The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-04-25
Firm N Ne.o York Sunday Times.
Stqmino the Citadel.

| Our fried n. Van Buren, has been studying
| military taticsand operations, as Cornet Ollapod
calls them lndtas been for some months reconnoi-
tering the I'd Imocratic citadel; and having COM
pleted his ianshe opened his batteries ON Monday
evening lat, 'half hour after the setting of the
| sum-" andcertinly took the Old Hunkers by sur
| prise. HiforpraPs guard was strengthened by
small detahmats from Staten Island, Cony Island,
Long Isald, kockland, Westchester; and wher-
ever he cold fad old soldier who had been in
rammanswithn half century, he enlisted him
for the we uner the "union and harmony" ban
ner Thdighwas to ascertain whether the Hun
ker Demoratss should hold possession of the wig
wan, orwheher the Wilmot proviso Free-Soil
AbotionIts spuld unfurl their nag on the ram
parts OF I'd 1lmmany The shells and hot shot
poured irbrisIy until midnight-the Free Soilers
held possssoIof the chief battery-and when they
began tocouit the votes, they found six or seven
Hunkers ad been elected sachems. Two or three
were with vote OF being elected and apprehen-
sive that le whole bunker ticket had succeeded,
which woelieve was the case, the powder monkeys
ran off with the ammunition boxes, the grand sa-
chem cared away the cartouches, hand grenades,
and coneeve rockets, and the whole made their
exit in sraFid stampede, little damaged in the
rear.
In serias stdness what did Mr.. Van Buren, ex-
pect to gin by this sly, secret, undermining at
tempt to et into Tammany Hall? Ofwhat benefit
would thtbriEks and mortar of that building be to
him, witlutthe twenty thousand Democrats in the
city whoever again will be found in. his ranks?
Why, thcwlole Van Buren, party in this city can
be Accommodated in the smallest committee room
in the wIwam II is really melancholy to see a
gentlcma ike Mr.. Van Buren,, who is esteemed
by all wb know him personally, and who has held
the ilusoIs Office of Chief gistrate of this great
Notwithstanding upon his old political and per-
sonal friadi, to whom he is under such deep obi
cations, ivlding and breaking them down, and
stoopingo The covert acts of trickery to preserve
an influece which he himself had sacrificed to a
weak and unchastened ambition. 1t is true that
MIR. Van3uren has been ruined by the pernicous
counscls that abolition Journal the EUening Post.
Yet he ws once good judge Of editorial tact and
lers of sfferson? What influence from a paper
once ththighest in the Union when under MIR.
ColemarB management, but now the least noticed
and the lost neglected in the Slater What does all
this mea.? We will state 1t in few words.
The Fee Sellers and Barnburners throughout
the Stateare tired Of Mr.. Van Buren, and family,
and are eternined to shake them off, and come
back to the Democratic ranks without any
test, in nnioa and harmony. Mr. Van Buren,
knows it andis determined to have union with
out he lisa sh,rer in its benefits. He wants to have
his elected Senator in Congress-to harness
the Democracy of this State to his Car for another
half centlry;and he finds in the city some congo
NAL spirits, Who have lived on the party for thirty
five years, and who willing to take Mr.. Van
Buren, and hi corporal's guard to secure victory,
in hopes of again dividing with them the loaves
and fishes in 1884,
Any uaion with Mr.. Van Buren, and allies will
lose US tie whole South; and if such union cannot
be accomplished without again bringing him and
main as we Itcannot be accomplished. There
are more than ten thousand firm Democratic votes
in this city which will always be cast against such
corrupt coalition, 40 matter who the sachems may
be in ole Tammany If an honest, just, and pure
union were contemplated, the low trickery of steal
ing into Tammany in disguise, as was attempted
on last Monday evening, is not the way to accom-
plish it,