The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-28

WIFI tndn tne Oh 10 Inc
Utica Convention Our confidence in him and his princi
PIES consequent devotion to his advancement as
long considered compatible with higher duty
the interests of party, (Which have always
gaded Identical with the interests of countyD and
the sorrow with which abandoned his banner in 1884,
when we honestly believed duty do So are
not unknown to the country The depth Of that is
known only to ourselves
When Mr.. Van Buren, rejected minister TO Eng
land by the Senate OF the United States and
assigned for that rejection which most injurious
his character, boldly stood up by him Amid the tor
nado which swept him from the public station which he
had adorned, fearessly buheted the storm. Suisse
quenty against the circumstances OF many with whom
it has always been our pride to act and TO associ
ate, exerted ourselves zealously for his restoration
and we never allowed our exerons in his behalf
to abate for moment, until in April, 1914,
convinced against every impulse of nature, that to
adhere to him longer to desert the higher duties
owed 10 country. Mr. Van Buren, had never made
that deep odgment in the public mind which his recent
letter to suppose; and satisfied upon the
most ndispuabe evidence, that if he had been pressed
Texas but that he would have been beaten, our party
ANONYMOUSLY uailed in the dust We were not alone
in this opinion at that time, or afterwards. We could
produce proofs from gentlemen who were high in the con-
fdence of Mr. Van Buren,, who now agree with us
perfectly in this conclusion If he had been run, we
should certainly have been beaten-beaten than
had been in 1910, when the now derided Virginia,
illuminated as she is by his own Hotspur son,
stood nobly by his banner, whilst his own proud Empire
State deserted his cause
When this conviction forced itself upon our mind,
exerted ourselves to satisfy him of the pain it had given
us, and OF the recttude of purposes. We do not
hesitate to say that this frank effort should have
ceeded with most men; but from the which has
been pursued towards by those who may be supposed
to reflect his feelings, from the feelings then expressed
and now shameessy INDUCED by his own ll-mannered
son, we fear we did not succeed with him. Let
these things, however, pass for the present The
time may come when.we may be called upon to explain
our whole course at that memorable period of our coun-
trys hstory-a period which, without the slightest an
tcpaon on our part and contrary to wishes, cont-
buted to bring us to this cityand happy to add,
brought with it to Washington an administration whose
sturdy good sense, manly rmness, and devoted attach
ment to the republican principles of 9s, have introduced
the most brilliant reforms in our internal policy and whose
public spirit. untirng energy, and wise Discrimination
have conducted foreign relations with lustre which
has been unsurpassed in our annals Had Mr.. Polk
failed in serving his country, should have regretted
the share which had in his election Had he betrayed
the Jeersonian principles which gave him the nomina-
ton secured him the election, and given success to his
administration should have rued the day that brought
us to Washington. But looking back, and seeing achat
oo~ L.. ~
at the humble part have had, for more than three
years. in cooperating with the present Executive we
confess that, wstwe have every congratulate
the country the choice it made in 1874, we do not
deeply regret the change which was made in the selection
OF candidate But as long duty to cur country
united with our attachment to Mr. Van Buren,, we ad-
hered to has fortunes; and only abandoned them when
that duty seemed imperatively to call us in different
direction.
For many years, in the part of the country from
whence we came, the favorite attack upon Mr. Van
Buren, was that he was cold, and selfish, and calcu-
lating in his nature, and that his professed de-
volt to the compromises of the constitution, and the
rights of the south under it, only assumed to secure
his personal aggrandizement- In common with others
of his friends, combaed this charge, and to great
extent pledged ourselves for its falsity Our chagrin
may then be imagined when read his late letter, SO
well calculated it is confound his former friends
and insure triumph to his ancient enemies.
But, impartial journalist we have duty to per-
form and we mean to perform it fearessly.
When Mr.. Van Buren, made up his mind to retire from
public life, after having graced the high station which
he had filled, we lament that he did not make up his
mind the time TO follow the example of the old
lustrous fathers of the republic and thereafter dscon
meet hims self from the party sres of the country
and not to allow himself TO be withdrawn from his re-
tirement, except great national occasion, and
then only to exhort his countymen TO patriotism and to
calm their excited passions But far from doing this
he comes forward this agated tme not only to take
part in pay squabble about the regularity of party
and the binding force of its action but when
The most exciting of all subjects has set the political
elements in commoton, he steps forward to pour oil
upon its troubled waters but to excite their rage not to
appeal to the love of the Unon-no to rouse the gene
rous catholic feelings of his counymennot to initiate
The spirit of Washington, and to confirm his warning
voice against all sectional interests and geographical par
tes but to build up, the most dangerous platform
which has been laid, the most mischevous of all
partesin confederacy of States- northern fres-terr
tory party, against the slaveholding southern party
And this movement comes from who has the charac
ter Of great statesman from who has received the
highest honors in the gift of the people; from one who
once declared himself to be aogether with the South