Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-05-16
ADDRESS OF VIM LUCAS, ESQ.

To the Voiers of the Sixteenth Congregational
District.
Fellow. CITIzENs:-In obedience to the
Democratic Convention, recently held a
Mar;insburg, | am now before you the
candidate of the Republican Party in this
Congressional District; and avail my.
self of this opportunity to apprise you,
that it is my intention to wait upon you
in due season. In the meantime, | beg
leave to declare my political creed, and
to express, in the freest and fullest man.
ner, my views touching the present all
important crisis. This course seems Pc
c%uliarly proper, and indulge a hope |
shall bs honored with a dispassionate hear
ing.
am frank then to avow, that belong
to the Jeflersonian School-was bred In
the faith-grew up in it, and have the
strongest desire and hope to live and die
in it. In the trial, therefore, to which |
am now called, | go forth in the strength
Of those principles, under the Republican
banner, which has heretofore triumphed
in this District. appeal for support un-
der that standard, and under no other !;
and | call upon only the good and true,
to rally round it, solemnly pledglng my
self, to stand at the breach, and bear II
afloat, as long as one firm and devoted
Democrat remains, willing TO stand by me.
And, ifthe party will be united, | promise
victory now as in times past-the brag-
~gadocios and Quixotte Furnishings OF Wing
Editors, especially, to the contrary, not
outstanding.
The Republicans have the strength,
and | believe have union. see nothing,
and know OF nothing. to divide the par
~ at this momentous crisis. Our bond oil
union, | should hope, indeed, would now
be sealed afresh !; now if ever, when the
news oftriumph upon triumph, from every
quarter, is pouring in upon US. NOW
too, when we see the same old arch enc
nv is in the field. The same, that was
overthrow by Democracy in 1900, and
in every battle from that day to this, save
one, when bargain and intrigue prevailed.
The very same, only rallied under a Few
name, and that with only a few recruits.
Whigism is but Federalism in disguise,
and that a union of every sort OF ism, op.
posed to Democracy. Fellow-C itizees, ]
might mince words, and avoid this free
dom and ~plainness, but ] feel | should BIS
false to my trust, my principles, my party,
and to myself, were | to be beating round
the point for let me tell you-the lssue'
and only issue is, between the two great
c~ontending parties that have always dIyl-
ded the country. | am sure, moreover,
that all the staunch and true, prefer this
open and honest b~aitle-cry, to the dIshon-
est stratagem of e~lectioneerlng mounis'
banks.
fight no false fight, and under no false
colors. do not hold my politics a sub
iect of traffic, as some do. | stand iortf
a. a Democrat, because | cannot, and Wi
not support any other than Democratic
principles; and | insist, that Republican,
should not expect to have their principles
carried out, unless by men OF full ia'th
| Hall. way Democrats stop at the pInch
These things called pledges, gwen by I'm
scrupulous candidates to vote against thei
own sentiments and principles, II 'nstrnc'
ted, are worth nothing on the day oil trlai
! When the tug of party-war comes, thes'
pledging gentlemen are generally slck' Q
missing, or false. Such devices are use'