The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-07-14
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into state bordering on phrenzy, for in it
they read the doom of Cass and The cor
rupt leaders oftheir party. Tothe Barn
burners, all appears bright and cheering.
The defeat of Cass is their object and no
one can better do this than the man he
defeated in 1874, although the people
had decided for him.
Hear the Editor ofihe New York Sun.
His "bread and butter" is at stake and he
feels that the viper has stung him in
tender spot:
"Where can such an instance of po-
litical ingratitude be foundl Is he TO
be the exemplar ofre6Hement of pohti
cal treachery which has never known
parallel" "Can we believe the storyl
Are we to have second Arnold in the
person of Martin Van Buren2" The
only Chief Magistrate which New York
h1s given to the country-has proved
oiiper to the party that has nursed him in
to political existance."
1--WE can only say--we, as we'll as you
are betrayedI There is the Traitor!
Do wiA him what you VilI"
But the Washington UniOa,the govern
ment organ, beats this. The Editor
grinds out column after column of matter
now doletul, now threatening, now bitter
now he is struck dumb with the
strange and melancholy change"-now
the "still more deplorable result" the de-
feat of Locofocoism, makes him wordy
and he strings out ditty after ditty about
the warnings of Washington and Jeffer-
son. expecting, vain old man, that they
would come to the rescue of the party
which has forsaken their principles
Hear him:
"Mr. Van Buren, was thoroughly with
the south" in 1885 against the whole
gang ofinfariated wolves Of abolitionism.
He wrote letter after letter, public as well
as private, declaring his sympathies with
the South, or rather with the principles of
the Constitution. He was then nick
named and abused by his enemies as "the
northern man with southern principles
Mr. Benjamin F. Butler sherad, too, in
his professions, and he too wrote letter
after letter; but now, it seems. "the So
ber second thought" has changed his
views. Unfortunately-we deeply re-
gret to say it-Mr. V. BIS. sympathies
are apparently NTH Me spirit Of Abol-
iionism Strange and melancholy change!
But still worse-StW more deplOrabIe than
all these is that in spite ofthe warning of
Washington and Jefferson, he comes for
ward to assist in laying the platform of a
new party, founded upon that most alar-
ming foundation, national interest; and
still more fatal, an interest of all others
in our blessed country the most danger
ous-indeed, the only rock on which this
glorious Republic may split to pieces"
And then the old man prophecies.
Visions ofthe future rise up before him
and he breaks forth as follows:
"HwN seal heDEATH WARRANT
ofsome a0ho are concerned in 10, or 1t may
seal tie fate gfMis country"
But we can't follow the old gentleman
any farther The extract above shows
where his sympathies extend-to north
ern doughfaces. Had Van Buren still
declared "his sympathies" to be with the
South as Cass has done, the South would
have been appeased and might have sat-
isfed the Magician for their treachery to
him in 1914.
We close this with an extract from the
Pennsylvania. 1t wakes eloquent over
the future prospects of the traitor-it ap.
! pears, at home, in such a scene. Per-
haps it is congenial to the mind of the
Editor.
"What deed this is to sully the sun.
set ofa life. the morning and the meri-
dian of which were so full of true great
nessl He'll fall from his high place in
the Democratic affections at once, and
will sink beyond all hope ofpOlitical resur.
rectioa. The great democratic party will
= shake him off as the dew,drop from the
the lions mane."
But there is unotherside to this picture
: Another phase is given to the detection
of Van Buren, and in his cause the Barn
burners read nothing but what augurs o
good to the country and honor to himself
s The New York Evening Post announ
/. ces ihe nomination in spirit of calm ex
: ultation. "The intelligence" it says
"has been received with the highest sat
isfdclion by that large class of the demo
Gratis of New York who have no other in
terest in the coming election than such a
arises from an earnest desire to see The
government administered with wisdom
. , and ability, 4 in the spirit oftho Constitu
tion-that class who have no favors t
), hope and no grudges to remember
= class immense in numbers, and, whel
), ; reused, overwhelming in strength"
The New York Globe is of course, il
raptures, 1t says that Mr.. Van Buren,
nomination has been made in disregard
. of his assertions, that his political ca