Holly Springs gazette., 1843-06-16

guaiuidhS OF the people, they are the heads
of party alone
Look a the lives of the present Preslden-
tlal aspIrants and see how little there is to
entnle them to be classed as exceptions TO
TINS rule With what great national scheme
o. Policy is the name of Martin Van Barren
connectedE What is there to link his name
with the endearing remembrance of the A
merIcan nation Nothing-absolutely no.
thIng-he has lived amid scheming and
tncklng-he kept his eye steadily fixed on
MS own advancement, and so elevated as to
overlook the people; and when the summit
OF his ambition was attained, he actually
turned deaf ear to their petitions for relief
ana asserted the monstrous proposition that
the government must take care of itself, and
the people OF themselves When Europe
speaks OF America. in what connection does
Mr.. Van Buren's ma ne become associated
None Speak of the Locofoco porty, and
the magician's name is foremost in our
thoughts; speak ofthe nation. and he can
not be recognized as one OF its benefactors.
Still Mr.. Van Buren has his supporters for
the Presidency.
What has John C. Calhoun done to iden-
lify himself with the honor of the nation
Is his name connected with any great and
eminent proposition for the public good ?
No Nol When we speak of him. whose
restless ambition and political twistings have
obtained him the name of Cataline, fancy
reverts TO the period Of notification We
regard him but as the incendiary who Glen
ched The dagger of civil dissention in one
hand and waved the torch of disunion in the
other, and thought TO set the laws at defiance
and trample with impunity upon the require
ments ofthe constitution. His name is un-
associated with any public virtue, and he
lacks consistency more than any prominent
leader IN our country. He is wild, visiona
ry and ccillating-the slave ofimpulse
and his passions, would subvcrt the govern
ment, had he the power, rather than yield
any Of the distractions over which he has
brooded. and which be has incubated. Is
such a man fit to grace the chair of Wash
ington And yet John c. Calhoun has hi 5
party
James Buchanan can hardly be regarded
in national view, and none ofthe asprants
have so circurascribed sphere offavoritism.
He IS popular with the locofoco party in
this State, because the party is strange
compound of old federalism, modern radi-
calIsm and the Jacobinism of revolutionary
France. Once, among the most Jealous
FederaliSts ofthe keystone State he is now
a democratic leader, but when he recanted,
when he cast his skin, when he was washed
from the impurities of his old faith, no NOR
tai man can tell He followed the rush
when party lines were abandoned during
the Jackson fever, and locofocoism connot
since recognise the leper spots of his former
political career. With what national ques-
ton is Mr.. Buchanan's name identified
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dard of wages ard give American frcemen,
Who labor in the sweat of their brow, the
scanty pittance which arIstocratic Europe
doles out to her starving operatives And
yet Mr. buchanan is the popular locofoco
candidate in Pennsylvania.
And how are we to regard HENRY
CLAY With what is his name associa-
ted ? Turn to the page of our nations his
tory for the last third of century, and eve
ry incident. which will make the American
interviewer with the private history of the
great Kentucky Statesman England felt
the thunders of his eIoquence, when il ami
mated our soldiery 70 the unequal struggle
acknowledged his masterly di-
plomacy at Ghent-the broad West recog-
nses ia him lhe man who made the nigh
" AhtSoiSSipDis Will HCi luOu>ouu dtiilof OuC
great national highway-Greece has embo-
died his name in her songs. which tell of
the rekinding of ancient fires on long desc
Grated altars-the South American Repub-
lies regard him as the great champion of
rights-before him the red star of
notification paled It's light-his genius
compromised the dangerous issues involved
in the Missouri question--in fne there is
not a page of our national history which
does not receive its highest, noblest and most
generous lint from his devotedness and brill |
liant qualifications. While Van Buren, was
abridging the right of ofsuffrage in the New
York Convention-whileC Calhoun was fam
ming the embers of cival war--while Buc-
hanan was studying the system of practical
economy nearest allied to that ofthe Scotch |
man who tried to teach his horse to live on
a straw day. and was adopting it to the la
borers Of fAmerica--while all the other Pres |
idential aspiran:s were encroaching on the
civil or political rights of man, Henry Clay
was at work, in the noblest fields of Philan- |
lhfopy. planting the seeds of Liberty in eve-
ry land. and scattering them broadcast over
The whole civilized world. His name be-
longs not alone to the American nation-it
is the property ofthe Age in which ne lives
r. H.