Winchester Gazette

Sign of the times!
In the two following articles, the weather vane points very differently. The Louisville paragraph is against Mr. Crawford-the Philadelphia one is for him.
The Louisville (Ky.) Advertiser of the 5th inst. after unjustly charging Mr. Crawford with a determined and illiberal opposition to the administration, and declaring that "Mr. Monroe is doing injustice to himself, his friends and his country, by suffering Mr. C. to retain the office of Secretary of the Treasury"-proceeds in the following strain:
"A few days since, in some passing remarks relative to the politics of Missouri, we stated that Mr. Scott and Mr. Benton, from that state, had enlisted under the banners of Mr. Crawford. This we are assured by Mr. Scott, is not the fact. That neither himself nor Mr. Benton, are in favor of the election of Mr. Crawford-though they are both prepared to support a western man."
With the Advertiser, we also deprecate the idea of selecting President from "local or sectional views"-let the people "select the man who stands highest in their estimation, but as a patriot; the man, who is well qualified to fill the office."
In rather a different strain is the Philadelphia Sentinel of the 21st inst. Its Editor acknowledges the receipt of certain strictures "on an official paper accompanying the report of the Committee of ways and means in the House of Representatives" on the 30th of April last. He declines inserting part of these strictures for this reason:
"It strikes us, however, that the principal, if not the only end of the writer is to aim a blow at Mr. Crawford.- This we cannot approve. It is quite probable, from present appearances, that it will become our duty, as editors of a republican paper, and the duty of our correspondent as a member of the republican party, to support Mr. Crawford for the presidency. We ought therefore neither to do, nor say any thing that may render the performance of that duty unpleasant, or that may hereafter be brought to bear against us by our political opponents. Let us say all that we can in favor of the candidate whom we may chance to prefer, but not attempt to injure the character of his rivals, who are all democrats, men of high standing and above reproach."