Martinsburg Gazette And Public Advertiser

The rejection, by the Senate, of the nomination of the notorious Isaac Hill, for appointment to an office bestowed upon him as a "reward" for defaming others, will be received with approbation by all those who love virtue and detest vice. The Senate, by their independence, have wiped off some of the foul stains upon our national character, inflicted during the present reign of terror and proscription. There is one other act, which the almost universal expression of public sentiment calls on them to perform, and when the time of decision arrives, we doubt not that public expectation will be realized.

Thus will the national service be rid of a few of those objectionable appointments which Gen. Jackson has made though there are enough left to disgust every true patriot. If the President can be susceptible of shame and mortification, he must feel them both sensibly, when, with a majority of professed friends in the House of Congress, some of his prominent measures are frustrated, and his principal appointments rejected. The futility of his project of a Grand National Bank has been exposed, both in the House and Senate, and is much more deserving of reprehension than was Mr. Adams' plan for building "Light Houses in the Skies," about which such a deal of fuss was created. If this and some other of Mr. Adams' recommendations had been attended to, it would have redounded more to our credit, than the silly attempts to cast ridicule upon them. In the whole course of Mr. Adams' Administration, we know of only one nomination of his that was rejected, until towards the close, when several were postponed solely on party grounds. The rejection to which we refer, was not on account of the character or qualifications of the individual; but was owing to his having once declined a reappointment, thereby inducing several other candidates to apply for his place and then, afterwards, urging his claims as witness for a re-nomination.—Col. Gazette.