The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-09-02
VAN BUREN-FREE SOIL.
The Albany Argus coolly asks:

"What would have become of Mr.. Van Blu
ren's letter 10 the Utica Convention had the
law passed for which he gave the casting vote
in the United States Senate, authorizing the
Posi-masters TO search the mails and throw
out peslilent and incendiary matter? His let
ter could not have crossed Mason & Dixons
line. Ii would have been taken out of the
mail and destroyed with other incendiary pro
auctions! What an illustration of his incon.
sistency and treachery TO past professions does
this Renaissance furnish? AS has been well
remarked, if Mr. Van Buren, is sincere now, be
has been playing part through his whole life
and the latter has been from the beginning, an
unmtigated lie
The Rochester American, strong opponent
to the extension of slavery, quotes this pas.
sage and thus comments upon it:
When rogues fall out i: is proverbial that
truths are some times told of each other w hich
might have otherwise been withheld. The
Albany Argus and Martin Van Buren, served
slavery for twenty years. Nor did they work
without pay. Both were cunning, shrewd
able and INSCRIPTIONS. They succeeded in
electing Gen. Jackson. The Argus drew a
halfa million from the State Treasury, and large
sums from the General Government Van
State, Foreign Minister, Vice President, and
President. In every station, he was the un-
hes;tatilg aervile, degraded tool and instrument
of the Slave Power. He became known as the
Northern Man withSouthern Principles, from
the fact that he habitualy sacrificed the inter-
ests of his own section of the Union, at the
beck and bidding of Slavery. We all remem-
Der his infamous vote in the u. s. Senate, i'm
favor of a law, authorizing Southern Post Mas
tiers to search the mails, and to destroy all let
tiers and papers which they might deem often
sive TO the Slave power. Never before, was
the chair of the State SO disgraced. We recol-
tect too, the piratical alacrity with which he
fastened TO dispatch a national vessel TO Long
Island Sound, Tor the avowed purpose of steal
ing away the Amistad negroes, 20 Re delivered
up TO their murderous Spanish masters. These
acts, Outrageous and infamous as they are, con
stitute a fair specimen of Martin Van Buren, 5
regard for freedom.
ut is most extraordinary that single W big
should for a single moment, think of voting
Tor Van Buren,. We ask such what trust they
can place in one thus stained by all the often
ces against freedom, which can blacken the
character of public man.
at seems to US the most extraordinary that
any Wing, no matter how much he NAV have
desired different nomination for the Presi-
dency, and none could have desired it more
than We, can now lend himself to dsorganiza-
lion, the only effect of which will be, If any il
has, TO elevate TO power that candidate and
that party most adverse of all to freedom and
free soil. 1t is the Birney infatuaion of 1914
over again. Van Buren, cannot be elected
The idea of his success has not entered the
brains of madness itself. No other candidate
TO be nominated at Buffalo can carry a single
State. Cass or Taylor must succeed. That
is inevitable. That every man knows must
happen.
why then, in the name OF free soil, shall
men do their utmost TO extend slavery? Can
they DO so and hope to save fragment of rep
utation for consistency or political honesty?
''Our readers will bear US witness that we
left mtried no means within our our power 10
procur. different nomination. We honestly
believe that Gen. Scott, and especially Mr.
Clay would have been more acceptable to the
people oil the North, and that either of them
could be elected. Butthe Wing National Con-
vention decided otherwise. In supporting Gen.
Taylor we perform manifest duty. We sur
render no whit Of our attachment TO freedom
and free soil. Least of all, shall We place the
cause of human liberty TO dry nurse with Mar
all all American politicians, who, when in
power, lost no occasion of sacrificing the in
terests OF the north at the foot of Slavery"
Hon. JOHN M. BOTrs.-The National Intelli
gencer publishes letter of this gentleman, adj
dressed to John Janey, Esq, of Virginia, which
Concludes as follows:
Ia L Il Al.
partisan and pretend that Gen. Taylor is an ac-
ceptable candidate TO me, CAN say that he is
far preferable to Gen. Cass, whom 1 regard as
the most Objectionable, may say the most OBJ
noxious man ola party whose principles have
warred against for twenty years, and shall for
iorty more, II life, and health, aud mind, shall
lasi as long.
When look upon his course in connexion
with the h,exican war, from which we have
but Just escaped with a loss of life that the
mines of Mexico could not repay, and with the
honor of the nation impaired; when look up
on him as the iusiifier 9nd defender, in the U.
5. Senate, of all the usurp1tions of power and
violations of the constitution ,'ractlsed by the
present Administration; when | see him bend
ing his respectable abilities from tbs high pur-
poses OF statesman TO the grovelling al: bition
of demagOgue; when ! witness his insatia hle
thirst for conquest, and his grasping rapacily
for the acquisition Of his neighbOrs goods;
when look upon his huge dimensions. ready
TO swallow all of Mexico" at gulp, without
without disturbing the rotundity ofhis proper
lions, am constrained TO say that no room
for doubt remains, and that no alternative is |
left me but TO g We my vote 10 Gen. Taylor,
ind 10 take the chances, whatever they may
De.
will not presume to Offer nay advice to
others; every man must take the responsibility |
Of acting for himself as his judgement directs;
Ill can venture to do is, To set them what j
nope may prove to be good example"