The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-15
From the Buffalo Courier
The Course of MIR. Van Buren,.


party, differs extraordinary degree from the con
duct of his predecessors in the executive chair as to de
mand at the hands OF every Democrat examination OF
the motives that alone could lead To such proceeding
Mr.. Van Buren, is the first President who, having
fulfilled his of Office has thought proper again to
enter the political arena, in opposition to the party tina
has conferred upon hun lis repeated and MS highest hon
ors, and IN utter disregard of every feeling OF gratitude
and honorable obligation 10 those who have sacrificed
The conduct OF his predecessors after having discharged
the high duties pertaining to the CHEF magisiracy OF the
republic, stands upon an emnence and commands re-
spect that MIR Van Buren, hope to attain.
After Washington had fulfilled his eight years of
utive service he took no part whatever In the pouca
struggles Of the time, until his country called him to head
her armies against a threatened invasion from France
John Adams after the close of his presidential term
passed twenty-five years in retirement, and reappeared
the political stage only to give the benefit OF has wis
dom and experience in reforming the constitution OF his
State The people ceased remember HIM the advo
cate of an alien and sediton laws and when he died
they mourned for him one OF the patrols OF the revo
luton During seventeen years OF retirement, Jefferson
devoted himself the advancement OF the cause OF edu
cation and the elegant enoymens OF literature and PIN
osophy. The great "apostle OF liberty had other and
dgnied employment than that OF writing letters to
conventions of boilers from the democracy or omentng
sectional enmities between the NORTH and the south
Madison and Monroe kept far aoot from partisan strife
the former enjoying the respect and veneraoD OF the ma
ton for his abilities and services the latter dying poor
in this worlds goods but rich the honors bestowed by
nation of ireemen. John Quincy Adams did not aspire
second time office to which he had once been ee
waited, though not by the sutrages OF The people The
patriot Jackson retired from the executive mansion to the
H @ vi le san has Go IN
since the expiration of his term OF Office and will not
again be likely desire the higrsation he has filled
Contrasted with the pursued by those who have
thus far occupied the presidential chair how Illuminating
ls the position in which Mr. Van Buren, stands before the
couny Most truly has it been said of him, after hav
ing distinctly asserted that he had retired from the stage,
and finished his career public man, he permits him
self to be the tool of the most contemplate faction that
wild because forbidden to rum the republic HE
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by showing that the people made in every way vital
mistake in permitting him to fill it. II has proved that
he is mere politician who, TO use DAlembert's idea
cawled to that elevation to which he could attain
by eagle flight He has destroyed his own reputation
and added another to those evidences which the arso-
cratica party fond OF adducing Of the mistakes
into which the people will sometimes fall. He has for
feed the place that he had himself won in history, which
with that group of men whom the American people
had pronounced the "most worthy" among millions It's
idle for him say equally idle Tor his friends to say
for him-tha he has come from his retirement at a crit
cal for his country, when would be shameful
in any man to remain apart from strife: what ne now
proposes to do violently in opposition to all the acts
of his life-his present views are so distinctly at war
with those he held from 1929 to lS4Sthat no man not
ncuraby mad can be made to believe that he rs sincere
in his present hostility to slavery His object is PLAIN
as the light of day, and Enthusiastically apparent that
the bindest cannot be excused Tor not seeing It. RE
VENICE is what he seeks and what he TO have, If
he sacrifices the whole democratic party to obtain it. He
is the Zanga of politics. who leaves nothing undone to
crafty passion that he has been nursing for more than
in his organization 1t the most shameful spectacle IN
our history, that of man who has had every honor
heaped upon him using the influence created IN MS behalf
to destroy the party whose action alone made nm power
full enough render his movements OF any consequence
From the Newport IN. H) Argus and Spectator.
| Ex.President Van Buren,.
During all last week exchange papers were rife
with reports that Martin Van Buren, had given in his ad
hesion to the principles OF the barnburnes OF New YORK
and had consented to accept their votes as tree-ol
candidate for the presidency Without doubling the
truth Of these reports we however chose to await the
that it would unfold some mitigating clrcumsan ces
which would spare the necessity OF making the
nouncement to our readers, accompanied With our own
ment lies before us, furnishing fuel for the flame
which it feeds and hope and encouragement to the dis
organizers to whom it is addressed but not single
apology which justify his in the eyes Of the
democracy
The federal and abolition papers will of claim
the privilege of giving publicity this letter. and wsare
willing they should enjoy the monopoly of spreadA9 it
before that portion OF the people whom concerns. 1t is
but political recantaton OF the northern man with
termed him. and will probably atone for all his past po
ca sins. He abors hard to reconcile his views with
those of other eminent statesmen-lusthes his barn
burner friends in refusing to pledge themselves to support
the nominee of the national convention-and finally
dorses their browning act of treachery by saying do,
therefore, unhestangy approve of the you pro-
Cass and shall do myself" This declaration is prefaced
by two or three columns OF why's and whereores of little
weight in the estimation of democrats who recognise the
binding force of regular nominations. AS have already
ntmaned, shall leave to the federal press and the fed
eral party-to whose keeping MIR. " b. has virtually
committed his famehe exclusive monopoly of this letter.
Regarding all men enemies who oppose nom
nations shall longer regard the President
friend of that party to whom he indebted for life Of
public favors. In suffering himself to be made
petor for the presidency, after the democracy have
placed candidate in the field who adheres to the
general policy which he illustrated in his own ad
ministraon he clearly shows that the secret of his hos
tty springs from his disappointed hopes in 1874 1t will
be impossible for the democracy to assign any other
son for his extraordinary course and If mistake not
their frmness, they will not fail to rebuke his reachery,
by extending still stronger support TO Lewis Cass.
The federal papers endeavOring to fatter their
readers into the belief that Mr.. Van Buren, will carry
several doubtful States against Gen Cass and insure his
defeat For our own part, we believe he will only con-
centrae the efforts OF the barnburners and boilers in all
sections of the Union upon himself, without disturbing
the prospects of the democracy in single State. The
previously organized elements of opposition TO the
nces of both parties will gather around him with as little
derment to Gen Cass's election if that opposition
were divided among others He will carry with him no
apostacy.
While we have not yet seen the first democratic paper,
out of the pale of the barnburner league which does
not condemn the course of Mr.. Van Buren,, per-
they in expressing their surprise and
modification. Previous TO the national convention in
1874 his name the head of nearly every paper
in New England, and nearly every delegate to that
vention from the New England States voted for him as
their first choice They adhered him until became
evident that he could not be sustained, and abandoned
him only to their party. With that event Mr. Van
Buren, announced that his public servant had
closed forever and supposed that he would pre-
fer to retire with the fame he had and with the con-