Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-04-16
REFORM MEETING.

We ask the attention Of the People Of Berte.
ley County TO the proceedings of the Cos
sTIrurIoNAL RaroRM MEETING" held at the
Court House on Monday last, the 18th inst
which we publish in full in another column.
The resolutions adopted by the meeting are
strong and forcbie and cannot fail to arrest the
attention and reflection of every true and SIN
cere friend Of Popular Rights and sound Re
publican Government. The doctrines of those
resolutions. in our humble judgment are in
controvert,ble--they cannot be successfully
met and overthrown by any man, we care not
what may be his intellectual ability, without
the most direct and palpabie reputation OF the
theory upon which the magnificent structure
Of our Republican institution is based-t'ai
the people are the legitimate source Of all poorer.
The doctrines Of those resolutions should be
engrayen upon the heart Of every true son Of
yIginia--they are the doctrines Of our Wash
ingtons, Jeflersons aud Mad;sons-the instru-
ments which they used upon the shaking of
of our colonial dependence to develope our
free institutions, and 10 direct the children OF
men" in the true path to independence, wealth
and power. The great political truths embed
led in these resolutions, can never be destroyed
as long as Popular Liberty has one votary or
admirer left upon earth. They may Tor time
be crushed, as we humbly conceive them now
to be, under the Anti Republican institutions
OF Virginia, but they viii rise again. The
spirit is not dead in Yirginians---the spark but
shoulders upon the altar Of the heart--it needs
but to be struck, and the concealed Are, Ike
that which sprung from the flint Of The Rerolu-
ton, VIII enkinde fame throughout the
length and breadth of this Commonwealth,
before the briIliancy and power which, the
energies Of Popular Rights cannot stand
The evidences are around usage, in "Old
Berkeley" the spirit is up-she stands now
where she has stood for thirty years pas,
the uawayering friend Of the rights Of
the people Adversely has not chilled the
afdor OF her eliors-:he whitening influence
Of time has not dried up the wells of her
hceE.-no, mo- She still clings with fidelity
to the early object Of her affection, and her
evry soul seemed to be thrilled with Joy, when
hey eloquent son, Charles James Faulkner,
on Monday last, pointed back TO the cradle il
which her earliest efforts were rocked, and fol
lowed her in her steady and onward growth
to this day, and exhibited the chaplet on he,
brow ." aourishing in eternal green"
We We're gralfed, truly and heartily graft
led, to see 50 large and respectable numbe
of the freenen Of Berkeley assembled al TIL
meeting. Notwithstanding the late hour q
which the CouYf adjourned and the distanc
which many had TO GO to their homes. In
great mass of the Reiormers remained unit
the adjournment of the meeting. The yoic
Of panty was sient--he people were Assem-
bled In a matter OF common concern, and wit
one voice, one heart and one soul they gay
assent TO and proclaimed the sound and hea
thy Republican doctrines embodied in the re
oluuons OF the meeting.
Charles las. Faulkner, Esq, rose and e
placed the object Of the meeting, and proce
ded 20 address the people, for the space OF
hour, IN support Of the cause Of Constitute