Martinsburg Gazette

WHIG PROMISES.

Our readers will recollect that many a time and oft during the late Presidential canvass, the Locofocos charged the Whigs with a continual evasion of their principles, that they were a party without any avowed professions by which they could be recognized. Now their mouths are filled ad nauseam, about the broken promises of the Whigs, &c., because the measures and principles of the Whig party are nullified by themselves and Captain Tyler together, either by the Veto, or by their coalition to prevent the passage of a law by the constitutional majority of two-thirds. The New York Tribune thus scathingly refutes their slang upon this subject: "Before the election of '40, it was the standing complaint of the Locofocos that the Whigs concealed their intentions, and would not declare the principles on which they intended to conduct the Government, but smothered all inquiries in hurrah for Log Cabins, Coonskins, Hard Cider and Tippecanoe. Now these same veracious gentlemen assert that the Whigs promised everything and pledged themselves to everything, possible and impossible, in that very contest of 1840! Do not these two falsehoods save us the trouble of refuting either!"

We observe, that at the Navy Yards, fortifications and other public works of the Government, hands and laborers of every description are being discharged, in accordance with orders from Washington. This comes from the Vetoes of Mr. Tyler, he by his obstinate and arbitrary exercise of this power, preventing the Government from acquiring the means to pay its obligations. And in the face of all this, the Locos are raising a hue and cry that thus are the Whigs redeeming their promises of improving the condition of the country. Show the Whigs but fair play, and they will show you, gentlemen Locofocos, what they will do. Our accidental President has been thwarting the majority in Congress for the fourth time since he has held the reins, and the sagacious Locos cannot for a moment see at whose door the fault lies. Oh no; the deceiving Whigs won't redeem their promises made before the election! Let them make an effort to open their eyes, and put the saddle upon the right horse, and let us hear no more of the Whigs not fulfilling their promises. Mr. Tyler is now 'bone of their bone,' and if they can reconcile it to themselves to fire guns in honor of his Vetoes, surely they ought not to have the hardihood to blame the Whigs for not accomplishing what they always laud the Captain for preventing to be done.