Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-12-20
From the Frederleksburg Arena.

From the Fredericksburg Arena.
There is one portion of the Message
we much regret. We allude to the
reference made 10 the New York and
other elections. Our respect for MIR.
Van Buren,, and the opinion we enter
tain Of his sense of the dignity of his
Office, forbid the beliefthat this is from
his pen. Our theory is that it was a
leading article Of the Globe, which has
been interpolated on the Message. 1t
has every characteristic OF the Globes
Editorials-the same disregard 10 facts,
the same hardness Of assertion, the
same miserable slang. We hope an
expurgated edition Of the Message will
be publisheh-or a supplemental and
explanatory card inserted in the Enqul-
rer, as was done IN the case of the
proclamation. Surprising however, that
Mr.. Van Buren, should have, for a mo-
ment, forgotten, that he was President
of the United States, snpposlng that
the habits of the New York political
| partizan were too strong for his sense
Of dignity, and that he really penned
this libel on the citizens of his native
state.-What will they think of it ?
Will they not resent it? 1t was alike
impolite and u~ndignified in the Presi-
dent thus to account for the signal over.
throw Of his party. The reference,
however, to the elections indicates the
just apprehension which the admins
tration feels as to the issue. In fact,
it is perfectly conscious that it is near
ly PROSTATE.
On the whole, the Message appears
to us to present the varying hues which
it might be supposed to have received
from the few confidential friends OF the
Executive who were earliest in their
arrival at the seat of Government, and
spreads nets for popularity IN almost
every direction. 1t offers a boon to
every section of the Union where it
promises to be available. To the South,
Texas to the West, the Public Lands
to the North--tbe recusant North
nothing. With the seekers after the
public domain the Message will find
especial favor. twenty-five cents an
acre, and then nothing Free gratis !!
Help yourselves 1t will be the
jubilee of the "squatters." But, will
the People at large-the great public
Of this great countryside deceived by
the sugared plausibiIi,ies of this Mess
age? We shall see.-Nat. Int.
To BE HUNc.-Negro Harry was
tried on Monday last by the Romney
Court for rape, and an attempt to muir.
der a white girl aged about Ii years
he vas found guilty, and sentenced to
be hung on the l2th day of January
next.
The little girl, whomhe had so bad
" injured, and left lying on a stone
pile IN the woods, where her friends
Iound her next day, with her skull
fractured in three places, had so far re-
covered on Monday, as to be able to
attend at the Court House, and give ev.
idence against the black demon in hu-
man shape
The evidence adduced upon the tri.
al, was in substance, that the girl, Ma.
garet Nelson, left her mothers dwell.
ing to visit a neighbor, and on her re-
turn vasaccompanied by a Mr.. Robin
son, and a short distance from the
place where she was found, Robinson
separated from her, and took a road
more direct to his own dwelling.
If the girl had been found dead, on
whom would suspicion have rested ? we
answer, on MIR. Robinson. No one
thought Of the negro-Robinson was
seen last with her, not far from the
place where she was found And alone
upon the Information furnished by the
young lady, vas the negro arrested.
The records ofour criminal Courts
have many melancholy instances of
the innocent being condemned upon
clrcumstantlal evidence, as weak rs
this would have been-and though a
conviction may not have been the re-
suit, yet suspicion and malice would
have placed HIM in a delicate situation.
This case illustrates in some measure
the necessity ofobServing caution and
a strict adherence to that merciful rule
which requires that ninety and nine
gully ones should escape, rather that
one innocent man should suffer. Mary.
land Advocate.
Boar YARD Mills BURNT These
valuable Mills, the property of Mr..