Rutland Herald

The Loco Foco National Convention.

--The abandonment by the loco foco party of this much cherished convention, is at once a confession of weakness and an admission of alarm, which cannot fail to open the eyes of their deluded followers to the hopelessness of their cause.

For years past the country has been amused with the constant efforts of the loco foco press to produce a conviction in the public mind that the whig party was so distracted as to be utterly incapable of uniting upon any candidate for the Presidency; and yet when the Harrisburg Convention assembled, all these predictions vanished and the friends of the Constitution united as one man upon the honest Farmer of North Bend. Not so, however, with the loco foco party. There is no concert in action--no bond of union among them. They are all things to all men. At the North and West, when it suits them, they are staunch abolitionists, while at the South, all who favor the party or even advocate the right of petition, are denounced as fiends who seek to plunge the country in all the horrors of civil war.

And so on the question of the Vice Presidency. In the state of N. York, Mr. Van Buren is represented as the friend of Col. Johnson: in Tennessee he is equally claimed as the personal and political friend of Mr. Polk: and in Georgia he is declared to be the bosom friend and ardent advocate of Mr. Forsyth's claim to the Vice Presidency. And now to keep up this double game, and to render this deception successful, behold Mr Van Buren prohibits the assembling of a National Convention and directs that all these candidates be used to give himself strength, and thus carry the election of Vice President into the Senate of the United States.

The plan may have been well conceived, but its immediate effect is to exhibit the utter hopelessness of the loco foco cause.--Alb. Eve. Jour.

The whole history of Van Burenism will seem apocryphal to posterity.--Such an unbroken series of experiments upon popular credulity the world has never before witnessed.--'The art of governing mankind by deceiving them' has been practised to a greater extent by the federal ministry at Washington than it was ever before carried by the most profligate government under heaven.

There is not one solitary profession made by these promise breakers to gain power, that they have fulfilled. There is not an evil of which they complained, that they have not aggravated. There is not a remedy they proposed, that has been supplied. They have been constant in nothing but duplicity--true to nothing except their own base interests.

There is no surer index to the character of a government than the condition of the people. While the administration of our national affairs was conducted by faithful, capable and honest Statesmen, the country was prosperous and happy. The National Debt was paid off, and a surplus of forty millions of dollars accumulated in the treasury. But no sooner was Van Burenism introduced into our councils, than the country commenced sinking The surplus vanished, and the foundation of a new national debt was laid.--Calamity and mildew have settled down upon all classes and all interests.

The Roman Triumvirs did not hesitate to make a reciprocal sacrifice of their best friends to each other's animosity, to preserve a detestable union among themselves. It remained for Van Buren, Calhoun and Benton to copy and blacken the example, by sacrificing the happiness of a whole people for a similar object.

It is time that an administration which has exercised unlimited power for years, and produced nothing but misery and distress, should cease.--Alb. Eve. Jour.