The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-08
LUCUBRATKONs OF 4 DEMOCRA-
TIC WING.

Great Beggarman's Officelrolderis Wade Mecusp.
contains boastful paragraph Of the avalanche
of suAseri5ers" with which he is overwhelmed
That tho number shoud be larges is By no means
extracs57nary, when cestai facts are taken into
consdssatiou.
With iew, If any exceptions, every postmaster
has beea, direefed-soliczsod, if any VI Amos's
friends prefer the term; iS his official language
the import is the same-to act as his s<agents to
procure subscribers, ha,ad the prospectus to
some one Rho willard nearly every office
holder, doysnto the sweepero the custonp house,
instinctively Becomes subscriber, from lust
fear in case, Of refusal, of finding his place va
| can't, or in ths possession OF a new and moro
tractable incumbent. Besides, Amos has pledged
his word to the E'whole world - that all who in
tercst themselves in raising him from has power
~, 'Sshall be, remembered" when MIR. VAN Buren,
shall have entered into his second term Of power
The promises of office to the walters ca MIR.
Van Buren,. providence, have been innnmer-
able-by thousands in every State of the Union
and dog cheap, are they, at from 80 80 100
cents eaeh as to enlist many thousands, froza the
hope of reward, into personal acayity
The main object in noticing this I'd No. of the
Extra, published on the I'd ultimo, is to sup
ply some important omission in the Biographical
history of Mr.. Van Buren,, which runs through
no less than IS Of its columns, AMI IS besides.
recommended by twenty members of Congress,
headed by Mr.. Senator Wright, all of whom are
expectsnts of royal favor, soon as they shall
have been discarded by the people.
These omissions were, doubtless, viewed BY
MIR. Van Buren's friends, as of trifing impor-
lance and unworthy place in his biography; as
the object in recording so many excellent things
in his favor, which no ether history embraced,
might be more readily accomplished by what is
fabulous, than that strictly true. But the rest
lessness of the people, which at present Sc ex-
eessively annoys the Destguctives in power, will
not suffer that array of services, which it has
only recently been discovered by his ''hirelings,
he has rendered his country, to pass current
without a severity of scrutiny by no means pal
atcable The people know Mr.. Van Buren, has
at least served himself and friends with mea-
sure more than commensurate with their Just
deserts.
It is perhaps too much to ask of Mr.. Kendalls
com,lacency, to give place to these omissions in
an early number of his future Extras; still we
have right to demand it from one whose char
acter as an honest and impartial chrorG Ter of
events, has such transcendent claims upon the
American public; and therefore demand it!
1st on,ission.-There is no mention whatever
made of Mr.. Van Buren's hostility to the right
of ltstirersaI suffrage, by the tchite DemocraN
of New York, both foreign and native, which he
deprecated in the most impassioned and earnest
I appeals ever made in deliberative body So
: much was he enamoured with an election law,
imposing property quail LITIGATION upon ,chite
voters, that he actually advocated and aided in
giving that privilege to negroes, on condition oil
their possessing freehold worth $3.50. This is
explained away by his friends, upon the principle
that negroes do not actually vote, but that the
\ freehold casts the suffrage.
In opposing the univ ersal suffrage Of the white
man, Mr.. Van Buren, gave as reason that it was
''making the right of suffrage too cheap
2d--Mr. Van Buren's opposition TO the war,
in unison with the ultra federalists, with whom
he was leagued at that Pariod-his intrigues
|
siton to his reelection as the war candidate for
the presidency, have not been deemed worthy of
being limited ut. 1t is true, Mr.. Van Buren, was
driven into the support Of the war, after Mr..
Ms. reelection, by the force Of circumstances,
and the promptiEgs Of species of low cunning,
double-dealing, and trickery, to which grade OF
. craftsmanship he is indebted for more than one
/ IL .,,t .cb b;c II;
bition had led him.
Look round amongst the wool-dyed Democ-
acy, who are now leaders of Van Burenism, es-
peciaIly in Baltimore, and you promptly recog-
3 Mise them as the opponents of Madison, and the
war of 1912.
3l.-There is not the slightest reference to the
i conspiracy of Van Buren,, and a select clique,
4 which led to the disruption of Cen Jackson's
first cabinet, in which Cen Jackson was made
, his dupe to destroy Mr.. Calhoun's standing, ard
secure to himself, through the influence and go
puarity of the old hero,-after having prevailed
upon him to serve a second term,-the right Of
succession. The tact and artful manouvring Of
the little magician, though utterly profhgate and
destitute of an iota of principle, We're at least
r worthy of passing notice, to prove bis skill as
: political manager.
!, 4th. As Secretary Of State, he eyinced truck
. ling subserviency to the British ministry on the
subject of the lost West India trade, in his in
: structions to MIR. Mclean Such course he
e had formerly condemed, whilst in the Senate Of
the United States, as abandonment of every
honest and patriotic principle, tending to bring
l. our free institutions into disrepute He sibse-
quently became sensible Of the disgraceful part
he had acted; and to avoid the consequences of
: such serylity and STOPPING to a foreign pos err,
called upon Cen Jackson, who boldly took Tthe
responsibility" leaving him TO appear only IS the
miserable tool.
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