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THE PREsIDENr1aL QUESTION:
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THE PRESIDENIL4L QUESTION To the Editor of the Advocate:-

 Sir-Haying gone over the claims of Rr. Van Buren upon the people of the United States, arising from his nomination. by the Baltimore Convention, will proceed to ex- anime into his claims upon the Democrats of inc nation--of whatever kind those claims may be. Let me be understood. When 1 use the word Democrats, i mean not that mottled and plebald assemblage who are now called by that honored name, but those men who still hold 10 the princi- pies and the political doctrines which were nursed and upheld by Washington and SUD- ported and cherished by Jefferson. By Democracy, l mean those principles which the elder Adams outraged and offended against-and which were the magnets by which Madison and Monroe shaped tte course ot their administrations.

 take it to be true that Democracy is something more than name without an idea-or creed without doctrines. When use the word, mean by 1t an opposition to the high toned doctrines of federalism- aud in general to Northern politics. con ceiVe that 1t takes a certain set of opinions and well settled doctrines to make man a Democrai-ihat no man becomes one by merely hufraing for Van Buren, or even for Jackson, which seems now to be the only requisite. That part of the nation which is now fondly called the Democracy, has seiz. ed upon q nom dc gucffe to which 1t is not entitled. The Democratic party Is at pre- sent composed of a heterogeneous mixture .et as foul ingredients as those which filled the cauldron of the witches in Macbeth The scum and refuse of all parties has been seethed and slmmered together, and of the mixture has been produced that monster called Democracy-the only legal tender now days. Opponents of the war-friends of the Bank-reyilers of Madison--makers and vendors of rag money-heretics and hirelings have come together; and the host is like Falstaff's ragged regiment. They are as badly off for principle as U was for shirts-heing only half a one between them, which IS 10 stick 10 the strong side Du- ane, lthe elder,) who reviied in succession

 Washington, Jefferson and Madison, IS one ot the high priests. The hoary headed apostate and turncoat oftha Richmond En- qnirer is another. The editors of the New

 York Post, who thank God that MARSHALL is dead, are others.

 l 1t is not 10 snch men and such an assem- blage that give the name oc Democrats and the Democracy. I will define what consider to be the principles of Democracy, and by them Van Buren shall be indeed.

 The first requisite of Democrat, in my opinion, Is, that he should support, defend, and be governed by the Constitution of the

 United States. He should, therefore, se a }stfict consHuctionist, and take no powers Iby implications. lie should have due re- gard to the rights oft the States-equally re-

 moved from consolidation and notification. He should an2iously support the honor oi