Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-11-10

against them and after a long session ofstorm.
and rage. intermitted daring the night for sleep
and intrigue, and resumed again in the morh-
iInr. an eighth ballot was taken, and without
hone for Miriam Buren,. AS his. vote went
down, that for Messrs. Cas-, Buchanan ana
r. M. johnson rose but without carrying Ell
Their of them to a majority, much less two
thirds. Seeing the combination against him,
the friends of Mr.. Van Buren withdrew his
name, and the party was then without a candi-
date known to the people. Having killed of
the one chosen by the people, the convention
remained masters of the field, and ready to sup
Div one of its own. The intrigue, commenced
in 1912, in the Gilmer letter, had succeeded
one-half. 1t had put dow one man, but ano-
ther was to be put up and there were enough
of Mr.. Van Buren'S friends to defeat that part
of the scheme. They determined to render
their country that service, and therefore with
drew Mr.. Van Buren, that they might go in a
body for a new man. Among the candidates
for the Presidency was Mr.. james X.
Polk, of Tennessee. His interest as a Vice
presidential candidate lay with Mr.. Van Buren,,
and they had been much associated i'll the minds
of each others friends. 1t was an easy step
for them to support for the first Office, on the
loss ofstheir first choice, the citizen whom they
intended for the second. Without public an
nouncements he was slightly developed as IA
Presidential candidate on the eighth ballot; on
the ninth he was unanimously nominated, all
the president-makcrs who had been voting for
others-for Cass, Buchanan, demonstrating
the current the instant they saw which way it
was going, in order that they might claim the
merit of conducting it. "You bring but seven
UE.-o - ,oy ont h,f thn,rcnpHo. of n fnnt
them" was the sarcastic remark of a king of
antiquity at seeing the multitude that came to
claim honors and rewards for taking a few
prisoners. Mr.. Polk might have made the
same exclamation in relation to the multitude
that assumed to have nominated him. Their
name was legion for, besides the unanimous
convention, there was a host of outside opera
tors, each of whom claimed the merit of hav-
ing governed the vote of some delegate
Never was such a multitude seen claiming the
merit and demanding the reward for having
done what had been done before they heard of
it.
The nomination was a surprise and marvel
to the country. No voice in favor of it had
been heard, no visible sign in the political
horizon had announced it. Two small symp-
toms-small in themselves and equiyocal in.
their import, and which never would have
been remembered except for the eyent-doubt-
fully foreshadowed it. One was a paragraph
in a Nashville newspaper, alphabetically sug-
costing that Mr.. Polk should be taken up if
Mr.. Van Buren, should be abandoned the
other, the OminouS circumstance that the Ten
nessee state nominating convention made a
recommendation (Mr. Polk) for the second
office, and none for the first ; and Tennessee
being considered q Van Buren, state, this omis-
sion was significant, seeming to leave open the
door for his election, and for the admission of
some other person. And so the delegates
from that state seemed to understand it, voting
steadily against him until he was withdrawn.
The ostcnsible objection to the last against
Mr.. Van Buren, was his oppositionto Immediate
annexation. The ShalloWneSS of that objection
was Immediately shown in the unanimous nomi-
nation of bis bosom friend, Mr.. Siias Wright,
identical with him in all that related to the
Texas negotiation, for Vice-Prcsident. He
was nominated upom the proposition Of Mr..
Robert j. Walker-a handspring in all the
movements against Mr.. Van Buren,, whose
indefatigable opponents sympathized with the
Texas scripand land SPECTATORS. Mr.. Wright
instantly declined the nomination and Mr..
George NJ. Dallas, of Pennsylvania, was ia
ken in his place.
The Calhoun New York Convention expir-
cd in the conception. 1t never met. The
Tyler Baltimore Convention was carried the
length of an actual meeting, and went through
the forms of a nomination without the diStrac-
| ton of a rival candidate. 1t met the same
day and place with the democratic convention,
as if to ~oficiate with it, and to be ready to
offer a PTS aUcr, but to no purpose. 1t made
its own northumberland an elaborate let
ter of thanks and acceptance from Mr.. Tyler,
who took it quite seriously and two months
afterwards Joined the democracy for Polk
aud Dallas against Clay and Frelinghuy-
sen-his old Wing friends. He had CO.
operated in all the schemes against Mr..
Van Buren,, in the hope of being taken
up in his place and there was an interest,
calling itself democratic, which was willing to
oblige him. But all the sound heart of the
democracy recoiled from the idea of touching
a man who, after being raised high by the de
mOcracy, had gone over to the wings, and now
came back to the democracy to obtain the
highest Office they could give.
And here ends the history of this long in
trigue-one of the most elaborate, complex
and daring ever practiced in an intelligent
country ; and with too much success in put
ting down some, and just disappointment in
putting up others for no one of those who
engaged in this intrigue ever reached the office
for which they striycd, My opinion of it was
expressed, warmly but sincerely, from the first
moment it was preached to me on the steps
of the Capitol, when accosted 10y Mr.. Brown,
down to the rejection of the treaty in the
Senate, and the defeat of Mr.. Van Buren
in the convention. OF this latter event the
author of this View thus wrote in a public
letter to Missouri
Neither Mr.. Polk nor Mr.. Dallas has any,
thing to do with the intrigue which has nullif-
ed the choice of the people, and the rights of
the people, and the principles of onr govern
ment. in the nerSOn of Mr. Van Rurnn . and