The Daily Madisonian

From the Old School Democrat.

POLITICAL MOVEMENTS.

The proceedings of the Democracy of Norfolk Borough, Virginia, which we publish to-day, will arrest the attention and claim the calm perusal of all who are not devotees to men, rather than to principles. Sanctioned by the presence and participation of such men as appear in the proceedings to which we refer, the people of eastern Virginia will not hesitate to rally at once in the support of President Tyler next November.

The plans of Mr. Editor Ritchie will be thwarted; the Democracy of Virginia will abandon Mr. Van Buren, and the contest will finally be narrowed down to Tyler and Clay. We regard this movement as an important one. It originated at the proper point, and is directed by the right men. With such men as Sharp, Mayo, Taylor, Allyn, Cooke, Milhado, and Whiting for leaders, the Democracy of Eastern Virginia will foil the schemes of the wire-workers in the Old Dominion. We know these gentlemen well, and we assure our readers that they are men of consummate abilities-unquestioned Republicanism, and merited popularity. This movement will be followed by others of a kindred character throughout the State, and Virginia will throw off the yoke of vassalage to the "Richmond junto," a body of political hacks, to whom the central clique of Missouri may be aptly compared, and who will share a like defeat with them in 1844.

We make no manner of doubt that if a Tyler ticket shall be run in Virginia next fall, it will be successful. The people are with the President, though politicians may oppose him. It was so in Wise's district, and it was so in the Norfolk Congressional district last spring, and it will be so throughout the whole State next fall. How can it be otherwise? A majority of the Whigs of Virginia are anti bank, and cannot sustain Mr. Clay. A majority of the Democrats are anti-abolitionists, and cannot therefore support Mr. Van Buren. Four-fifths of the people of Virginia agree entirely with Mr. Tyler in sentiment, and it has required the utmost efforts of the politicians and of the partisan presses there, to restrain such out-breakings of popular feelings hitherto, as are manifested in the Norfolk resolutions. Not a single politician is named in their resolutions. The meeting was a meeting of the people and not of the politicians. The chairman, W. W. Sharp, Esq., has been long at the head of the Norfolk bar, and never entered the arena of politics before. A short reference to his remarks upon being nominated chairman, will corroborate this declaration. So of the rest. They are not politicians. They are the people bursting the fetters of party slavery, and essaying to rescue the country from the hands of trading politicians: They are the people who appreciate the firmness and independence of John Tyler, and who correctly estimate his success in conducting the affairs of the nation, at home and abroad. They are the people who are tired of ultraisms,-tired of interminable revolutions in political power-tired of fluctuations and convulsions in the business departments of society-tired of this incessant war between the Sub-Treasury and National Bank parties, and anxious for the repose of the country. Such are the men who throughout the country, will soon rally and organize in defence of an administration, that has done more for the advantage, the honor, the interests, and the welfare of the nation, than any administration since the days of Washington.

We call upon our friends in Missouri and Illinois to stand forth to gird on their armor, and to be ready to aid in saving the country from the deadly grasp of ultra politicians.