ed, and Rynders was looking anxiously after "the gentleman who held the stakes on the result" The whereabouts of even John Van Buren was not known.
In fact Tammany and the Pewter Mug, all was calmness — everything serene.
Among the more respectablepurpose to publish it at the expiration of ten days, and I suppose that I have the right to do so now. Truly yours, J. Van Buren. New York, Nov. 5, 1862.
Count Gurowski to Mr. Van Buren. Washington Nov. 4, 1862. 252 G. St--Sir:
--In and in any way you may choose.
If this is not answered within ten days it will be published. A. Gurowski Hon. John Van Buren etc etc etc. Wm. A Fitzhugh Esq will receive any further communication from you to me. G The A. Gurowski who signs this delicate epistle to Mr. John Van Buren is the well-known, distinguished, elegant, polite, and accomplished Russian nobleman who was at one time an attache of the State Department.
American affairs in Europe.
The Paris correspondent
me to change commanders in the face of the enemy.
The first intimation Gen. McClellan had of his removal was the notification to that effect brought him by Gen. Buckingham.
Gen. McClellan took formal leave of the different army corps last Monday.
On Sunday night the officers assembled at his headquarters to bid him aided.
The only toast offered by Gen. McClellan was this laconic one: "The army of the Potomac."
At a Democratic "jubilee" meeting in New York on Monday night, John Van Buren said that Lincoln had made McClellan the next President of the whole Union, though it would be under an amended Constitution.
Ira Harris, Republican Senator of New York, also denounced it in an open speech.
General McClellan, in quitting Warrenton, said to the troops, "Stand by Burnside as you have stood by me, and all will be well."
The news from Europe — no Chance of intervention--Lord Lyons Coming to Richmond — Excitement in England about the blockade of the Bermuda por
giving as they do further details of the removal of General McClellan, and the facts incident thereto, with reference to the chances of the "Great Decapitated" for the next Presidency of the United States.
We give the words used by "Prince" John Van Buren in his speech in New York.
Referring to the Administration, he said, "if they desire to restore the Union and to make McClellan the next President, then they have done the very enact thing they should do,"* * "And that McClellan will be the .
So says the telegraphic correspondence of the Associated Press.
Senator Harris, of New York, has written to McClellan, and pronounces his removal a mistake by the Administration.
The New York Democratic meeting announced, through John Van Buren, that they believed McClellan was removed because he was a Democrat, and that Burnside is put in as a mere intermediate between McClellan and some Abolition General that is to be put at the head hereafter.
[A voice--"Fremont."] Van Buren Fre
he respect of the people, that every act of the Administration is received with open and undisguised suspicion, and measures, taken with perhaps the best intentions, are regarded with the strongest and most invincible popular prejudice.
John Van Buren on the removal of M'Clellan.
The speech made by John Van Buren to the Democratic Union Association on the night after McClellan was removed is interesting.
He said:
The Democratic party was the opposition party, and it was decidedlJohn Van Buren to the Democratic Union Association on the night after McClellan was removed is interesting.
He said:
The Democratic party was the opposition party, and it was decidedly opposed to this administration of the General Government.
[Applause.] It was the business of the Administration to have a policy, and of the people to sustain it wherever it was possible to do so. He had said during the canvass that he was in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war, and that the army had ought to advance to Richmond under McClellan.
[Great applause.] He had said that Gen. Wadsworth was the enemy of Gen. McClellan.
[A voice, "So is Lincoln."]--The Times and other papers h
Important rumor.
During the day yesterday a rumor was extensively circulated in the city to the effect that an order had been issued from the Yankee War Department for the arrest of John Van Buren in New York, which had met with such furious resistance as to prevent the execution of the order.
Great excitement is represented to have existed in New York on the announcement of the order, and among the Conservatives the determination was general that it should not be carried into effect.--How this rumor originated, or where it came from, we are not prepared to say. Our Northern dates, up to the 13th make no mention of the affair.
postrophize, in their creations over his gibbeted remains, as the "American eagle?" Nay to go farther back, to whom if not to Gen. Lee, does the illustrious Pope owe it that he is left in full contemplation of his glory in the Siberia of Minnesota?
To whom but to him is the "young Napoleon" indebted for his exile to the St. Helena of Trenton, where he has no consolation but to furnish his double to the world through the medium of his faithful Lascassas, Bennet, or his admiring O Meara John Van Buren?
We are afraid that it will be but too easy to convict Gen. Lee of all these offences, and we hope President Davis wid punish him as each conduct degerves to be puntabed.
It is quite evident to our minds that if the "Young Napoleon" had been allowed to "take Richmond" quietly, his fortunes never would have taken the downward turn that they afterwards experienced Instead of becoming a just and a bye word in every country under the sun for boasting of victories which he never gained
it was countermanded before midnight, but it was renewed Christmas day, and the movement begun on the morning of the 26th.
A New England dinner — speeches from Henry Ward Beecher and others.
The anniversary of the "Landing of the Pilgrims" on Plymouth Rock was celebrated by the negro worshipping, tin paddling descendants of the said pilgrims, in New York, a few days ago, by a dinner at the Astor House.
Among the distinguished guests present were three Brigadier-Generals, Hen. John Van Buren, and the Mayor of New York.
There gentry, who used to make our brooms and blacking brushes for us before the war, took their dinner with one grace before it and one after to settle it, and then commanded their speeches.
We copy a report of the proceedings from a New York paper.
Mr. Wm. H. Evarts, the President, in his address said:
New England had never yet failed in her duty or in her disposition towards the whole country. --(Applause) In the days of the Revolution she withhold
The New York Democrats.
We are not at all surprised at the facility with which the Northern Democrats have vaulted from their position of opposition to the war to a fervent support of Abraham Lincoln and his Stars and Stripes.
We expressed at the time our conviction that not the slightest confidence was to be put in anything they might say or do. John Van Buren in particular was begotten by the most unprincipled politician that even New York ever saw, (with the single exception of W. H. Seward.) and he could not be the legitimate son of Martin unless he was perfectly unreliable in every word and action.
It is a matter of little importance, however, what they may say or do. They cannot be more united than they were at the beginning of the war; more ferocious and intent on destruction.
We fear their arms less than their arts. --They have been slaughtered like sheep wherever they have invaded Virginia, and a like fate, we verily believe, awaits them in the future.
They may howl
Van Buren's Somerset.
The facility with which John Van Buren and those who act with him have changed their positions ought to cause no apprehensions in the South.
Men who can exhibit such levity and in consistency upon interests so momentous are entitled to no respect or consideration, either for themselves or what they may say. They only show that they have no principle, and are not ashamed of having none.
Their shamelessness is a significant commentary upon the morality of their community.
It would be impossible in any of the great centres of European civilization, if involved in a crisis of actual life and death, for a public man, of John Van Buren's prominence, to make such an exhibition as he has made of himself within the last few months.
The politicians take their bus from the people, and the people of the North have in general as little principle and shame as Van Buren.
If we give them a few heavy battles this spring Van Buren & Co. will be crying peace again as bris
d, and Democrats on the other.
The object is to leave out in the cold all radical Republicans like Horace Greeley, and all radical peace men like Fernando and Benj. Wood.
With a machine thus constituted, it is thought there will be no difficulty in hitching it on to the Administration, or hitching the Administration on to it, and thus systematically prepare the way for the next Presidential campaign.
Prosper M. Wetmore, Chas. Gould, Mayor Opdylce, (Republicans,) with James T Bracy and John Van Buren, (Democrats,) are among the gentlemen most conspicuous in the movement.
This organization bids fair to be productive of singular results, serious combination, etc., in opposition — to be developed in due time.
Who knows but that the radicals thus affronted will form a grand combination, too, for mutual protection, and that we may not live long enough to use the philosopher of the Tribune hand in glove with the politicians of the Copperhead persuasion?
We are living in strange time
