Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1844-02-10

from power, and to suppIant his Administration !!
! Try them again by that standard which Mr.. Van
Buren, himself, in most elaborate speech deliver
ed in the Senate of the United States in 1928, de-
clared to be the true and legitimate distinction be-
tween the Federal and Republican parties-ihe
one seeking to ertend, tho other to restrain, Ere
cutire power. The public have not forgotten tho
| various schemes sedulously devised or counte.
nanced by Mr.. Van Buren, during the whole peri.
cd of his Administration, and fully exposed at the
time, 10 augment Executive patronage, discretion,
and power; and nothing, surely, has more eminent.
ly distinguished the cureer of Mr.. Clay, than his
constant and persevering efforts to restrain and to
provide new dikes and Securities against the en-.
iai cement abusive exercise Of the powers of that
Department of the Government. Judging them,
| then, by Mr.. Van Buren's own definition of polit
! zeal parties, correctly iaid Gown by MIN IN
1928. but totally lost sight Of in his subsequent
practice. 10, the sober and impartial Judgment of
the country decide which is the Fcderaiisl and
which the Republican,
II is impossible for any rcfocting man TO con.
template the actual and prospective condition Of
tho Country. without seeing in it already tho germ
Of new difficulties and troubles, which may, in
their approaching development, ngltate our gio-
rous Union to its centre. The Oregon and Tex
as qu, siions in foreign relations; at home, ii
defcien. revenue, with nj! its ordinary sources
pressed up to their farthes' productive limits, and
some Of them. there is reason to apprehend. be-
yond; the tariff controversy rc!openeJ, with all the
conflicting interests and passions which never fail
to be awakened by it; and, added 10 these, tho re-
kindlcd fires of the abolition excitement and
all of them are questions which carry in their bo-
som the fearful element of civil discord and ntes-
tine strife. Tho worst and most dangerous aspect
they present is. that all of them bring into mmedi-
ate and opposing array, if not into angry and hos
tile COLLISION the sectional interests and fepngs OF
the different geographical divisions Of the conede.
! racy. Whose at such ii moment. is the master
spirit that may have power to still the rising tenn.
post. before it sweeps with destructive fury over
the f'co of our yet happy Union; or. should this
i prove hopeless and impossible. whose tho COM
handing gonius!" To preside over the destiuies
of great Republic. in crisis of such compIicn,-
cd difficulty and peril, calls for something more
than the arts of the mere party politician. 1t de-
mnnds the CHEST moral md intellectual qualities
OF the NatesmaH-couragc, self possession, ceva.
ton of character. and elevation Of views; noble
ness and oencrnSitv of natnrn that attracts conf
dence. and can inspli cnthusasm the spirit of per-
snrsIon and the spirit of command combined. Let
tho annals of the country. in snme of tho darkest
moments which has ever lowered upon lis fortunes
be consulted. and they will answer whether Henry
Clay Martin Van Buren, is the man for such Il
crisis
/ | have thus. my dear sir. with tho franknes,
duo t. our rotations of friendship. personal nno
political. given you my views on n subject winch
is 10 absorb large a portion OF the pubic
attention, and to which good citizen can be in
different. la,,er myself they will meet YOU
concurrence, aud that Of our Republican friend:
who have noted with us in the try ing scenes througI
which we havo pissed; but, in any event, | an
sure they will be received by YOU with the kind
! ness and cordlality, in the spirit of which pray
you TO believe me, most truly and faithful, yours.
w. c. RlVES.
Co.. Edmund Fontaine, Hanorer.
';n the speech aladed (madc n the 18th OF Feb
ruary. 1925 the pow Of the Vice President,
presiding officer Of the Senate,) Mr.. Van Buren, com
mcnts on the "attempt" of Mr. Adams, in his naugu'
raj address, the origin of the two great poll
teal parties, which. he adds cha divided the
try from the adoption of the Const to the pre-
sent day. an after rejecting Mr.. Adams theory, he
gives his own in the following words: '.They the two
great political parties Of Federalist and Republican,
arose from other and very different They are,
in truth mainly be ascrbed to the strugg between
two opPos ng principles that have been in acvc opc
'ton in this country from the closing scenes of The
Revolutionary TO the present day-he seeki ing
TO absorb, far practicable all power from its lcg
innate and condense it into single head the
other antagonist principle, laborng assiduousiy
to resist the entertainments and limit the extent OF
1 Erecufiue authority.
4 Mr.. Packenham.-Mr. Walsh, in letter to
tho National lntolligcncer. says: 81 have reason
to believe that Mr.. Packenham wished for the
} mission to Spain which Mr.. Buiwer h IS received:
and but for his peculiar capacity Of beng useful
Washington. would have been gra,ifed, theirs
; is no Of the British diplomatic corps moro wall
. ued and regarded at tho Foreign Office. Tho ar
tclo of the Herald strikes m" sem, official
1t expresses an earnest hearty desire of a speedy
settlement by Mr.. Packenham of the Difficult
0 questions still OPEN
sweet po,atoo was grown on Il farm nea
Hamburg. S. c., which measured five feet an,
D three inches in length! The editor Of the Ham
burg Journal says it is the longest poialoo in thu
world.
n At musical festival at New York, on thanks
). giving evening. in behalf of the poor. the sum o
n $4,000 was realized. Very fair. indeed, whethe
love for the poor love of music had the creates
sim in orc,1IIIcin III, r,s,,ll