Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-07-12

If the United States, regardless OF national
nomination. The old hero warned him and
begged him to submit like a good democrat
saying, "Much as love and acknowledge |
you as having been one of my most reliable
friends, a feeling of duty and what l con-
slider in propriety and justice as due to the
North, compels me to acquiesce in the NOM
nation of distinguished son of New York,
as it is not meet and proper for Tennessee to
have two Presidents consecutively." Thus
felt and spoke the old hero, as was asserted |
by Judge White and his friends, who after
wards became Gen. Jackson's most bitter
reviers and enemies, and as l doubt not eve
ry intelligent New Yorker knew and be-
lieved they would be. Where did this great
and good man, White, democrat as he was
of the deepest dye, in attempting to oppose
the usages of our party, land? Why in
the great federal party side by side with
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, the very
man who above all others they most cordially
despised.
To return, in order to secure the success
OF our party organization, and Mr.. V. Bu-
ren as its standard bearer, we N. Workers
aided in calling the first Baltimore National
Convention. 1t was called by our enemies,
the @Albany Regency" transferred to Balti-
more. In that convention of 1885, mas
much as Judge White was SO strong in that
State, Tennessee did not send or nominate
any delegate to attend. There being no
one appointed, and it being all important as
our "Albany Regency" folks then thought,
and in order to help our old friend Colonel
Johnson beat w. C. Rives for the Vice
Presidential nomination, we called on one
Mr.. Ned Rucler, a merchant, who was upon
a visit to buy goods. We introduced him
without the sembance of a credential, and
permitted him to cast in convention the eley-
en- votes of Tennessee for Mr.. Van Buren
and R. M. Johnson. Rucker by this act
became as notorious to fame as the Balti-
more Convention, and unlike Gen. Comman-
der he had eleven instead of nine tails.
These items show, as we are compelled to
admit, that although we New Workers, as
we regret, did not this time get any tails
into the Baltimore convention, nevertheless
we got the advantage in 1885; and that so
far as the irregularity of Gen. Commanders
casting the whole vote of South Carolina is
concerned, whatever other States may say
and think, we New Workers are estopped
from either objecting Or complaining. We
are, most unfortunately, in a glass house,
and we dare not, with consistency, if we
would, throw any stones. Was there any
other difficulty in the convention of 1885
which we New Workers had any hand in
managing? There was-but before pre-
senting the points of the other difficulty
which then occurred, with its manner Of ad-
justment, we will go back little further,
and revive some historical facts which, per-
haps, in tile heat and rashness of our pre-
sent excitement, many of us may have over
looked. In 1882 Mr.. Van Buren, was the
Vice Presidential candidate on the Jackson
ticket; although Gen. Jackson got the vote
Of that democratic State of Pennsylvania in
1882, Mr.. Van Buren did not-the electors
casting their votes, for some strange reason,
for VIM. Wilkins instead of Mr.. Van Buren,.
Remembering the fact that Pennsylvania
democracy had repudiated (most improper
ly, as we all belieyed) Mr.. Van Buren as
the Vice Presidential candidate in 1882;
and perceiving that there were two setts of
delegates from the democracy of the State of
Pennsylvania knocking at the door of the
convention (l835) at Baltimore for admis-
sion, one John @. Adams supposing our
party would encounter an insurmountable
difficulty, and that we would be sure of of
Tending one or the other of the Pennsylvania
delegations, and thus as surely as we did so
lose the vote of Pennsylvania for Mr.. Van
Buren, asked in advance, how will the CAL
bany Regency" system of tactics manage to
"dodge" this difficulty? The old Massa-
chusetts man laughed in his sleeve, and
thought, let us decide as we would, if we
took one delegation and rejected the other,
the vote Of Pennsylvania would certainly be
lost to Mr.. Van Buren. Well, the two del
egations, one called the Muhlenberg and the
other the Wolf boys, presented themselves to
the Baltimore Convention, each claiming to
be the only rightful representatives of the
Pennsylvania democracy, and each insisting
that the convention must and should decide
between them. What was the conduct and
decision of the convention of 1885 in regard
to these two delegations? Why, most just
ly and prudently, as we, the Old Guard of
New York, then said and believed and de-
Tended: we will receive you both into the
but you must settle your family
quarrel among yourselves. Like good and
loyal democrats, the Wolf and Muhlenburg
boys went out, and, like men burying all
dissensions and willing to do everything for
the cause, they returned as brothers into the
convention, the Muhlenberg casting one half
and the Wolf boys the other half of the DEM
ocratic vote of Pennsylvania for Martin Van
Buren and Richard M. Johnson. By this
procedure the electoral vote of Pennsylvania
was most triumphantly secured for the Bal
timore nominees. If these aetngs and do
ings we're right and proper in 1885, we ask
in ali common honesty, is not the same pro-
cedure when applied to New York in l848,
as just, honorable and fair, as it was In
1885. We can come to but one conclusion,
and that is ubmission-notd degrading-but
honest, democratic submission, to the Balt1-
more Convention of l848.
We ask all our old friends to ponder on
:hese things; to examine the facts, and, after
a sober second thought, let lis ask ourselves
f we are not making mountain out of
we are not betraying and jeop-
ardizing all the hallowed principles and the
best interests of the democratic party, in suf-
Fering ourselves to be offended at the decis-