Mr. Van Buren

The defeat and exclusión of th8 tfistinguishcd politician from p-)ltical life has oxcited genernl attention through the country. Varioua nte the comment8 that have nppenred respecting his lall. The Presidential prize was (llmoit Vvithin his grasp, when he was compelicd ff refinquish it. and even aid in handing it over to a competitor far his inferior in experierrce anrl abihties. Thip rcsuh is to us anothcr convirtcirfg evidenco of the supremacy of the Slave Power. He lost the nomination, becnuse he dared, for the firsi time in hie Iife. resolutely to resist the wili of those he had so long obeved. He declared nftisi anneantion and a war with Mexico; and the "Northern Man with Southern Principies" wns sent to r-jminate on the coursc of human events in the shadejof Lindenwnld. This ought to be a lesson to demagogues who sell themsolves to the slave-holdere; but who will profit by the warning?The New York Tribune has a candiel and liberal article respecting Mr. Van Buren. While it condemns the sysfem of intrigue, management and wiie-working which he has contribuí ted so lnrgely to infuse ifíta our politicnl canvassings. and which have mnde out elections to depend, not on the spontnneous feeling of the people in reference to principies, fairíy expressed through the ballot-box, bnt rather upon the skilï in trickery and political legerdemain which may be broughtto bear upon them- whife Mr. Greley censures him for iliis, he acknowtedges that his adminietration of the government in reference to our foreign relations was eminently prudent and pacifie. There was a time during the troubles about the North East Boimdary, when a éíight appealby the Executive to theold hatredoi Britain would hnve roused into action all the worst (eelings of that portion of tbe people who are most undcr the control of demagogues, and war would have been clamorously demanded and easily excited.We have never admired the peculinr traits of Mr. Van Buren's character, and we hnve no particular interest in reference to the estimation in which he shall bo held by the public, except that he lived nn absolute devotee to the Slave Power, and hisfirstact of rebelüon wasinstantly punished by politica) death. Here was his great error. "No man can serve two masiers " Hisonly safety wns in entirely identifying his fortunes with the íunremocy of those peculiar ins'itutions to which he had so long bowed down.