The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-06-05
From the Washington Globe.
NOMINATION OF THE CANDIDATE
FOR THE VICE PRESIDENCY.

ion for the first two days are presented 10
our readers. IL must be gratifying 10 every
sincere Republican, to perceive in the re.
suits, the power Of popular opinion in this
and the facility with which an intel.
igent people, constituting twenty four dis
linct tcommonwealths, can oncentrate their
will, and give practical and commanding
influence in directing the government Of the
whole.
The political coalitions Of HEADMEN, each
to bring up separate division Of
the country to support some scheme OF per.
sonal ambition are now. "A days, like mere
visions, dspeled by the light of public intel
ligence. The Triumvirs of ancient Rome,
could club their interests and divide the po.
litical power among them-the Dynasties of
Europe, with their Holy Alliances, have
crushed the liberties Of indepe endent States
and partiioned free and brave people a.
mong ihem-but the spirit and good sense of
the American people defy all the arts, in
trigues and combination Of politicians. The
second Coalition is now about TO receive the
same rebuke from public opinion as the first.
The second officer of the government who
has'dared to ally himself with men hostile to
the power which elevated him, 10 vote down
the will ofthe nation, must now expect, like
former President, to be degraded from his
station, and TO see it filed by the man in
whose person the majesty of public opinion
has been violated
The politicians, who from the threshold of
General Jack kson's administration, have been
concentrating their respective influences with
view to control by political machinery, the
succession 10 the Presidency, were baffled by
the dlscernment and patriotism Of Mr. Van
Burcn. lie saw plainly during the last ses:
sion of Congress, that the forces Of Messrs,
Clay, Webster, and Calhoun, which could
not openly unite against the administration,
without the most laring Inconsistency, would
cover their opposition by directing their hos
tllty against himself individually, as the first
officer Of the cabinet. TO defeat the design,
to leave no apology to the pretended friends
of the administration to unite with the enemy
in Congress, Mr.. Van Buren resigned his
station, and at the request Of the President
went to England. This voluntary retirement,
on the part of Mr.. Van Buren,, discopcerted
the plans Of the coalition. II left the discon.
tented partizans of Mr.. Calhoun, in the Jack.
son ranks, no pretext for desartion--no Sec
ondary person against whom they could carry
on war in disguise against the President
of the peope-no individual near tho Presi
dent on whom they could fix tho character of
a candidate for the Chief Magistracy, and a.
gainst whom they could raise the suspicion
of perverting the power Of the Government
to secure his preferment, and all the other
objections which had rendered Secretary
succession justly odious. Robbed, by the
removal of Mr.. Van Buren,, Of the circum-
stances which we're calculated to give cohe.
sion to their coalition and enable their parti.
IN IN rat a ha IN ,,,t thaa Al
sections ofthe Union. the Iiiumpirs resolved
to recall him, that they might have the double
advantage, at the same time, Of crushing
rival, and Of rallying against him force
which they could not otherwise bring togcth.
er, to employ against the administration.
This course has left but one alternative to
the great body Of the people, who feel their
rights secure only in the triumph of the
cause which they have committed to the
hands Of Andrew Jackson. They were com
pelled either to permit faithful public ser
want, who had even withdrawn beyond the
seas, to prevent discord from marring the
great interests of the Republican party, to be
recalled and disgraced-to permit the Presi.
dent himself to be degraded, rs having tar
nished the national honor, and as wanting in
American feeling Ito permit THE COALITION
to WELD to the highest power, rs if sustained
by the public will or to assert the true feel.
ings and opinions of the nation, by resentng
and resisting, at once, the measures Of the
Triumvrs, and the majority which they have
embodied in The Senate.
The first step taken by the people, in re-
asserting the supremacy ofther will, is seen
in the proceedings ofthe Baltimore Conven.
ton. The leaders of the Senate may there
read the determination of the freemen Of this
country to mark with the deepest rebuke the
audacty and treachery by which the voice OF
many great States has been suppressed, while
those representing them have made the power
with which they were entrusted, subservient
TO their own individual msiice, interest or
ambition. We have no doubt that the great
principles OF our institutions will be fully vim
dicatsd at the approaching election.
The convention have done well in identify.
ing the reelection Of Gen. Jackson with the
vndication of the great popular principle,
which makes the Representative the agen,
of his constituents, and not their dictator.
He is again placed in the attitude in which
it has always been his glory to triumph
Some Jealous friends have supposed that by
placing his reelection on the issue made BY
the coalition in tho Senate, with him and
with the people, his success was put at hazard
We do not think so. But if this were the
case. tho principle involved IN the contest is
one for which he has hazarded his life, and
now that his own honor--the dignity Of his
station the character of the country and its
institutions among foreign nations, are all
blended with the question involved by the
act Of the Senate, he has every motive which
can actuate him 10 encounter the risk. The
line is now fairly drawn between the parties
by the ticket now presented to the public
The true friends Of the Presiden, and of the
democracy will not refuse to support it from
any personal objections to Mr.. Van Buren, OF
from personal preferences INDUCED for ano,h.