Martinsburg Gazette

From the Baltimore Patriot—July 4.

ANOTHER IMPORTANT CHANGE!

By a letter from the Hon. Charles Downing, Delegate in Congress from Florida Territory, which appears in the last Tallahassee Star, we are gratified to perceive that gentleman has renounced Van Buren, and taken his stand in favor of Gen. Harrison. He gives his reason in the following extract from his letter:

"Although we may have no vote in the election, and hence are told by many it is folly to meddle—yet I think that Florida has a deeper interest in the Presidential election than any State in the Union. Independent of having all our officers, who administer the laws, selected by the President, we have a series of savage butcheries, almost nightly enacted among us; the like of which for its atrocity, for damning disgrace on the Government which should protect us, has no parallel in the history of the world. He must have a deeper confidence in a Government professing Democracy than I have, who can believe that, after nearly five years of scenes like this, of continued impotence, of disgrace and defeat, this same Government, administered by the same men, can do, or will do, better in the next four years, than they have done in the last. Who is there that can see any probable or possible chance of closing the war, if conducted as it has been? Who will give us protection, but a change of the constitutional commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States?"