Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-07-03

for its moral condition. The mass will be
sound when its ingredients are SO. A
community of honest, honorable, high min
ded individuals, will be of the same char
acter. Besides, the intellect fosters the
feelings and principles Of honor IN the one,
and YOU will elevate the character OF the
other, immortalize it on the rolls Of hisio-
Try; and moreover, YOU viii yourself, as
the ruler, stand before posterlty IN giori-
Gus association with it. But, sir. on the
other hand, cherish and encourage the vi.
cious propensities ofthe unprinclpled, who
can acquire distinction and success only
by the arts OF Of detraction from, and de.
Ipression Of, superior merit; who surround
you with their cloaked weapons, most dan
gerous to the most ingenious and most
honorable; whose insidous shafts, des-
patched in the dark, speed most surely
TO the destined and unguarded victim; and
you are sure TO humiliate and mortify the
good, honorable, and high minded. Ele-
vate human feelings, and you enroble the
human character and multiply human
blessings; humiliate them, aud you sink
your fellow men to degradation. vice, and
misery, Discard and repel, therefore,
the wretches who surround you with their
iGtrigues and Vaccinations against merl-
ted distinction, and rest only on the firm
perpendicular pillars Of exalted and yiriu-
Gus ministers.
Well, then, repeat, what then are tho
reasons for this Iemovall Why without
adveuing TO insignificant tIifles and cir.
cumstances of a personal character, and
OF no weight, he is, il is said, not sufhci-
entity popular in New York, whilst lit
tie contemplate press, and perhaps an ex
preston furtively obtained from collec.
lion of few individuals, intriguingly
managed, resolve tina, he is not genuine
Democrat, (of their creed whilst at the
same time The genuine Democracy oil the
city and State testify to the contrary.
The agitators are met and confronted on
their own ground, at their meetings, out.
voted routed The mercantile and bust.
ness community with one acclaim pro.
nounce the meiit of the collector Still
you say, as guardian and conseryator Of
the public harmony, you are bound TO
compose the existing agitation, assuming
that the removal Of a faithful and able Of
ficer. thus partially and factously sought,
will have the desired effect Ii | mistake
, the case, wish to be corrected and ad-
monshod.
Well, then, again, sir, here is men,
Der of the true democratic stock Of Ame-
rican patriots iii is unnecessary to retros.
pect in detail, for however honorable the
inheritance may be when II does occur,
am not an advocate Of the doctrine of the
natural and necessary linea descent OF
ancestral merit who, not referring TO his
i education and professional pursuits IN the
State of New York, has, from his earliest
manhood and entrance on the stage Of hui
man action, been employed in the public
| service OF his country who after having
removed from New York to Vermont,
held with great reputation the responsible
office of Collector ofihat State during the
, late war with Great Britain, when the
border circumstances in the Canadian
boundary region were Of critical char
acler, both in a military and commercial
: view; VINO was afterwards Chief Justice
Of that respectable State, and had, be-
sides, an important agency in digesting
its jurisprudental code; who was after
, wards selected as the Commissioner OF
, the United States, under treaty, for estab-
fishing and then running the central Sec
ton ofthe boundary line between us and
the Canadas--a service which the honor
ed Albert GaIlatin told me himself had
been performed with "consummate abili.
ty," as was fully developed IN the dipo-
$ matte agency which that great man SUBJ
sequently conducted, on our part, in Lon.
don, on that snblec. - ask that venerable
patriot himself, now standing with one
foot in his grave in New York, whether
belle or misrepreseDt him ;)-who was
: afterwards Governor of that State, (Ver-
, mont, and actually revolutionized it, from
warm federal to democratic State
who was then appointed by the immortal
: Jackson, Minister Plenipo;entiary to Spain,
where among many other important d.
, plomatic services TO his own country, he
, opened and led the way TO the final recog-
, milton, by the parent government OF Mad.
rid, an object Of grea. interest 10 this
country, Of the independence of the Span.
ish American countries-a fact which, in
special honor and compliment to him and
his country, is recited or referred to by
the Spanish government in the solemn in
struments Of recognition now on record
in the archives of the new government
enquire, if you please, of your Minister
in Mexlco, and he can ascertain and in
form you of the fact J, who has since
been unanimously q was going to say,
appointed) confirmed by the Senate Of the
United States to the most important Office
under our government, (below the Cab
metz the duties OF which he has perform
ed with admirable success as above recit-
ed aud a1mitted-(one of the Cabinet
lately stated that, in the Collectors appro-
pirate duties, and his intercourse with
the Government, every thing event on
like clock-work;") who has in the recent
election, with an honorable and consistent
fidelity to his politics and party, had
most influential agency in producing ex-
listing results; man, in fine, who, in a
career oil forty years past, in all his public
empIoyments, and under all crcumstan-
ces, has been an uniform and Underwriting