Vermont Watchman And State Journal

Shocking! The North Star is weeping over the probable repeal of the sub-treasury. It is certainly unfortunate (for the Star) that the democracy of the nation, by a majority of 140,000, have demanded an act so very afflicting to our neighbor. But it can't be helped. Weep, O Star: mingle your tears with the groans of Isaac Hill. It may be dangerous for you to control your grief.

The N. Y. federal Evening Post, the organ of Mr. Van Buren in N. Y. city during the late contest, speaks thus of its master after election:

'Mr Van Buren has little moral faith of any kind; barely enough to need no artificial excitation of body or mind. This deficiency drives him into an artificial code of political practice, in which he refers all social actions to individual interests, and all political actions to combinations of those interests. He believes firmly in the force of management, or the cool, considerate, artful application of general propositions to the existing temper and opinions of the masses, as far as these can be ascertained, and without any leading reference to their propriety or durability. His generalization of social phenomena never reached so far as to a moral power, or necessary truth in public opinion; but he simply deals with the collective opinions of men, as manifested by the representatives, or otherwise conspicuous individuals from or among the people, by means of certain easy rules analogous to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in arithmetic. He belongs wholly to the present time, and may be said to represent trading or business politics. He is the very impersonation of party in its strictest features of formal discipline and exclusive combination. He is ceremonious, polite, reserved in manner, very small and extremely neat in person.'

And this man—thus described as an unprincipled party manager merely—is the man whom the Post and its allies endeavored to palm off upon the people as the perfection of democrats! This evidence of the hypocrisy of locofoco leaders should not go un noticed by the people.