Martinsburg Gazette

This Message.—This document meets with but little favor from friend or foe. The Whig condemn its sentiments upon the important matters of which it treats, while both divisions of the Van Buren party evince a strong disposition to "damn it with faint praise." Mr. Van Buren endeavored evidently to conciliate both branches of his own party, and, considering the corner into which he has been forced, he has played the game with no mean dexterity. To the Loco Foco Sub-Treasury men he says, "I am still for the sub-Treasury"; to the Conservatives, "The special deposit system may be adopted—I trust to Congress to contrive some plan for the keeping and disbursement of the public Treasury." The firmness which characterized the Messages of the "old Roman," and manifested itself in that of Mr. Van Buren at the late extra session, when the sub-Treasury was newly put forth, and when he said that government had nothing to do but to take care of itself, is now nowhere to be found. The recommendations, in regard to financial matters are put forth with a hesitation, that marks the perturbed state of the President's mind. The sounds of condemnation of his favorite plan, that have lately been thundered in his ears by the people of his own state, have well nigh frightened him, from his "propriety." He endeavors it is true, to ascribe to "bank influence," the late change in public sentiment, but the attempt is as puerile as the charge is groundless, and is condemned in round terms by his own partisans in New York, who look upon it as a libel upon the fidelity of the "great Democratic party."

Taken as a whole, the Message is by far the most spiritless, of any that we remember to have seen, and were it not for the fact, that it is an official production, it would elicit little or no comment from any one.