Columbus Democrat

In reply to an Invitation to attend the democratic mass convention held, a few days ago, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. VAN BUREN thus speaks of the democrats who have steadily opposed the passage of the Sub Treasury law, and who have been so bitterly denounced by some of his followers! What a striking contrast it presents between his feelings and those of his opponents. How different from the language of the small beer politicians that have taken the concerns of the democratic party unto their especial keeping. Speaking of the Sub-Treasury bill Mr. Van BUREN says "Although compelled to propose the measure by a sense of public duty, which did not admit of compromise or delay. I could nevertheless scarcely allow myself to hope for its adoption, without violent opposition from uniform opponents, and what was more to be regretted, without extensive diversities of opinion in regard to its expediency among friends, who had every claim to my RESPECT and GRATITUDE."

Again he remarks,—"The divisions among political friends produced by the struggle have been to me a source of profound regret. In no quarter has this latter consideration occasioned greater anxiety on my part than in my native State. It was not, I hope you will do me the justice to believe, without pain, that I found myself deprived, upon so vital a point, of the approving voices of THOUSANDS of the friends of my youth, and the associates of my maturer years and whose integrity of motive commanded my UNQUALIFIED CONFIDENCE—Philadelphia Sent.

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to. Somben 1840