Daily American organ., 1856-08-23
What the Van Burens Expect,

We alluded some time since to the persistence
by John Van Buren, in his anti-slavery views, and
to his support of James Buchanan in connection
Herewith. We propose to show briefly what
those views were, which he boasts remain unre
tracted, and with which he of course sees nothing
inconsistent, in his support of the Cincinnati
nominees. The following is an extract from
John Van Buren's letter to the New York
Tribune:
To the Editor Of The New York Tribune:
SIR:
Allow me to thank you for re-publishing the
extracts from my speeches in l848; and, while [
deeply regret that you have been eight years in
discovering their force and pertinence, during
which the crisis has passed. and the freedom of ali
the territory acquired from Mexico been secured J
yet they may serve useful purpose If similar
emergency should hereafter arise
from the accuracy OF your extracts, infer that
you have copies of all my speeches; but. if YOU
have not, can loan you complete copies in the
form OF bound volume, which have preserved
tor my own qualification and use. When you are
quite through, and at your entire leisure would
thank you to publish any line have written, or
syllable have uttered, retractng the arguments
which find :his late favor in your ewes
Respectfully yours,
]. VAN BUREN.
NEW York, July II, 1856.
BY this it seems that Prince John thinks the cri-
sis has passed, and the freedom of the Territories
from the institution of slavery secured and prides
himself on still adhering to his sentiments of 1s4s
and lS49. Now, let US see what those sentiments
were.
Listen to the following language used by John
Van Buren in 1S49. We quote from his speech
made at the State Convention of the New York
Free-soil Democracy in that year:
g will state Che remarked) fairly, freely, and
fully what we expect. We expect TO make the
Democratic party of this State the great antsave.
ry party of this State and through it. to make the
Democratic party of the United States the great
anti-savery party of the United States Those
that do not contemplate this result viii do we'll to
get out of the way for there is no doubt that
when our principles get fairly before the people 30
atthey can hear them, and know what they are--
and We have made arrangements for that now
that the whole people will go with US. And our
Southern friends, having had things all their own
way for the last twenty-five or thirty years, must
make up Their minds to let haze our o,Cn ,oay for
awhile, we being fair men, and reasonable in our
demands" ...
And again, a few weeks after, at Syracuse, John
Van Buren delivered this explicit declaration
81 have had occasion to say heretofore, that
would not support any man for the Presidency who
does not believe slavery to be unmitigated evil
and who will not use all the power which the Con-
stitution and laws may place in his hands for its
overthrow. / would give notice now that the gen-
eral judgment OF the people of this State is that
they cannot and will not swerve from this position
and as for me, shall iive and die By it,"
And month previous to this Syracuse gather
ing, this same natural ally' thus defined his no
sition:
"I am, however, the unmitigsted enemy of sla-
very, and would have it abolished without DELAY
/ say, therefore, for myself-and wish to be un-
derstood az speaking for myself alone-that let
what will come, | shall, under no necessity what
ever, support man who does not believe slavery
to be an unmixed curse and who will not, by vir-
tue of his Office, use all constitutional power to
abolish it. But l ask by what mode are we to
reach the object in viewS The answer Is plain.
BY going back directly to that adopted and pur-
sued by the immortal founders of our government.
IL is comprised briefly in ths--No more slave
States, no more slave Territories--the withdrawal
of the support Of the Federal Government from
slavery, and the abolition Of it wherever it can be
reached by constitutional means. | know very
well we have no power touch it within the States
where It now exists; but, even there, we can sur
round itby free States whose action and example
will wear it away"
Above, we have the Van Buren prophecy, that
the Democratic party of New York is to be made
the great anti-slavery party Of that State; that
the Democracy Of the United States is to be made
(nark the phrase not to become, but TO Be made
the great anti-savery party of the country. They
Of the North, Prince John predicts in ls4S, are
vet to have their way for a while
Prince John pledged himself not to support any