The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-20
WEDNESDAY 3. SovsasER 70 1872
The Succession and the Pap.

The Succession and the Pap.
we perpeiratcd blunder yesterday u
saying that General Jackson was defeated Y
his attempt to indicate his, successor. VI
the contrary, MARTIN vAs Buren,, his cholee
wss alectea: but VAN BUREs was deieases
for sscord term under circumstances tina
must De more wildly impressed upon IN 9
memory OF those who lived at that day thai
were the events Of his FIRST election.
The history Of VAN BuRKs's relations b
J.ckscs is curious. zHewas man Of grea
astuteBess, rigid circumspection and pro
prlefy Of conduct, who had his feelings wei
under control, aud was therefore iooke'
uuon as cold man. In 1924 he supportet
CRAWFORD, of Georgia, for the Presidency
His candidate was defeated, and Mr.. ADAa
was elected by the House Of Representatives
Mr.. VAN buren, joined the opposition to Mr.
ApAxs's administration, and supported Gen
eral Jackson for the Presidencyin 1928. Mr
CALHOUN was elected Vice-President in 1924
and sbecame'the leader Of the very powerful
party which elected Jackson in '2S, Mr. Va!
buren, playing very conspicuous part II
the canvass. Mr.. CALHOUN was reelected
Vice-President on the JACKSON ticker. ant
MARTIN VAN buren, was appointed Secretar.
Of State liz the JACKSON Cabinet. Very sooI
after The commencement Of the JACKSON ad
ministration arose the difficulties between
JACKSON and CALHOUN, and that sociai dis
,vrbapcc in the Cabinet which grew oui
of the refusal of the families of mem
hers of the Cabinet to associate with
Mrs. EATON, the wife OF the Secretary
of War. It was then that General
JACKSON rose. to the high-water mark OF
his temper and said that his Cabinet must
bea "unit," meaning socially as well as po-
Eticaly.. Mr.. VAN BrREN, who had astutelE
kept out OF the embodiment and stood In the
shade Of the blind side Of "OLD HICKORY"
disembarrassed the whole matter Of its en-
tauglement by resigning his place an exam
pie which the other members Of the Cabinet
had to follow-indeed, they were requested
TO do so-and thus General JACKSON had his
Cabinet purged and reformed. 49, -
This happened In 1891, q year after the
JACKSON Administration had been inaugu-
rated Arivalry had at that early day de-
veloped itself between Mr.. CALHOUN and Mr..
VAN buren,, who were aspirants for the
Presidency. JACKSON had learned that CAL
HouE had been his enemy in the MONROE
Cabinet on tile question of the Seminole war,
and at once favored VAN buren,. MIR. CALI
uouN's doctrine of notification. too, was then
advanced, and was vigorously opposed by
JACKSON. Two Of CALuouE's strong friends
were in the Cabinet, and JACKSON got rid Of
them through the Mrs. EATON imbroglio and
the retirement OF VAN BUREN. which was a
very shrewd movement on the chess-board.
The two friends OF CALHOUN thus deposed
were BRANCH, Of North Carolina, Secretary
of the Navy, and INGHAN, Secretary OF the
Treasury. n ssf+$"|t !.
Mr. VAN buren, was appointed Minister to
England, and repaired to his post at once.
When Congress met, his nomination was
communicated to the Senate, and was twice
rejected by the casting U0te Of Mr.. Calhoun,
who, Vice-President, presided over the
Senate, This only widened the breach, and
proved 10 be the most illadvised act Of the
opponents of JAcKsoS's Administration and
MIR. Van buren, that could have been COM
mittcd. There was really no good reason for
opposing MIR. VAN buren, for the position.
II was one he was every way competent to
fill. The JACKSON party took great offence, at
it, and Mr. VAN buren, became at once more
closely identified with that party and more
warmly favored than ever. He was put
upon the JACKSON ticket in 1872, and was
elected Nice-P President, and steadily; held his
position of prominence and favor with the
JACKSON party, which was at that time IRE
sistible. These circumstances opened his
way to the Presidency, and his election after
JACKsoN's second term WAS a matter Of con-
sequence. That natural repugnance of the
people to dictated successors was indeed sup
pressed by the circumstances. The anti
JACKSON party, as 1t was called, made VAN
BcREN their target, and rallied the entire
JACKSON party to his defence. ~ : r .rs5srs
But when JACKSON had retired to the shades
of domestic life and four years had elapsed
when the resentments of the party had
cooled, and VAN buren,, who had been sus-
tained by them, was left to stand upon his
own fountiations--it was different matter.
His rarty promptly repudiated him because
he would not favor the annexation Of Texas
to the United States, and he was defeated
and his political career ended. MIR. LEIGH,
Of this city, expressed the idea of the day in
Il speech ABOUT that time, in which he COM
pared VAN buren, to the moon and JACKSON
to the sun: the former, the satellite, Dor
rowed his light from the latter; but, said
Mr.. LEIGH, it was cold light, as VAN buren,
was cold man; Gas cold" he said, Gas the
"ieicle which hangs from DAMS Temple
"but not SO pure" But Mr.. VAN BuREs
was certainly a shrewd politician. He beat
Mr. CALHOUN decidedly in the game they
played, and won very artfully the highesi
honors Of the nation. Mr.. Van BUREN, too
was gentleman, as gentlemen were then un
derstood to be gentlemen. He was a mano
spotless private, Integrity, and has left al
honorable name as the best inheritance of hi
descendants. - 81, :, is, ,S.,f !. sfsEtt
But the power to dictate the successor
which is the matter in question, was by NJ
means sustained by the election Of Mr. Va,
buren, under these circumstances. We thinl
the fayorite indicated by. a ruling dynasty
would be naturally prSudlced amongst those
who have the elective power. They would
repari IL MS a sort of surrender Of their ffan