The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-01-05
From the Buffalo Daily Gaseiie
TO THE HON MARTIN VAN BUREN,.
NO. III.

Sir | said in my last that the Democracy of tn
country will rot permit the order Of succession, a
arranged by your friends, to be established No
will they sanction the doctrine of the "usages o
party" advanced by the Syracuse Convention, il
order to sustain that succession. BE ! OF deceived
upon this point-they will not sanction il! There il
vast difference between the people and the mere
party politician The latter may by cunnngly de-
vised schemes deceive the former into an occasona
support of their plans OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT, but il
will only be when they are supne and Indifferent
The great mass Of the party respect you but they
love principles more and consequently they will not
say again, be governed by the usage of the party
nor will they permit the order of succession to be
established
This should be well understood ere il is too late
OF the two evils they will choose the least, and by
Withholding from you their support, secure the trr
umph of Henry Clay! Bind the people so close with
the chains of party TO crush the spirit of Indepen
dence that rises within, you cannot They rlH think
and when the hour of trial comes, act and what IS
more, will act against you! Doubt IL not! DID,
long tried and as true Democrats as ever breaihed
the free air of heaven determined to oppose your
third nomination. Ii is not only one here and there
the dictator Of the Globe says no, they are in
every town, city and county, throughout the land
too many for the party TO afford to lose in the great
contest of 1874.
1t will not do for your friends suppose that after
your nomination is made by packed convention at
Baltimore that union and harmony will be the result
No, such a convention will never be ratified by the
united vote of the party The lash may be applied
the "infernal machine" set TO work but il will all
be of no avail. The crank and file" Of the Democ-
racy will heed but little the fiery denunciatons of the
Globe, the lash of its imators-like the pussant
Democratic Courier IL that Convention dominates
you the people WILL NOT RATIrT IT This should
be proclaimed far and near, before the willy deed
is done.
Va a a. ell
ed Failed by majority which shuts out every
hope Of success with YOU for third time. The fact
is YOU are too short ,rinded TO in contest like
tie coming Presidential election. You were beat by
every way Sour inferior. except in honesty I;
and by $50 600 majority If you were beat thus
badly then, what ground is IT presumed that you
can triumph now The Calhoun portion Of the party
will not support you. No billing and cooling can
effect it, They look upon you devoid Of those
great and noble qualities which belong to the chiva-
rous South Caronan. The old feud is warming
into life. They will remember when your organ al
the seat Of Government styled him the "Cat line Of
America" This, however, in their devotion to prin-
cples, they would pass but they also look with
dstrus yo,,-they doubt your qualified professions
on great questions of national poy and more than
ALL they abhor the manner in which your nomination
is to be effected They have proclaimed it--they
will never go into the Baltimore Convention as your
friends insist. The District system, which you advo-
Gated in 1896 is the only system they will recognize
in that Convention.
The renowned Dick Davis must have forgotten,
when he offered his resolutions in the Syracuse Con
venton that you had said that the only system switch
would restore the balance of power among the States
TO the footing on which it stood at the adoption of the
/ Constitution was the establishment Of the "Dstrct
| system ~ In this there is no equvocation-no non
! commitalism You strongly advocated that system
then not only because Il was right, but because IT was
Democratic and in accordance with the spirit Of the
| which INTENDED that the DrOnlp should
make choice Of heir President strict construc-
ton is our motto. The District system is the true
system and the friends of Calhoun will not waive il
for this time, in order that packed convention may
fost you on the party for the third time, and whom
the "wre-workers" may please thereafter. No, they
will not nor will The friends Of Johnson or Cass OF
Buchanan, play second die, either, in that farce.
! Then we cannot afford, as the silly mitator Of the
! Globe said shot time since, to dispense with the
friends of Mr.. Calhoun. We want ercry Democratic
vote in the country TO succeed. One vote made
! Marcus Morton Governor Of Massachusetts, and