Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-09-06

| KNOW u ~ u pritty tough JOB 10 upset
a party that has got hold OF the biggest
eend of the stick I; bat i, must DO done,
or with them very sticks 1--WE the PEG.
pie" gave them, they will crack our
crowns. So there are no two ways
about tive must teach our public
servants TO be content with the wages
and the honor Of Office which we give
EN-, and 10 execute the laws we have
made for our own good--and we must
teach EN-, too, thai if we find any
snookin round and planning to keep
their places by using power, for their
own party purposes, which belongs
alike To all parties and all classes, then
they must expect trouble; they must
| change their plans, or change their pla-
ces. Will any man tell me that the
country would DO in the state il is, il
folks in office. for the last five or eight
years had gone accordin 10 law 7
didn't believe word ont, for | know
to the contrary. I, for one, am willing
to run the risk of going 10 the Devil, il
1t is according 20 law--but | won't 20
one step that way agin the law and |
don't mean TO let any man or any par.
ty drive me that way, unless he can
show law for it. am for the Consii.
tuition and the Laws--and If we can't
60 accordin to that rule, then | say let
every man up stakes and go TO Turkey
or to China, he will be better of there
than here--ior if we once git our Con-
! sttution and our Laws out of Joint, the
hull consarn will 80 all TO smash--and
he who happens to have the strongest
and longest arm will grab most.
When was trav'ling round "solita.
ry and alone," as Mr.. Benton says
over that beautiful country call'd Spain,
(ior have been pretty much all over
that country)-l used TO stop some
times on the top Of hill and look about
and say TO myself, "my conshens,"
says |, what country this is,"--
there was wideund long ranges ofbeau.
titul meadow land all around--and the
little rivers and streams streaisin about
and some on 'em running headong
down the side of the hils,---and there
warn't COW on them there pastures,
not mill or factory on them streams,
not road or canal, and not house
- all in n state OF stark naked natur---
and oil in the finest cline in the world !:
Jist sich country, if you could put it
INTO one OF our States, any man who
owned fifty acres ont would come pla.
gy nigh havin town plot, or lacto-
ry, or mill site, or canal, or rail
road, on his farm-and every part ont
would be alive with happy and pros.
porous people. Instead Of this, what
do you see in that fine countryl Any
man who wants to know, let him 90
and look for himself--and the only ad.
vice have TO give him is, not to take
any thing along with HIM worth stcal-
ing and if he has an extra life, like
cat, that will stand siabbing, lei him
take that along with him, for he will
want ii; they kill every thing there
worth killing and stealing, except Bank
paper money; they won't steal that,
for they don't know what il is /; they
go for hard currency entire. They 60
the Glneral's doctrine about money
matters up 10 the hub they keep bank
matters and state matters entirely Sc.
paraie and so wide apart you can't see
nary one on 'em. asked some on 'em
there, why they did not 90 to work and
earn an honest liven and put on decent
clothes, and feed their staryin' families
but they said there was no use in
trying that, for as soon as any man goi
leetle forehand in the world, all their
property was taken away from 'em TO
feed the sogers, or to pay taxes--or
was stolen. We'll, says !, why don't
you take the law on 'em then7 Lawl
What Law 7-There amt no law here,
but jst such law as "the Government"
chuses TO make-and "the Govern.
mem" has got all the sogers and all
the office holders on their side, and they
out number us two TO one. Well.
thinks |, as far as that goes that sounds
democratic at any rate, but shows the
difference between Government de-
mocracy" and Peoples democra-
cy." And this put me to thinkin con.
siderable how it co.nes about in the
course Of time that government can
manage to work along, first with pow
or granted by the people for the good
of the hull people, and then sometimes
with little glory, (for Spain has had
it's glory too, and is now so full ont
there aint no vessels in port or indus.
try in the country--therc amt no room
for any thing but rags and misery -
and then agn, with leete party ma
nagemeni, contrive TO bring things so
as to make power beget power, and
smash every thing that dares to talk
agin the party that has the CONTROL
And what is the consequence
All the laws that were made for the
good of the hull people are put aside,
and only SIGH laws are made as suit