The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-02-22
THE INTRIGUE DEVELOPED.

We publish letter to-day from JAMES
WATSON WEBB, one of the Editors of the
New York Courier and Enquirer, paper
deep in the confidence of the devoted parti-
sans OF Mr. Van Buren,. 1t is curious, as
giving history of the present condition of
the party IN New York, of which the writer
Is an influential member; but is particularly
interesting, as disclosing what we have long
SINCE believed and predicted, but which has
oeen obstinately denied, that the real object
is TO smuggle Mr.. Van Buren, into the Pres
ldency, through the Vice Presidency; to Ell
feet which, he, Mr.. Van Buren,. got up the
Baltimore Convention, through the agency
OF Amos Kendall. We here extract that
portion of the letter which refers TO this SUBJ
Ject. 1t was written to gentleman at Har-
risburg, and is as follows:
| As to the VICE Presidency. Van BIZ
rem MUST be the man, noIens Uolens. If not
WE CAN NEVER MAKE HIM PRESIDENT, and
the TRUE POLICY now is, to start q candi-
date in EVERY STATE"
We here hav the whole machinery dis
ciosed--candidates are to be started in
every State. In conformity to this plan.
they have been started in every direction !:
most OF them the devoted paftizans of Mr..
Van Buren,, who are ready to yield their own
claims in his favor; and it is remarkable
feature in the history of this proceeding,
that, whilst candidates are to be started In
every other State, special care has beentak-
en- that no other candidate has been started
in New York, thus leaving him unimbarrass-
ed, by a rival, in his own State. In the
mean time, he is 10 pass the ordeal of the
Senate, and this is 70 be seized upon, let the
event be what it viii, to aid in smuggling
him in. Should he be rejected on account
of his corruption and ntrigues, his partizans
will raise the cry of persecution, as is avow-
ed in this letter. While On the other hand.
should he pass, that will also be seized upon
as conclusive proof that he is innocent ofth
many acts OF whlchhe is known to have been
gulity, and which have tended to divide.
distract and corrupt the country.
While these intrigues are going on, Sc
cret orders are issued from the Regency es-
tabshed here, to fill the Convention with
his subservlsnt tools, as preparatory to his
nomination. Regencies have been appoint
ed In the different States, through which
the DEGREES of the Washington cabal, head
ed by Kendall and Lewis, are carried into
effect. There are several of the States
where the supporters of the present admin
lstration are in small minority they are
organized with view to the enjoyment of
the patronage of the government. These
States will be fully represented, and de-
pendant as they are upon the cabal, their
delegates will consist of the most subservi-
ent tools of power. These, added to the
large and well-drilled phalanx from New
York, and such of the delegates from the
other States as will be subject to their die
tatlon, will place the movements of the Con-
yention entirely under the control of Lewis,
Kendall, q Co. Such is the machinery by
which it is intended to smuggle the arch
intrgueant into the highest office in the gift
OF the people, for the real object is not to
make Vice President, but President. 1t
Is avowed in the letter that they "cAN New
Err MAKE HIM PRESIDENT" but by first maxi
ing him Vice President. We will explain
this mysterious expression. As painful as
it is, we feel it to be our duty. There new
sr was time when the people were so gull
ed; so betrayed so deceived. They are
made to believe that they are about to choose
a President for the next four years, in the
person Of Andrew Jackson; when, in point
Of fact every sensible man here, of every
party, knows, that instead of choosing the
next President, in Gen. Jackson, for the nert
term, as the people suppose, they will choose
him in the person of the Vice President,
whoever he may be So infrm is General
jackson now; so little prospect is there OF
his living through the next term that the
profigate crew who are living upon his in
fluence, and are controlling the movements
in the election of the President and Vice
President, are trembling lest he should ex-
pire before the period ofthe election arrives
We. feel it our duty so speak boldly.
Every one who visits him, is struck with the
fact, that he is fast sinking and that. if pos
sibie, his mental faculties are giving away
faster than his physical strength. Ithas no
parallel in this country, but in the gross I'M
position attempted in the case of Mr.. Craw-
ford; who was supported, and voted for, as
= President, when it was known that both
body and mind were so paralyzed as utterly
to unfit him for the Office and it is strik-
ing and remarkable fact, that the same in.
dividuals who were prominent in that case
: now acknowledged to have been so gros;
an imposition on the American people-art
equally prominent in the present. 1t would
be curious to look over list of those VIII,
stuck by Mr.. Crawford to the last, KNOWN.
that he was incompetent TO perform the du
Ties vi tHe OluCe, ullu see HOW uldHy VI I'll
same are performing, now, similar par
: We may ourselves, should we have leisure
: present the list.
r 1t is thus that Mr.. Van Buren, and his pal
e tizans, while they are nominally pressin
upon the American people the reelection
Gen. Jackson as President, are, in realit,
e conspiring to defraud them into the electio
). of Mr.. Van Buren, as President, by present
u ing him, nomnaily, as a candidate for tn
s. Vice Presidency.-U S. Telegraph.
REJECTION There is one view of thu
y rejection question which it may be proper
y for the citizens to take-The complaint is
y that majority of the Senate, including the
8 Vice President, voted against Mr.. Van Blu
: rem. Now, we would ask, did not the Sen
. ate act on Mr.. Clay's appointment, and did
u not some of its members, including Gen.
: Jackson, vote against his nomination If
!, then it was wrong in the Senate 10 vote
against Mr. Van Buren, because the Presi-
dent had nominated him, it was no less
wrong for certain Senators 10 vote against
Mr.. CLAY, when the President had noniinat-
ed him. But say some, "a majority did not
vote against Mr.. Clay, and they did against
Mr.. Van Buren," We reply, that as many
voted against Mr.. Clay as desired to, and no
more voted against Mr.. Van Buren, than
could show cause. If more Senators disap-
proved of Mr.. v. B. it only went to show
that stronger causes for rejection operated.
United States Gazctte.
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