The New York herald., 1844-11-20
THE WAR OF THE RIVAL INFLUENCES.
First Manifesto Of the Van Buren, Section Of
the Democracy.
[From the Morning News, Nov, Is
Nunc Dimlttis.

Nunc Dimlttis.
"NoU letteH thou thy servant, Lord, depart in
peace.".-The day has now ut last arrived al which
| the great and good old man of ihe Hermitage NAV
thus recognize that the ripe fnlness Of his time has
| at length come-that his public life is now thing
consummate and coinplete-that II has not been a
vain fragment broken OH abruptly IN failure and
disappointment, In regard to all that had been its
man labor, ann and achievement. Such would
have been the case had the attenuated feebleness
OF his thread OF life been parted at any moment in
which has just been decided. He has not been
doomed to the hard fate of the General who fell
when the battle OF his country seemed lost, and
closed his eyes upon her broken and routed squad
rons unsoaced by the subsequent spectacle OF their
rally, and gallant recovery Of the eventiul day
How anxlously have not all watched the reports
OF the still feebler and feebler health of the old
| the great public Issues involved in the struggle,
that ne might be spared yet little longer to see
that his country was safe, and that he had not lived
IN vain. And now, after the decision of the gene.
raj result and the first gratulations prompted by IT,
on grounds higher than any possible personal ones
the next reflection that rises is that OF warm salts
faction and gratitude, that General Jackson has
lived to witness it.
For this election was a part and parcel OF the
whole long struggle which has SO deeply agitated
the country Tor the last four, we may indeed say
the last FIVE Presidential terms From the begin
ming almost to the very end, Jackson and Clay
may be said to have been the two principal leaders
and chiefs OF the two opposite parties and policies
For the last eight years, indeed, Jackson has been
heightened out beyond his own personal participa-
tion, which has been carried on by the
to his post his former confidential friends and sup
OF the period, and Mr. Polk in the last struggle Of
the long contest. Still, we say, il has been the
same old Jackson battle, for the maintenance Of
the same policy and the same party, the same IDEAS
and the same men; and through its whole length,
the main, central, tallest, and most conspicuous
figure IN the van of the opposite array has beer
Henry Clay. In the recent election, this long and
Tremendous struggle had at last reached its last
and in which were concentrated all the feelings
involved in each and all of its preceding stages
This was the great peculiarly Of this election; end
this, it was which rallied both parties in il with
such an intense excitement, and such deep and
almost desperate determination. Had Clay tri-
umphed, Jackson, and all Of US, and all the lead
ing principles OF his administration with him, bit
the dust La the victory Of the Democratic party !,
Clay lies irretrievaby and hopelessy prosrate nj
our feet and with him all the false and bad polit
cal ideas which are best summed up in his single
name.
IL is curious to trace back the linked connection
OF these Important national events: to see how the
two great parties in which we have all llbecOme en-
listed with so much earnest interest on the oppo-
site Sides gradually arose out of the general fusion
OF all political elements under Monr0e's admins
tration. with Its " era OF good feelings !" and how
they more and more distinctly developed their an.
tagonlsm, and lengthened II out from struggle to
struggle, with various vclssitude Of partial result
TIL they have at last thus met in this final crush OF
encounter, involving the annihilation OF the de-
feated, and probably Leading to a new fusion and
decomposition OF parties-to constitute again a
fresh starting point for another political cyle OF
perhaps another twenty years
Begin at the beginning, and behold the confused
state of AZ political parties and ideas in the elec-
ton of 1924, after Monroe's term-as expressed in
the absence OF any other than personal issues the
Illustration OF any election by the people, and the
return OF Jackson, Adams. and Crawford to the
nj mi nfQ Qftuao frV nkN.A L
being the next highest candidate. Crawford is the
Republican candidate propei; Adams cross be.
tween Federalism and Republicanism; Clay anoth-
er cross between kepublicanism and the West;
and Jackson astrangely combined amalgam Of Re-
publlcanism, No partyism, the Western interest,
the Cotton Bags and that character for sturdy and
patriotic honesty which was already felt and loved
IN advance by the instructive sympathy of the pop
ular heart. Here, then, is the point Of departure
The frst act Is the ever memorabl. Coalition, by
which, while Adams coalesced with the Federal.
lsn OF the House OF Representatives and the coun-
try, for their votes Clay coalesced with the two
together, and made Adams President, putting him.
self IN the line OF the direct succession with grave
circumstances OF aggravation 10 the fragrant polit
cal dishonesty OF the act
Next follows the indignation of the Republican
Party, and the disgust OF the popular feeling, at
such birth OF the administration thus brought into
power; its rally and concentration on Gen. Jack
federal character into which the administration
speedily developed itself bringing out the two old
parties OF the country with toIerabe distinctness
IN array against each other; and resulting in the
total overthrow ct the coalition and its party and
the sweeping triumph of Jackson at the head of
the republican or democratic party
Then proceeds the reversal Of the federal cha
racter Of the government, signalized in particular
by such an act as the Maysville Road Veto A
treme ndous opposition is waged against Jackson's
administration, under the lead of Clay; it's head
quarters being speedily transferred to the Bank Of
the United States, and the country being convused
as had never before been experienced or dreamed
OF, by the gigantic efforts Of the political and mo-
ney powers, as represented in the persons of the
two worthy associates N this nnholy alliance Of
ambition and avarlce, Clay and BiddIe. The ta-
rlffs OF '2S and '32, with Notification, and the
Compromise OF '33, constitute an episode an i'm
portant one, but still an. episode-in the larger
movement OF these great forces and great events
The Bank and Clay are both beaten down. Not
only is Jackson Reelected over Clay as his compe-
or. but the effort to force the restoration OF the
deposItes and the re-charter of the Bank, during
so much dispired and enfeebled that they dare not
run Clay again and are compelled to have re-
course to the expedient of running number Of
candidates Of various politics in the different Sec
ticns OF the Union, as the only chance Of defeat
ing Mr. Van Buren, Jackson's bosom friend, lieu
tenant, and successor This too, utterly fails, and
iacksons administration and principles remain til
next 10 the old chief himself had been the master.
spirit OF his government
But the contest is not yet ended, though brief |
pause has seemed to interrupt IT, Clay still thunders
on at the head OF opposition, ever, ever still nent
on great prize for which he alone seems to live
and move and have his being. The great crash Of |
the Credit System folows-then the intense fnan. |
ca dstress-the agonies Of half million OF INK
rupts-and the depressed agricultural prices With |
all these advantages OF circumstances, the opposi-
ton still dread defeat under Clay and he is again,
10 his own great Indignation, postponed till the next
time. An equivocal and non-committaI ticket is /
made up, of an honest old Western general, and |
an anti Bank Southern nullifcr; and in the gene
raj crush and eam0r Of the Campaign of 1910, the
country yields to the intoxicating potion Of Whig
promsef; dscards the sterner wisdom and integrl-
" of the counsels of the Democratic administra-
tlcn; MIR. Van Buren is defeated, and Harrison |
comes into power-still with Clay as the ROVER be-
hind the throne greater than the throne itself
The next link in the history is still fresh in the
general recollection. Harrlson's death-Tyers
Congressional Dictatorship the
great political fraud Of the bank re-charter--the
Vetoes--Tyler's ambitious aspirations Clay's war