The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-06-03
From The Pennsyicanian.
MARTIN VAN BUREN.

regularly moved forward by course of public USE
funess TO the highest Offices III the state, with les;
uose and less apparent effort, than the distinguished
citizen whose name place at the head ofthis ar
ticle.
Martin Van Buren has been unanimously nomin-
ated bv the Democratic National Convention, as
sembed at Baltimore OH the 2Oth inst, as the De-
mocratc candidate for the high office of president
of the United States. He is now in the fifty-thrd
year of his age, and in the possession of excellent
health confirmed by active habits, and regular ex-
ercisc.
Hewas born at Undertook, (Which the unsparing
hostility ofan unscruplOus opposition has applied tc
him as an epilhc of reproach) on the 9th Of fDecem
Der, 1882.
He came to the Bar in 1903, and rapidly rose to
that emnence which his acknowledged talents
entitled him to claim. From his first appear
ance in public, up to the present moment, he has
always been a decided and uncompromlsing demo
crat and has for an instant wavercd In his firm
andunshaken attachment to the cause as well as tn,
rights of the people.
Without fortune or patronage, and with nothing
to sustain him but the confidence and esteem of th'
people, whose cause he at all times ready II
advocate he was an early mark for the shafts of tina
pow erful party, which in the beginning of the pres
entcentury disputed every inch of ground which th'
triumphant march Of democracy had gained.
Such where his abilities, and such the diligence
with which he pursued the profession Of the law, tina
none Of the honors to the bar were refused to him
Without claiming as much for him perhaps as h'
really deserved, may say, "that if not the first
he was in the first line His fidelity to his clients
and his unsullied private and public character, wer
readily acknowledged by every one whose opinion
was entitled to slight respect.
But wider sphere was soon opened to his tai
ents. lie entered the of politics in 1904, ant
was at distinguished for his sound and unfinch
ing democracy. In the Senate of his native state
he was an advocate of the war of lSl2-and zeal
ousy and powerfully supported James Madison
during the whole course of his administration. Will,
the fcdcraIsts in 1873 and 1914, with degree o
political rancor which is hardly credible to those
who did not witness it, were paralzing the arm o
the Government, and cndeavoring TO break dowr
the administration Of James Madson-MARTIN Van
buren, was straihing every nerve to support him
and to bring the to glorious and fortunate ter
mination
His Senatorial career in his own state was one o
distinguished usefulness and honor lie filled the
Office of Attorney General of New York for several
years and was subsequently lin 1921 elected Sen
ator of the United States. lie reelected to the
same station in lS27-and with what signal ability
and fidelity he discharged the duties of his office,
the public arc sufficiently aware.
Ii is worthy of remark, that every year has added
10 the houors of this distinguished indivldua-ln
1920 he was elected Governor of" the Empire
State" and early in the year he called by
the man of the people," the hero of New Orleans,
to preside over the Department of State. There
never was question that he did carry into these
nISu trusts those taicnts, napits and requirements
which peculiarly fitted him for the discharge ofthcir
various and important duties.
Upon the breaking up" as called by the opposi-
ton, of the first Cabinet ofPresidcnt Jackson Mar
TN Van Buren, retired to New York, and was short
ly afterwards appointed by the President of the
United States, Envy Extraordinary and Minister
Pcnipotenary to England. lie had the good for
tune to be rejected by Senate neither remarkable
for wisdom nor for prudcnce-and the rejected
by the Sovereign People, Vice President of the
United States, to preside over the very men who
had rejected him.
From the eminent station which Martin Van
Buren, now occupies III the public cyc-that of Vic,
President of the United Statcs--t would seem tha
he is now to be transferred by the voice of the De-
mocracy of the Union, the highest office in the off
of free people. That he will carry into that higl
Office all the qualifications required for the discharg,
of its various duties, have doubt. If their il
one individual amongst us, whose opportunities
habits, temper knowledge and experience in public
affairs, render him fit successor to the yencrabl,
man, whose arduous and brilliant administration
will close on the 4th March, lS37-that individual
in our opinion, is MARTIN VAN BUREN.
From the Working Mans Adrocate.