New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-08

EA-IrtslOeul an Duleu mas DttH Ddugcttu
writing letteAin favor of Buchsnan's election
the frat, he Gays. which he means shall be the last
But for bis ambitious es,endants, We think he
would have spared himself the humiliation OF
writing this letter. every word Of which, so far as
it bears On its object, is singing condemnation Of
his own course in boiling from the party organiza
ton he DOW eulogizes and running against Gen.
Cass in 164S. The proyOcatoD, the necessity, was
then far less than now; for the regulars OF lc4S
did not affirm as the Cincinnati Platform does the
right of Slavery to 90 intO any Territory of the
UDion, and the want Of power in ever so strong
Free Soil majority therein to turn it out so long as
it shall continue Territory. A monstrous stride
in the wong direction has been taken by the Ma
titnal Democratic organization since lo4o; yet Mr..
Van Buren,, who then headed the revolt, and called
on his brethren TO defy the name OF Democracy
and support the essential thing, nov gives directly
opposite counsel. 1t would hardly do to excuse
that escapaGe as juvenile indiscretion, and we
can only account for it by considering that Dir. V.
b. was then candidate for President while his
btir apparent had not yet ceased watching Ne
groes in NebI aska" and betaken himself to watch
ing fer District Attorney ships and Diplomatic posts
a. Washington.
We propose to consider first some of Mr. Van
Burens sveinents as of fact:
/. He says of the Democratic party:
IT had its origin in the necessity Of effective
III ion Ct the root ana branch friends OF the Republican
sys,em to preserve the huts OF our Revolutionary
Struggle BY preventing the Federal Constitution from
being psrveited to purposes neither contemplated oy
tirin by Kh n re
fed it, but hostile 10 Tie Republican princpIe upon
Eh,ch II was tounded.'
The men thus impeached as hostile to the Re-
publican principle" are George Washington,
John Adams, John Jay, Roger Sherman, Rufus
King, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, Charles
G. Pinckney and their associates. Is the charge
tyus1 They made the Federal Constitution, while
George Clinton, Thomas Jefferson (though then 10
Frsnce), Patrick father of John {. Calhoun, and
most Of those who subsequently composed what
became the Democratic party, regarded it with
deadly aversion, predicting all manner OF evils
from it's adoption. We do not question their hon.
,.tv or patriotism in this, but we think they were
mistaken. Now is it reasonable to suppose that
thoae who actually made The Federal Constitution
and were heIce called Federalists) were deadly
hostile TO il all the time and had 10 sooner COM
pleted it than they .et to work to pervert and
destroy it, Mr. Van Buren, seems 70 forget that
the overthrow Of the Federal party took place only
twelve years after the Constitution was framed
and while most of Its trainers and ratfers were
still living and active, and still proud Of the name
Of Federalists. Can be really believe that they
were thus intent on swindling, crcumventing stul-
tifyipg themselves
2. Mr.. Van Buren, proceeds, among ether ques-
tionab!e ayermen,s, 10 assert that the Democratic
party. almost unaded BY its political rival, car.
"ried our country through the war Of 1912" and
that, without the support Of our State, no man
"eyer reached the Presidential Office" Mr.. Van
Buren, himself aided in 1912, at the darkest period
Of that war, to cast the vote of our State for De
Witt Clinton, the Peace candidate against James
Md SOD, y 10 had been pushed into the Declaration