Republican Herald

THE CASTING VOTE.

The Journal comes out with an attack on Martin Van Buren for his casting vote on the question of prohibiting the transportation of incendiary papers, &c. per mail. It makes a bungling attempt to enlist the feelings and prejudices of the abolitionists against him on this account—The Journal is famous for turning somersets—It is the most sprightly thing for such feats, we ever saw. But little more than a year since, it took the same ground, and charged Mr. Van Buren with being the friend of slavery. They found this was no go, and subsequently, it joined with all its might in the cry against the abolitionists.

Then, forsooth, the veracious Journal charged Mr. Van Buren with being an abolitionist!—That wouldn't work, and now they are back again on the old ground! What wonderful consistency!—And thus, while the whigs of the South, are laboring with all their might and main, to make Martin Van Buren out an abolitionist, their brethren, of the North, are toiling with equal zeal and perseverance, to prove that he is the friend of slavery!

'Tug away, gentlemen—tug away—the people know you—They have some information collected from other sources than federal papers, and they will let you know it next Autumn. Remember the old stanzas—

"He digg'd a pit and digg'd it deep,

And digg'd it for his brother;

But by his sin he did fall in

The pit he digg'd for t'other.'