Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1843-09-21

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THE cALHouMTEs rUr AT DEFIANCE
The Van Bufen and Calhoun pariie.
jmay lie rrearded IS irIg IN ihs tiel 4 a.
gsiusr each othcf Il i certain that Mr.
4 Van Bnten aill mai. n8igFtheF cnae, 5.
3sisns 1 Mr Calhoun about tie Nnii0nal
I Convent on than sus Il = H. may 0 with
lp, RECT sal, IS, % as na 10 epdangef his
election. Any concession that would
give MF. Caihsaa estn the eiqaee o. be-
mn nominated. Vii nui only nus 81 gran
ted, bUt con,e mpInously d ntd.
The New Yoik Eysning Pes, ia pub
lisiiug the address OF Mr.. Calhoun )
friends 10 that city, protesting against The
decision a the Syracuse Convention, thus
tnrows down he glove Of defiance:
at The close, the address tells us that
The friends Of Mr.. Calhoun in this city,
declare that they do not mean 70 support
Mr.. Van Buren Unless he is nominated by
convention OF delegates chosen by dis.
tricis. We like this frankness, though it
comes liule late. So far as tbs Stale IS
concerned, the question has been submt-
ted to convention Of delegates from the
party, the decision has been against the
district system, aud tie delegation 10 The
convention have en- chosen. 4 haadful
of men in New York who 10 * put il c.
ecliug the delegates TO this very conven-
ton, now tell the democracy Of The State
that they viii not be pound by the decs
on, but vii rather parate from the par.
iy, oppose is nominations and send the
election TO the House Of Representa- es.
We are ready for our part 10 meet these
threats aoih DtFraNcE, THEY wto make
them may do their rorSt. They viii send
no election 70 that III atfe Of intrigue, 4 e
House OF Representatives al all events 50
far as The vote Of his State IS concerned.
The hiends Of Mr. Calhoun on tie 9th
er hand, are not less bold and defying in
their opposition to Mr.. Van Buren,, They
say they will not support him if he tic not
nominated by Convention olganized as
they require. The Charleston Mercury,
The paper known to be the special mouth
piece Of Mr.Calhoun, referring to the pro.
ceedings Of the Syracuse Convention, cop
les an article from the New York Express,
and says:
Mr.. Van Buren's friends persist in think.
ing they can tlsct him, il nominated by
the National Con enhon. Our deliberate
conviction ~ that he cannot be elected a
gansl Mr.. Clay. What the ErpreSs says
oil The opposition to him in New York, is
even more true as to the Southern Staes
that not a vote which was cast against
him in 1910, but would be cast against
bin again. II is true that the Democrat.
lie Parry have gained with tho People, in
the last two years, but moi Mr.. Van Bu
rem, one inch;--4e is just as o5i3us now
10 the majority that put him down IN 1910.
as he was then, and il is an odium no
party device can Overcome. Ills friends
pretend to say he fell by his principles and
for lhem--not so, his principles fell by
him. Mr.. Van Buren's own want of
manliness and elevation in craftsmanship,
and the utter unpopuarly Of tie men he
brought around him, as his confidential
advisers, this it was that broke him and
his party down, aud Will break them down
again, if he is chosen to be their leader.
There is scarcely Southern State VIII ch
Mr.. Clay could not carry against Mr., Van
Buren,. The same thing The lata elections
in the West show to be true there.
In New ork, which was carried against
him By 10000 majority in 1910, it is
scare ~ conceivable he can succeed, after
the late outrageous usurpation upon popu.
lar rights committed Ivy the Syracuse
Convention ir rejecting the Dist lei Sys-
tenn, and packing the Delegation TO The
National Conyenllon- These suap.judg-
men,s, OF which Mr.. Van Buren, has taken
SO many, in The last twelve months, viii
ultimately DO his cause no gold. Wei
South CHorlina are mol 8faId of being in
a minority, and il he is fairly nomjn tied,
we shall stand by him as we did before,
even when his own State TUNED a soon.
lul back on him. But we say again that
when we consider the very principle on
which his friends propose to run him, re
renge upon the opposite party, il is all
nonsense to think that those who put him
down before, will not strain every nerve
TO put him down again, and with equal if
not better chances Of success.