The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-05-19
THE VAN BUREN-CALHOUN MEET
ING IN CHARLESTON.

lNG I'm CHARLESTON.
The administration party in Charleston,
South Carolina, have unwrtten the history Of
that State for the last twelve years. 1t is said
to have been g meeting Of both of the old par
ties" Ii certainly was Of the new Van Buren,
and Calhoun party for the proceedings resulted
IN an eulogium upon those two gentlemen and
nothing more To effect this result, il was, OF
course, necessary to unsay and undo all that
South Carolina had said and done for years past;
and therefore, plenary absolution is given to the
party in power for all its sins; rather all that
the State of South Carolina has heretofore ut
tered against it, either at home or in Congress,
was taken back and falsifed The amount is,
that all which Mr.. CALHOUN has said of Mr..
VAN buren, was false and malicious and that,
therefore, they are worthy to be associated in a
joint panegyric In this conclusion we concur.
They are worthy Of equal praise; and from
the accounts which they have given of each
other, they fit to be associated in all the cate
gories of life, personal, political, social and mo-
raj. They have known each other long and
well. They have solemnly cemented union
for better, for worse; and being wonderfully fitted
for each other, "Whom Heaven has joined toge-
ther-let no man put asunder"
The order preserved in the epithalamic reso-
buttons is wonderfully just and fit. First, Mr..
Van Buren-then Mr.. Calhoun-for the first is
of the higher dignity while Mr.. Calhoun is
manifestly the blushing bride. He came with
his little dowry of South Carolina to be present.
ed in the Palace He was led up by Bishop
Roane, pale and trembling, but full of love and
hope-and not insensible to the high honor of
being thus admitted to the embraces of the re-
preventative and successor of General Jack
son, having surrendered his rirgin charms
at the shrine of love-he Cor shall we call him)
she, brings her humble dowry to be laid in the
palace at the foot of the throne. That the offer
ing may be the more acceptable, all the former
unsighty membranes are carefully removed
Mr. VAN buren, is declared to be the very es-
sence Of every thing that is Southern; and the
party which he represents, so far from being
"rogues and royalists," to be the ioisest, pirtu-
ousest,, dscreetest, best, that has existed in the
tide of times. Happy pair Blessed dowry !!
AS to the written proceedings, they are in the
lowest style Of party slang. The high and bold
tone which characterized South Carolina, even
in the folly of her notification, is sunk down into
the whining malignity Of Isaac Hill. The style
conforms to the sentiment. The Administra-
ton is eulogized for its democratic character
for its being anti-tarif-anti-abolitio
internal improvement State-rights and eco
nomical Especially is it praised for its currency
policy. "The force of folly could no farther 60"
All who differ with them are denounced as abo-
litonists, and enemies to the Southern institu-
tons If this be true, the institutions of the
South are in sad condition, for they are like to
have no friends at home or abroad but South
Carolina and New Hampshire. The hopes of
the South repose upon Isaac Hill and John c..
Calhoun. We, however, do not entirely de-
SPAR Of this important section, for we earnestly
hope that, under Providence, the other twenty
four States mey be guided to safe counsels and
| preservation of all the great interests of the
country.