New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-13

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n ,our l. i.ersble political twaders aui toidie'
rtetber Hard or Soft, whether conservative or r,i
cal whether -old fogies' or young giants' But
still even If msnliness. slfrespect' democratic pm
.Ies,nd republican ideas did not all beckon 10 tho
enterprise, the wrctched success, as slight his'or-
cal review will show, of those who have tried the
other method might suggest 10 q strong and firm
minded man at least to try the experiment
John Quincy Adams strove to concliste the South,
and to force bis way 70 the Presidency by pushing to
extraysgant lengths the claims against Spain under the
Louisiana Treaty AID ~ iustifying Gen. Jacksons in
vasion Of Florida and LIS violent proceedings there
This, however old not help him He got no southern
votes except few ia Mary land through the aid OF the
old Federalists and he was made President only by
Henry Claws powerful influence in Congress, who on
tbs. as ON other occasions induced several members OF
the House to disregard the strong and undoubted wishes
Of their constituents That Mr Adams was, in bis pri
yate opinion. opposed to Slavery-tla. be saw and
keeply felt TO what political humliaiOns and subsection
the oigarchy of shareholders had reduced the free
States of the North-we have abundant evidence in the
entries in Lis Diary Oh the occasion Of the Missouri
Compromise which bis grandson has recently caused
TO be published and the more essential part Of which
may be found quoted in the last chapter OF the sixth
volume of Hidreths History Of the United States Yet
no sooner had Mr.. Adams become President than he
set himselfto work toappease and moly the southern
Cerberus and prepare the way for his reelection
by negotiations FOR the acquisition of Texas aad Cuba
thus giving the first impulse 10 those project. OF annex
alton which subsequent northern asPrsats for the
Presidency quckened into such rapid and dangerous
motion But ell this and various other sweet cakes
kneaded and baked BY Mr. Adams for the special mol-
fcaton of the shareholders, ayailed him nothing lie
retained indeed at the second election the most OF his
own northern votes but he could rot secure single
ore of those which Mr.. Clay attempted tOtranser to
him and it was probably, the smart Of this defeat,
the disposition TO punish those from whom be had no
longer anything to hope, no less that the natural I'M
pulses of his own unrestricted feelings that made Sir
Adams. returning 10 Washington now 90 longer
with Presidential aspirations but simply as repre-
sentative fro Massachusetts, tie unfinching advocate
Of freedom aLd the rights of the North So long a. the
I tx.Tresdeut sst in CONGRESS there room for
Mr. Webster's bitter question, if there really were
North 4 North there was. AMI a man TO speak for
II and he whose previous political career had LETT hin
little more than the reputation OF a selfish poll
tician-one If those who know to change il time aud
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by his nrepidiiy ceaseess watchfuness ineIhalstibe
resources and treess energy in good though anpopu-
lar cause, mantle broad enough to cover a multitude
of sins, and bright enough to give him conspicuous
place in history long after most Of his northern cotem-
poraries shall have sunk into the oblivion Of utter
contempt
The next northern aspirant for the Presidency was
Martin Van Bu,en but as Nr. Adams was under no
obligations to the Shareholders for his election, being
exclusively indebted for it to the political friendship oil
Mr. Clay, 20 Mr.. Van Buren, owed his mainly to tue
personal friendship of Andrew Jackson Yet to sp-
pease the Cerberus at the door of the White House,
and to prepare the way for reelection no sooner was
he in than he threw down cake Of bis own baking in
that famous passage of his inaugural address in which
he pledged himself beforehand to veto any bill for the
abolition of Slavery in the District Of Coumba-words
which in the end be himself found it necessary to
swslow not without some wry faces on the occasion
His northern partisans in Congress introduced aud
sustained the famous gag by which twas attempted to
suppress all discussion at Washington of the subject
of Slavery, while the subordinate and local Van
Pureu politicians made Themselves particularly busy
in denouncing and mobbing the aboltonists with the
view of suppressipg discussion everywhere. But in
,pite of all this Jealous subseryiency, by which lir
Van Buren, earned the title of the Northern man with
Southern principles" he was completely swept away
he the financial whirlwind which grew out OF the
famous scheme of regarding the custody of the pubic
money a. part Of the spos to be divided among the
vcors and when he attempted to get another nornna
ton for the Presidency he quite overbd BY Lewis
Cass, who came out plump and full for the Annexation
of Texas.
However much this very sweet cake might mollify
and make friendly the dog at the door, Mr. Cas- now
made the important discOvery-whch other future
northern asprants for the Presidency will do well not
to forget nor overlook-tha the said dog at the door,
dreadful and formidable a. he may be, does not, after
all. constitute the sole obstacle to entrance. The
,host of the murdered Mr. Van Buren,, (sabbed under
the fifth rib by false northern rival) and his whole
troop of office seeking friends stood in the way, and
instead of Letting in the jubilant Mr. Cas-, they
pushed him aside, and struck up bargain BY means
! of which Mr Polk became President
But the persevering panstaking, aspiring Mr. Cas'
was not thus to be STAYED off He rolled up his sleeves
higher than ever, gave the bandanna twtch
or two to pull it over tho wool which had peeped out
little toe conspicuously that at once unlucky and
lucky occasion the Senate when John Davis by talk
ing against tme had actually kept him, as if by force
from committing himself in favor of the Wmot Pro-
viso and with that benignan selfconfdent smile with
which your>Aunt Chloes address themselves TO the
preparation of special good dish by means OF which
they hope to accomplish object with renewed ardor
he plunged himself up to the elbows in the dough
Long he sweated over his task and in due time was