Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-08-29

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debts the rch rches to the pocr every comfort
and the country, universal prosperity and peace. AT
the very day break of Wing success ell evils were
TO vanish like the shadows, and its rising sun was a.
once dry up every tear like the tiny dew drop wne
glory and prosperity and happiness were to increase as
4 It advanced to the meridian.
Is it necessary, with all this fresh in recollection,
10 look for the OF our defeat in the imputed IN
popularity Of Mr.. Van Buren,
Well, the Wing morning came II was ushered IN
by storms and confagrations signs and Porents New
qraves yawned and black pals came moving to their
sides. The promised sun of prosperity rose not Gia
ring meteors and comets, with their bloody trains,
made darkness visible. No rainbow of hope spanned
the gloomy concaye-not even ray OF Northern lght
streamed up from The Wing horizon to re-assure the
waverng faith of the log cabin converts. Inc pro.
msers oil the preceding campaign met IN Congress- ou'
to fasfy all their promises, except to few othce,
seekers and bankrups-and, as if TO fill the bosoms OF
the people with disgust well disappointment they
| fell TO quarreling among themselves The country
sunk deeper in distress, private obligations were can
celled debts repudiaed and the General Govern
ment so dsgraced and discrediled, that IT could not
get money 10 carry on its ordinary operations.
Taught by experience, that most accurate, tnougn
mot most amiable of teachers, the people have learnt
wisdom and in three fourths of the States hurled the
Wings from power. In the next House of Represen-
,atves their strength will scarcely be as one to two.
What had Mr.. Van Buren's popularity or unpopu-
ar,y 10 do with the fall rise OF the Democratic purity
Here are the causes which effected lis fall, and those
which produced its rise They independent of him,
and bon in the action and re action adequate TO the
effect file their victim, without the power OF sue
cessu resistance and the result is no more to he attn
bued to his unpopulay than 10 that of any other De-
nlocrat who fought and fell on the same occasion
| Except the fact of MIR. Van Burens defeat all the
evde nee is that he was more popular with the Demo
cratic party in ls4O when defeated, than in 1886, when
elected In e40 he obtained ,057 popular votes
and in 1885, but 763, 49, considerable section OF
the Southern Democrats, who did not support him in
1896 voted for him in 1870. He gained votes-he &c
CURED new friends. What, then, is the evidence that
he had become unpopular Simply the fact, that his
adversary had the most votes. How did he get them
Palpably by means having nothing to do with MIR. Van
Burens popularity.
Blu, be is beaten candidate, and it is bad policy
to run him again So Jefferson a beaten candi-
da,e-yet the Democracy him again So was Jack
son beaten candidae-bu he not for that reason
discarded by the Democracy. So Harrison a
beaten candidae-and Clay is a thrice beaten candi-
da,e-t,ccs by his enemies, and once by his friends
To be beaten by unfair means, increases the strength
of a candidate, instead of diminishing it. This was
one of the principal sources of arguments and ele-
ments of strength in General Jackson successful con-
test with Mr. Adams There is always predlspo-
sition the minds and hearts of the people to rally TO
the support of him who has been put down by foul
psy Has grosser happened, than that oil
Mr.. Van Buren,? Was ever play more foul, than
the Wing play of 1910 Undoubtedly, the manner in
which Mr. Van Buren, was beaten, gives him de-
cded advantage all his competitors. II induces
sasm which other candidate can inspire, while clear
heads perceive, in his restoration TO power, the most
ready and effrctua means of restoring, beyond doubt
or cav the principles of administration, which ne tell
in defending.
To assume that all those who voted against Mr.. Van
Buren, in I540 will vote against him in ls44, 10 TO
deny the people, not only every generous IMPULSE
but all common honesty. Devils, and men like them,
hate those most whom they have most wronged; but
such is not The character of the American people no
iusti in fhpird
as prompt to pair an injury, as 10 vnd-
cate violated right We doubt not, that thousands
and tens OF thousands who followed the tgnis jafaus
Of Whglsm in 1910, now waiting with solicItude
to redress, in 1884, the wrong they did both TO Mr.
Van Buren, and Democracy. 1t is human nature and
Heaven Justice, that honest men put down by false
hood and injustice shall be renslaed by truth rress-
tibe re. action:
"Trith, crushed to earth, will rise again;
The eternal days OF God are hers"
Like the tabled Anrnus, the just man gains strength
by his fall, and rises more powerful than ever.
But said this natural and peculiar desire 10 re-
instate Mr. Van Buren,, is an unworthy spirit oil re.
yenee which ought not to be INDUCED Is this true
Revenge is an eager desire nhct injury for some
real or ina ynary wrong disappointment what OF
This is there The eager desire generous bosom has
TO redress a wrong inflicted perhaps by itself: Is u
revenqeful in Democrat, whether he voted for Mr..
Van Ruren in 1S4O ar moi TO- wish his restar0p
him that contest? 1t it be- then justice is revenge,
and the God of Justice is a God Of Revenge. If it
be, it wrong to repair injury, and wicked TO be just
No, This feeling is of the purest and hottest
impulses Of our nature. II is implanted 10 The human
bosom by Heaven ITSELF one of the most effective
instruments 10 redress this worlds wrongs, and vind
cate it's violated laws
But it is not alone matter Of individual redress,
that we look upon Mr.. Van Bufens restoration as just
and important. We consider 1t the most effective way
to vndlcate and relnstate the principles which were
struck down with the man. If we abandon the man,
though adhere the principles the Wings will feel
hpf hol ahpd md hut half
rous. The partial OF their foul means will be
an lnducement to try them again, and the same fact
will diminish the zeal and confidence with which De-
mocrats will resist them If we would place the stamp
of lndelble reprobation and eternal Infamy on the
fasehoods, frauds and perjuries of 1910, must
verse their effects and not leave trace germ TO
encourage such outrages hereafter. How can we do
this, but by raising up the man well as the prncl-
piles, whom those outrages struck down. The man
becomes measurably identified with the principles, and
we cannot completely heal the wounds of the one
without redresslng the wrongs of the other.
Such, sure, is the opinion and feeling OF
large portion of the Democratic party and believe
OF a vast ma ority. They look upon Mr. Van Buren,,
not the Of their defeat, but the peculiar
victim of a common wrong. HIS unsued character,
his just, manly and independent conduct while in of
fee, his noble bearing in defeat, and the cheerful re
sgnaton with which he laid down the insignia Of
power have ia conjunction with the libels and SIAN
ders by which he overwhelmed and put down, en-
deared him to the hearts of Democratic people, and
crealed enthusiasm in his favor which other man
can command. 1t must be So or a sense OF justice
has lost lis power and all that is admirable in the.con
duct Of man, has ceased to command admiration. We
believe il to be So because feel it in our own bo
SONS, which but sympa hse with the bosoms of thou
sands and tens Of thousands around We believe IT,
because hear, think hear, the popular voice
like distant thunder coming up TO drown The chrpngs
OF the noisy political insects. Others may be pressed |
with zeal and less sir certify, but is our un
doubling conviction, that none has hold on the hearts
of The great Of party half SO strong, so abb
ding and so effective We equivalent which
the party obtain by selecting another candidate
and leaving Mr.. Van Buren, with the stigma OF defeat
on his character. Does he deserve this abandonment,
at the hands of the Democratic party Does he de
serve to stand in history with the Federal leaders, the
elder and younger Adams, who put down, not for
their fidelity, but for their hostility to Democratic
PrIncPles' Shall MIR. Van Buren's principles which
are the principles of The Democracy, stand forever con-
demned in his person, Federal principles do in their