Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1840-10-29
TO TKE
INDEPENDENT VOTERS
OF BERKELEY COUNTY!
FELLOW. CITIZENS {:

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Of the County, to act as Committee of
Vigilance, during the present important
canvass for the Presidency--The closing
act of our duty, we now proceed to per-
form
Fellow-Countrymen. the end and oh.
Ject of our labors are yet to be attained
thus far, we have only been preparing 10
act-now, the time for action is at hand.--'
Tn Monday, the second day of November.
our labors will have ended--the public
Press will no longer send forth its count.
less documents for your information
voice of the public Speaker will no longer
be heard, warning you to do your duty to
your injured country, for your own sakes,
and fol that Of your children. Your Eel.
low. citizens Of Louisiana, Alabama, Geor-
gia, North Carolina, Maryland, pennsyl.
wanna, Ohio, Indiana, Vermont and Maine,
and even DISTINGUISHED New Jersey, have
already cast off the yoke of corrupt dy-
nasty, and have rallied under the Wing
banner-and II rests with you and each OF
you--it remains for the poters of Virginia
to speak through the ballot box--to de
eide on that day, for themselves, by their
own free act, whether. she, The OLD DO.
minion--the untcrrifed Commonwealth
tie birth place Of Washington. Henry,
Jefferson, Madison and William Henry
! Harrison, shall be one OF tie feeble reti-
nue. Of States chained to TIE car Of Mar
| tin Van Buren,, and bow down to she fall
| ing idols Of u false faith or, whether,
she shall come out fobed in her ancient
and time honored principles, and take her
stand with her sister States, 10 favor Of ho-
nesty and political reform, and true con.
stnutional liberty.
1 IeHow.citieens AZ a portion of her
children you are the protectors Of her an.
Glen, fame, and her future glory: as citi-
zens Of the United States, your interests
are bound up, with those of our common
country as inheritors Of high and holy
political rights won by your fathers, GU
are solemnly bound TO transmit these, I'M
furnished and unmpaired to your children.
10 exercising the right ofvoiing, you are
discharging high TRUST, not using
private privilege, which you may perform
or lei alone, at your own pleasure or,
which you may exercise in favor of any
one, carelessly and lightly, under no feel
/ ing Of responsibility, as whim or caprice
may direct: no, fellow countrymen, we
are the only people on earth to whom this
mighty power is granted in its purity, but
in proportion to It's magnitude is ourrespon-
sibihfy. to exercise it cautiously, honestly
and iearlessly, without fear, favor or affec.
ton, and without the hope or promise of re-
ward. We call upon youihen, we demandit
ofyou, in the name ofour common country
TO come to the polls, and give that vote
which your consciences and your calm
judgments tell you, you ought to give
which your duty to your Country demands
at your hands. Aad what should be your
ticket for whom should you vote
Will you vote for him, who claims TO
hold your ocn moneu by his officers, who
are to do his bidding at the peril of dis
mission from Office Or, will you vote for
| HIM who says that the public treasure
should be in the keeping alone and subject
to the control only Of your selected rep
resentatives in Congress
viii you vote for him, who, so under
stands the Constitution ofour country, that
he requires, that Congress shall pass law
of Bankruptcy agains, the Banks ALONE,
created under your own State Legislation,
while the Constitution declares, that Con-
gress shall only pass such IA law, when
it is TO operate uniformly alike upon all!
Or, will you vote for ONE, who, protests
against this partial legislation, which can
only have the effect Of expressing the peo-
pile who are indebted TO these Banks
Will you vote for him, whose predeces.
sor, (whose acts he has pledged himself TO
carry ouD declared, thai, the Public
Lands, ceded by Virginia, on the eGpress
condition, that, theproceeds oflhem should
be distributed among all the States, ought
to be given up TO the States in which they
are situated, and whose supporters, boldly
and openly advocate the measure? Or,
viii YOU cast your sufirages for HARRI-
SON, who respects the faith Of the Ma
lion and the rights Of the States---who is
the father of the admirable system, here
tofore practced by our Government, in
regard TO the disposal of our public lands;
under which our nalIon has attained 10
its present greatness--for HARRISON |
who has negotiated more treaties for these
very lands, than any man living-and
whose hands and whose honor have never
been soiled, or mpeached for speculation
in them and, while he might have accu-
mulated prncipaity out oflhem, by viz. |
tue of his opportunities, as hundreds have
done has not one acre to show, procured /
through Indian reservations--no have the +
fercest OF his reviIers, dared to assert, that
he has ever appropriated one dollar, the
thousands of the public money, which has
passed through his hands. Felow-citi-
zens, he is an honest man.
Arc you disposed to support him whose