Litchfield Enquirer

The N. Y. Star, in allusion to the recent election in Rhode Island, says:—We may soon hear who is chosen Senator. We, of course, cannot anticipate who will be selected. Benton is in agony, for fear it may be Tristam Burgess—the only man on earth, he says, whom he is afraid of. We would give fifty dollars in Jackson gold, to see Burgess let the wind out of Benton or one version only. How Van Buren would enjoy it! He likes a joke at a friend's expense.

Van Buren.—Separate him from General Jackson, divest him of the hallowed influence of "the Hero of New-Orleans," and the wily intriguer of Kinderhook would find few disposed to pay him reverence. Let "the favorite" incur the displeasure of his "chief," let his flimsy pretensions receive no assistance from the servile pack of parasites and hungry expectants of the strong arm of Andrew Jackson—and even the fire, who now so vociferously exhibit their loyalty and zeal in his cause, would forthwith desert him.

The people of the South have no confidence in Mr. Van Buren; they entertain no respect for his public character, and have yet to learn why they should not give their support to a Missouri restrictionist, to a supple politician, who has been for and against the bank, or and against the tariff, for and against internal improvements—whose only claims upon the democracy of the country consist in his obsequious adulation and cringing subserviency to the powers that be.

— Judge White is now openly in the field. He has been brought forward and nominated by the Legislature of Tennessee, in their primary nominations. His friends in Alabama and by numerous meetings of the people of Mississippi, have not invoked the aid of National Conventions; they have not referred his pretensions to the adjudication of a packed jury—they appeal directly to the intelligence of the people—they commit his cause to public decision.

We can scarcely permit ourselves to doubt that the South will support him. We repeat the declaration that Virginia has not, by her recent elections, indicated any preference for Mr. Van Buren: the battle is yet to be fought; and those who now so confidently claim the victory will soon find out the difference of fighting under the broad banner of General Jackson, and the inglorious flag of Martin Van Buren.—Petersburg Intelligencer.