Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-04-20

What singular changes have taker
place in the last four years! Who
could ever have foreseen that Martin
Van Buren, should be sc riously proposed
as candidate for the sUffrages of the
States Right Party? Yet such is the
fact. They are seriously told he is the
man best calculated to carry out their
construction of the Constitution. and to
maintain inviolate their favorite princi-
pies. What principle in common holds
he with them? In sooth what are his
principles? Are they to be deduced
from his political course? Has any one
clew to guide him through that Cretan
labyrinth Of duplicity and non-committal
through which he has wendell his tor
tuous way? Perhaps his political max@
inns are to be found recorded in his great
speeches, and in the mighty deeds for
the good of the republic which have
characterised his career in times past.
Perhaps SO indeed! but it will REQUIRE
untirlng and laborious antiquaries. and
most astute withal, to find them out and
bring them to the light, for his most
earnest admirers have been as yet I'M
able to produce them. His opinions are
of quite meteoric cast, .'they fit ere
you can point their place" In truth
were they printed on the ''pale beam of
the moon,'' stamped upon the running
stream, or traced in the dust of the
streets, they could not be more evanes-
cent His expression of political senti-
ment is significant and satisfactory as
the ''Aio te EacidG Romanos vincerc
posse of the Delphic prophecies. We
may BIZ told that there is great politi-
cal question on which he and they coin
eide, and that this alone should govern
their choice; this question is the expe-
diency of the Sub-Trcasury scheme.
There are several reasons why it is in
sufficient to establish Mr. Van Buren's
claims to their support. First, it is only
a portion OF the State Rights Party that
agree with him upon this measure.
Second, it (the Sub-Treasurv scheme \ !
IS not of sufficient consequence to deter |
mine their choice. 1t Is not a coinci |
dence OF opinion upon single question
OF secondary Importance that should
command our support to u particular in
dlvidual, and there are other questions
of too radical nature to be overlooked. |
which place Mr.. Van Buren, at an inn
distance from the party /
above named. Third. the present presi- /
dent Is not TO be depended on for the adj I
socacy of any measure--except one; the I
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of himself His past
life and course is sufii .ient evidence of
his. Fourth. and last, he does not en-
irely agree with the States Right Party
even upon this measure; he has a hnger-
ng affection for Banks, he proposes to
Use them as Observation-Disclosures the
doctrine is, that the divorce should be
'ntire, "a mensa eft thoro.- and "a vim
;ulo matrimonii.n To sum up the Who'll.
natter, an accidental action Together.
lPon question of mere expediency is
made the pretcxt to force a highminded
nd honorable body OF men into the I,
anks of the most unprinciplcd dema-
ogue that ever gulled a misguided peo-
le-to compel them to hoist the banner :
miserable imitator, and follower in !
ne footsteps" who creeps into office by c
otbing his ''recreant limbs in the s.lions C
de"