Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-05-16
From the Richmond Wing of NAV 3.

'1'S a
In twenty days the elections occur in
Virginia. Twenty-one members ofCon.
gress, eight members Of the State Sen.
ate and 1874 Delegates are to be cho.
sen.
The election is ofunusual and ,%ncalcu.
able Importance. 1t will disclose the po-
htical sentiment ofthe people Of Virginia
at this time, declare whether she is or
not to be ranked as approving this Al.
mlnistration, its policy in respect TO the
currency and the finances, with its load
OF defalcations, extravaganza, and usur.
p%ations, and as one or the other appears 10
be her determination, exert no small infu.
ence throughout the Union. The dis.
tinc' reputation now by Virginia, of Mr..
V an buren,, her condemnation of his po-
hey, and of the new and odious doctrines
OF his sink or swim" portizans, and her
separation from the Aquarium and the
Atheist faction which has associated its
fortunes with his, while they borrow mis-
popularity to advance their Infamous
principles, would Of necessity, exert a
VIDE and salutary, if not a decisive mo-
raj ehect.-Already ricketty, and nod
ding to lis fall, such IA demonstration from
Virginia at this time, full, distinct, and
unequIvocal would inevitably PROSTATE
the sickly Administration of the feeble
follower IN the footsteps He could
not survive it, but would probably retire
from the field to the Classic Shades of
Undertook. Notwithstanding his Leai.
ons OF ~mercenaries, his more than re-
gal patronage, his hundred thousand Off
GERS and his more than hundred thousand
expectants, a class still more Jealous.
still more ~servile, and that the new doc.
trines of Walls Report, sanctioned by
n trucking Senate, invite and urge all
thoSe 10 serve he master Of the polls,
whose brend they Observation-Disclosures
his standing army of place men, their
perfect discipline, their pay and their
loyal exertlons in his service, sixteen or
eighteen ofthe States have already de-.
clered against Mr.. Van Buren,. Michi-
gan is about to add to the glorious band.
and we have firm confidence that Virgil
MA will on the Odd Of May, divorce her
sell rom the Administration.
A defeat to the Administration in yir.
gInla at this time would unavoidablv
prove fatal TO II. The sink or swim
partizans OF power know it. They con-
Jess II in the desperate and frantic exer.
tons they are making frantic, indeed,
Tor never were exertions more ill-iudred
and suicidal than their Humbug Conven.
ton, their Judges Convention, as Mr..
kives sarcastically called it, per order
Convention, and the train of exhibitions
10 which II gave birth, "a monstrous pro.
geny, worthy OF the unnatural c~onnexion
in which they were engendered. Yes.
the sink or swim followers Of Mr.. Van
Buren, know it well, that the fate of his
Administration is stakcd upon this cleo.
ton, and that a verdict aga ne, him bv
Virginia nOD, would he a fixed Decree
which not all his patronage, and power.
and money and ofice-holders can move.
What wonder, then, that they should be.
tray so much s~olicItude-that the eamb.
Ter, who hears the dice rafting to decide
his last stake, should rot betray greater
tfepIdation, more frightful despair than
tney exhiblt-that Judges and Bank Pre-
sidenis should be dragged from their off,
cial posi- to prop by their names a falling
oause lhere is no mistake in these
{ signs
But while q Wing victory would be