Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-09-20

hat now and hereafter shall inhabit the
States of this Union. Trace the history of
hat Union, from the thirteen States tnat first
,ormed it, under the compromises of the
constitution, without which it never could
have existed, up to the thirty States that
now constitute the foremost republic of the
world. and remember under what constitute
tion of that constitution, and under what
administrations these vast results of good
have been achieved. Since the division OF
parties began between the advocates OF con-
solidation and strong government, and tho
supporters of strict construction and state
rights in all things not clearly conceded TO
the central power, there have been twelve
Presidential elections, and in all of them but
one, in 1910, democratic administrations
have been chosen by the voice of the people.
The election Of John Quincy Adams in 1924
is no exception, for it was not by the people,
but through the corrupt and dangerous
process of an election by the House Of Rep
resentatives, which the people corrected the
first moment the constitution permitted them
to resort to peaceful revolution by the ballot
box That fearful ordeal the irregular
supporters of Mr.. Van Buren, here in New
York, are striving again to force upon the
country, through coalition with the party
of disunion, the abolitionists, by the nomi-
nation of third candidate, and that candi-
date to be Martin Van Buren, the once fa-
vorite son of New York. They know, and
we all know, that ev cry vote for such can
didate in the plurality States, is half a vote
for Gen. Taylor, and direct aid to the
success of beaten and prostrated federalism.
through President who, could he be elect
ed by the desertion from regular nomina-
tions, is to be made the instrument of those
who dare not come before the people upon
their own principles, to revive the exploded
system of the two Adamses, and the one
months reign of the cabinet of Gen. Har-F
rison.
| Now, felow-citizens, will the democracy
of the Empire State lend themselves to such
purpose? This is the practical issue to
be decided for New York, in the thirteenth
contest for tie Presidency, between the
democratic and the federal party of the
Union. Win you vote for your country,
or will you vote for revenge? The struggle
into which Mr.. Van Buren has so unwisely
thrown himself, is ole of utter desperation.
He could not carry his own Stale. and he
got only two Northern States in l04O, when
the democratic party was united and earnest
in his support He cannot therefore now
divide and conquer. His only hope must
be, if he hopes at all, to divide and let Gen.
Tay lor CONQUER now, ard thus by exaspera-
ton between Ncrth and South, prepare the
way for N.rthern party to restore him in
1852!
And now what position is this for re-
tired President Of the United States t~ occu-
pv? The very man for whom National
Conventions were made, repudiating the
nomination of the only democratic conven-
ton which for sixteen years has refused to-
consider him before the people at all as q
+ candidate. The man who has held every
state and national office in the gift of the
, democracy, solely by means OF the strict
party discipline of adherence to regular
bnomina tons, new betting the nominations
Of the Baltimore Convention upon false is
> sues and false facts!
The man who never could have been
President or Vice President but for South
e ern votes, and who went so far South that
he ran Northern democrats cut of breath to
: keep up with him, now suffering his kame
0 to be hawked about in barnburnet's S caucuses,
4 abolition meetings and conscience whig
e conventions, as the rallying head Of a North
e ern party Ct all opinions and all complex
e ions standing upon the miserably narrow
platform of hatred to the South, and aim
Y ing directly at the dissolution of the Union J
s Yes, fellow-citizens, if we wanted to con-
, template a spectacle cf human weakness
I i Tto Ia he cepcar achp
where should we find it more painfully ex-
e hibited than in the struggle now going on,
with the consent of his father, by the son Of
} an ex-President Of the United States, upon
? whom the democracy had lavished all its
honors, to break into boiling, abolition,
semi-whig convention up here in Buffalo,
and from the congregated odds and ends Of
; all parties and no parties get third nolnin-
alton for the Presidency!
If this be patriotism, it is that potriotism
| which Washington warned his countrymen
, against as sectional treason to the Union.
If to follow Mr.. Van Buren down this prec-
ipice of disunion, is to adhere to friend,
: when it is precisely what jackson con-
demned adhesion to friend at the expense
; of abandoning the country.
LII II De prOmpteq ny HdtTeu 10 tue Coutn
) for the defeat of 1910, it is as unjust to the
South as tits unworthy a great statesman.
The South did not abandon Mr.. Van Bu-
ren in 1910. Virginia, who never voted
5 for federal President, stood by him to the
last, at the head of the seven States that
gave him their sixty votes, while his own
New York led off the Northern opposition
at the head of every Northern State, save
New Hampshire and Illinois.
Mr.. Van Buren,, by his fidelity to the
compromises of the Constitution, and his
extreme doctrines of non-interference with
the domestic Institutions of the South, ac-
quired the distinctive epithet, given him by
Mr.. Adams, of @the Northern man with
Southern principles" and he now suffers
himself to be held up before the coming Buff
falo convention as exclusively the Northern
man with Northern principles.
If this means resentment to the South,
because his election failed in 1910, and his
nomination in the Convention of 1914, there
is no distinction to be gained for an e1-
President in that course which has not been
anticipated and absorbed by the late Presi-
dent Adams.
The country gave great credit to Mr..