Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-09-20
Extract from the Speech Of d +. Ei2Ee.t,
of Mass, recently delivered at SYRIA
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"It is the whig boast and their sole hope
of success, that the democracy have now
got a family quarrel which cannot be SCI
tied, and out of this they are calculating to
steal from US the vote Of New York. Learn
from your enemy: "The independent course
of the barnburners of New York (sars the
Boston Atlas) fills the heart of every true
whig with strong and confding hope"
"What folly have | committed that they
praise me?" said the wise man when his
foes applauded. The barnburners, then,
are regarded as the allies of the Boston
federal wings, and through their disorg al
ization they have their strongest hope ef the
triump ph of old Hartford Convention federal
ism, in the person of President who is to
have no vote and no opinion, and to be
guided by the counsels of Massachusetts,
Cotton Wings. To this complexion they
say, you are coming here in New York, in
this glorious Empire State, the home of the
elder Clinton, of Tompkins, of Wright, and
of what once aUas, Martin Van Buren,!
Yes, men of New York, Martin Van
Buren, his son John, his pupil B. F. Butler,
and all the "Bourbons" are in the field,
demanding their restoration, or they will
surrender the glorious, democratic, Empire
State. to the Boston federalists! VIII you,
to feed the morbid revenge, or crafty the
disappointed ambition of any one man or
set of men, consent to pass under that yoke
and submit to that degradation?
Romance itself furnishes no such incon-
sistency of fiction as will be that truth,
should the designs of the leaders of this
conspiracy in New York cucceed, ard Mar
tin Van Buren,, who for thirty years has
been the scorn and detestation of the Massa-
chusetts federalists, should, in his expiring
political struggle, bindly pull down upon
the heads of the democracy of New York
the fabric he has spent his whole life to rear
That once strong man and Judge in Israel,
blinded by his personal resentments, to be
found, by his own consent, grinding in the
of the Philistines! What
spectacle! Is it fiction, or is it fact!
speak of Mr.. Van Buren as you all do,
more in sorrow than in anger, at this his
desertion in his old age from the democra-
cy that has fostered him as its pet chlld' TO
the enemy that has exhausted language
and carica ture in his abuse. You of New
York have toiled for and given all you had
10 that man, as if the democracy belonged
20 him, and not he to the democracy; and
his is the gratitude, not of republics, but of
lin whom the republic has raised to its
highest honors, and placed his name where
once stood brilliant in the circle of the
,atriot Presidents, but where it will here
fter forever no longer remain, but be blot
ed out and erased in the history and the
cart of the democracy! Never again shall
7e hear in honorable succession the names
f Jefferson, Madison, Jackson and Van
'uren. l too have done my share, as we
Il have, through the length and breadth
this land, and 1 have right to speak
lainly of this, astonishing detection; for
ear l shall have to ask forgiveness some .
there for the one hundred and sixty speech c