Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-01-23

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| DENT AND SENATOR.
They who have most deeply studied hu
man nature, long ago made the discovery
that prosperity was more difficult, to be
borne with wise moderation, than ADVERSE
| ty with patient fortitude. The Whic
| party IN some Of the States are proving
the truth OF the maxim. Ii is not TO he
concealed that divisions and dissentlons
agitate their victorious ranks, which an
insidlous foe is tanning with all possible
asslduity, and upon which that foe relies
asihe iorlorn hope Of retaining the scep-
ire which a maltreated and plundered
| People have manifested the resolution of
Wrestling from lis HANDS. Ii is with deep
pam that we advert 10 these facts, and
| these concessions. But the duties of the
position we occupy require them at cur
| hands, nor is there any mode Of healing
| likely to prove so efficient as an appeal to
the Wing party ofthe Commonwealth al
large, and an invocation 10 them TO inter-
pose to secure by Cancellation, mutual for.
| bearance and patriotic concession, the
fruits OF the great and important victory
won after years ofarduous toll, and inces.
SAINT conflict with the disciplined and well
| paid iegions of Federal Power. That the
VICTORY is already in effect won, is pro-
claimed as inteligibly by the frightened
aspect and humbled tone of tho Admins
| tratlon and its followers, as by the ac-
tual result of the polls. But need we re-
mind the Wings ofVirginia how number.
less are the instances on record, in which
the fruits Of the most signal and decisive
victories have been lost by the folly and
dIscord and propensity to plumber Of the
vlctors! Need we say 10 them thatto know
how TO improve u victory, is no less i'm.
portant than to know how to gain it, aud
no less discovers the superior genius and
capacity
While the Wing party continued in
minority, never was there so single heart
ed, disnterested and devoted party
| Throughout the dismal era of man WORSHIP.
nothing could shake their constancy, dis
disturb their harmony or relax their exet.
lions. No man IN that day threatened TO
abandon the common cause unless his IN
| divldual inclinatlons were consulted, or
his peculiar opinions adopted as the rule
animated by the spirit of the most liberia
end enlarged tolerance, and by the deter
mnalion living and dying with the par
ty which they honestly believed was
struggling to maintain the essential rights
and to rescue the drowning honor OF their
country. But no sooner has il become
| evident that continued union and exertion
were alone necessary TO PROSTATE the
staggering foe, and to place the power
and Government ofthe country IN the
hands of the Wings, than new and
mlschlevous spirit has begun to reveal it.
self IN their ranks-not 10 much extent,
1t is true, but sufficiently SO to reanlnate
the almost extlngushed hopes Of the Adj
mlnistraton, and to embolden him 10 hold
up Wing dissention as an argument of
Wing unhtness TO rule the destnies Of the
country. Some, captlyated by the charms
OF the SUBJ Treasury, prefer the success of
that measure so comparatively insIgnih-
cant, so merely temporary, TO the old and
glorious principles OF the Whigs-leaousy
OF Power-retorm of abuses-suppressi
ofrank and fostering uption--puriiy
OF elections correction of office holding
domineerlng, insolence and interference
new guards upon Executive encroachment
and compulsory restitution of the dan
gerous prerogatiyes usurped by General
| Jackson from the Constitution and People.
| How any sane and rational mind can be.
leve the sub.TreaSury more important
than the fundamental, imunutable, and
eternal principles here enumerated-prin-
| cinles which ,p,,ef ha m iptaipad ~ | H.
ty must persh-lt far surpasses our poor
faculties 10 comprehend! What there is
IN this or that mode of collecting and pay
ing the public treasure, which may be al
tered by Congress from year to year, TO
make gentlemen forget the holy princi-
Piles for which they have SO long aud
bravely fought, and to pitch that into
corner as inferior and subordinate, for
which " Hamden bled in the field and
Sidney on scaffold, is we repeat, in
comprehensive 10 US. No doubt they
are homes: in thinking the Sub. Treasury
Of SO much importance that in its favor
they are justified in abjuring resistance to
Executive tyrrany, in wlnking at the
frauds and peculallons oflhose in Office,
enormous and dlsgraceful as they are,
and in throwing themselves into the arms
F, OF Martin Van Buren,, the universal en-
dorser of the despotism Of his g iIlustrl.
Gus predecessor, We leave il to dis
passionate world to settle the question
of the motive, satisfied, however that
the political purity Of the parties can only
be indicated at the expense Of their un-
Outstanding.
Nor is the Sub Treasury the sole occa.
sion of Wing dissention. A handful there
/ is too conscientious 10 sunport Mr. CLAW