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1 Inconsistency and Hypocrisy of Martin Van Buren, on the Question of Slavery 1 (1848)

handle is hein.slavery/icshymvb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: INCONSISTE'NCY AND HYPOCRISY OF MARTIN VAN BUREN. ON TEI QUESTION OF SLAVERY. No event in the history of political parties in this country since the establish- ment of the government, has excited more surprise, than the recent nomina- tion of Martin Van Buren by the Buffalo Convention, as the Free-Soil, or Anti-Slavery Candidate for the Presidency. If all the public and private records which compose the political history of this fortunate partisan had been burned up in a general conflagration, and the recolIection of his intrigues and corruptions, blotted forever from the memory of men, or if a lapse of two, or three generations bad intervened, and a new order of things, and a new race of men had sprung up, the position which Mr. Van Buren now occupies as the representative of the abolition sentiment of the North, no man might think proper to attack. But when we find on every printed page, and in the memories of our women and children, even, the record and the recollection of his former corrupt opin- cons and practices, of what Martin Van Buren was, in contrast with what he now pretcnds to be, it is impossible to forbear exposing the glaring effrontery inconsistency, and hypocrisy manifest in the declarations which he has so re- cently promulgated. Mir. Van Buren, ever since hq came upon the stage of public lif-, has been remarkable for nothing so much as the uniform success with which he has employed the machinery of party in the acquisition of power. Introduced early into piblic station in the State of New York, first as Surrogate of Columbia County, and subsequently, by grn al steps, ascending to be Judge Advocate, State Senator, Dltg ce to thie Constitutional Convention, Governor, Secretary of State of the United States, Minister to England, Vice President, and finally to the Presidency,- on every round of this ladder, to the pinnacle ,of power, we find him the same unscrupulous, intriguing, partisan leader, pre- serving, and perpetuating his succession to power, and eminence, by a distribu- tion of the public patronage, and the public treasure, among the greedy aad misguided creatures of his cupidity, and ambition. Never rising to fle dignity of the Statesman, by any broad and comprehensive views, or commanding eve. the respect of his associates in the public service, be has never had the assent of the people to the principles of his, polifical life Reproduced with permission from the University of Illinois at Chicago

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