Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-12-30
Van BurCn aud the Presidency.

\ writer in the Richmond Enquirer in an q.
hle article on the Presidency. produces somr
powerful arguments against the policy of taking
up Mr. Van Hurrn as the candidate of the Il mo
cratic party. The writer was formerly warm
friend of Mr.. Van Emcn but hr contends that
he is not calculated to stir up mems spirits or cx
cite f,rvor Il, the polls w regard to MIR Van Ru-
rcn's dcirat in IS 10. he makes ths following re
marks
"Some say, that Mr. Jefferson ran, and sue
cCssiully, after first failure as 10 be sure he
did.
"Bni the cases are not p1rallcl--not at all.
MIR. Jefferson failed To get IN, but was never
turned out. The latter is the preGcamcnt in
Which Mr. Van Buren, stands
"BesldCs, tie men are not alike. We must
not he afraid 20 say sn, but say it frankly, that
eur Judgment may be- aided by instructive re-
collections and comparisons. How else are
Plntarcs best conclusions on the human cha
racter drawn out In Mr.. Jefferson, genius
and universal knowledge, and political phlIo-
sophy as u science, as wei as knowledge OF
! practical politics, and tram ut personal endow-
| ments, which were tower of strength in them
! selves, all combined with the fact and fame
of the authorship Of the Declaring Of Indepen.
dencc, to form public character so splendid
and commanding, that he stands alone as a
statesman ON the basis of his own first prlnci-
! pies alone, in the hold he had upon the whole
of the Democratic party of the nation whose
/ affections were never for an instant divided,
! while he lived, with any other man--the bare
! thought of which, as when Burr thought OF
| ii, betrayed like treason 1t were unsafe Who'll.
| " unsafe. 20 take HIN as a precedent for run
J Il A L., - L.
| icrson's dignity and ;orbearancc, his name could
| put mems soul on fire. Devotion and en,husi.
asm sprang up in his train. They were the
spontaneous homage 10 his supremacy, a,tcstlng
how high and exclusively he was enthroned in
! every Democratic heart.
"Mr Jefferson formed the Democratic party,
and led it on, stage by stage, to its asccndcn.
! cy in 1910. il was then that he ran for his se-
cord term Mr.. Van Buren found it ascendant
! in rs, when he went into the presidency-ant
| lett it proStrate in 40, when put out. 1t was
! then that he ran for his second term. BY the
! time Mr.. Jefferson came to run for his second
| term, the sway Of his genius in our affairs, its
mingled energy and mldness with often its
bold originality and always its high tone Of in
! tellectual elevation, had so cXtrpated Federal
| ism, as to leave it no restlng-pace in the Union
/ for rallyIng vote against hun, save Connects
cut and little Dclawarc-whlle you, McsSrs
! Editors, | dare say, may remember that, Mr.
Randolph described gentlcmanly Joseph Lewis
/ from the louduun district, as It's sole representa-
/ tive left in Congress from all Virginia. be-
/ levc his expression rather was, sole heir. There
is no parallel, therelore-no approximation in tho
two cases, but the strongest Imaginable con
irast. am saving This historical ly-and dis
I porngingly of MIR. Van Buren,. He could M
resist the combinations against him in 40. ii,
did his best His disaster was of the times
They swept him away. The hurricanes over
%helmed him.
"Jackson's strength would have resisted it
or Jeilerson's And the question Is, whether
after that astounding overthrow, we shall nov
try Mr. Van Buren, again for a second term, an,
he run for third time }"