Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-12-07

9VSlUcS8.
------~SS
TFE ORGAN.
Upon the subject Of the New York diff
cultics we have parting word for the Gre
publican.
II has abandoned the field Of open discus
sion and adopted the guerilla mode Of warfare.
How fair aud legitimate the reiterated imputa-
ton upon ourselves, Of odious views entertain
ed by us IN relation to the great slavery aues-
ton, sustained neither by facts nor allcga-
tions, or if the writer be other than the cdi-
tor, how manly and courageous these personal
assaults made upon us behind the stalking
horse Of it's editorial columns, we feel no in
tcrest to discuss. We have met the in,puta-
ton with terms Of denial and rctort, that we
do not care to repeat. They will stick where
VIC planted them.
What the Republican lacks in the strength
of its cause, or its ability to maintain it, is
supplied by personal inuendo, and covert in
suit. We did not engage to pursue it be-
yond the open ground of discussion
ally as its missels are not of the sort to kill
or scare. Under its present administration
it has goodly culver of quirks and publish
expressions Which benefit the public less, We
fancy, than they please their complaisant au-
thor.
Its fippancy, however, We cannot fail to
admire. In this department it is excellent,
the famous firm of ''Quirk, Cannon and
Snapp" could not do better In its position
as an exponent of the sentiments Of the peo-
pie upon grave question Of national policy,
it is not so enviable. When almost the en-
tire South sends up its voice in rebuke of the
policy of the administration as to its Freesoil
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES every Southern Press,
with one Or two ignoblc exceptions, hurls its
indignant remonstrance--whent the Virginia
Democratic press of our own immediate vicn-
ity, asserts its independence in one anbroken
chord of ondemnation-when the organ of
the National Democrats at Washington, rep
resenting the. South, and the friends Of the
South, in the North, has proclaimed open war
with the "Union," the organ of the admins
tration,--when the information from Wash
inton indicates disruption of the 'party,"
(only to be delayed momentarily by the pro-
fessions and decisions of the message,) unless
the obnoxious Free Soil policy be abandoned
or the Cabinet dismissed, when democratic
Senator's denounce that policy, such as Vel
Ter and Stookton-- the latter of whom announ-
ces that if the President does not act upon
the principle of the Baltimore platform, he is
"READY TO TAKE ANY PLACE YOU, 1.-THE De-
mocracy Of the country MAY ASSIGN NE,
COME WHAT WILL, OR MAY''-when he, the
pride of Southern Democracy, Daniel s.
Dickinson, declares, ssTuE TINE rs BY NO
MEANS DISTANT, WHEN FIDELITY To THE
CONSTITUTION WILL BE AS SEVERELY TEs-
TED IN THE FUTURE, AS 1T HAS BEEN IN THE
rAsr,"-thc "Virginia Republican in its
superlative sapiency-admirably in keeping
with its recreancy to Southern rights, in its
advocacy Of Frecsoil appointments, recreates
itself in its easy chair with such vapory inn
aginings, as are pulled off with the declara-
ton that it is all mot epen ichif Of smoke"
Verify, we must confess that we have spent
our powder upon small game, such as ell
requites the hunters toll" We have spent
too, few words upon the representative of
this District in connection with this subject,
without entertaining towards him sschronic
grudge" in the slightest degree, as the Re-
publican in its peculiar smartness is pleased
10 term it,--nor are we at all ssill at case" ex-
ccpt in so far as the sentiments of our repre-
sentative may, while they falsify his own po-
litical consistency, misrepresent the District.
We allow ourselves to be disturbed by no en-
wings of the peace of conscience, or the fac
titious Importance, which he or any of the
precious politicians ofhis stripe may have at
tanned or aspire to. Now with the "organ. "
its grinders and suplc-jacks, we have done
for the present.
COUNTY COURT.