Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-23
The Van Burens and the Democrat
tC Candidate.

Martin Van Buren, the astutest and most dan.
gerous living politician, whose opposition tn
slavery is an instinct, and whose hatred Of the
South is a passion-sho never does anything
without an object and with clear foresight Of
its results-against whose wiles the people of the
South have been warned in every most solemn
form. and by none more frequently or solemniy
than by the party who once trusted him and were
betrayed. in his letter 10 the Tammany Hall COM
mittee explains with precision meant TO con-
vey as distinctly possible his meaning to them
and at the same time alarm as little As possible
the South the reasons. motives and expectations
with which he supports Mr.. Buchanan for the
Presidency. Taking his letter of acceptance a.
his authority. he argues that Mr. Buchanan will
use the powers of his Office TO secure To the in
hahtants Of Kansas, free from oatsde interpos=
ton or influence, the right to decide for themselves
while vet in the Territorial state. whether slave
rv shall or shall not exist among them. He IN
derstands perfectly we'll from the Language II
that letter that Mr. Buchanan favors squatter
sovereignty, and he comprehends distinctly and
assuredly how the application OF that doctrine h
Kansas will make il Il free state. Kansas benz
thus given over to the abolitinnists he sees how
inevitably and speedily Missouri would be com
PEELED 10 surrender an institution which would
not only have Goa sed 10 be OF any valued but which
would have become nuisance and II pest, Mis-
souri, freed and with Illinois. Indiana aud Ohio,
ull lying along the border of Kentucky, be per
oeves how that State. too would be compelled 10
rid herself Of population that could no longer
be held in profitable safe possession. And 50 h.
sees in prospect the Column of abplilionism M
yancing, each new state added 10 It's ranks const-
tnting a breastwork from behind which the fol
lowers Of the black flag may operate safely aud
successfully against the next until the whole are
subugated, and aboEtionsm valves its,riumphnnt
banner over the whole confederaoy. This is the
vision that gladdens the soul of this arch enemy
II our institutions and our people. This is the
end to which he bends every energy and faculty
Of his deep. shrewd. far seeing intellect. lie
knows that the nomination of sectional candi-
date like Fremont is premature: that the North
is not yet ripe for such measure and that the
South would not submit to IT, A thousand Told
more sagaeieus than Greeley IL Webb and Weed
aud the other leaders of the Frcm nj movement
he kpews that the objects they aim at enu only
be accomplished by timely cautious. patient.
steathy advances He sees that the North must
be strengthened by degrees, aud the South re.
duoed by degrees--iill the conquest is com
plete. The South is yet too powerful aud
too resolute TO submit--and violence would
produce a rupture of the union and end forever
the means of sboiionlzing the slave states and
mak,ng the North the centre Of political power
mud the absolute master of the country The South
he thinks, would not revolt at the election at
Buchanan, as it would at that of Fremont. Kan
sas under the operation of Squatter Sovereignty
would become free state, in such peaceful man
that the South would ocquicsce. And thus
his Machiavean policy would begin and go on
the North advancing with furtve step, and the
South giving back inch by inch until the whole
thing should be accomplished This is tho pro.
gramme of the great intriguer, whose diplomacy
far transcends the petty and shor, sighted stra-
togy Of the Fremont leaders as Talleyrand sur.
passed his own valet Compared with him they are
c hdren--crude and clumsy apprentiees-moles
cropping their way beneath a surface of deceit Just
deep enough to hide the world from them. not them
frem the world.
We come to his talented son, admirably
fitted by nature 81 training to be the executive Of
such II master mind The old head reyolyos aud
decidesthe younger goes forth 20 net mud achieve.
What Van Buren,, the elder, In la, cover of Kin
derbook. conceives, Van Buren,. the veungeron-
on III open field OF political nctou lis out toox
cute aud accomplish. Eloquent, htlliant, enihn
sastc attractive with no little Of h, fathers pol
icy-knowing men and skilled in social tnctes-
he is the we'll chosen minister of "A power ,yboss
Authority he would never question. and whose ser
vice he could never quit. Freer by his position
and perhaps.too, franker by nature than hi. faith
Or. be has not cared to conceal mpenotrably
tho objects OF the mission on which he il engap
ed. We have heretofore mott oed the fact thai he
had openly dsclRined any change of opinion o,
purpose in giving his support TO Mr.. Buchanan.
Whatever sentiment or design he NAV have here
tofore avowed, be yet adberes to. Whatever OBJ
ject he sought to &C compli-h by his support of
the Buffalo platform and candi date in 1913 he
yet seeks to accomplish. In "A letter to the New
York Tribune last month, offering to loan its edi
tor volume of his speeches and letters. in order
TO prove that he had never uttered any opinion ar
favored any object which he does not now adhere
to, he says
When you are quite through, and at your entire
leisure, would thank you to publish any line have
written, or syllable have uttered retracting the ar
guments which find this late favor in your eyes
Respectfully yours.
July II, 1856. j VAN BrRrx
he, then, supports Mr.. Buchanan upon the
Van Buren, Freesol platform of 1913. and he
does so because Mr. Buchanan is entirely acce p
table to him and his father. l. tbere-can there
be any other inference or conclusion drawn from
IL b..