The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-05-16
From the Louisville Journal.
THE LOCOFOCO TROUBLES.

We published yesterday morning, a letter
OF twelve Locofoco members of Congress
from Ohio, notifying their constituents OF a
deep and extensive movement among the
Locofoco leaders to set aside Mr.. Van Bu-I
rem. We also noticed a letter in the Globe
from the Hon. Mr.. Cross, of Arkansas, de-
claring that he himself is no longer a sup
porter Of Mr.. Van Buren,. We now find that
almost every newspaper we take up is full of
the most unequivocal indications of the final
breaking up of the party. 1t is certain, that
Mr.. Richie, the Locofoco dictator in Virgin
ia, has written a letter to Washington city,
insinuating that Mr.. Van Buren, must be
dropped. On Wednesday evening of last
week, the Richmond Virginia Democratic
Association, onsmotion of Mr.. Richie him
self, passed the following resolution almost
unanimously:
"ResoIued, That the Democratic Central
Committee be requested forthwith to issue an
address TO the Democratic party Of Virginia,
urging the serious and prompt expression of
their opinion on the subject of a r~e-annexa-
ton ofTexas TO the Union; the propriety of
relieving their delegates to the Baltimore
convention from the Instructions which now
bind them, leaving them TO the exercise of a
sound discretion, or even TO instruct them, if
they deem it expedient TO do so, 10 cast the
vote of Virginia in favor of men known and
pledged 10 be in favor of annexation, and of
other action which they deem proper and eff
%icient, in uniting the Democracy ofthe State
in the great and vital object of defeating the
election of Henry Clay"
The Globe is in great distress on account
of this resolution, and says, that, if it be act
, ed on, the party in the Old Dominion is at
! terly broken up. The Globes agonies and
f threatenings, however, seem all to be of no
avail. Amid the general discord and con-
fusion, its loudest appeals and curses are
= unheard, or heared only to be despised.-
Jupiter frowns and thunders but his late
w~orshipers either disregard him altogether or
7 make mouths at him and defy him. Even
that most ~obsequious of Locofocos, the Hon.
. Andrew Kennedy, of Indiana, has addressed
to him a nissive of defiance. In reply to the
+ Globes reprobation of the movement to sci
aside Mr.. Van Buren,, Mr.. Kennedy re-
, spends in a letter under his own proper
] name:
"Sir, I do not hesitate TO avow that, for the
s last W. months, !, as one OF the persons in
terested in a proper nomination, have used
all proper means-Hopenly," not secretly
TO procure the nomination, at the Balti-
I more convention, of some other person than
Martin Van Buren,; not from any loss ofcon-
y idence in his worth or integrity, but under
5 a deep conviction of mind that he is not the
proper person for our party to rally around in
: the coming struggle.
d "This conviction has been forced upon my
mind by the ~indubitable evidences from ouI
+ friends in the country; and its truth, | be-
y lieye, is felt and acknowledged by nine out
n of ten of our friends; and is checked only
d by a few individuals in our ranks, who, / fear
from their course, would rather see our par
# ty defeated, than successful under the lead o.
any other man than Mr.. Van Buren,.
d "Now, sir, in conclusion, if you feel dis
r posed to denounce all who are engaged il
d this movement, you are welcome to launcl
your thunders at my head as soon as yor
choose. Yours,
ga. KENNEDY"
The Locofoco party is now in ruins,
blasted and shattered monument of Cod
vengeance. Never before was there a part,
that so insulted and defed heaven by its 4
~trocities aud denominations, and never before
s. was a party SO signally and f~earfully over
e e thrown in the midst of its career of fanciec
triumphs, rent in pieces by the ignition O
lie the explosive elements e%ngendered in its owl
vitaIs.
! We CLOSE with the following extract from
e the Washington Spectator, the leading Cal
y houn organ. The editor is speaking of an
is nexation.
/ "Mr. Van Buren, suddenly comes out a
y gainst tin direct conflict with his forme
!" conduct on this very subject in 1929. HI
chimes in with Mr.. Clay and the Wings, il
the cowardly cry of a war with Mexico. M
Van Buren, thus drops his Republicanism-
drops his Americanism-drops his forme
self-goes over to Mr.. Clay and the Wing
deserts the Democratic party and tn
South. They drop him like a corpse int
his political grave. The Globe RACES, ant
seems now only intent TO sacrifice Who'll
hecatombs to his names. To kill others-t
destroy the whole Democratic party, rathe
/. than it shall survive the dominion of hi
cliOue--is his insane and f1riOus nolicv. Fl