Alexandria Gazette

And yet the very best proof in the world that this "remarkable language" of the Spectator is too well founded, is rife in the leading columns of the Evening Post itself, and in the speeches of the prominent Loco-Focos of New-York. Says the Spectator: "Texas defeated Van Buren, and it will destroy Clay and Benton"—by the nomination of Polk: and yet the Evening Post which very naturally calls this 'remarkable language,' works itself up into due form of glorification on the subject of the Polk and Texas gathering in Castle Garden on Wednesday night, and pronounces it "one of the most successful and enthusiastic meetings of the season."

Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, too—the particular and avowed friend of the 'defeated Mr. Van Buren,' over whose downfall the south so arrogantly and triumphantly rejoices—finds it all right at last, and thus re-endorses the Polk and Texas nomination, which has 'defeated Van Buren and will destroy Clay and Benton.'

"It was but three weeks since these nominations issued from the monumental city, and already they have been responded to not only by the democracy of this city and state, but by that of the Union. From the North and from the South—from the rock-bound shores of New-England to the wide prairies of the West—the democracy had responded to these nominations with the same unanimity which had pervaded the Convention at Baltimore! Everywhere, in the sequestered hamlets, the bustling villages, the crowded and gay metropolises of our country, they had been hailed as the pledge of union and of harmony, and, therefore, of success. This feeling, if we do our duty and our brother democrats in other states do theirs, will spread, go forward, and triumph."

How humiliating and painful must be the task of uttering such enthusiasm as this, to the man who, only three weeks ago, in the Baltimore Convention predicted, if the rule [the two-thirds rule, which killed Van Buren] should be carried the dismemberment and final breaking up of the party If people persisted in going for men and not measures a black flag would be raised over them—the pall of defeat would shroud their hopes and their funeral dirge might be sung. Mr. B. was also fully of opinion, if the two-thirds rule should prevail the Convention would have to adjourn sine die without effecting a nomination at all, as he believed neither himself nor those who thought with him would advance one jot toward making conciliations.

The Spectator's language in regard to the triumph of the South over the North, we suspect, after all, is quite as true as it is 'remarkable.'

N. Y. Tribune.