Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-01-24

icy have been sustained, and are now a.
mong the proudest monuments Of human
greatness, and are yet daily developing
the wisdom in which they were conceiv-
ed, by their influence upon the prosperity
and happiness Of the millions of our Yves.
tern citizens and emigrants from the cas-
who. sbut for The opening of the great
Ere Canal, and The impulse thereby CIV.
Ell to human enterprise. must have lived
and died in ignorance of the wealth and
vast resources Of the Western world. -
And while we look with admiration OIL
this proud and durable monument Of the
wisdom and patriotism of Dewitt Clinton
we are irresistb,y led to contemplate the
counterpart of the picture, in which Mar.
tin Van Buren, and his fifty one high
minded Office hunting Hartford Convex.
ton colleagues, make so conspicuous afg.
ure. lie. US step aside for momen, from
the main object of these numbers to scru.
tinize more closely the picture that is
here presented--On the one aand We see
Mr.. Clinton, soaring above the contempt
ible considerations of party aggrandIze-
ment, and amid the assaults and vitupera-
tive attacks of Van Buren, and his hosi.
devoiing his whole energies with unlringg
zeal, to the accomplishment Of objects
embracing in their scope. the lasting It.
terests Of his whole country, and the hap
piness and prosperity OF the millions Of
human beings, already reap;ng she bene-
fits of his vas, enterprise, and the tens OF
millions that are yet destined 10 partici-
pate in its benefits, as tenants ofthe aimos!
boundless West, that was then untrodden
by the foot of civilized man. Such Is The
figure that Dewitt Clinton makes ~ tae
group, and such is the imperishable mon'
ument his works afford for our admira'
lion. On the other hand, we see Martin
Van Buren, at the head Of his fifty one
high,minded federal allies, and such 9TH
or recruits as could be Iured TO his stand.
ard by the cry Of Democracy, and the
promise ofspoils, employing every means
that his ingenuity and cunning was mas
ter of, to tarnish and destroy the fame
paralyze and weaken the energies--ard
undermine and defeat the designs of the
patriot whose transceBdant genus was
immeasurably above his powers ofimiia-
ton, and whose noble and phianlhrop!c
aim il was repugnant to bis groyeliDg ma
ture to emulate.
The days of these transactions have passed
by long enough to remove the Tis,s and
doubts that party prejudice and intrigue had
thrown around the acts and the motives of the
individuals i'll question. And while the friends
and supporters of Mr.. Clinton are now enabled
to point with honest pride, and manly exuita.
ton to the triumphant testimonials OF his pa
triOtism and his worth, the unenviable fame
that Justice awards to Martin Van Buren, is,
that throughout this great and magnanimous
effort of Mr.. Clinton, he, Vm Buren,, was his
most bitter traducer, prosecutor, and opposer.
and while Mr.. Clinton was successfully Ia
boring for the glory and prosperity of his na-
tive State, and the benefit of mankind, Martin
Van Buren,, loagued with his federal allies,
was CONGO cting petty schemes for his defeat
and overthrow, and his own elevation 81.
whatever ruins he nigh be able to create.
AS between the merits of Mr.. Clinton and his
traducer and prosecutor Van Buren,, the unal-
terable decision of the world mas aIre ady been
pronounced, and the page of history that
points to the durable monuments of the worth
and virtue of the one, will as faithfully trans
nit to future time the low, selfish and in
trigueing character of the other. In this Van
Buren, school of politics, principles were by
no means the test of demoeracy-this was
standard too antiquated for the refined and
sublimated taste of himself and his new con-
verts. Devotion to Mr.. Van Buren, and his
party plans and party orders was the one thing
needful to metamorphose whatever chose to
enlist under his banner-and this system Of
tactics, first introduced in the State of New
York. has been but too successfully exiended
over the Union, as we shall endeayor to show.