Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-12-25
THE HIGH PoNTIrr OF BERKE-
LEY WHIGGEEY.

right, upon which we could be expected to open
our columns, to the foregoing Parthian shaft of
our plasled and rereating correspondent still, so
anxious are we to escape even the possible suspi-
cion of being influenced by any wish to exclude
from our readers, views and opinions adverse to
our own, that we have determined to afford him
all the qualification which he can derive from the
private contemplation of his learned labors in
print. To Fame, he seems indifferent, for he OBJ
stinately continues the sole depository of his own
secret. And lift should SO turn out that his patu-
able and disneresied efforts shall reuolutionise the
public sentiment Of this County, history ,eiH be at
loss TO point to the Of his modern CuRTrUs ,rho
has rsliantiy eaped into the ya,cag abyss TO
his country from rlan (!!D
We have but few words to expend from "OuR
BRAIN" upon this lone and feebly glimmering Star
oftbe "East, followed though its light perchance
may be by some of the ,eise men of our County.
His dignity, (bless u.s. will not permit him Ito
rotor, Our Sluis = his prudence, will not permit
him ito combat our arguments;" and his discre-
ton which the better part oualor will not allow
him to accept our banter as he terms it, to test the
strength or weakness of his Cause before the Peo-
| pie of this County. He surrenders the whole field
without farther struggle; but, in his precptate
fight, he does not forget to send back poisoned
arrow which he fam hopes may by some chance
luck, reach the heart gifts destined victim.
The grand secret is out--the Editor of the GA
zette is Locofoco. Good-the philosophers
stopa hos hasp f,opd and that too h., Tho aid of n
teebly glimmerng star. That Is enough Tor inplor-
tally, though history should never record it, and
"mortals here below never know the diseoverer
even by star light. But a word here. If that
writer knows the Editor Of this paper at ALL he
knows him to be as sound and true hearted Wing
as is to be found within the limits Of this County;
Wing devoted TO the Cause--ready to peril every
thing upon its fate. And this writer, has too
much acuteness not TO be perfectly aware that in
tearing sentences from their context-and in east
ing their deeeia nleubra before the public eye he is
committing an ttnpardonable fraud upon fair con-
troversy, and doing the most marked injustice to
"thc general toner of the article referred to. The
I Editor Of this paper is known throughout this
community to be a Whig-a Wing from habit
conviction, instinct and association; a Wing who
does not count the costs of Whiggery What scars
this writer may bear upon his bosom from past
campaigns, we do not know, as we have not the
honor ofknowing who he is. And yet with a0sr
communicable modesiy, he has assumed upon himself
the fdnctions of llIGu PoNrIFF Of Whiggery in
this County, and from his self created VATICAN,
hurls without mercy his bulls of accommodation
about our ears. Let us admonsh his papal high
ness TO take care lest the same results may follow
his fiery Anathemas, that resulted from those of
his great prototype, Leo X For as Luther upon
that occasion said with so much truth to his Ho-
hness-''in cutting me off from the Church, you
are severing an empire who think with me, from
the Holy See.n Sowe say to this Berkeley High
Priest, that there are a great many good Wings
in this County who entertain the same views that
we do Of the Constitution" of our existing State
Government, who are as much welded to the Gre
formation" ofabuses, as we are, who will strug-
gle very hard for liberty of conscience and Of
opinion and who if they are to be excluded from
the pale of our Holy Mother--the Wing Church,
because of these sentiments, will leave "Our Mo-
dern Rome,n as greatly curtaled of itspower and
influence, as the present papal dominions are
compared with the empire ofthe Ancient mistress
ofthe world
But what are the specifications of hcresy, upon
which this aaneless embodiment OF Berkeley
Wbigery, has arraigned us before our party
He says "toe talked Of aristocratical principles
Now, as tits perfectly well known, that none bu, De-
mocrats ever tar Of sristocratoal princpes-hoW'
ever Others may admire and act them ou,--ergo tct
must be democrats Oh most lame and impoienl
, conclusion. On most profound disciple of Slaw-
kenboreus 10 what university, bat that o.
suasburg or Logado could such "a genius have
been tutoredi Aye but more, ''rce sneered stcon
sespatire principles" Hold gentle aceuser-yon'
zeal misleads you. IL was not conservatives prnci-
ples--but principles miseaiied conservative, thai
we sneered at-principles that we demonstrated
| in this Republican Government TO be the very
reverse Of every thing Conservative. But zee
eomplimented The patriotism and consistency %
our political oppoasats and this under the laws
J OF political treason is "giving such aid and com
ort 10 our enemies" az render US liable To in