Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-01-21
TIE MARTINsBURG ERA AGAIN.

The Martinsburg Era, in rejoinder of
nearly column and a quarter of sublime
nothings, pretends to come back at us for our
reply to discreditabe editorial squib and
pretended Charlestown letter which appeared
in that paper the week previous. Throughout
the entire length of this voluminous article
we fail to gee anything that will serve to place
that paper in a creditab,c light either before
the people of our own county, or the people
of Berkeley, whom it claims to represent, on
the question at Issue. If that paper expects
to carry weight OF conviction with its language
by the use of such pet phrases as arc most
familiar to its style of journalism, We leave it
to its choice. For our part we deem them
unworthy of notice and pass them by with
silent contempt.
Whilst the Era utterly fails to make any
attempt at direct denial of the charge of
foisting upon its readers letter purporting
to have been written from Chariestown, but
simply endeavors to infer its origin by impli>
cation, it at the time flies the track in a
most abrupt manner. and graciOusly leaving
Messrs. Butcher and Shirley with Jefferson
to"do as she pleascs' takes hold of Mr.. Gran
than for a hobby. From this standpoint it
again arrogates 10 Itself the position of SUI
preme dictator, and leaving Jefferson with no
voice in the matter, assumes for it and its
clique entire cottrol of the two Senators from
this district Like the fox in the fable, it
cries ''sOur grapes" at The bill fixing unon
Charlestown as one of the points for the sit
ting of the Court of ppcals, and throws out
lnsinuatlops which it may yet be called upon
to substantiste. As to the petitions that have
been circulating in this county, in which the
Era has become 30 mach interested of late
we challenge that journal to produce the
names OF any respectable number of such ne
titloners, and wager a paper Of pins that he
dare not make the attempt. The Eru's par
agraph in regard 10 the Hon. W H. Travers
Is truthful exhibit of the character of a
journal that would ATTEMPT to publish through
its columns, under tic guisc CT communities
ton, what it has not the moral courage to do
edltorialy. That the writer Of the pretended
Charlestown letter TO the ErG was not citi-
zen of Charlcstown. AMI neither was present
or knew anything of the meeting here save
what was published in the Charlcstown papers,
is fully SubStantiatcd by Tie first fact that
although the meeting mentioned therein was
held here on the 2Gth of December, the would
make>belie"e correspondent Of the Era does
not make ut!crancc through the columns of
that paper unit! lis issue Of the 9th of Jam
uary (alter the publication of the proceed
ipgs of the meeting in the two Charleston
papers y and also by the second fact, las
every 'cho arGs prcseat at Ike meeting
hnoms,) that the Hon. W. II. Travcrs ncrer
alfred he resolutions spoken Of! The rcso>
lut;ons were offered by another gentleman,
and although by mistake accredited TO Mr..
Travers, no correction of the error was made.
as Mr.. t. was present and par'icj pated in the
meeting, and had desire 70 be represented
as being otherwise than in accord with the
spirit of the people of the county. Il isn't
always well to write letters fror, published
newspaper repor;s-the types sometimes max