New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-12

y'.es, their fooishness and their sins. Nay, more
il frequently happens, and it is in accordance with
the established ordinances of nature and of Progi-
| dence, that the teeth Of the children are Sc. on
edge by the sour grapes that the fathers have
| foolisbly eaten.
| The history of the Israetes informs us Ga his
tory written as the Apostle Paul expressly de-
clares, for the instruction and warning of man.
kind, that although they were chosen people,
destined to be brought ultimately into the Land OF
| Promise aud to become the source and fountain
head Of a worldwide regeneration, yet were they
| compelled. subsequently to their delivery from
| Egyptian slavery TO wander in the wilderness for
| forty years, and that in punishment OF the SIN
which Aaron the chief priest, and others OF the
leaders of the people, had committed in setting up
the golden image Of calf and paying worship
thereto. as if il had been god. Not one of that
| foolish and idoa,rous generation was permitted TO
| enter the Promised Land; even the righteous Mo-
SEES personally innocent as he was, was yet so lar
| involved 10 the sin Of his people, that even he
could not enter it, being merely permitted to see
afar off from the top of mountain, that grand
obj, ct of good to his nation, for which he had so
steadastly abored and struggled during his vvhole
! life.
II would be difficult TO find in all history
more exact parallel to the folly and wickedness Of
the Israelites in setting up go len calf and BOW
| ing down before it, than that presented by the
leaders many of the chief priests aud We are sorry
to add, by the body of the Northern people,
| during the nineteen years that interviewed between
the nomination of Mr.. Van Buren, for the Presidency
| in 1885, and the passage of the Nebraska Bill in
le54 Previously to the nom nation Of Mr. Van Bureo,
the Northern people, and especially the Democratic
party of the North, had been held in a strict and
seryiIe suborduation to Southern masters. All at
| tempts on the part of any Northern Democrat to
obtain a nomination from that party for the Presi-
| dency had been Indignantly aud c,ntemptuously re-
| PEELED George Clinton, to whose powerful support
the Democratic party mad been SO greatly indebted
for its entrance into pOHe, was Obliged, to his inf
bite notification to give way to Jefferson, man.
80 far as related to executive abilities and courage
to stand up to his principles, vastly his inferior.
De WITT Clinton VIII sc talents far transcribed
those of his urcle-tne of the greatest men whom
the nation has produced, and to whom our State
Canals stand as an eternal mChument-was CON-
PEELED in his turn to give way to Madison; aud De
Witt Clinton having, in the midst of the dangers
and distresses of a disastrous war, to which Madi-
sons lack Of frrnness had, against his own be ter
judgment, subjected the country, seen fit to come
forward as an Independent candidate Ill the interest
of the North he was from that moment ostracized,
expelled from the party, and bitterly prosecuted by
its active politicians to the end of his life. Daniel
d. TOmpkins, to whose energetic support during
that gloomy and dangerous crisis of Madisons war,
the Democratic party had owed much, was him.
self in his turn obliged to give way to Monroe,
man every woy his inferior. John Quincy Adams,
having been elected to the Presidency over the
regular Democratic nominee, By the votes of New
England and New.YOrk and the Congressional in
huence of Henry Clay, was himself, along with Mr..
Clay and all the IT st of his Democratic supporters,
instantly read out Of the Democratic party, and
thenceforth pursued with all the bitter virulence
due to a usurper and traitor.
The triumph Of Mr. Van Buren and the NJ. thern
Democrats in the CABINET of General Jackson over
Calhoun and the ui,ra-SOuthern section aud the
subsequent nomination Of Mr.. Van Buren, for the
Presidency by Convention of the Democr tic
party. nay be justly regarded as the first emanci-
patton of the Northern Democrats (and we may say
of the Northern ople, for the whole North pro-
fesses now to be Democratic) from the yoke of q
most cruel bondage bondage in which they had
been It qured to make bricks night and day. AMI
often without any straw to make them wit \, for
the benefit of Southern task masters. This may be
considered as our American equivalent to the d.
livery of the Israelites ont of Egyptian bondage.
Unfortunately, however, the leader Of this our
Aaron than a Moses; and scarcely had he got
across III. Red Sea of nomination and an election
escaping the disappointed aud enraged task
masters who pursued after him under tho leadership
IF Judge White-than, like Aaron, forgetting the
faith of his ia hers and his own, he set up golden
calf and himself gave the example, which the whole
body of the Northern people we're but too prompt
t, follow, of bowling down thereto. The golden
calf into whose idolatrous aud disastrous worship
the Northern people were thus under this leadership
sedueed, was. SlEehodingi and into that blghting
idolatry, down to the passage of the Kansas-Ne.
braska bill some two years ago, they continued to
silk deeper and deeper. One by one, the great and
trusted advocates of the faith of the fathers, fol-
lowed BY multudes whom they had deluded and
seduced, fell away into this base and degrading
worship till at last even Daniel Webster himself,
the great pride aid champion Of New-England aud
the North, fell ike Lucifer, son of the morning,
followed BY half the host Of heaven, into this
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