Press enter after choosing selection

The Democratic Party

The Democratic Party image
Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
June
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

There are severa! things connected with the present posilion of this party, which deservo n candid considera tion. We can only enumérate them this week, bul wc intend to refor to them ftgain nt some future time. 1. The dofeat of Mr, Van Burctij by the management of the Slaveholders, isa clear proof that ahey hnd the absolute control of the Convention. No intelligent Democrat will deny it. The N. Y. Evening Post, a leading Democratie paper, says:"The Southern Delégales wcre deiermined thnt no one shoulcl he nominated who wns nol of tkeir wny of thinking in resrard to the Annexntion ol'TeAns 7'hoy have ennif-d iheir pomt as a f Iheij isH'dly do in suck lonlroversics, and the Nortli have submitted." What can be a more expücit acknowledgementof the subjection of the pnrty to the Slave Power, than this?2. The cmisc for which Van Buren was discnrded by.his Southern frienda doserves notice. He has served ihem faiihfully for yenrs. He has I never been treacherous toward them or their interests. But lie would nol go far ciiough in inquiiy to answer ilieir purposes, and they threw liini aside. His letter on Texas proved hia political destruction. Mr. Van Buren should have complied with the wishes of the slaveholders without hesilution. They e.xpect implicil obedience! 3. Tlic m'.a?is they employed foroverthröwing Mr. Vnn Buren and nominnfing Polk, show the dcgradation of the pnny in a strong light. They concentrated on Gen. Casa for quite a number of balloting8, and tden suddenly deserted him for a candidate of their own. Thus they really used one northern man to deleat the nómination of the another, oud then forsook ihem both. Gen. Cass was used merely os a stepping atone to Polk'e nómination.4. The ïojection of Mr. Von Buren, and the nomination of a Southern mnn whom nobody had dreamed of. must be vnatly consolntory to those nunierous Democratie papers which have heen urging Mr. Von Buren's nomination bcause he was ihe choice of the pcoplo, and becnuse justice mustbe done him on account of bis defeat in 1640. A sninü slaveholding minoriiy of the party have thrown him out irom public Üfe. never to return!5 This same minority ruled in choosing a candidate for. Vice President. At ihe fust ballot. Fairfield. of Maine, had 87 votes, Woodbury 56, Cnss'20. Dallas 13. But Fairticld was n New England man, not quite thoraugh enough on Te.vaa. nnd while Governor of Maine had ilispleasod the sovereign State of Georgia. Woodbury was sound on Texas, but he was a New Englander, and the slnveholdera are afraid oí the whole tribe. though ihry occnsionally use them without trusting them. Mr. Walker, of Miaaissippi, then explained the views of Mr. Dal las, aa being in favor ol imrmdiaU annexaiion, and tlic nr.t hallot 6howed what was tlie ruling genius of the Convfintion. Dallas received 220 votes, Fairfidd 30, VVoodbury 6. Thus ile whole North succumbed to a few intriguing spirits at the South.6. A very Jarge portion of the party at the North, were opposed to the present annexation of Texas, for the reasons so ably set fonh by Mr. Van Buren. But ihe following resol ution adopted by the National Convention, compele them to go in a mass for ihis unconsiitutional and wicked measure, or to bolt at once from the party. "Resolved, Thnt oui siile to the whole terrkory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable, that no portion of the aame ought to be ceded to England or any other power; and that the reoccupation of Oregon and th; KE-A'KXATlo. of Texas ut the earlisl prticlicakle pciiod are great American measnres, which this convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democraey of the Union."The politiríans and papera which so highly praised & defended Mr. Van Buren's Anti-Texns letter must now right. about face, and shout (pr Annexation! Will all the Northern Dcmocrais consent thus to degrade themaelvesr? 7. Mr. Polk is a Soutbern man, of the Jackson school, nominated by alaveholdere, and we 8upposed was a proper counterpart to Mr. Clay as a siaveholder and duellist, and a piofïcient in the other accomplishmenta of the Chivalry. Bui these charges are confidently denied. The N. Y. Courier withdraws the charge of duelün:and the Emancipator is quoted by the Free Press as withdrawmg both charges. He s also spoken of as a Teniperance man and a member of the Baptist cliurch. of írrcproachable moráis. On the circumstance of his being a church niembtr, however, we can predícate but little good of him; for Mr. John Tyler, whcn elected, wns a member of a cburch in good standing. We shull do Mr. Polk j ïstiee as soon aq we can asceriain tlie facis. If he be a proflígate, duellingslavcbolder. tlie people ought to know it before they vote for hiin; and if he be un?xceptionable in bis moral?, itis nomorethan right that the fact sbould be known to bis advnntage. so far as it will go.TT Frorn documenta recenily laid before the Senate, it appears lliat Gen. Murphy, our minis ter to Texas, with or without authority, as preliminary to the treaty of Annc.vation, did giv a plkdgï to that government to defend it agains al] the world, and against Mexico in particular during ihe pendency óf ihe negoriation. A leitr from IVTr. Calhoan to Mr. Vnn Zandt, th Texnn minister, confirms this pledge in tbe fol lowing worda; "Should the exigency arise to which you refer in J'our note to Mr Upshur, J am far.ther directed by ihe President to say that, rluring jhe pendency of the treaty ol aunexmion, he would deon. it lus dmv to use all the n.eans plnced within hie power by ihe Constitución t prctcct Texas from all f ore ga invasiónÍ have the honor to be, &c J. C. CALHOUN." Thus we are virtu.illy involved in a war witu Mexico, and the slightest hostilo demonatration Trom that power against Texns, before the trealy shall be djeposeci of, will húng m into actual colIisnn! S'o much for iho rechfess greediness of the slave-holders! "Whát has the North to do with Slaver) 7"LF Thevanity of John Tler nppears to bc gratified with the most as well as nappiopriatc demonstratioHs of pralse. Jast before his nominntion quamity of "TylerBottona" were manufacturetf, and editorially armoujcrced as ready for distribution at th.e office of the Madisonian. Tyler ribbons were worn at ihe Baltimore Convenüon, ajrrd after his nomiatioi), ttoenty-eight guns were fired- one for eacfi State, one for Texas, and one fjr John Tyler t ET Our neighbor of the Argus says his etanding erf "Mr. Clay and Slavery'" wasleft out of their columns three or four week sincc- before he knew tllttt a javeholding candidnte woold be nominated. We stand corrected. It was evidenily left out ia goad scaton. UT The Jackson County pföeeedings orrived too late for thi week. t

Article

Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News