Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-08-18
OHIO-IMPORTANT.

The Ohio State Journal Of the llth instant CON
tains the following important statement II will
he recoIlecAd that Mr.. Adams predicted that evil
would arise from President Tyler's singular course
of conduct in flag has reasons for tho approval OF
the Apportionment Act
No Apporiionment Bill passed Resigna.
ton IF the Wing Members Of the Senate
and House Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
10 the People I,
IL will scarce produce emotion of surprise or
the part OF distant readers to hear it announced
that the business OF the Legislature in session
has been arrested and that no bill for The sppor
,ionn,ent of the State for the election of Members
of Congress, has been, or can be, enacted, The
course pursued by the political majority In the two
Houses, has partaken too elarng of premed'tated
fraud and rspacy, not to have prepared the public
mind for such event. The crisis has occurred
and the agony is over Soon after the prelininar,
business OF the two Houses had been despatched
TIN. morning, the resignation of the IVAig mem
Lers an both branches, with one or two excep-
tions,) scere rendered 10 The Speakers, and both
Houses ,cere consequently teG Without quorum.
The reasons for this important step, will in due
time be laid before the public in detail, 1t will be
demonstrated in the most conclusive manner, that
IL the minority had not resolved upon this high
minded and patriotic measure, they would have de
ents as faiihless and the trust reposed
in their hands Thank God they not insen-
sible 10 the demands and obligations of duty, bu
have acquitted themselves IN tins crisis, as FREE
MAN themselves and the REPRESENTATIVES, oil
FkEEMgH! The acclsims of people, jealous o
their rights and resenttul OF every attempt IL Il
bridge them, will greet them on their return Il
their several abodes.
Thus ends the Extra Session, conceived in viola
l. Cd lVa
weeks of angry contention, brawls and vain effort
to accommodate the jarrins interest of rival lead
ers and asrrants, and productive only of scheme:
of fraud and inauty for the furtherance Of private
objects and the subversion of public right, in III,
foul coneoc,ion of which their especiive author
appeared ambitious only OF improving upon eacl
others conceptions of the most ehectual mode o
DISTINGUISHING the people OF the State, and convert
ing the solemn spectacle of elections into tn,
ridiculous forms of mockery!
Every effort has been made on the part Of the
minority to conciate the good will OF their oppo
nents and avoid this collision. They have beer
nnxiou. most anxious TO carry out the requirement
of the Consultation aud laws, in good faith. The,
have shown themselves willing to pass over TO th
extreme verge of the ground OF concession anc
compromise, il they could be there met in CORES
ponding spirit equals aud peers, with rights q
their own and the rights OF others to preserve
But such was not the will Of the majority
Exultiny in the present possession OF power, ob
,aiued by accident. and which they expect to lose
they had formed the daring plot Of psrpetuahnl
their influence in the national councils by the per
petration of deliberate and odious fiaHd, which
struck at the fundamental principles of all IRE
government, and sought to overturn and reverse al
those maxims of wisdom, truth and justice, upo
which rests the whole superstructure OF our reput
iicsn institutions To have sat tamely by and vii
messed, nay, been accessories to this sacrifice o
popular right--the right Of the people 10 ch0oS
heir 0ua ruiers-THE RIGHT OF THK MAJORITY II
sovERS-would have been craven-hearled sur
render Of the highest and dearest privileges of free
mem and would have consigned to merited iniam
and never ceasing reproach, those uulaithiul ser
wants who could have thus quailed in the dIschars
ofR great duty.