Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1843-10-12
POLITICS, &c.
From Nv Richmond Wig.
iR. VAN BuREN's AVAILABILITY.

are teeming with accounts Of Mr.. Van
Buren's increasing popularity, and The
certainty OF his success in the next presi-
dental election. All these inflated para
graphs are from the pens of men who
have been heaping their curses and aou.
ses upon the Wing party, for the mode
in which the last campaign WIS con.
Quoted. They charge the Wings with
resortlng TO every species Of humbug, and
practising all manner of deceniion upon
the people-and that their success 10 1910
was attributable to the use they made of
coon skins, log cabins, hard cider, &c.
Now, do these men mean 10 CHI a.ge
upon the people, whom they are trying, by
every means in their power, TO seduce
and win over 10 the support Of Mr.. Van
Buren-men whom they address as sen.
sibie men, such stupidity and want of
judgment and acumen, as 10 be deluded
by this sort OF pageantry? The people
will not thank them for this high compH.
ment which they pay their understandings;
they will shew them in tie next election,
that if they have been thus gulled aud de-
ceived, that the scales have not yet fallen
from their eyes, and that this homGopa-
THO system of curl1g political disease S,
viz: humbug By hum6ug, has proved to
them unavaiiing-but that they are now,
as they were in 1910, in favor Of the prin.
ciples which the Wing party then advo.
Gated.
1t does not require much acuteneSs to
discover that these men, many of them no
doubt well paid, or promised to be we'll
paid, for their dirty work, are using hum.
bug and deception, in representing the
prospects of Mr.. Van Buren SO favourably.
What, ask, has Mr.. Van Buren, done
since 1910, 10 wipe out the mark of con-
domination, which the people placed upon
hml Nothing. What can he do? No
thing. 1t is as indelible as that stamped
upon the forehead of Cain, by the hand
of Omnipoience. Mr.. Van Buren,, tn
all his power and patronage, (Which he
used no doubt, very freely,) and notwlth-
standing he had possession, which, it is
said, is "nine points of the law" was
beaten by the largest majority ever given
IN this country, for any President.
The idea that the election in 1910, was
carried by means OF "coon skins, log cabins,
and hard elder" is ridiculous, to say the
lees; OF it: and men of sense, who aitrb-
ute it TO this cause, il indeed any do,
must feel heartily ashamed of themselves
for it, because they know that the argu.
men; is false, and that when they use it,
they are guilty of the very thing for
which they are condemning others, viz:
"hum5ugging the people"
The victory of 1910 was triumph of
principle. The people had tried Mr.. Van
Buren, fairly and fully-he was weighed
10 the balance and found wanting. The
people were then laboring under the effect
of the measures Of his and his predeces-
sor's (Andrew Jackson) administration
they knew and felt that the Country had
been reduced TO the very verge Of ruin
by the course Of policy which they had
pursued, and saw no other relief but to
repudia,e them and their measures;-and
this they did in such manner as to war
rant the idea that Mr.. Van Buren,, if he
were a man of sensibility. would have
conten,ed himself in the retirement to
which the voice OF his countrymen had
consigned him. But such, however, is
not the case. Notwithstanding the rebuke
the people gave him then, Mr.. Van Buren,
presents himself again as a candidate for
the suffrages of Inc American People; and
he and his minions are moving heaven
and earth to secure his election. Do
these men suppose that they can again
fasien upon this Country tie man who
was flung, with loathing and disgust, from
the high place that cunning and syco-
phancy secured for him? Do they think
that the people have forgotten the odious
measures of which he was the father-the
prostitution Of his Office TO the basest of
purposes-hs entire iorgetfuluess OF his
Country ard its happiness, in his efforts
secure his own personal aggrandIzement.
They may rest assured this is not so; and
If they persist in their effIrts the people
will again visit upon his head the just pun
ishment which his former inquiries and
present presumption merit.
1t is pity and shame for Mr.. Van
Buren's frieEds thus 20 subject him to the
disgrace and modification OF second de-
feat. Let those who are sincere in their
attachment TO him avail themselves of the
wise, just and humane provision Of our
law, .that no man shall be twice tried
for The same offence" and in this way
preserve the character of their champion
from any further blemsh. and him from
a second punishment. Mr.. Van Buren,
was arraigned in 1910 upon multiplicity
of charges -tried and convicted of them
all by his Country, upon whom he had
put himself for his tral-the people de.
creed that he should be banished. Let
him not then be dragged from his retire
ment, and again put upon his trial aud
subjected TO punishment, when the plea OF
''former convention" may be SO successful.
ly made. Mir. Van Buren, docs not enjoy
greater popularity now than he did IN
1910; if, indeed, he does as great--he
and his measures are held in as low, If
not lower, estimation as they were then-
the people want neither, and they cannot
be packe on to them. His presses may
exaggerate, ss much as they please, the
character Of the meetings Of his friends,
and the numbers that attend them, Gas