Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-02-14
NAMES AND PRINCIPLES.
No. w.

N M Ed ANU I hlNOAI LIs0s
No. w.
In our last number we gave a sketch
or tho movements Of MsrtiD Van Buren,
in the State Of New York, in reorganiz>
ing party for his own benefit. out of
the broken and disbandrd fragments Of
Hartford Convention federalism, and such
merccnary recruits as could be rallied to
his standard by the promise of spills md
under the then popular name Of Democ
racy. A prominent manesvre BY which
he commended himsel! TO the favor of
the federal Aristocrscy in lsl9-was'
the writing ofa pamphlet in favor Of the
appointment Of Rufus King. Senator to
Congress, and the active and efficient part
he performed in securing his election.--
This was among the early performances
of,he Van Buren, Democracy, and though
Mr.. Kings anti.republ'can Partialllie'
were notorious ard proverbial, aud his
connection with the massacre OF The A.
nerican prisoners at Dar,moor though
remote. rendered him particularly obnox-
ious to the friends Of the war. Yet not
withs;anding these glaring facts, MIR.
King in The hands Of Van Buren,. was
the democratic candidate" and in 1921
the Quid Pro Quo was duly returned. by
the election of Van Buren, as the as
soeiase and colleague of Mr.. King in the
Seua,e-,hrough the aid Of federalis's
thus secured. We have hence-forward
to trace the movements of Mr.. Van Blu.
rem on more extended theatre in carry
ing out the work Of this new school De.
mocracy.
One ofthe distinguished characteristics
that marked lis career. while his move.
menis were confined TO the State Of New
York. was the incucation of the doctrine
Of unconditional obedience to caucus de-
eisions.
Another was the appropriation and ap-
plicalion of tho term democratic to every
movement and measure Of bis adhsrenis.
The candidates of his pariisans for Office,
we're all snd individually the Democratic
candidates; though they had been feder-
alisis to the hour of their nomination.
and continued to be such in practice to
their latest breath. Instead Of adhesion
to those grea, and cardinal principles that
marked and distinguished the policy Of
Thos. Jefferson, from that of the elder
Adams, being the criterion and standard
Of federalism or Democracy, that stand
ard was now laid aside as obsolete. The
test of Democracy in these DAYS involved
no matter ofprinciple. The viles, fede-
ralist in the Hartford Convention school
was Instantly transformed to Democrat
on giving his aid and support to the Van
Buren, cause-and on the contrary it mat
tered nothing that an individual had devo-
ted himself to the cause of his country
and the maintenance of those principles
thar had from first TO last been recogniz-
edas forming the Jeffersonian or Repub-
Iicsn creed: 1.-The lacked feally to Martin
Van Buren, he was forthwith s,igmatized
n Federalist. Having thus organized
bis party in the State of New York and
established what was known as The Re.
gency he took his post in Congress. His
first grand move at Washington was the
atlemp, 10 force Mr.. Crawford into the
Presidential chair in 1924. by dint of.hat
caucus discipline through which he had
been 90 successful in the State of New
York. This high handed and reckless
attempt TO irample under foot the voice of
the people. and particularly OF the State
Of New York. and under the cry Of Dem
ocracy necessarily voeiieratsd, to force a
President upon the country in opposition
to iis known and declared determination
will be the subject of our mex. and conclu-
ding number.
The atockholders of the railroads he.