Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-09-05
Monday. Septen Der 5, 1896.
Van BUREN AND THE WAR Hce1rI. /
NBtory.'

The respectable old gentleman who cdil. the
Richmond Enquirer, Away, was and always will
be- rabH the SUBJECT of politics. Hence, he
WIS never vel known 10 SCI Il ilait in friend, NOT
single virtue in opponent of III, peculiar
views. As paint, ne 0,cs on y Two colors, white
and black. Win the former he pIlstcrs Over the
soory characters olh, IDOLS, :. Il the Time beng"
aud even obIiterates the dark spot, which hc had
himself prc'ionsl stamped ihcfeupon, While with
the LATER he bcdaabs tie purest patriots men who,
uaiI llIcy became the object, ofhis jealousy aad
holrl, had been repeatedly euogized BY him to
the ,nr,, until if the rcalers Of his paper do not
deem them very de.iI, inearnalc, it i, not because
tley arc not as ptchy black as fable describe, the
monarch of the PIT. And If any one expresses a
doubt whether the venerable editor IS "Scri9m,'
what IS evidently joheto every body bat
himself, lie denounccs tl..n " per-" and sauey
-as if he were, from long prescription, entitled to
the monopoly Of manufacturing angels and de-
mons IN the shape of men, and Of nletanorpbo,ng
Ihcn backwards anI forwards, ia,t Il, their relative
position to himself c4lIc for the black pam, Of lhc
Whit.
/ We cry your mercy, god ,ir, Will, uithou,
intending to be "pcrl, OF 10 violate ctlct " dis
cretlon" or = nIanners,' We venture to show that
You have, in your blindness, totally misunderstood,
II YOU lave not, III your arrogance wiIiully m,rep-
resented our remark, in reference to Mr.. Van Blu
ren's hostility 10 Mr.. Madison, and, consequently
and 10y inevitable inference, 10 the War of !Sl2.
The Enquirer after some alI.>ion to the Al
+ 4, 4 H. -, 4 / 4
q" Aud the pert Lynclburg Nrgnln asks Us,
whether we intend s0i0uSiV 10 don, that Van
Barren was opposed to the War y aud refers 10
the same Circumstance, VIZ: Nj. '. b Mp-
portiag De Viii CInton in the Presidential l.
lection of 1872, outer war drclared) SAVING
that Mr.. {. WAS brought out by the Peaec Par
tn, ~"
We'll, sill, whal " pcrtncss" is there in lhi, Is
it not matterol " recorded history" lhat Dewitt
Clinton va, not only brought ont by the Peace pau
N, bat that he received the votes OF that parry
OF the Us votes ofwheh the Electoral COLLEGES
were rhcn composed, where did Clinton get ms 50
from, hut from the tedcrM Stale, of New lamp
Shire, ,,>arhu>ettS, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Nv orh, &c. Yes, New York was then Il feI-
eroi star, and eaeucl with the Blue Lights of
stamp in opposition To Ilmc, Madison and llc
Var Does the Enquirer ask for the proof OF iii,
fact What docs E." recorded history say
. |. BY the Congress, ot June, i6l2, War was de-
CARED, the Vote III the H. of Il. benny - in favor
Of it, AM ~ against il. OF the - yeas . only
werctrom Nv horh, aal 3pays--3 ab,cnt-L>ce
Nilcs's Register vol. ), p. 2}2.) And yet nomi-
u,,JI. \.,, A,t.l IL. ~,
Congress, cla>>ed l. republicans, ) federal.
>ls--mo,t OF the former, we presume, being
Ciintonia upubledms," who according to
Attorney Butler, Van Durcn's certificate maker,
" were ANXIOUS for moro decided policy lhan
had been pursued towards her. (Grcat Britain
aud who manifested thai anxiety by nominating
Dewitt Clinton IN opposition 10 Nh Madison in the
Spring Of lSl2-by voting against il War in June
lSi2-and, in conjunction with the Blue Lights
by voting for Dewitt Clinton in November, lSl2
Pray, what " more decided policy did the friends
oi Mr. Clinton propose to substitute in place Of
, llW Win what cu-lhfott schemes did THEN
brains teen ! And ho" could they have carried
them into execution, bloody and terrible as thcy
doubtless were, but bv il declaration OF war Per
haps the recorded history on the other side Of
the question, will tell nS We hope it will be
dragged from the rubbish which seem, to have CO.
vered it from the knowledge of the present gene
ration; for we confess quite DESTROYS OF as
ecraining What measure ii was, "more decided'
than War, which Van Buren, and his Clintonian
friends had ii in contemplation to adopt, for the
purpose oil Furnishing the aeercssionS and arreSne
the encroacimcntS of Great Britain
,. la Niles, Register, of Nov u, 1872, tvol.
), p. l92, VIC are informed that the Legislature
OF New ork had appointed electors OF President
and Vice President, "all Clinonians'-and in
the same volume, =. 352, are informed that
Ibis samc CIintonitn Legislature had elected the
tcderat" council Of appointment then the Off.
I cal advisers Of the Governor Of that State and
the fountain OF the immense patronage with which
the constitution of New York bad clothed it, En-
cCutlvc dcparlmcnt-thc ttdcrai ticket receiving
30 votes, and the republican 81. Let it be recol-
ected that the Clntonian electors of President
and Vice President were chosen BY this " icdc-
raj Legislature, and the opposition 10 Mr.. Madl-
son in lhat State is as clearly shown to have been
basedupon hostility to III. War as was the oppo>i-
ton in Massachusetts, Connecticut and the other
Hartford Convention States. The mere crcum-