Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-06-20
From the National Gazette.
OFVAN BURENIsM

| (from the Nslonni Gazette.
CONSISTENCY OFvAN BURENIsM.
The secret of Mr.. Van Buren's success in
accomplishing his ambitious projects, is found
IN the selfish abuse Of AL apostolic example
he becomes all things to all men. ln this
character he is initiated by the lesser per-
sonages, who court his favor or that Of the
heterogeneous faction which constitutes the
rank aud file of his political army. The
Louisville Journal exposes an instance Of
trucking to party opinion, in the conduct OF
Mr.. Paulding, which is not unworthy of the
great moral Janus himself Several years
ago, ere the Secretary of the Navy INDUCED
the hope Of Cabinet post, and before the
mystical Undertook confession Of faith was
given to the world, he wrote a series of"Let.
lers from the South" well known to the
reading public. lie was then, if we may
form an opinion from the following paragraph,
which is found in the first editions of those
Letters" an opponent of slavery, or at least
Of certain practices under the system.
"The sun was shining out very hot, and
in turning an angle of the road We encoun-
tered the following group; first, little cart
drawn by one horse, in which fre or SIR hdif
haked black children iosre tumbied like pigs
together. The cart had no covering, and they
seemed to have been actually broiled to sleep
Behind the cart marched three black women,
with head, neck. and breast uncovered, and
without shoes or stockings; next came three
men, bare headed, half naked, and chained
together tciM an or chain. Last of oil came
a white mana white man, Frank !-op
horse back carrying pistols IN his belt and
who, as we passed him, hcd The impudence 10
look as IN The )aceaoithom biushing. should
Ike 10 haze seen him hunted by blood hounds.
At a house where we stopped little further
on, we learned that he had bought these
miserable beings in Maryland, and was
marching tbom in this manner to some Of the
more Southern States. Shame on the State
Of Maryland | say-and shame on the State
of Virginia and every Stale through which
this wretched cavnlcade was permitted to
pass. DO they expect that such exhibitions
will not dlshonor them in the eyes of s.ran-
gers, however they may be reconciled to
them by education and habit"
Recently the COMPLETE WoRKs" of the
Secretary Of the Navy have been published,
but the reader will look in vain for the pas
snge quoted above. True to his patron, Mr.
Paulding now ranks among the Northern
men with Southern principles, and his "Com-
plete Works" exhibit, instead of the anti
slavery picture which he formerly drew, an
essay in defence Of the institution, of which
the annexed extract is a specimen -
"The second cause of disunion will be
found in the slave population ofthe South,
Whenerer tho misguided, or wilfuly malignant
% n tha al, gS,f hall
institute, as Il one day doubtless wiU a cru
sade against the constitutional rights Of the
slave owners, by sending among them fana-
,ical agents and fanatical tracts, calculated
to render the slave disaflected, and the situa.
tion of the master and his family dangerous (;
when appeals shall be made under the sane.
tion of religion to the passions OF the ignor-
ant and excited blacks, calculated and in
tended to rouse their worst aud most danger
Gus passions, and to place the very lives Of
their masters, their wives, and their children.
in the deepest peril phen societies are formed
in the sister States for the avowed purpose
of virtually destroying the value of this prin-
Icipal item in the property Of southern
planter; when it becomes a question mootcd
in the legislatures Of tho States, or of the
General Government, whether the rights Of
the ostcr over his slave shall be any longer
recognized or maintained, and when it is at
last evident that nothing will preserve them
but secession. then will certain of the States
of our beautiful constellation start madly
from their spheres and josilc the others in
their wild career"
What comfortable conscienccs have the
Presidents partizans! They are fedcralsts
and democrats absoutists and agrarians (;
special sabbath observers and Fanny Wright
infdels; specie men and paper men; null
lifyers and unionists theoretical economists
and practical spendthrilts Shareholders and
abolilonists Northern men with Southern
principles aud Southern men with Northern
principles and in one comprehensive title
Van Duren men with no principles at all.