Litchfield enquirer., 1835-02-26

Hls and put MT; Clinton in; but failing in this he turned over again and tried to break down Mir. Clinton. in N. York. All the time he was for the war. he was making the people believe MT. Madison was not to be trusted; and there has been pieces printed from his speeches. and will be printed over, suppose, showing how he abused MT. Madisnn's government. Then he praised MT. Clinton, and afterW al is tu.n- ed right rOnnd and talked t'Other way. He was all sorts of member in the New. York Legislature. lie was one of the litter of great men that was got by the War out of the Old U. S. Bank. He to"k sides with his father. and went his death against his mother. He was the very man for the timrs-taIk-write -fght-bring in blls-langh-make bnws- draw S:aie papers W hich fiuay made the fed ersl party smell the patching that drove them from the 6eld in April, 1914. Ths was a rale New Orleans scrape. and it was long time before the people At Washington found out which was the biggest affair But Mr. Van Buren always gives up that Orleans was the greatest. Now, so much for the question what has he done
 . It is true he voted for the Tariff of 1923, that bill of abOmnhtions," as it was then called, but he was obliged to do that; his Legislature instructed him but some have said, that they instructed him by his own re- quest, for his friends have boasted that he has never seen the day for the last ten years, that he couldn't make NewYork Legislature do as he wanted them. But this vote proves what said before. He went against the Tar if a: home, called the Harrisbnrgh Conven- ton, while it was matching this very Tariff bill of 1928, a trick and turn over to make President, and then goes to Congress and votes for it. Don't this look like man can't well be wrong that takes both sides /? It looks a little curious that a man should go against measure at home, speak it in public, write a. gain it. abuse it as fraud and trick, and get elected under these circumstances, and then get the very Legislature that elects him to tell him to vote against his own graphic" speech es and for a '' measure proceeding more from the Closet than from the Workshop." This is the way he got the name of a Magician. and it looks good deal like it to man up in a tree.
 MT. Van Buren has been more scandalzed than any man in the world not excepting Mir. Jefferson. Every body has combined against him. He has never interfered with any bo- dy at all. If hadn't been for this, he would have been Gen. Jackson's favoritc, and he would have made him his successor. But
 
 ears about his conduct against the Seninoles, that he never could bear Van Buren any more. And he. poor man, gave up his Secretaryship, rather than have any fuss. He has never complained, and bore it all like a Christian Now, some people have said, that he Was first for Crawford. against Jackson, aud Jackson's South Carolina friends; and then he was for Adams. and finally he came in at the eleventh hour for Jackson, got into the nest of Jack sons first and fast friends, rooted 'em out took their place, and they even go so far as to say, that he is tn" choice of Gen. Jackson for President. But this ain't SO; if it was, it would make him look again little like Ma gician.
 He has been accused about the Safety Fund Banks in New-York. Now, people don't know any thing about these banks Mir. Van Buren has always been in favor of " hard money" and he always obstinately refused to let any more than 15O banks be chartered at one time in Ncw-York; and then he said and stood to it, they shouldn't issue notes lower than quarter of a dollar; for if they went for notes under that, it would drive all the specie out of the country. And then again he provided, that for every sixty three dollars issued in paper. there should be one dollar in silver; hut not satisfied with making the notes secure. by providing the above spe- cie, [" take 'em up, he said that if one bank failed, all the others should make it gOod.- Now this is the Safety Fund System of New York. These banks are all in league; and to keep their privileges, and to keep up one another. and to keep up their party. they have joint fund, that is always subject to party purposes, to pay for votes, for treating, for travelling. for printing handbiIls and for every thing that is necessary to carry an elec- tiOn. All this is managed at Albany, and is called the Albany Regency. Now by this system New-York has sound politics. sound morals and hard money. How can any body blame him for the Safety Fund Banks?
 Then, too, he has gone with all his might against the U. s. Bank; hut is in favor of it's Branches. if they will put lem in New York. Bad as that Bank is he wrote for one to he put up in Utica, and his friends denied this till they proved it upon him by his letter. and because they happened to forget about his trying to get this Branch. His enemies want tB make out that he rows one way and looks another, and this is the kind of proof that is to make man double dealer! a magician.
 They call him non cOnnmittal, too, and this is because he always looks before he leaps.- They say he never gives the measure of his foot. Now how can this be, when it is shewn that he speaks against the Tariff at home, and votes for it in Congress goes for inter- nal improvements by the General Govern ment in New. York, but against it out of it {; goes against the bank at Philadelphia, but in favor of it at Utica; goes for all the candid