10 hear
Hero ct America spoken well of, but thew
are lille afraid il will injure Van Buren,.
MY party are perfectly satisfied as 10 the pro
Prie'y OF my remnrli, about appointing per-
sons on our corresponding committee who do
not belong TO us; and hope the explanation
OF Democrat in your last paper will be SAT-
isiacIory on this point. BY the way there
VIII be no harm in saying that Democrat
ana myself have always disagreed in some
small things, IN reference To the manner of
obtaining our end lie thinks all kinds nj
play 10 politics, is lair play ! do not believe
50 He says "this list, Speaking OF the last
small as il was. went To The
press amid the hurry and hustle Of the day
without having received the necessary cor,
reclion which II was contemplated should he
made How suspect that this is not allo-
5elhcr lair siatemeEt.-Y uu know / told
yon m my last number that was not al the
meeting. but from what heard before and
SINCE, the error happened about this way
l was matter OF enquiry among ourselves
before The meeting at Mr.. CARRIERS. and I
suppose at IT, who we should pu. on that
committee, and we just stuck on men ,ye
knew had been jackson men. supposino fhey
would be Van Buren, men. But in Ills GO
we're mistaken. And from some cause or
other he jackson men have left our ranks
but a Democrat says, hat there are left
be firmly united. Ttey are not TO be
iHYen ircm their purpose by The Merchants
NE Magistrates, nor the Preachers Nov
NJ. Democrat, blame you for bringing in
ne Preachers. They are men that OUGHT
not, and don't NEEDLE in poliiica Their bu /
'iness - Of a higher order. And don't know
mat have heard a single Preacher bot one
say any thing that looked like poIitics-ard
ne preached here few sabbaibs ago, and
'lId something about the Roman Catholics
Ana Van Buren, or not, am sorry he did
'o' say more about them; ard Democrat