Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-03-28

appe II to have no effect On The minds oI
their infatuated leaders.
The Casin and the Coor, the democrat
izing gatherings and senselrss ravlngs,
the sterotyped lies and wandering black
guards Of 1910, are again put 10 requisl-
ton to finish the deprivation in 1914.
Recently al New Orleans, 10 the midst
OF Clay Meeting. two of the Managers,
Mr.. L. C. Hornby and Mr.. D. H. Two.
good, had misunderstanding about some
trivial matter, when the former knocked
The latter down, and stamped upon his head
aud breast with such ferocity as TO deprive
him of life. Yet the mortal injury Of one
Of their principal men dld not stop the
proceedings ofthe assembled crowd.
The Sabbath witnessed a military pa.
rade, attended by Henry Clay, with ban
ners displayed ano music playing, march.
ing with shouts through the streets of New
Orleans, drowning with their noise The
trumpet of the Gospel, and compelling
wo,shipping congregations to break up
and disperse.
The Sabbath also witnesses the same
Wing leader arriving at Mobile amid the
shouts of a congregated multitude, as II
they supposed the day was made for the
worship of man rather than the adora-
lion of their maker.
The crush of The Clay Club House al
Richmond, by which one man lost his life
and many were MANNED, did not strike
the devotees of that profigate politician
as an evidence that Heaven frowned on
the rebullders ofthe Coon Temples.
But what considerable, what religious,
what moral man can look back on these
extraordinary events, and reflect on the
strange co ncldences they present, with.
out being impressed with the belief that
there is some connexion between the
means used to acquire power in 1910,
now again put in requislton, and the
fatsliiv which seems TO pursue the admin
sitration it brought into existence. The
foilies, and debaucheries then
adopted, SEEM to have demorallzed nature
itself and made their authors their princi
pal victims. The actors in those srenrs
have been appointed TO pamish one another;
and those who come in contact with them
seem to be involved in their cslamities.-
Tni, result, be it provlden'ial or be it
natural, should warn our people never
hereafter to tolerate similar mnde Of
1T CANNOT BE DONE
WITH SAFETY. 1t is part ofihe sys.
tenn by which the Universe is governed,
that ,pickedness brings after IL disorder
and destruction. Demorslize our people,
and national as we'll as individual calam-
tiles mus, necessarily ensue.
We cory the following re marks on Mr.. KendsIrs
Tract from the Madisonan, Mr.. TyleI's organ:
"Such is the production OF member Of
Mr.. Van Buren's Cabinet!
"Supersti,ious old women will glont o.
yer this moral and religious tract, from the
pen of Amos Kendall; they viii Gt is no
doubt presumed) persuade their husbands
and chldren and grand Children 10 vote
inr Mr.. Vsn Buren,, and no doubt they
will bless its Heaven. born author, and
petition the next President 10 restore him
to his old place in tbs C,bines.
"But what will MEN think Of il? Is
there q manly breast that will justify the
motives Of an ex-Cabinet Minister who
tears open afresh the deep wounds OF
families, whose husbands and
fathers have been recently consigned to
the silen, tomb, and scree ches hing ike, or
in their ears, that it is a just
punishment for presum ng to vote against
Mr.. Van Buren, in ls4O- and tina, still
" orse horrors awni, those who shall Care
to oppose him in ls44! For '~ssocia,ing
with the proflga,- baud, Pr sid nj Tyler
is told ihat the wife of his bosom has been
torn from hun!
Such publications may wound-deep-
" wound--lhe fetl ngs Of those who have
ben bereaved; they may wiring tears
from the frmest of men, AMI renew the
cry If anguish in families that have re-
Gently sorrowed over the loss Of kindred
and friends; ,ut we cannot see how they
ave to beneh, Mr.. Van Buren,, or how
they are 10 compensate their cruel author.
"Mr. Kendall says it is all Gods Jus
t,cen 1t may be so-but we cannot re.
gard him as Gods angel, nor prophet,
nor the son OF prophet, nor yet an IN
splred expound Of prophec'es. And
since Mr.. Van Bureaus Cabinet Minister
has selected MIR. Tyler on whom to show
err 'Got's' vengeance, we feel disposed =
defy him, to dare him to do his worst, and
to dispute his divine authority.
ave bow humbly in the dust to our
Creator; we will not yield to Mr.. Kendall
in our reverence Of the holy Christian re-
ligion; but we can never be made 10 be-
l,eve that Gods justice will ever visit us,
or has ever visited any p rson, with the
scourge OF domestic afilic:ion for opposing
the election Of Mr.. Van Buren,"
THE GIRARp WILL CAsE.--The opin-
ion of Judge Stry in this case, is SAID to
be very able. The validity Of the VIII is
fully affirmed. The suit, says the Bali
more Patriot, was instituted, not on the
ground OF the Illegally of,he will of Mr..
Glrard in general, but against that clause
of it which authorized the establishment
of college for the education OF white
male children, between certain ages. 1t
was objected TO this clause, that 1t was
void on two PRINCIPAL grounds First,
that there was no sufficient authority un-
der the laws oil Pennsylvania, for tie &C.