New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-09

reached is first climax in the forcing down the
reluctant throats Of many of them the project Of
John c. Calhoun aad John Tyler for the annexi
ton of Texas; nevertheless, It most be admitted
that these msn.owning gentry have purchased the
support and assistance Of their mercenary dough
face Northern allies, especially of late years, only
by sacrifice. which must have been very CALLING,
not only TO their ars.ocratic pride but in some
cases even TO decen. sense of seE-respect.
For about fifty years, down to the election OF
Mr.. Van Buren, to the Presidency, it was hxed
and settled doctrine OF the sayeholdiDg arstocracy
that none but Southerner and shareholder WAS
fl TO be President Of these United States. John
Adams, when he ran for the Presidency, received
only two scattering votes south of the Potomac;
and a. at that time there was DO distinc ton
between votes for President snl votes for Vice.
President, it does not appear that even these two
were given to him with any intention to make him
Preside Mt. At the two previous elections, when
he ran with Washington and had 40 chances
beyond the Vice Presidency, he received, at
the two elections, only eleven votes south
of the Potomac FIVE at the hrst election
from Virginia, and at the second election
six from South Carolins, while of all the
Southern votes cast at those two elections only
seven were bestowed on any other Northern can
didate. IT is plain that at this time the Southern
aristocracy did not think any Northern man and
non.slayeholder qualified even for the Nlce-Presi-
dency. At the election of 1900 when Jefferson
came in, John Adams received only four votes
South of the Potomac-this time, from North
Carolina. At this election, however, the Southern
States, in order TO secure the election OF
Jefferson did yield so far as to vote in body Tor
Aaron Burr-precsey the sort of Northern man
they have ever most delighted to honor-not, how
ever with any intention of making him President,
but only Vice-Presidcnt From the moment that
the tie vote brought him into that neighborhood,
they at once cast him of as too dangerous to the
Southern sscendancy to be counteuanced any
longer
AT the next Presidential election, the separate
designation of the candidates for the Presidency
and the Nice-Presidency having meanwhile been
introduced into the Constitution, in the division of
honors between the Southern and the Northern
sections Of the party, the shareholders took to
themselves the lions share, to wit, the Presidency
while they yielded up the, yet, barren position Of
the Vice Presdency-a sort of extra wheel to the
coach-an office without patronage or influence, as
a crumb from the rich mans table just to keep
their faithful Northern servants from starving
This pitiful office was given to George Clinton of
New-York, who, because he was suspected of as
pirng to the Presidency, was always an object Of
watchfulsuspiclon to the South. When his nephew,
De Witt Clinton, actually came forward to contest
the Office with Madison at the election of 1872 he
was first snubbed as al insoent and audacious in
truder, and then tumbed head and shoulders out of
the party; the Vice-Presidency being given to
Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, respectable old
Revolutionary statesman, but at that time warm
supporter Of the Southern ascendency and from
whom the slave holding aristocracy had nothing
whatever TO fear In the WARMTH Great Britain then
pending. Daniel ID. Tompkins, then Governor of
New-York, rendered to the Federal Government
the most essential and invaluable services, having,
in fact, for time saved the Government at Wash
ington from absolute bankruptcy and entire stop
page of payments by loans raised through his inhu
ence and in many on his private credit, thus
involving himself in responsibilities whereby his
ample private fortune was not only endangered but
lost, and he himself reduced to those same pecu-
mary endorsements from which he had rescued
the Federal Government. TompkDs thought-at
least, some of bis friends thought-that these most
mertorious services deserved the reward of the
Presidency, and that the State OF New-fork and
the Northern section OF the Democratic party ought
at length TO have their turn in furnishing an in
cumbent of that office. The Southern aristocrats
smiled scorniul.y and turned up their noses in
huge disdain at any such absurd idea and poor
Tompkins, impoverished aud heart broken, was
obliged 10 be content with the Vice Presidency.
John Q. Adams, being candidate for the Pres-
dency in 1924, received but two Southern votes
those two being cast in Louisiana, that State what
with its creole population, what with its large i'm
migration from tie North and what with its
anxiety for a Protective duty on sugar, not yet
States John Quincy Adams Was chosen President
by the House Of Representatives, through the per.
sonal influence of Henry Clay; but, for once in his
life, Henry Clay failed to carry the State Of Ken.
lucky with him; and at the election Of 1923 John
Quincy Adams failed to receive single vote south
of the Potomac and the Ohio The Northern
Democrats lost even the poor boon OF the Vice.
Presidency John c. Calhoun being continued in
that Office, while Jackson wa made President,
though they did obtain an indemnity for this loss in
the appointment of Martin Van Buren, to be Score
tary Of State-an Office not previously held by any
Northern man since the incoming Of Jefferson. !