the secretary of state is a good of the policy of the administration in he says few could befall this country the united states more to be than the establishment of a british influence of which there was not the least danger and the of domestic slavery in p general once president of had written to his friends in that without ike party in will acquire the and may slavery � � � s world � london vol t s letter to our agent at ko th ist m for the of the people of art not on the th of october mr took the and proposed to the he told them on the th of that without thej cannot maintain that institution slavery ten years probably not half that time f if is not he says again the people of the southern states will not run the hazard of their slave property to the control of a population who are anxious to slavery mr was not so as mr his agent at he says take this position on the side of the constitution and the laws and the civil political and religious liberties of the people of secured thereby nothing about and all the world will be with you say nothing which can offend even our brethren of the north let the united states at once the cause of civil political and religious liberty in this a treaty was made but our brethren of the north were offended and on the th of june the rejected it by a vote of to � the immediate of was now the favorite measure of the slave power they had little fear that in the next term they could the of but felt doubtful of the success of mr feared new england had he lived at boston and known ihe influences then new england he would have seen there was no reason for present fear a election was at hand the was to meet at in may mr van was the most prominent candidate of the party most of the to the had been instructed by the which appointed them to support him but he was a northern man while president he had not favored he had lately written a public letter april and plainly declared himself hostile to as then proposed a s t no st p i letter of d and th ii t np see s special message of april s d and his annual message of th u see his letter to mr no document no t see his letter to mr in register new series p i vo mr the senior field of van s party and opposed his old friend mr cross of would not vote under any circumstances for a man opposed to the of van was not the proper person for the party to rally around in the coming struggle nine out of ten of our friends think so the committee wrote on their card as for van has destroyed him the last best and wisest counsel of was � the of the assembled van got more than a majority but could not get two thirds of the were numerous there were some that proposed johnson some even thought it best to take again � gallant old even was talked of when the political tide clean out of the harbor strange things appear on the bottom only seen on such occasions men thought it very surprising that such a man should be spoken of � certainly it had no precedent and he no political experience now the would not be at all surprising or irregular the s letter looks silly enough now but who knows if only elected that he would not have been as great a man as mr nay as or he was for immediate and would throw ourselves on the justice of our cause before god and the nations he might have been as great a man as mr had the tide of served in his favor after all the labor of the there came forth mr james k men wondered who the devil t� k said many and when told they thought it was a not fit to be made none of them proved it by facts and arguments quite so faithfully as the distinguished author of that phrase did on a recent occasion at they left that for mr to do not by logic but by experiment and he did � we shall see what he did in due time mr van was sincerely desirous for their success the success of the the were pretty firmly in support of mr clay harry of the west and that same old as he has publicly called himself he was not publicly much opposed to nor much in letter of june d s mr favor of it and in respect to that was a pretty good index of his party some were seriously and opposed to the of as a slave territory so were a few who constituted the moral element of the party both of these have since reported their presence in the politics of the land indications of something yet future it was a rash movement of the party this changing their leader and their line on the very brink of battle under the guns of their opponent already put in battery and ready to fire but they were confident in their strength and were so well that they only needed the word of command to perform any political or revolution it is a little curious to look back on the d of march twenty one members of solemnly declared that would be identical with dissolution would be an attempt to an institution and a power of a nature so unjust as � not only to result in a of the union but fully to justify i five of the twenty one were from a good memory is not so 