Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-07-07

Meeting N .l.al city fortnight past 81 which Mr.
car VIA. nominated f5r the Presidency, will b
read with interest:
4 From ne Richmond Mig, 3oEh.
House, o. 9EPREsEsTArTyEs
June 10th, l84s.
4 Ges7LaNEr-~
By this mornings mail | received you
communication, informing me that yol
had been appointed committee to re
qusst my attendance at a Public Meeting
Of the Wings Of New York, on the 22c
instant, for the purpose Of presenting the
name Of Mf Clay, as the Wing CaallIate
/ for the Presidency, 10 1874.
am proud to believe that il would be
needless assurance 10 my Wing friends
in New York, to speak OF the zeal ana
enthusiasm with which | have already
embarked in the same cause in which
they nov propose to engage and every
day 3 observation Of mismanagemen and
misrule, tends only TO strengthen my con
yiction of the necessity Of calling that dis
tingmshed, and practical statesman e
the beinof public affairs, 10 order to right
the ship Of state, which is now IN leaky
and sinking condition.
Never, at any period, has there been a
greater necessity for activity, energy and
union among the Wings than tae present.
Ia 1910, the great mass of the vision
and virtue Of the country dccreed 10 them
Wing Senate, Wing House Of K sPFc-
sentaiiyes and Wing President, thus
placing the law making power in their
hands, with means to carry out their great
measures of reform in the Government,
and relief to the distresscs of a patent
ana suffering people; Of this power hey
have been cheated by the basest and most
heartless trcachery and fiaud that has
ever dsgraced the page Of history since
the days Of Judas the b trayer.
Tnls has been the fault neither OF tie
Wing party-nor Of a Wing Congress
With tue law.making power, divided as
it has been, Congress has been powerltss IS,
but to prevent mischief.
II measures, wise and wholesome Tor
the body polite, have not been promptly
adopted, il has been only because OF Their
anxiety, to avoid such conflicts with the
Executive Department Of the Government
as il has been to anxious to create, and
such as would be calculated TO plunge IN
TO deeper suffering and distress those
whom il was our duty, as 1t vas our de-
sire. TO releve-and 1t becomes the hon
est and patriotic now, more than ever, 10
ex ri themselves, not only to rescue their
sacred institutions, itOm the corrupt and
polluted hunGs into which, by accident
aud calamity, they haze fallen; bdt a
boye all, to shew their utter deiestation
tor the peurile vanity, false ambition, and
vicious Jepravity, that has characters d
the author of our wrongs and 10 She"
il in such colors as will serve to terrliy
all public agents, who may contemplate
troachery hereafter.
What might have been the condition Of
Christianity, If the faithful disciples had
deserted the Saviour Of the Word, whtu
betrayed by one OF his followers what
would have teen the condition OF Lib rly,
if the true patriots had laid down their
arms, when Arnold basely skulkcd into
the enemy's camp, aud oil red sacrIllce
of his country aud his countrymen Anu
what miH be the condition Of our country
and its Institutions, II the Great w ny
Party should suffer lie patriotic enthusi-
asrp of 1910 to settle down into apathy
and indifference, because John Tyler has
deceived, abandoned aud betrayed those
whom he courted, lawncd upon, and fat
tered into the belief that he was Wing!
Pardon NE, gentlemen, for the free dom
with which speak oi the great 6eFdyef
Of high public trusts for such must he be,
who seeks aud accepts a Wing uomIna-
ton from a Wing Convention, who ilfst
imposes himself upon the party as III IN.
strument to carry out their measures, and
then within few months alter his eleva-
ton to office, obstructS the passage OF the
mos, wholesome laws, throws himself a
cross the path of his friends, and with a
much shamelc ssness as impudence, pro-
claims through his authorized official
Court Journal, that 1t was q ScaHdalnm
magnatum to suppose that he ever had
been a member of the Wing party and
who is al this moment vanly counting the
cooperation and support OF our political
odversares, by declaring that he approx
mates moro nearly 10 their principles than
to-the principles Of the party by whose
sufrrares he was warmed into life, and
elevated into Importance.
If this language is strong, is II at the
same time not true and beng true, why
should il not be spokenl II is because !
feel deeply the wrongs and injuries that
the country has sustained al his hands
that express it freely and, in my opln-
ion, it is such language as II becomes
every true and honest hearted Wing to
employ.
Let mo not be condemned for harshness
and let it be remembered that Mr.. Ty-
Ter has the least right to complain for he
not only INDUCES in his own daily scam
daous vituperaton and abuse of what he
is pleased to term the Clay Wing party,
and "nousing politicians )" by winch he
includes every Wing opposed to him, and
that is the whole party but he keeps
hired presses for the purpose of aiding HIM
in his diguifed and grateful employment.
My opinion has always been that the
great Panacea for our national difficulties,
was to be found in the passage OF three
laws, each Of which is necessary to the
perfection of a system
Ist A well regulated National Bank