Martinsburg Gazette

MISCELLANEOUS.
FROM THE BOSTON COURIER.
MR. ANDREW STEVENSON.
The nomination of this person, as Minister to the court of Great Britain, excites throughout the country a general sentiment of disgust and indignation. The appointment is what he has long sought, and what has, no doubt, been long promised by his royal master King Andrew I., as a reward for partisan services. His majesty has had no more willing servant than Mr. Stevenson—none, to perform the dirty work of his unofficial advisers, with more promptness and alacrity. It is believed by many, and hoped by all, (except the Jacksonians) that the Senate will reject the nomination. We are of opinion, however, that it will be confirmed. A variety of considerations, local and political, may combine to induce a majority of that body to let the President have his will in reference to this appointment. To reject the nomination would not, probably, deprive him of the place or its emoluments; for the President is pledged; he has received the service; Mr. Stevenson must have his reward: and if the Senate do not approve the nomination they adjourn, the debtor will cancel his obligation, and send his creditor to England, without asking the approbation of the Senate.
Mr. Stevenson is a man of weak intellect, eminently fitted, by talent and propensity, to be the tool of any man who has power and patronage. If he should not disgrace his country in England, it will probably be because he will do nothing. He may make a very polite bow at a levee; but if he writes a diplomatic note, he will commit a blunder that will make himself ridiculous and his Government contemptible.
Since the preceding was written, we have seen, in the journal of Congress, that Mr. Stevenson has announced his intention of resigning the Speaker's chair and his seat in Congress, on Monday last. "under a deep sense of duty," &c. &c. This is all affectation and hypocrisy. Mr. Stevenson is not governed by any sense of duty, except his duty as a dutiful toad-eater to Gen. Jackson. He alludes also to the "state of his health," which "renders it impossible for him to discharge in person the laborious duties of the chair," &c. This is all fudge. Mr. Stevenson's constituents, in the late election of members of the Legislature, have testified their entire disapprobation of his political conduct. He knows that he can never again be elected to Congress from the district he now misrepresents. He has also another motive for resigning his seat in Congress. Mr. Clay and other members of the Senate have declared their intention to approve of no nomination made by the President from either House of Congress. He thinks, by an early resignation, to deprive the opposition in the Senate of this apology for rejecting his nomination as Minister to England. A most pitiful pretence, and an insult to the common sense of the House of Representatives.