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Excerpt from The Campaign of 1844
Nor was the position of the Democracy as good as surface signs would indicate. Apparently the party acquiesced in the claims of Van Buren to another nomination, and on the policies of his first term, policies directly inherited from Jackson. But indications were not wanting of rest iveness under his leadership, and under the dictation of a policy which no longer represented a quality of fight in it, something ringing in tone to arouse the full energies of the patriots who did the voting, or saw to it that others voted to enable them to reap the rewards. Van Buren had rivals in 1844 as he had in 1840, but the interval of four years had greatly fed their hopes, and opened a vista of political accidents by which they could profit. Even J ack son's in?uence had declined, and his command was humored rather than obeyed. A letter. From him served to bolster up a cause or an individual, but could not point out a cause or a success. To remove Van Buren from the path of these ambitious ones many schemes were started. It was prcy posed to place him on the Supreme Bench and then take up Silas Wright as a candidate. If this idea originated with Tyler, as was believed at the time, it may be taken as a measure of his statesmanship and political manage ment. When Wright was consulted he answered: Tell Mr. Tyler from me, that if he desires to give to this whole country a broader, deeper, heartier laugh than it ever had.
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