Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-04-17

POLITICAL.
ADDRESS
OF the Wing Members Of the Legislature,
TO THE people OF VIRGINIA.

we should address you IN relation 10 she
most prominent topics Of public interest
that now agitate the country.
The friends Of the present Administra-
ton have recently held a Convention in
this place, constituted partly OF members
of the Legislature, and partly of delegates
from several OF the counties, appointed In
conformity with the invitation OF those
members, for the avowcd purpose oil har-
monizing the discordant materials OF which
their party was composed, and of concili-
ating those who had been ~alienated by
some of the measures which had received
the sanction OF a majority OF that party.
Ii was doubtless anticipated, too, that one
and not tho least important OF the effects
to be produced by this unusual convoca.
ton, would be the creation Of an artificial
excitement among the people, at all times
so ~unfavorable to a correct judgement
upon the measures which they are called
upon, at the polls, TO sustain or to reject,
with the hope that, in the whirlwind OF
party passion, they might be able to pro-
cure a reversal of the decision oil the peo-
pie, rendered twelve months ago, under
circumstance so much more propitious to
a calm and disspassionate consideration
Of the issues then presented TO them, and
which are once again to be subjected to
the same ordeal, before the same sove-
reign tribunal. If the Wing members oil
the Legislature have not followed the ex.
ample of their " Democratic" brethren,
by inviting, on this occasion, tho coop
GRAFTON of their fcllow-citizens, II IS not
because they are insenslble OF the impor-
tant interests involved IN the result oil the
approaching election but because they
are not aware of any special necessity to
call them from their homes and employ
ments, with the sole view OF making an
imposing array Of numbers. They would
indeed, have been pleased TO have enjoyed
the benefit OF the counsel and advice OF
their friends, from every section OF the
Commonwealth but they feel well ASST
red that, animated by a common purpose,
they will not the less certainly speak the
sentiments OF tho great Wing party OF
Virginia, because special delegates, APP
pointed by tina, party, have not assem-
lied with them, TO unite in their expression;
and they do not approtend that those VINO
concur with them in opinion, VIII DO less
Jealous and active in the maintenance
and support of their cherished principles,
simply for tho reason that they have not
mingled in the excitements OF the metro
polis. and imbibe6 a morbid enthusiasm
from tho unwholesome fires which ever
rage in this centre Of political intrigue
and c%hicanery.
Last spring, fellow. citizens, the princi.
nal question which you were called upon
to decide, was, whether you would give
your appreciation and consent to that mo
rough revolution in the financial system
Of tho general government, proposed by
the present administration, and adhered
to with unyielding obstinacy, in despite oil
its repeated rejection by the representa-
tives Of the people, whose sentiments a
majority Of those representatives faithful
ly reflected. That decision was against
the measure thus recommended, and thus
persisted in, by the administration. You
proclaimed your hostility TO II IN the most
decisive and emphatic mannc', Ana u
is only because, from the popular consti-
tuition of tho State Senate, many oil the
members Of which body were elected with
out reference 10 this question, and some
of whom, it is believed. do not furry rep
resent the opinions of The constituent body
that your decision, thus unequivocalis
made. has been "check mated" Thut
issue, then, is again fairly and fully pre-
scented for your decision. You are to de-
iermine, this spring, whether your Juog'
ment, solemnIy pronounced IN Apr'l ias''
was wrong, and whether you ore now pre-
pared to reverse it, and, by Its reversal,
to add another to tho long list OF Exeou'
tive triumphs over the will OF the people,
as made known by them, both al the polls
and through their representatives IN Con
Qress. Vitally important as the SUD irea-
sury question ESQ called) i~s-obnoxious as
il is to the most imposing obJect'ons-it
becomes a question Of far deeper interest,"
when regarded in connection wltn Inc
renuous and untiring efforts OF The ad-
minlstration to force 1t Upon the people,
against their will, by the combined inhu'
ence OF government patronage ano parry
discipline, by which the vsnal arc pur-
chased, and the timid are d~ragooned into
the support Of men whose measures, they
confess, are both unwise and mlschlevous.
Casting aside old landmarks, we have seen
thai this question, although occasionally
treated as one Of " subordinate interest,"
when by so representing it, its opponents
other friendly to the Administration
may be induced, by that deceptive assumP-
lion, to support men whose policy they
condemn, has been made TO absorb all 9TH
ers. and that it now constitutes a new and
arbitrary test Of political orthodoxy =
This cannot be questioned by the mostsu-
perfcial observer and we repeat, there
fore, that the question Of Sub Treasury,