Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-04-04
For The Gazette.
TO THE WING VOTERS OF
BERKELEY.

tcWplS 10 OUtIu0t Ills dOFtCe, OF AoiiOh'
tons upon you, feels impeiled 10 do SO al
lns present iire. When you understand
that am not candidate for office, anc
never expect 10 be, perhaps, what have
to say may have more weight, as coming
flom one Of yourselves.
Fellow voters We have an important
dufv to perform this spring. We have a
cause TO support, in which are involved
The future welfare Of our countryside
best principles of all the past adrnlnsra-
tons Of the Government--ptinciples CO.
evil with our liberties affecting our pros
periiy land as we sincerely be'ievel the
endurance of our free institutions. The
signs OF the times are oHainoas OF NIGH
iy struggle. The VIII oil the people rs
expressed in 1910 has been set al naught.
Tho Democratic party will allow nobody
to be the People but themselves---even
nineteen States out Of ae, and popular
maloriiy Of more than one hundred and
forty four thousand proves nothing more
10 them than that we brbed this great
body Of freemen, Ct think they say with
British golj} besoited Their judgments
with hard cider, accused their grown
up children with coon-skins, and deceived
them with Gatterng speeches, and they
expect all independent Ways (meaning,
those that they can induce 10 deselt their
principles, now about TO be triumphant, to
acknowledge themselves to have been
bribed, or fooled or 4 lttered, and to vote
Tor III ir candidates.
And sly, brother Wings, to any Of
you that are SO minded, g. IN peace. In
these times we want no lake warm half
way, milk-and- wafer men in our ranks !;
go in reaco but go strait out, and right
over; don't hang about the skirts Of the
party nnd mislead US in counting our for
ces and preparing for the coming strife.
But 1T me hope and trust, that there is
no true Wing y no will not be found shout
der TO shoulder with his brethren nop, af
ter SO many years Of tribulatlon, and sui-
ferrg under the domination Of these who
ers and great men say, the people expect
too much of the Government, and that It is
not the part Of the government to provi e
a general currency, or 10 protect home in
dustry by tariff laid upon the products
Of the pauper labor Of Europe, or 10 res
tore to The people of the States the pro-
ceeds Of their land, or TO give oific OF
emolument to the Wings, or to restrain
the Veto power-afttr all this, noto, when
the great champion Of oar cause, Harry
of the West, is about to be elevated to
the Chief Magistracy Of our great repub-
lie (as we all believe and confidently
hope and that even Old Virginia will
be at last found in the Wing ranks with
her sister States, that any true Wing
should back out OF the ranks is hard to
believe--l Tor one Will not believe it I'M
til see it.
But perhaps you say, will vote for
Clay in the fall, but need not vote for
Myers and Pencleton now. Why what
sort of talk is this
Your principles, my friends, are the
same now as they viii be then, You don't
vote for Pendleton and Myers as any per-
sonal jaror 10 them. Taey are 10 DE your
political servants whom you send to rep
resent your principles, and TO vote for a
Wing Senator iu Congress, that Mr.
Clay, il he is elected, may have men Of
his own way of thinking to consult with,
AMI 10 con6rm his appointments. BY let
ting Sebert and Grantham be elected you
may do injury to the cause in this. Ii is
tight race in Virginia, any how-you
may by permitting this Wing county to
send a Democratic member, turn the scale
sgarns, your party in the Legislature,
and i, NAV be, in the Senate of the United
States Tunk OF this besoech you.
And besdes-f all true Wings turn GU,
and vote this Spring, we may find out as
early as in April, that Virginia is a Wing
State, by the actual popular majorities in
the different Counties. Wouldn't you take
the trouble 10 vote, to know that alone?
My notion is, fellow cilizens, that man
in voting is performing great public duty
he is MT dong thing TO please any
man, or to crafty himsef-he has no
right by iaD to do it, or not to do it as h.
pleases :-because, we are the depos tories
Of the power Of government;-w are the
SoereignS, and we must make our laws
that is, get good and true men to make
them fer US, as ace think they ought 10 be
made. If Wings ciH hold back and not
vote, why the Democrats won't, depend
upon it. They never hold back-and they
deserve credit Tor their activity. 1t never
sleeps with them. Then wake up Wing
Our cause is good Our men are before
yOu--Our duty plain-Set TO the work
Let US support our cause-yole for our
men-and do our duty. c.
From the Bat Patriot. March 80.
WING NATIONAL CONVENTION.
A meeting Of the Committee Of Rccep,
ton to the Wing National Convention o
Nomination, was held last evening, Il
Johnson 10 the chair, and J. G.. Proud act
ing as Secretary.
/ GA mnuon, the following gentlemen
were appointed for the purpose Of procur'
ing a suitable place for The meeting Of the
National Conventions: Messrs B. Deford
G. O'Donrell. T.. D. Kemp, K. ST. ] Steu
art, John Patterson.
The following gentlemen were appoin.
ted a Committee of Finance: Messrs
George Brown, G. w. Lurman, w. II
L.. c. Wright, TIueman Cross and W. F.