The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-01-04
From The Buffalo Daily Gazette
TO THE HON. MARTIN VAN BUREN,.
DUFF GREEN
NO, III.

NO. III.
SIR: | said in my last that the Democracy of the
country will rot permit the order Of succession, as
arranged by your friends, to be established Nor
will they sanction the doctrine Of the "usages of
party, as advanced by the Syracuse Conve ntoD in
order to sustain that succession. Be OF deceived
upon this pont-they will not sanction it There is
| vast difference between the people and the mere
party politician. The latter may by ounningly de.
vsed schemes, deceive the former into occasional
support OF their plans Of liaggrandizement but il
will only be when they supnc and Indifferent
The great mass of the party respect you, but they
love principles more and consequently they will not
say again, be governed by the usage of the party
nor Will they permit the order of succession to be
established
This should be well understood ere it is too late
OF the two evils they will choose the least and by
withholding from you their support secure the ri
,nnph Of Henry Clay Bind the people so close with
the chains Of party TO crush the spirit of indepen
dence that rises within, you cannot They icM think
and when the hour OF trial comes, act, and what is
more, VIII act against you! Doubt II not Old
long-tried and true Democrats as ever breathed
the free air OF heaven are determined to oppose your
hird nomination! Ii is not only one here and there
as the dictator Of the Globe says no, they are in
every town, city and county, throughout the land
too many for the party 10 afford TO lose in the great
| contest of 1874.
II will not do for your friends TO suppose that after
your nomination is made by packed convention at
Baltimore, that union and harmony i'll be the result
No, such convention will never be ratified BY the
united vote of tie party. The lash may be applied
tho "lDiernal machine set TO work, but il will all
be Of no avail. The crank and flen Of the Democ-
racy will heed but little the fiery denuncstions of the
Globe the lash Of its mitators-like the puissant
Democratic Courier. If that Convention nomnates
you, the people WILL not RArFy TT This should
be proclaimed far and near, before the willy decd
is done
We have failed With you oncc-most signally fail
ed! Failed 10y majority which shuts out every
hope Of success with you for a third time The f,ct
Is, you are too short irinded 10 run in a contest like
tie coming Presidential election. You were beat nv
man every way your inferior, except in honesty
and by 10000 majority IL you were beat thus
badly then, on what ground is IT presumed that YOU
can triumph now The Calhoun portion of the party
will not support you. No billing and cooling can
effect it, They look upon YOU as devoid Of those
great and noble qualities which belong to the chiya
rous South Carolinian The old feud is warming
into life. They will remember when your organ AT
the seat OF Government styled him the "Cataiine Of
America This, however, IN their devotion to prin-
cples, they would pass but they also look with
dsrust yOu-they doubt your qualified professions
on great questions Of national poy and more than
all, they abhor the manner in which your nomination
is 10 be effected They have proclaimed it-they
will never go into the Baltimore Convention as your
friends insist The District system which YOU ad,o
Gated in 1926, is the only system they will recognize
IN that Convention.
The renowned Dick Davis must have lorgo,,or
when he offered his resolutions in the Syracuse Con
yenon, that you had said that the only system (which
would restore the balance of power among IN. sta,,,
TO the footing which it stood at the adoption of ,h
Constitution was the establishment Of the "Disrio,
systemln In this there is no equiyocstion-no non
commltalism You strongly advocated that system
them not only because II was right but because !, va.
Democratic and IN accordance with the spirit of The
Constitution, which intended that the peopl. shoud
make choice of their President A strict construo
ton IS our motto. The District system is the true
system, and the friends Of Calhoun will not waive /,
for this time, in order that a packed convention m,y
foist you on the party for the third time and whom
the "wire-workers" may please thereafter No thev
will not nor will the friends Of Johnson or Csss or
Buchanan, play second Fl die either, in that farce
Then we cannot afford as the silly imitator Of the
Globe said, short time since to dispense with the
friends Of MIR. Calhoun. We want srerv Democratic
vote In the county 10 succeed. Ono vote made
Marcus Morton Governor Of Massachusetts and a
few votes only may turn the scale in the Presidential
contest
But let us not stop with the Calhoun interest. win
the friends of Mr.. Buchanan support youi Have not
one Of the county conventions which nom mated I,m
declared by resolution that they iou moi be bound hy
any compromise which puts aside his claims 10 favor
yours. There is rule said to exist among large
part Of the Germans Of Pennsylvania to the effect
that they will not vote for the second time,
who has been beaten Your friends cannot rely
upon the state IN "A II went against you in 1870 !
and will do again II you the democratic can
dloate IN ~ MARX thatl ay, u refused TO sustain
YOU even for Vice Pre- dent on the ticket with Cen
Jackson. Well the Calhoun interest is against YOU.
and so is the Buchanan. Let Us suppose, however
that those two interests can be concated and will
be, after the Baltimore convention meets How are |
VIC TO secure the friends Of John Tyler:
Here is question Of some little interest although
tho Globe might sheer at IT, am no Tyler man, but
believe IN holding TO the old maxim OF " giving even
the devil bis due" | hold that John Tyler is an
honest man, and true Jcfersonian democrat but
his election m "A IS entirely out Of the question Bu,
he has large troop Of friends throughout the coun.
iry-a little more than "corporsl's guardn after all
Aud after the GROWING act Of your Congressional
friends, in endorsing this ve abuse Of the Globe. by |
electins Blair Rycs printers, do you suppose they
can be brought TO your support Lay not that aaer