The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-12-22

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candidate whom the People so Indignantly re
Jrc ed, and against whom the President and al
his friends of 1910 SO unequiyocally com
mltttd? Has he done any thing TO mitigate The
popular resentment evinced at the last Pres
henta election Have his friends extended
the hand of fellowship or rendered equality o.
partisan rights and position TO the supporters oil
the Administration, who found them PROSTATE
| IN the dusI and placed them upon their feet q
Let the temper of the Globe, and its affiliated
presses Ia the interest of Mr.. Van Buren, through
out the Union, answer this question Let the
| late SO emn endorsement in caucus, and in both
Houses of Congress, in the face of the world,
of the foul calumnies and fGtid Billingsgate OF
that journal speak our reply.
Nor is this all. Under the influence of the
evil genius which presided over their council
fires in $780, the veteran chieftans of Mr.. Van
Buren's forces appear 10 be able, only, to pile
bunder upon blunder and multiply the embar-
easements of their position, Thus, in every quar-
ter, it is openly proclaimed that the motipe OF
Mr.. Van Buren's nomination is to vindicate the
old party -Knighls-to wipe out the stain placed
upon their esculcheons by the rout Of lS40-and
to secure national confession of their great
virtues, consummale prowess, and unequalled
patriotism. We thus find it broadly stated by
MIR. Richie few days ago.
Should it be the will of the Republican party,
speaking through their delegates at Baltimore, that
Mr. Van Buren, should be their candidate to redress
the rrongs ,chich all suffered in his person from the
fbo fha hJndIC ~
rest assured that the Republicans of every clique and
classification will go for him, with very few excep-
tions."
Now, did it ever occur to our venerable friend
at Richmond, that it would be asking quite
enough OF those who, in 1870 opposed Mr.. Van
Buren,, to vote for him in '44 without admonish-
ing them that by SO dong they would admit they
had been guilty of" outrages" which demanded
expiation by penance in sackcoth and ashes?
Had he reflected moment, would he not have
perceived that he was presenting the precise issue
which would inevitably result in yet more sig
nal defeat to Mr.. Van Buren, than that of 1910
Aside from all considerations of consistency, of
principle, of the sincerity with which they re-
counted Mr. Van Buren's sins and errors, or the
expediency of the measures of the late Admin
istration, on such an issue as Mr. Richie pre-
sents, Every man in the length and breadth of
the Union, who aided in expelling the late AID
ministraion from power, will contribute to pre-
vent its restoration.
Still another and yet more serious view Of
this question arises, and for it we bespeak the
deliberate judgment of every Republican into
whose hands our paper may fall. 1t is the So
Der announcement TO the world that the p,inci-
Piles Of the Democratic parry are he'd by those
who control the movement in behalf of Mr.. Van
Buren,, to be OF so little value that they may be
perllled-nav, practically excluded from all
agency in the Government for the next four
years-in a hopeless effort to reinslate in power
a condemned and repudaled junto Of caucus
managers. Democrats are such men worthy
TO be entrusted with the protection of what
they so lightly value2 Is the destiny Of the Re
publican cause safe in such hands
We have not yet done with this subject.