Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1840-02-20

In our paper Of last week, there we're published
certain Resolutions Of the Legislature Of Nav JER-
sEY, relative to the case OF her FIVE Representatives
in Congress, who were not allowed to take their
seats, a: the opening .. The present session; which
Resolutions had been communicated to the Cover
nor OF the State. and by him laid before the Gcner-
al Assembly. Upon Thursday last, the 18Th, MIR.
RIDLEY, one Of the Select Committee OF The House
OF Delegates. to whom these Resolutions had been
referred, by that body, offered a Resolution Whieh
will be found among the proceedings Of the House
on that day. The Richmond Wing remarks that
Mr.. MAY i~nveighed against The gross indignity to
a sister State, implied in the resolution. That
State, deeply wronged and outraged, stripped of
her constitutional rights, her duly commissioned
Representatives excluded from the House Of Re-
presentatives-she had appealed to US for sympathy
and support, and we are now invoked to add insult
TO her injuries, We are asked. instead ofrespond-
ing in the same c%onfiding spirit IN which we are ad-
dressed, that of one loving sister TO enother, expo
ssd to the same wrongs and the same expressions,
to call npoa her Governor for an account Of his con-
duct, and put him upon his trial before the people
of this Commonwealth. Mr.. MAY appealed to the
House for the sake Of itself, OF Virginin, of he com
ity and respect due from one Sovereignty to onoth-
er, of the love and affection between sister States,
to fr"wn down the insulting proposition.
The appeal produced a strong sensation in the
House, and we believe if the vote had been taken
upon the instant, there would not have been Il dor
en- voices in favor of the Resolution"
The reader will find that the single proposition
presented in the New Jersey Resolutions, and to
which the action Of the Legislature orihis state
should alone refer. is this-th7t The Certificates Of
The commonwealth of Nep Jersey, haging been is
sued, IN lie form anil mode prescribed by he lars
ofaat State, entitled those rho held them 20 seats
an sks House Of Representatives., until, By a deci-
siOn Of that House, IL should be deter1aiSed hat
they rere not duly elected or returned, and by i'm
plication. the Resolutions maintain, that they scere
90 entitled, notwithstanding there mag hare been
fraud or error or iaegaiity committed By any Of
the officers Of The State, chose dates pere in any
,csse connected NTH the election. The issue which
this proposition presented, was attempted to be
evaded, by a partizan for party pur poses. The
grave question of political rights and political mo.
rails, which the subject presented, was sought to be
changed to one more appropriate 10 the miserable
purposes of the Demsgogue. He, and such as he,
have no soul to sympatbine with a sister State, for
an outrage and an insult offered TO her high char
acter-nor the mind that can range over the whols
field Of consequences that must ensue, upon suei
violations Of right and Of tho Constitution.
The Information which Nh. RIDLEY sought to oh
ssin, it viii ne perceived, had justly, no connection
with The proposition which the State 9l New Jer