Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-04-18
WINGS TO YOUR POSTS THE
CONFLICT is AT HAND-TllURS
DAY NEXT, THE 25TH INST.
ASsENIBL
JOHN OFFER RAIL-.

WI1lOS ~ toCh W - - - -
CONFLICT is AT HAND-THURS
DAY NEXT, THE 25TH INST.
This |. our last paper until the day of the Elec-
zion, and we take the occasion to say last word
20 the wings of old Berkeley in connection with
the duty which devolves upon them in the coming
contest.
Look to the effect ofthe vote of this spring upon
,he Presidential election. Our faith is strong that
Virginia 10 to he redeemed in 1874. Her popular
vote will oe closely counted this spring, and if its
aggregate be in favor of the Wings, Loco focosm
Is crushed. Every Wing vote, therefore, cast
against a Wing Candidate for the Assembly, is
virtually stab at the cause of Henry Clay and
Wing psinciples. liza Wing Candidate is distas:s-
full to you remember that in refusing to sustain his
election, you do yourself much harm as him, for
YOU have as much concern in the success OF the
Wing cause as he has. IL you vote for him, you
do not properly confer personal favor on him. but
you sustain the cause through him. Remember
that a Senator in Congress is to be elected next
winter. One vote in the Assembly may elect him,
and one vote at the polls may elect the member Of
Assembly who shall decide the contest. Is there
then true hearted Wing who will esteem it a
privilege as well a duty to sacrifice his private
feelings to the attainment of this important object
We trust cot, and we have abiding faith shat the
result Thursday next will show that the Berke.
ley Wings made Of sterner stuff than to bend
.or swervc in an hour like this.
Again, we beseech YOU. do not underra,e the i'm
of Iat ali i'll
will not be needed. If one Wing were to remain
n, home In every of fifty neighborhoods in the
County, fifty would be thereby lost to the Wing
cause. When voter, here and there, thinks that
his aid can be dispensed with, and does not go to
the polls, tue aggregate is startling No body dis
puies the Wig majority in Berkeley Why then
arc your opponents sangune Of suceessi 1t i. be.
cause they drrend upon your careessness and neg
Iyence ofyour duties, while they expect every man
of theirs TO be at his post Dsoppoint them,
Wing. of Berkeley. Let them all come. BE We
also there to meet them and conquer them. Efforts
have been made by your opponents to drag into
this contest all manner of foreign and immatcrisl
issues They have attempted to distract the
Wings upon questions connected with the Rail
KDad ana county matters. nut we are hhsuIeu tha'
the Wings have fowned upon, condemned and
.eorneI such efforts. They keep "a steady eye IN
the great question at stake. That question j. he
maintenance OF the prostraiion Of Wing principles
and Henry Clay, 'tho bold and tue"
wbigs Of Berkeley, YOU will no, sunber at your
posts, when your brethren throughout the land ATE
in arms. What Wing asleep in New York in
her recent town elections, when mighty ayslan-
che swept over the State crushing LocOioco,n at
every point and rcpudiating Martin Van Buren,, her
unworthy son. New York pants for the opportu-
nifty to dsown hun. : she has done, aud proclaim
him false 10 his Safe false to tii country, false 20
s,e constitution, aud false to every Thing but him
seif end his thirst for poNer. What Wing slun-
herd in Connecticut, when in her recent general
elections, sha drove the Locuiooos out Of power,
ia defiance OF every scheme that the enemy in The
extremity Of their desperation eoull devise 10 stay
the avenging hAnd OF lhs Wing hosts.
Who then here, in old Virginia. will sumber
when such cause demands their zeal, and such a
reward awaits their triumph. Resolve that you
CAS-, you MUST aad you VIII beat your adv-rsariss
and the best and only safe way to do ii, is for
every man to do bis own shsIe of the work, and
not depend upon others doing it for him.