The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-07-08
HILLsDALE, MICH, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1856.

as the price of Mr.. Tyler's withdrawal, to Sc
cure Mr.. Folks election.
The editor of the Globe knew nothing of
the secret negotiations pending between
Messs Polk, Calhoun and Tyler, during the
three months that Mr.. Tyler kept the field,
nor, indeed, until after the Inauguration of
Mr.. Polk. He did not understand why Mr..
Calhoun, just at that time, got up public
meetings through the south, proclaiming Sc
cession from the Union unless the tariff of e42
was abandoned. 1t was the tocsin to draw
out the trained bands of notification, to ena-
BILE Mr. Tyler TO threaten Mr.. Polk withNop-
position in that quarter. The editor of the
Globe denounced this movement, and the a.
buses Of Mr.. Tyler's administration, because
Mr., Calhoun's friends, who were connected
with them, professed to be friends OF Mr.
Polk. Had not the Globe taken course to
show that there was no collusion between Mr.
pSJk pHk end fht he hsdSp5S aSYhS9TS would Have Been
Mr.. Calhoun thus compelled the Globe to take
the course which gave a pretext for Mr.. Tyler
to complain Of its conductor, and to appeal to
Mr.. Polk to make pledge, that it should
not be the organ of his administration in case
Mr.. Tyler withdrew to secure his election, but
that he would appoint one favorable to Mr..
Calhoun and himself, in consideration of the
sacrifice of their present prospects to his sue
cess
This was the mode in which Mr.. Calhoun
reached his great desideratum. AT last he
had succeeded in making thorough combi-
nation among the Shareholders OF the south,
animated in his cause by the hope of new con-
quests, and he had obtained in advance a
guaranty of authority over the official organ
of the executive, rs n hostage, to control the
succeeding administration.
To show the Importance which Mr.. Calhoun
attached to the command Of the official organ
of the Democracy at Washington will require
some detail and proof
This may be tedious; but as all the existing
troubles of the country are TO be traced to the
disorganzation aud overthrow of that party,
and the substitution of the powers of the null
lifers in its stead, although prolx, personal
and somewhat savoring of egotism, the devel-
opement may be excused as necessary.
Mr. Rives SAYS, in correspondence of his
with Mr.. Ritchie, in January. 1851: "A
gentleman of high standing (Col. Pickens,)
warned me, and through me Mr.. Blair, that
intended to use all honorable means to get
rid of him as editor of the Globe, on account
of his opposition to southern men and south
ern measures" This conversation between
Col. Pickens and Mr.. Rves, took place in
Washington, on his way home from the Bal
timore convention, where he had contributed
to the nomination of Mr. Polk. To accom-
plish this purpose, Pickens paid visit to
| Polk, in Tennessee---but toprepare the way
for It, letter was written by Mr.. Walker,
afterwards Mr.. Polk's Secretary Of the Treas
urv. the purpose of which is disclosed in the
following passage of letter from Mr. Polk to
Gen. jackson, dated
"CouLmBrA, July %, 1885,"
NV dear Sir II received on yesterday the
enclosed letter from Mr.. Senator Walker of
Mississippi have communicated its con-
tents, confdentiallv, to my friend Gen. Pill
! low, who will hand YOU this letter, and who
will confer with you in regard to the steps
proper to be taken, if anything should be
done in reference to its suggestions, Gen.
Pillow is nv friend, and an honorable and
reliable man, with whom you may safely
communicate freeley.
The object which Mr.. Walker desires to at
tain is an important one, and yet occurying
the position which do, it is one of so much
| delicacy, that do not sec how could write
! on the subject to any one. / submit it to
your better Judgment what you may deem it
proper to do. The main object in the way Of
Mr.. T.'s withdrawal seems to be the course of
the Globe towards him and his friends There
is certainly no necessity for the Globe to con-
tinue its attacks upon him or his adminstra-
ton. A separate Tyler ticket might put in
| jeopardy the vote Of several closely contested
States, and perhaps affect the final result
Surely Mr. Blair, Of tho Globe, can be indu-
ced to cease his war upon the administration,
during the pendency Of the contest at least
1t will be seem that nothing moro Of the
dealing between Mr.. Polk and Mr.. Tylcr's
cabinet was here revealed, than the wish that
the editor of the Globe should 'bc induced to
cease his war upon the administration duting
the pendency Of the contest at least;' the cir
cumstances. then concealed, have since come
to light, showing that bargain was then
struck, that the Globes war should cease for
ever. and that an organ, friendly to Mr..
Calhoun, should be substituted for the Globe.
These disclosures were first indicated subse-
qucnt to. Mr.. Polk's election, by approaches
to Gen. Jackson, to reconcile him to the abau-
donment Of the democratic organ which he
had established NJ Washington, rs bulwarlS
against the Vaccinations Of Mr.. Calhoun, to
destroy the integrity Of the Union, to effect
which, the Press of Duff Green, had been
first devoted by him. Not a breath as TO the
motives of Col. Pickens' visit to Mr.. Polk,
(which followed Immediately after the letter
of Mr.. Walker to Mr.. Polk, containing the
proposals of Mr.. Tylers withdrawal was suf-
fered to reach the ears of Gen. Jackson but
after the election in December, rumors of a
design to make change in the organ reach
ed him through Gen Armstrong, who was
sent to break it to him. Gen. Armstrong
though affecting to sympathisc with Gen.
Jackson's feelings and wishes. was, in fact,
entirely devoted to Mr.. Polk, and shared
with all his collision with Calhoun and Tyler,
and was rewarded for it first by the rich con-
sulate at Liverpool, and reaped his last har.
vest as editor Of the Union, in the srvicc Of