The Arkansas advocate., 1836-02-05
From the Lancaster Union. MARTIN VAN BUREN.

stfingers, whose duty 1t is to glorify the
 STEAM nominee of kinderhook, to laud the
 briiiancy of itis genus, the undertaking
 democracy of his principles, and to apohe-
 osIs his vrtuous and patriotic devotion to the people (espeeially the poorD and the institutions of the country which gave him
 birth, will necessarily require an occa- .sional replcnishment of ideas, and will of course seize with avidity every new item in the history of the grea. Magician that may serve to increase the splendor of the halo which already encireles his laureled brow. With ihe view, therefore, 10 aid these disinterested gentlemen in their iaud- able efforts, we have colated a series of in- teresting FACTS, which, i'll our estimation, will go far to place the character of Mir.
 Van Bnren if. is true heit
 IN THE WAR OF 1912, with Great Britain, we find the democratic caadidate, true to his principles, in full fraternity with that party (the FEpERAL) which openly de- clared that 1t was raabecomiag moral and religious people 10 rejoice at pictories gain- cd oref the easmy.' y.'-and supporting the FEDERAL and .1nii- War-party nominee l (Clinton, for the Presidency, in opposition to JAMES MADISON, at that time President, Commander in-Chief ol the Army and Ma ", and the DEMOCRATIC candidate for reelection! As in the late war against { the Bank, however, victory had no sooner been rendered certain to the democratic party, than this most valiant republican, and consistent patriot joined the Madison ranks, and huzzaed for the country.
 1 In 1919. Mir. Van -Buren was ardently engaged in supporting RuFus KING, an 'uneonpromising Federalist,' for U. States Senator. I should regret to find.' says Mr. Van Buren, in letter to a political friend, any iagging on tue subject otf otf fNAT. fNAT King. We arc committed to has support. II IS boh auise and honest, and are must haze no .tltstteriae. ir our course. .4ir. Kings ylews towards Us are honorable and correet.'
 In 1921, while in the United States Sen- ate, he voted for an appropriation of money from the Federal Treasury, for the erec- ton of Toll gates, to be kept by Federal Toll gatherers, within the acknowledged jurisdiction of the several States. Wheth- CT this act harmonlse with the democratic republican doctrine of 1855. will be seen by comparing 1t with the note below.N
 In 1892, as a member of the New York State Convention, we find this 'undeviatIng democrat supporting, with all the magical talent for which he is so famed, RE- STRICTION OF THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE ITO THE OWNERS OF FREEHOLD PROPERTY ALONE. and when he found that the good sense of the statesmen of New York would triumph, and this frceman's privilege would be cx-- tended to the wofkiDgmen, as well as 10 the proud landholder, to render 1t obnoxious to the feelings of the highninded citizen, he endeavored 10 introduce clause extending the privilege 10 the debased, and ignorant negroes, placing them on an equality with the sons of the fathers of the revolution, thinking by this means to defeat the meas ure altogether.
 At the same time, when a proposition was made to give the election of Governor to the people, Martin Van Buren opposed the meas,nc. In the course of speech he delivered against 1t, he used this remarka- ble declaration:-C-IrI The further poeef IS remored from the people--the betfer.-9
 In 1928, as member of the J. States Senate, Alr. Van Buren spoke at length in 1 favor of the United States Bank, and de- clared that the sanction of Madison to the charter of the present institution compels tue admission, that the power in question G. c. the power of Congress to charter a 1 Bank must stand as A SUCCESSFUL INTER- PoLATIoN upon the text of the Constitutions Subsequently, Ga very few years since) he auas petitioner to the Monster to esfab- hsh branch at Buffalo and during the whole period of the late crusade against the Bank he maintained resolute neutrality. But when the 6ottle had been asof, this 'ex- alted patriot buckled on his armor, vaulted on the back of his new hobby, and with stentorian lungs valorously took up the bat tie cry of suncompromising hostility to fhe Bank.o The whole of his political career. indeed, is a continued heresy as regards the modern democratic doctrine touching sMonopoiies ; Ill his own State, he has ney- er faultered in keeping up with the Banking mania;--and he has the honor, we believe, of having given the Executive sanction (as Governor of New York; 10 the most stu pendous political Banking System ever known
 In 1924, he supported Mr. Crawford, the caucus candidate for the Presidency, III op- position to Gen. Jackson, and in open vio- lation of the principles of the sdemocratlc' party. as laid down at the nomination of the present incumbent, to wit :-that the people
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