New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-06-24
Nomlnn,lon OF l!r. Yan Buren.

The Utica Convention o. the Banburning' or
Free Soil Democracy yesterday placed in nom'-
nation for President MARrls Vas BCRrS OF New
York and .or Vice President HEsRr DODGE Of
Wisconsin These are strong names oDa ine"
presentation di.peis whatever doubt may have
fingered 10 tie minds Of any Of the thorough eaFA-
ostness Of the Baraburncrs. They have not pat
mn Ibis ticket 10 be traded OF nor backed down.
They have not put 10 up as blind for the green
horns while tie leaders secretly vote for some one
else They mean 10 pol. for 1t tie last vote they
can get And. howeverthe fact may be regretted,
there can be- no sense in denying that good
many Wings now intend 20 vote With them. unless
Wing candidate shall be presented who is une.
quivocally committed % Free Soil We think
the probability is that Mr. Van Buren, viii in tbs
State receive more votes than Gen Cas-. Unless
controlled by party machinery Vermont Massa-
cmsetts. and Wisconsin are as likely 70 be ior
Van Buren, as for Cass And il The Free Soil Con-
vention called by Ohio 70 meet at Buffalo on the
oh of August should adoptthe Utica ticket u VIII
make Itself decidedly ielt ia the heart Of The Free
West These are facts Of which it would serve
no good end 10 ieign ignorance.
Nj Van Buren a. oli events IS again before the
public. as a candidate for President on the princi
pie Of Hostility to Slavery Extension. Since he
last swayed the scepts OF State be has endured
the chastenines Of adversely lac has enjoyed de-
cree unusual 10 him Of retirement and quiet be
has had opportunity Tor study and meditation and
he ought now 10 be q better and wiser man than
he was ten years ago. That he is OF rper expert
eoce and more determined principles need hardly
be noted And. though his prospect OF reaching
the Presidency IS not now a brilliant one, stranger
things have happened than his election At any
rate. ifhe Be ia soul equal 20 his better fortunes
he viii consider the vote OF single State cast tor
him on the Free Sol issue. aud in opposition o.
the entire machinery OF the two great parties as
more truly honorable than las election twelve
years ago, by the magic Of such machinery and the
overpow eing influence OF Gen. Jackson. he may
get lar fewer votes now than he received then. bat
those he does receive viii have more meaning ia
them and his canvass ia 1873 viii constitute
more memorable epoch ia his country history
than his election in 1885,
We have never esteemed Mr. Van Buren,. we
have known him as a political opponent nearly
ever since we could read we have regarded him
with diske for which political antogonism could
not wholly account. lie has seemed 90 us. in his
general character TOO cunning 20 be truly wise
and TOO calculating to be great His fundamental
ideas Of Government and Political Economy have
been those of special peader rather than
Spokesman. Suppose Cans were proposed his
vision seemed unable to take 30 the vast extent Of
country which il would benefit and improve he
sew but the lock tender aud rocery-kceper on
I'D ID wa
tended 20 favor them 90 the expense OF tie People
generally S. with the Tariff aud Public Deposit
questions SO with others. Wedo not doubt that
his expressed views were honestly entertained
We oay insist that such is not the policy whereby
People are rendered eminoudy prosperous en-
terprisine and happy.
Mr. Van Bareus present attitude presents
striking CONTRAST with iha' in which he was 81 0ue
time contemplated. OF old the most effective
champion aud director Of the caucus machinery
be now appears as its principal antagonist. Made
President In rccompense iqr a ions coarse of ser
vice 10 the ultra slaycho'ling interest, he was
siterward deserted aud struck down by that Ia-
terest for refusing 10 go al lengths in compliance
with is dictates That descrtion, that overthrow
be Row appears again in public % rctslate and
svcnge The colhdsat and prescribed successor
oi Gen jackson. be is now presented as the Zoe o.
that slavery-exlending policy whereof Jackson
was, Ia life, the mssier-spirit. HIS when CONE
plcicd. viii b. q chequercd end eyoatial history
Who shall truly 0epiot .t
There is one thing o. he remembered 90 favor
OF Mr. Van Burcn-whca President, he was
devoted friend OF Peace lie losi votes, when
candidate for reelection, by his efforts Co repress
the plots for notwithstanding Canada which were
50 rife all along the Northern frontier. Had Dee
remained President TIL this day, We should have
ha3 no War