The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-26
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
-.rnanAY MORNING, AUGUST 90, Isas.


N. New York Evening Post by yesterdays mail
-. a. the reply of Martin Van Buren, to the Com
n The Buffalo Convention. We are so crowded tins
-, rs, other articles, that we have not room for the
,,, we intended 10 make from the letter, and the re
-. ,b;eA they call for Ii is sufficient for TO state
i, a. prssent in the words of the Evening Post, thai
his, he 'maintains" 1--WE cannot Ind II IN our con
-, "a a, ..with simplicity and dgnity"-for we
a., ssen few things more fimsy and sophisuca
"a b. pa Of the letter. 'hs former position as an m
,,u,ary candidate. he asseats 10 the nomination. and
A. stiorn Of the convention" We also add our perfect
...uU,nce in the observation of the Evening Post,
.,.u, Van Buren's remarks on the abolition OF slave
a.. Di.rei of Columbia will doubtless be read
: a NOR, iaeresi than any other part OF the letter"
A. o,eal OF proving satisfactory" as the 'Post" con-
Il .s must frankly say, we have never seen any
~ ,aodaepous IN It's assertions and so dssaceful to Its
-, Can any reader believe, after all which has pass
. ~ Iss6 down 10 the 10th Of June last, should eue,
-. ,,.t. 10 repeat the words OF the Post. if Con
,,,.. .Aall nov pass law aboishing slavery in the
p.,rct and Mr. Van Buren, be the President, he will
su d his APPROVAL
Will Il he believed that any who has the slightest
Ind ior his consistency Tor his historic fame, for de-
,.eey or even for the appearance of decency, could
n raily 81 this gross and shameless apostacy After
lanng in 1885, that he mus, go into the presidential
h, the inhexbls and Incorporating opponent OF any
ms ON the part of Congress TO abolish slavery In the
n.re, Of Columbia against the wishes OF the slave
aiding Siaies"-aiieT declaring that the abolition OF
,,,ry IN the District against the wishes OF the slave
holding States would violate he prra Of that great CON-
,wiS Of interests that he at The basis Of our federal
,.apr and that il ''coud be done without imminent
o,yl # not certain destruction 10 The union Of The
S4s"aiter declaring, when he President, that he
would veto any bin which Congress might pass for III,
sbotioA Of sLIpsry "a he Disr,d Of Cofumbia-altel
declaring even as late the Goth Of June last that these
reasons were still satisfactory to his mind. in opposition
70 the exercise OF any such power by Congressman any
man believe that after these repeated long standing sol
smn declarations this bold sophs and shameless apos-
tate should now put forth ION the 22d OF August, only
sixty days aer this brazen evidence OF his tergversa
uon "Nlany of the which, in 1887 and before
operated produce these impressions, no longer ernst
asd H. when writing to the New York delegation al
Utica could have anticipated what has since occurred
should have felt it my duty discriminate between the
reasons which had passed away, and those which yet
main But when my letter to them written, nothing
could have been further from my expectations than thai
should ever again be a candidate for the presidency
and Of course it was not my intention TO say what my
conduct would be this any other matter, if again
an incumbent OF that place"
VIII il be further believed tina, he does not succeed in
assigning single satisfactory plausible
for this sudden and dsgnceiu ohange1 II anything
in the world could possibly sink Mr. Van Buren, into "tht
lower deep" it is the extraordinary character of th
part OF the transaction Call i, satisfactory" No i'm
partial Judge in the Union pronounce il to be any
thing but most unsatisfactory and most disgusting. We
shall take up this subject again tomorrow. We write
IN sorrow but in anger too. Great has been the
change in our feelings towards Mr. Van Buren, yet the
cause is his change upon these great questionsnot III
ourselves