The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-14

per Dbl higher. Beef and lard quiet but steady
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active demand and firmly held at 32c. 32Ac. Naval
stores were quiet but generally steady. Freights
were dull and heavy
Personal-The Influence of Personal Quarrels
Upon Our Presidential Politics.
1t is interesting and instructive at all times
to note how in all ages the vicssitudes and the
fate of dynasties, empires and republics have
been shaped by the intrigues of disappointed
aspirants for place and power The Presi-
dental politics of the United States, for in
stance, since the retirement of Washington,
have been very largely shaped and controlled
by these influences. Beginning, however,
with the stormy administration of General
Jackson, we think it can be very readily shown
that the drift of American politics and the
ups and downs of our political parties since
that day have been shaped through the dis
appointments and revenges of less than a
dozen individuals.
With General Jackson as President, in his
first election, Calhoun came in as Vice Presi-
'Old Hickory" But Martin Van Buren,, as
Secretary of State, contrived to supplant him.
How Jackson's first Cabinet came to resign en-
masse; how Van Buren,, sent out as Minister to
England, was compelled to return, rejected
by the Senate through the casting vote of Cal
houn; how Van Buren, thus became, by the
will of Jackson $780, Vice President on the
Jackson ticket, and in 1886 President, Sin
the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor"
we need not here detail. It is enough to
know that in being supplanted by Van Buren,
in the regular democratic line of succession
of purely Southern political organization, first
as balance Of power and lastly as the ma
| chinery for a Southern confederacy. This
Interior design sharply cropped out at an angle
Of forty-fye degrees in the South Carolina
notification movement of 1928, Calhoun at
that time being member of the United States
Senate and at daggers' points with Jacksons
administration. In 1882, under Calhoun's
influence against Jackson and Van Buren,,
South Carolina cast her Presidential vote for
John Floyd, of Virginia, and in 1886 for Willie
P. Mangum, of North Carolina but in 1910 she
came round to Van Buren,, on his promise that
if elected and Congress should send to him 3
bill abolishing slavery in the District of Colum-
bia he would give it his veto. Thus, appa-
rently, the feud between Calhoun on the one
side and Jackson and Van Buren, on the other
was compromised on the slavery question; but
we shall presently see that the truce was a
short one.
In 1884, failing to come up to the requlsition
of the Southern Calhoun pro-slavery oligarchy
on the Texas annexation, Van Buren, was over
slaughed by them in the democratic conven-
ton with the Introduction of the two-thirds
rule, and Polk was nominated, Van Buren, con-
senting with the understanding that he should
have another trial in l84s. But in the conven-
ton Of that year Cass was chosen, and Van
Buren,, not disposed to tride any longer, took
the field AZ an independent candidate on his
free soil platform-no further extensions of
slavery-and thus Cass was defeated. This,
too, was the beginning of the breakup of the
old Northern democracy on the slavery ques-
ton. In 1882, the compromise measures Of
Henry Clay being the platform of both parties
and General Scott being the whig candidate,
the whig party was destroyed, from the distrust
among the conservatives Of the abolitionist
Seward, as the head Of the whig party, and
from the disgust Of the anti-slavery men with
SCOTS compromise platform. In 1874 Clay
would doubtless have been elected but for his
quarrel with President Tyler, whose influence
was thus turned over to the democratic party,
as Cass would have been elected in 1848 but
for the quarrel with and detection Of Van
Buren,.
In 1856 Fillmore's independent ticket (and
Fillmore had his grievances TO rectify) took
away sufficient strength from Fremont to give
the election to Buchanan, and in 1860 an old
quarrel In the spoils firm of Seward, Weed and
Greeley resulted in the shelving of Seward al
Chicago and in the nomination Of Abraham
Lincoln. In 1860, on the other side, in retail
alton for his rough treatment In the Senate al
the hands Of JEFF Davis, Benjamin, Mason and
Slidell, we find Douglas taking such position
of antagonism on slavery as to break up the
democratic convention and the democratic
party, the results being Lincoln's election, Sc
cession, Southern confederacy, the creates
rebellion In history and the greatest poIitica
revolution Of modern times. In 1868, In thei
violent regulations and denunciations Of Chic
Justice Chase, the republicans have lost thei
: best and greatest statesman, while In the nomi
nation Of Grant and Colfsx on their two-face,
q platform they have 90 incensed 'Old Be,
| VIZ a. r.
Van Buren, at the nrst invitation.
Thus Il win be seen that since the time q
= Jackson our Presidential politics and the des
., TIMES Of this great country have been shape
{ and directed BY the personal rights and wrong