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

rght OIL that would upset their apple.
cart. These calings would at once.
create 4 credit money mixed up with
coin, and every man Of good character
would come in for share on't---nnd
borrow upon his credit a leetle some-
thin TIL his labor would lift him DOT lilo
dirt and rags he is now in. Trade and
commerce, too, sharpen the wits of
folks generally, and makes 'em keep
sharp eye on the law. akers--and that
don't suit some folks. have always
noticed myself, and have hearn tell
ever since | was a boy--and what lit
tie ! have read OF what is called his.o.
ry says SO too--thst no country can be
Tree and happy without good laws,
made expressly for all classes alike.
then all classes prosper, for all are de.
pendent on each other, farmer raises
wheat, and beef, and pork, tho merch.
ant takes these 10 all parts of creation
TO the best market, and brings home
what is most wanted in turn. The
ship-bnilder builds ships for the mar.
ket, and that gives employ to rope.ma.
kers, and blaeksmiths, and sailmakers.
i and cartmen--and so on through all
branches OF mechanics. Foreign trade
and all goes on, ono working into the
oiher--merchnndize, and folks in steam
boats, and on rail roads, keep movin
about the country--all busy, all pros.
porous, all happy. But when, to suit
some party purposes, any man. or set
oil men, in Office or out OF office, find,
ing some Of their measures nint likely
to suit any particular class Of folks, be.
gin to throw mud at 'em, and try To
set up other folks agin 'em, depend on,
there is mischief brewin, and tie SOON
er 1t is checked the better. Whit is
"snas for goose ought TO be snas for
gandcr." II may suit party to-
day, TO abuse the merchants and men
IN trade, and smash 'cm all to flinders
land Tomorrow II may suit the same
party TO smash the iurmers--and tho
next, the mechanics md so on. Ir it
is right in one case il is right in oil, bur
my notion is il ain't right in nary case
and for one, won't vote for il. A
man who builds ship for tho merch.
ant has us good claim on tho proiec-
ton OF the laws as the man who labors
at any other honest calm, don't care
in whit. VIII my man pint out in the
Constitution, or in any law, tho right
OF sowin discord in the great national
famiiy7
a good deal is said about some pri.
vate letters from the General al the
| .lcrmitage--th he wrote 10 the Globe
nann at Washington. haint had time
yet to read 'em, but if they are what
! hear tell'd on, don't believe tho Gin.
erai ever wrote 'em--and If ho did il
don't amount 10 no.bD. What o man
writes nfore he is President, and what
he writes after he's quit that Office Q.
mounts priity much to the same thing.
The Gineral wrote very good letter
once to Mr.. Munro-but il did not come
10 any good. One mans letter, then,
is just us good Us any other mans h.-
ter. Take Gincral Harrison, now for
instance--let him write a letter.
don't think il would make the day lon
ger or shorter /; but make him Prosi-
dent, and then all his lctlcrs--so long
long as he is President--would be con-
sdered by many rs very important
and some would think the world was
just beginning, and some that il was
just ending. This shows, then, there
must be something in the oflice--it
! may be the $4,000 dollars year, and
a big horse free of rent, and the right
Of nominating folks TO ofIice--or some
4 | l. l..a al
is something that makes his notions bet
ter AMI soundor than before. Well,
then, when he quits Office, don't see
why he should take all the mother wit
he found there along with him he
should leave it where he found il, for
the benefit of the next. amt one of
those kind of folks that think the world
is coming 10 an end by the notions of
any whoFeint President--whe,h.
err written before or arter--my letter
then, is jist as good as hiscn, and don't
know but it is leetle better, for haint
got no party notions TO sarve, and no
mistakes TO kiver up.
Capt. Jumper, too, hear, has been
writing letter to the editor OF "The
Soco Gezette"--about "The Two Pol
lies" getting ashore. understand he
lays il all to the crew, and winds up
by saying that arter all there is no
safety in any kind of vessel, and goes
agin The hull scrape on 'em, and advi.
SEES that the Government should cut
adnft from every thing that floats
that all vessels are dangerous--apt TO
leak--apt to sink--apt 10 upset--and
apt to 60 ashore. The fact is, the old
captain never did know much about
navigation, unless he had land in sight
or could reach it with lead line; but
he thought he did, and the "Two Pol
lies" tells the rest Of the story--and il
Il - =.