The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-05-23

tience Of the honest claimants against Mexi- |
co is at length rewarded,by the appointment |
of a Just tribunal for the settlement OF their |
claims and stipulated mode Of paying |
them. The Canadian border ts once more
the scene Of active and peaceful industry:
passion has been subdued by reason and re-
fection; and every thing assures US, that
however strong our sympathles may be with
the progress of social and political improve
ment, Ihey will not be INDUCED at the OK
pense OF international rights. Maine, whose
long suffering & patience properly demanded
the prompt decision of the pending question
rspase with confidence in the General Ad-
ministration TO obtain that end, and feels sat-
isfed that il will sustain, with unchangIng
resolution, her territorial claims.
Who of the opponents Of Mr.. Van Buren,
will venture to assert that in producing
these remarkable results, he has for one
moment forgotten the rights or interests ol
his country; tha, its good faith has been in
the slightest particular impaired; or that
breath Of suspicion has obscured its honor!
In all bis proceedings, amid the varying as
poets of these threa,ning incidents, there
has been, throughout every section OF our
common country, uniformity and consls-
tency of sentiment, certainly without par
alel in the history of our political parties
Under no dministration--that OF Washing
ton himself no, excepted--has there been
so general an appreciation expressed, both
at home aud abroad, of the manner In which
our foreign relations have been conducted
The legislative leaders Of our political oppo.
nents have given their sanction in the most
imposing of all forms, TO the wisdom, pa
triotism and honor by which it has been
distinguished. Almost without dicussion or
dissent from any quarter, the Legislature
entrusted to his discretion the power o.!
peace and war; the purse and the sword
were deliberately placed in his hands by
those who have been and yet occasionally
are, accusing him of desire uncons'i'u-
,ionally TO snatch them from the Legislative
control. In the recklessness and injustice
of their party struggles, they assail the
character and impeach the motives OF Mr.
. Van Buien; in the hour Of peril, when the
truth must control, they evince an unb0un-
ded confidence equally in his wisdom and
his integrity. How that confidence has
, been justified let ihe event declare. Not 6
atshing of the appropriated tire sure has
, been expended; not en- atom OF the power
1 so lavishly granted has beeu welded; with
out resort to either ali the brilliant results Il
!. which we have alluded have been success
e fully attained.
e Nor let us forget that while these grea
e and absorbing questions Of foreign polio!
: were depending all the osher duties con
nected with our foreign intercourse wer
h lsuccsssiuily performed. Indemnies hav
y been obtained by Mr.. Van Buren fron
J. Mexico, Texas, Great Britain, and Hol
o land;advaniageous commercial treaties hav
2 been completed with the Peru Bolivia
/. Confederation, and with Holland, Greece
l. and Sardinia; and been agreed upon vii
a- Ecuador and Belgium; and our nation;
n character, and the principles Of martini
,f law, which we have always maintained
st have been recognised and respected b
g. France, in her recent contest with Mexico
h and in tina, which shs yet maintains viii
D. the Argentine Republic.
r Atthe commencement Of his admlnistr
lg ,on in 1897, Mr.. Van Buren, found II
ir country excited by she redundancy of pap,
In money, WHICH Hdu PIOuuCeu mania
IT, speculation and overtradlng and a Gems
n quent delusive show Of prosperity, whiC
ed had no other basis than system Of cred
in without bounds Of limitation. The Unite
il States Bank had.drring the years 1884 al
mt '35, thrown wide open the hoodgates
he expansion, and either aIlured or coerced Il
IA State banks to follow its example. Und
en- pretence of administering 10 the immeda
To- prosperity of the conutry, it scattered 4
To- seeds Of future embarrassment and ruin.
he The country suddenly became bloated wi
le' an unwholesome and sickly expansion, a
,us all men not infected with the madness
ad the times predicted that this unnatu
10 growth was but the forerunner Of incuraI
er- weakness and premature decay.
al The GulGlment followed close on the he
lif- Of The prediction. That invariabIe and i
Lhe perative law of nature, which DEGREES Il
ich all violent excitements all over-wrOught
the forts, whether Of body or mind, shall
teu speedily followed by sudden prOstrati
-m- produced its inevitable consequences
ged Within less than three months from
on commencement Of Mr.. Van Buren's adm
sly lslralion, and before he had advised or
lei ried into operation single measure /
ere could, in the slightest degree, operate 10 I
OF duce the catastrophe, more then seven
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