Washington sentinel., 1853-11-10

Buren dynasty--for acting as free and inde-
pendent-an honest rs upright citizen. But
now we must stop for the present. We have
cleared away the rubbish, SO that having full
view of Mr. Secretary Guthrie, we can paint
him to the life, and set forth at the same time,
facts which the people ought to know, and
ponder and understand.
THE RICHMOND EXAMINER AND NEW
YORK POLITICS.
We commend to our readers the following
article, which we have extracted from the edi-
torial columns of that sterling paper, the Rich
mond Examiner. 1t contains brief historical
review of the elder Van Buren, and a very
pithy clear and intelligible statement of the
present condition of New York politics. 1t is
almost needless for us to say, that the opinions
expressed, the positions taken, and the sympa-
thies indicated command our unqualified ap-
proyal and concurrence. The Examiner has
had the sagacity to discover the true state Of
affairs, to detect freesoilism and abolitionism
in all their subtle transmutations, and in all
their cunning disguises. 1t has also the man
illness and the frankness, please or displease
whom it may, to say what it thinks, to express
what it feels and to stand by the true friends
of the national democracy and Of the Consttu-
ton.
The Examiner has large circulation in the
south. 1t wields a powerful influence, and we
;,,.J;,a n, tba haEaf tba+ ;ts o,;n;on. n , M
thies harmonic as completely with the southern
mind and heart as those of any other journal.
The Examiner is true, honest, and firm. We
are. happy to cooperate with it in the good
cause it has espoused. 1t is true exponent
Of the national democratic mind. and will never
have cause to repent Of pursuing its straight
forward and patriotic course. The Examiner
says:
MARTIN VAN BuREN.-The career of Mr..
Van Buren is full of instructive admonition.
Few men have even engaged more fully or for a
longer period, the earnest attention of the conn
try than he has done. None have passed so
completely through the whole scale of popular
regard and detestation, from zenith to nadir
as this gentlemen. Before his connection with
he had, BY the peculiar circumstances attend
ing his career, in reaching the high offices of
distinction he had filed, and from the great
ability he had always displayed, rendered him
self one of the most conspicuous of the remark
able men who figured in that remarkable pc
Rod. To very high powers Of oratory, he added
force of reason and argument and a skill
and tact in the management of men and the
direction of political affairs, rarely equalled,
and still more rarely excelled. He was con-
spicnous in the ranks of the democracy in the
debates of the Senate, in the regard Of the ma
ton. He was universally looked to as the
chief cabinet minister of Gen. jackson admin
istration; and was amongst the most efficient
of that resistless phalanx which overthrew the
dynasty of John Quincy Adams, and installed
in his stead the hero of New Orleans. Mr..
Van Buren discharged the duties of his CON
spicuous place with dignity and marked abil
ty. General Jackson respected, loved, and
confded in him; and used as it was thought
his irresistible influence to constitute him his
successor. In the presidential chair, as in all
other preceding stations, Mr.. Van Buren, proved
himself fully equal to the position History
will record his administration as amongst the
boldest and abest that ever adorned its an.
nails. He was bold, frank, and undiseuised !:
and under any other circumstances than those
which surrounded him, would have retired from
his duties and his office amid the applause and
with the confidence of the people. But crisis
in the monetary affairs of the country came,
which gave rise to political tornado such as
this country never witnessed, that drove him
and every vestige of his party from place and
power. After four years of whig ascendancy,
the democratic party cast about for a proper
candidate in whose hands to place their stand.
ard iu the ensuing contest; and all eyes natu-
rally turned to the man who had been uniustly
and fraudulently overthrown in an outrage
GUS and indefensible warfare upon the party
he led
1t is bootless now to inquire by what means
he was defeated for the nomination at Balti-
more in 1914. He trds defeated; and the foun-
tains OF his heart were turned into gall and
bitterness. In his resentment Of that conceived
injustice, he forgot the honors, the confidence
and the glory he had enjoyed from the demo
cratic party. lie turned away from the friends
that had esteemed and served hin,I-tbe old line
democracy. The true faithful, fighting. nm.
wavering, conquering democrats he turned
from and turned against like his old neighbor,
the first Arnold. He did more. He turned
away from the principles Of national republi.
canism, and "went whoring after false gods
and, like Jeroboam the son Of Nebat. made
Israel to SIM" The south looked with amaze.
ment and utter sorrow upon his alarming, his
infamous desertion in ls4S; not only OF party
and principles, Of his honor and integrity. but
OF his Constitution and his country. There was
then not one solitary human voice of all the
countless throng Of true.hearted, honest men.
who had honored and seyred him, that did not
utter its deep and bitter execrations Of the trail
tor and the treason. His name became thence
forth bly.word and reproach, and 50 has
continued 10 6e.
Mr.. Van Buren identified himself, in ls4s.
with the treesoil party Of the north, and took
~ the tenets Of his faith and articles OF his
creed, the reasonable Buffalo platform. The