Then why--oh, why will a once flourishing people not arise, phoenix-like over the cinders of Martin Van Buren's power, and over the sinking fragments of smoking ruins of other catamount politicians, and over the windfalls of Benton, Calhoun, Clay, Wright, and a caravan of other equally unfortunate law doctors, and cheerfully help to spread a plaster and bind up the _burnt, bleeding wounds,_ of a sore but blessed country? The Southern people are hospitable and noble. They will help to rid so _free_ a country of every vestige of slavery, whenever they are assured of an equivalent for their property. The country will be full of money and confidence when a National Bank of twenty millions, and a State Bank in every state, with a million or more, gives a tone to monetary matters, and make a circulating medium as valuable in the purses of a whole community as in the coffers of a speculating banker or broker. The people may have faults, but they should never be trifled with. I think Mr. Pitt's quotation in the British Parliament of Mr. Prior's couplet for the husband and wife, to apply to the course which the King and ministry of England should pursue to the then colonies of the _now_ United States, might be a genuine rule of action for some of the _breath-made_ men in high places to use towards the posterity of this noble, daring people:-- "Be to her faults a little blind; Be to her virtues very kind." We have had Democratic Presidents, Whig Presidents, a pseudo-Democratic-Whig President, and now it is time to have a _President of the United States;_ and let the people of the whole Union, like the inflexible Romans, whenever they find a _promise_ made by a candidate that is not _practiced_ as an officer, hurl the miserable sycophant from his exaltation, as God did Nebuchadnezzar, to crop the grass of the field with a beast's heart among the cattle. Mr. Van Buren said, in his inaugural address, that he went in the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slave-holding States, and also with a determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with it in the States where it exists.