Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-11-22
Frofa the National InteiiigeascI
THE NEW YORK REVOLUTIONS

The returns from the different conn'
ties, Of the late election in New YORK,
continue to enlarge the Wing majority
10 truth, the Administration party aP-
pears to have been almost aLhihliateo
in every part Of the State-so lar az
regards any representation which It
will have in the Assembly. Inc Alba
ny Evening Journal Of Friday says,
1.-THE Western cars are just in. The
entire Yves. has broken loose. Chenan-
20, Madison, Cayuga, Seneca, Wayne,
Jefferson. Oswego, Tompkins, Tioga,
all, all Wings! Herkimer and Lewis
alone have gone for Van Buren," All
the Senatorial districts, as far as heard
from, have returned Wing members
and out oil 80 members OF tho other
branch, whose election IS ascertalned,
but sir Of them are Van Buren, men.
Last year the same counties returned
81 Van Buren, men. The popular
Wing gain, so lar, is 29,067, and the
Journal Of Commerce very good au-
thority for such 4 prediction calculates
that the total Wing gain III the State will
reach FIFTY THOUSAND VOTES.
The results gwen above Of the cleo.
ton ia the great State of New York,
leave no doubt OF the salutary change
in public sentiment, or rather IN the
public temperament, of which the ante.
ceden' late elections in MAINE, PENN
sYLvANIA, and NEW JERSEY, had Civ.
en- US most favorable indications. Truth
and Reason have prevailed ove Error
and Fanaticism, and true Republica.
nlsm is again in the ascendant.
We congratulate our fellow. citizens
on a state Of filings 50 cheering to the
patriot and suspicious to the public ia.
terest. BY the public interest, we do
not here refer to any mere interest or
concern Of Party, but TO the interest Of
all the People o the United States, and
of every man, woman and child, of
whom that People is made up. With.
out protesting implicit faith in the max.
i'm, that the voice Of the PEOPLE is the
voice of Con, We mean to say that
here is, as we believe, a ease OF The
voice Of Providence. delivered through
the suffrage Of a million OF freemen,
~pronouncing sentence of condemnation
upon the niisruie ofthe last eight years,
and %deno0ncing especially the wilful
perseverance, IN it, which has so far
characterised the present Administra.
ton Of the General Government.
The President of the United States
and his friends may now see what IS
the consequence Of " following in the
footsteps of his predecessor &; that ia.
tai pledge BY which he pronounced the
doom OF his Administration and OF his
party. Never had any man, in coming
TO the helm Of State, a laifer oppcrtu.
nifty than the present Chief Magistrate
-castlng oil the badge OF party seryi.
tnde. and r~epudiating dictatlon from
any quarter where measures were con.
cerned, by n or two woll.timed sacri.
hoes Of odiOus measures, and tho relin.
.quIshneut Of absurd ~prejudices, set up
IN the mere madness Of psrty--to be.
come the President of the Nation IN
stead Of the President Of q Party, and
concilinte the good will Of many who
were Wiling to Judge him by his mea.
sures. 1t was a surprise to those who,
though opposed TO his election, had
yet a good opiuion Of the personal 81.
gacity of the President, that no should
have missed this plain and obvious road
10 popularity, through the means Of
blessings conferred upon the country.
He chose a different course. He " fol.
lowed 10 the toots,e os' Of his predo.
ccssor, and carried out his measures.
He fulfilled his pledges to his party,
AMI his fuldllment of them has broken
down the power of his Administration.
We speak Of It's moral power, its politi-
cal influence, and not of the legal con.
stitutlonai power of the Executive.
which, however, without the moral
strength, is little more than the pagcon.
try Of office.
The consequence Of the peaceful |
revolution thus achieved, must be- \
changein the policy ofthe Government.
either upon the present Submission of
the Executive to the public will, by an
entire abandonment of its obnoxious
measures and doctrines, or ia the re.
motcr contingency, by the complete
change IN the composition of both Hou.
SOS Of Congress, which, it is now Ger.
tam will be wrought by elections to be
held within the coming year.
1aEn o. ra t,.ts,~r - ,,I,,b ~roha |
bly,, we shall have occasion to speak
more at large hereafter for the pre-
sent, We will only again congratulate
our reader. upon the complete Prostra-
lion, in the New York Election, Of the
and whitening influence which
for so long a time, apparently omnIpo
at the Palace, has blasted the pub.
he prosperity, and, calling to its aid all
the disorganizing doctrines ofthe agra.
81 a. 49, !