New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-22
"A NORTHERN NAN WITH SOUTHERN
PRINCIPLES"

O1AIIlu VAL OUE0A WOO o ANO" ASA~
tician of the school of Slidel and Marcy.
He was free-soiler at home and pro-
slavery man abroad. he was . tarlfne
at the North and free trader at the South.
He was not hard money man on the
standard of "Old Hickory" but favored
the sub. treasury scheme that deposited
the Federal revenues in the banks of New
York. He was for internal improvements
by the Federal government. s'This North
ern man with Southern principles, " says
contemporaneous historian, ''was asked
where was his love for the South and her
institutions when the Missouri question
was before the country? The reply is
found in the vote of Mr.. Van Buren, in
the Senate of New York for resolutions to
exclude Missouri from the Union unless
slavery were prohibited within her linz
it's" Processing economy, his admins
tration of the government and the cost OF
his term exceeded that Of his predeces-
sors. and there was found deficiency of
twenty-four million dollars concealed
from the people by the insidious method
of postponing debts actually due, and
borrowing from the revenue of one year
to pay the debts of preceding year. y
An officer of Protestant people, he had
written letter to the Pope, construed at
the time to imply an undue anxiety for the
favorable opinion of that potentate. From
this extraordinary duplicity, notwith-
standing the New York system Of en-
ploying all the corrupting agencies of
public patronage, Martin Van Buren,,
.the Northern man with Southern prin-
ciples," was exposed and driven from
Office by the disgust of the American
people toward disingenuous and tricky
politician. In the campaign dialect Of
of that day
He wired in and wired out,
And left the people all in doubt
Whether the snake that III 3de tha track
Was going North or coming back
We have now the personal friend, po-
litical follower and exact counterpart
seeking Southern support on precisely
the same tricky tactics with the astute
and unsuccessful master. Upon Samuel
J. Tilden has descended the mantle of
Martin Van Buren,.
The repeal Of the resumption act and the
enforcement resolutions Of the Democratic
Congress are the devices of the same foxy
policy. The evasion OF military or po-
litical service in the hour of war, with
the hypocritical pretense of having SYM
pathized with the Southern Confederates;
the acceptance of power at the hands
of Tammany and the personal co-opera-
ton of Tweed, followed by giving Tweed
away; the pretensions of extreme integ-
rity, with the questionable acquisition of
large sums as attorney or trustee of a
bankrupt railroad, the cold blooded
nature that seems never to have resented
an affront, or com mitted an act of spon-
taneous generosity-all show the revival
of that character supposed to have died
with him that credit it, "the Northern
man with Southern principles.
With the insufficient means Of difusing
intelligence in the day when Van Buren,
was represented as a Northern man at the
North and Southern man at the South,
it must have been extremely difficult to
convict his advocates Of this Inconsistency
to the satisfaction of the people. Hence
we find the Southern Democrats support
ing him against all the canons and tradi-
tons of their party. To-day every word
of politician is instantly placarded in
print, North and South, so that
Mr.. Tilden has not the same chance
of concealment with his ambiguous
example. But he suffers from the same
cause that defeated Van Buren-the in
instructive hostility Of the American PEG.
pie to cold, hollow, and hypocritical na-
lures. Van Buren, seems to have been
brought into comparison with Harrison,
a soldier who had fought and suffered
with his soldiers who had fought the
savages, and defended the lives of the PEG.
pie as he had widened and made safe the
frontiers of the nation. He was brave,
honest, kindly man, who had never en-.
riched himself by questionable act as at
torney, trustee or otherwise. The people
took up the Western soldier and American
patriot and elected him over one of the
most adroit, selfish and calculating poll
ticians who ever pretended to hold the
opinions of opposite and antagonistic sec
tons, to secure the support of all sec
tons
Such phenomenon in republican pol
itics is Mr. Tilden, and we predict thai
he will receive at the hands of the nation
the reward of the huuter who, in the
words Of John Randolph of Roanoke
'.tr;es to ride both sides of the sapling.
He will have his political brains knocked
out of him.
PRECEDENT GRANT.
There is a perceptible decline in thu
partisan bitterness which, only few
months ago, characterized illusions t.
the President by the independent ant
semi-Republican press of the country
Before the Cincinnati convention he wa