Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-01-31

sssss Of . sound and correcl decision in
che pending Presidential election. Those
issis ] have already adver.ed TO. They
ars such as are unexpectedly connected
with The punuing character, and prsserva-
ton Of the Government itself, and in my
humble judgment. are Overwhelmingly
conclusive against the pre.ensions Of MIR.
Van Buren,.
AZ little shall we permit ourselves. I
trust, to be frightened from our proprle,y'
by the old and hollow cxpedisnt Of n
senscless and arbitrary use Of party names
Those who are 80 prone TO ring the
Changes OF the nomenclature of Federal
iss aud Republican,, woeld do well to &C.
member that they have men, reading aud
inquiring men, To- deal with, and moi chill
drec.- Try Me. Van Buren, and Mr.. CLAW
BY any test derived froR The authentic
history Of political parties in this Country,
or by the standard If those grea, prnci-
pies which exist in the essential elements
.ofour popular institutions, and Mr.. Clay
stands before the world the far better Re.
Puofscon OF the Two.
In tina, great array and struggle of the
two parties Of the country (among the
most memorable of our history which
rose out of the controversy aud war with
England in 1912, where was Mr.. Clay
and where was Mr.. Van Bureni Mr..
Clay gallsnlly leading the Republican
hosts in the House of Representatives.
and sustaining the Administration Of Mr.
Madison with all the energies Of his pa
sfiotism and eloquence; Mr.. Van Buren,
uniting with tho Federalists 70 dcpose
that iIluslrious man Grosn power. aud to
supplant his Administration Try them
again by that standard which Mr.. Van
Buren, himself, in a most elaborate speech
delivered in the Senate Of The U. States
in 1923, declared TO be the true and lie.
Ultimate distinction between the Federal
and Republican parties-the one seeking
TO erfend the other TO restrain Erecutrue
power. The public have not forgotten
Abe various schemes SO sedulously devils
ed or countenanced by Mr.. Ven Buren,
during the whole period ofhi adminislra-
ton, and fully exposed at the time, to
augment Executive patronage, discretion,
and power; and nothing, surely, has more
eminen,ly distinguished the career of Mr..
Clay rhan this constant and perseveriug
efforts to RESTRAIN. and TO provide new
bikes and securities against the enlarge.
mens or abusive exercise OF the powers
of that department of the Governmeni.-
Judging them, then, by Mr.. Van Buren's
oxa defnition Of political parties, as cor
reclly laid down by him in 1923, but to-
tally lost sight of in his subsequent prac-
iice. lei the sober and impartial Judgment
,oftho country decide which is the Fede-
ra,ist and which is the Republican,
Il is impossible for any rejecting man
10 contemplate the actual and prospective
condition ofthe country without seeing
in il already the germ of new difficulties
and troubles, which may, 10 their approa-
ching development, agltate cur glorious
Union to its centre. a'he Oregon and
Texas questions in our foreign relations, |
nj home, deficient revenue. with all its
ordinary sources prossed.up to their far.
ahes, productive limit, and SOME of Them,
there Is reason 10 apprehend, beyond
the tariff controversy re-opened, with all |
the conflicting interests and passions
which never fail TO be awakened by it;
and added to these, the rekindled fires of
the abolition exciseGent-each and all
of them are questions which carry in
tbeir bosom the fearful elements Of civil
discord and Intestine strife. Nhe worst
a nd most dangerous aspec. they present
is. that all of them bring into immediate
a nd opposing array. if not into angry and
hostile collision. The sectional interests
and feelings of The different geographical
of the Confederacy. Whose,
!, sch a.ssou.ent, is the master spirit that
NAV have power to sill the rising tenn
nest. before it sweeps with destructive
fnry over the face of our we; happy Un.
ioo: or, should this prove hopeless and
mnoss;ble, whose the commanding gent
ms ito ride in the whiTl wind and direct
he s,otml'' To preside over the desti-
iies of a great Republic, in a crisis Of
,uch complicated difficulty and peril, calls
Ior something more than The arts OF The
mere party politician. Ii demands the
highest moral and intellectual qualities OF
ne ,stafesman-cosrage, seli-Possession.
elevation of chara cieT aud elevation OF
views: nosleness and generosity OF "a
urs that attracts confidence. and can in
,pire enthusiasm the spir,, OF persua- !,
non and the spin, Of command combined. !
ct the annals Of the country, in some ofihs
iarkes, moments which have ever lower
ID upon Ills fortunes, be consulted; and
-hav w;i. answer whelher Henry Claysr
Gin the speech alluded o.(nnade on the 18th
February, ls28, on the powers OF the Vice
as presiding officer OF the Senate)
Mr.. Van Buren, comments on the '.aitempI" OF I
Mr. Adams, in bis inaugural address. 'to
trace the origin of the TWO great political
,.rties. ~ s'vhicb," he adds, ''have divided the
.o,,,,,y f.om the adoption Of the Constitution