The Arkansas advocate., 1835-12-25
From the Louisville Journal.

From the Louisville Journal.
 POPULAR RIGHTS--MR VAN BUR EN.
 It may seem unkind. but, nevertheless, we must sometimes remind our friends, the Van Burentes, of their idols past course in politics. At present, the chief theme of thei1 Reclamation is the aledged attempt of the Wings to take the election of President and Vice President from the people and give 1t to branch of the National Legis- lature. Let them speak softly: we can show them, that their own candidate, what ever opinions 1t may nelr be convenient for him to profess, has been as warmly in favor of Legislative action in the creation of Presidents and Vice Presidents as any man in the land.
 In N. Y. Convention, Mr. Van Buren made this memorable remark: The fitrther poacea, IS remoued from the people, He better.' With him, this was not q mere theoretical maxim, but a fixed rule of action. It was avowedly so then, and, not only then, but for years afterwards. In 1924, during the well-remembered Crawford controversy. the people of New York, dreading legislative intrigue and corruption, called loudly and almost with one voice upon their State Legislature to surrender up to them the privilege of choosing the electors of Presi- dent and Vice President. The power of designating the electors belonged at that time to the Legislature but the people, be- lieving that it ought to belong to them- selves, demanded it sternly but respectfully at the hands of their Representatives. The course, which Mir. Van Buren, on that in- portant occasion, thought proper 10 pursue, is yet vivid in the recollection of the whole American nation. He was then the leader and head Of the Crawford party ID New York, and, as such, he encouraged and commanded the seventeen members of the State Senate, who, under the title of ssthe immortal seventeen," damned themselves to an immortality of infany, to spurn the petitions of the people, to treat the petition CTS themselves with contempt, to deny to them voice in the election of President and Vice President, and to persist in re- taining the power of choice exclusively in the Legislature. He hearkened to no ap- peals, he regarded not the admonitions of patriotism, public duty, or personal honesty, 
 -"the further power is removed from the people, the better" All the Jackson pres ses denounced him as the peoples enemy, d reckless invader of their dearest rights and privileges, spurner of their authority, an intrguer, and usurper. The Adyer- tiser of this city was among the first and most clamorous to brand him with every epithet of unmeasured vili6caton. And now, to the change. There seems to be a probability, that the Presidential! election of 1856 may, by the Constitution, deyove on the House of Representatives and what do we see and hearl The pensioned presses, in deprecating such contingency, speak of it as device for injuring poor MT. Van Bu- ren, whom they represent as the champion of popular rights, the vindicator of the pee ple's authority to elect their own President and Vice President without the interference of any other body. They have the efironte- ry to speak of him as the head of party in favor of securing all power to the people, and protest, that his defeat by Legislative body would be the cruelest persecution of a political innocent, the unfeeing sacrifice | of lamb-like martyr in the cause of demo- cratic privileges. What honest and reflect l ing man, in view of these things, IS not ready to exclaim, in spirit of bitter scorn, that this is empha,cally the age of humbug!
 
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