Excerpt from Biography of Martin Van Buren: Vice President of the United States With an Appendix, Containing Selections From His Writings, Including His Speeches in the Senate of the United States on the Claims of the Soldiers of the Revolution, and in Favor of Abolishing Imprisonment for Debt With
In presenting to the American citizens a Biography of one of our distinguished Democratic States men, I feel that I need not apologize, - as I do it with feelings of patriotic ardour, and for the purpose of vindicating a character on whom has been lavish ed much personal and public abuse for a long series of years, on account of his early opposition to a party once recognized as the "Essex Junto," but more recently known as the War Party in peace! and the Peace Party in war! occasionally mantling them selves beneath the imposing shelter of Washington and benevolence! And for this devotion to the cause of the people, he was Proscribed! by the very Senate where you, my countrymen, have now placed him to preside, as a merited rebuke to such as proclaim ed they were no Man"s Men! As a further proof that the American People are capable of Self government, a portion of my fellow-citizens have inform ed such Senators that they are no longer their men!!
He has long been denounced as a Magician! his opponents, however, have been taught satisfactorily, I trust, that the magic he deals in has been approved by You, the People!
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