hope for success in tho campaign of 1HI8. This is the "Sago of Kinderhook." While other men, ambitious for the higher honors of the party, have been catching at every popular breeze, only to find each a false one, he lias laid quiet, patiently waiting for Me moment to strike a blow which should, by one bold effort, replace him in the position from which his unfortunate anti-Texas letter hurled him. War has been waged battles have been fought and won principles have been broached in the ptrly, which havo shaken it from one end of the Union to the other men hive been wandering from the ancient faith of locofocoism and straying in dangerous aud unknown paths; but amid all this, Mr. Van Buren has been quiet,calmly viewing, at a distance, the contests which were slow- y but surely clearing tho way for his second advent as the leader of Ihe distracted hosts of locofocoism. Texas annexed, the original cause of his disgrace is removed; and having waited until he sees clearly the temper of the country upon the knotty question of Mexican matters, he moves once more the wand of his political magic, aud is before the party, acandidate unruled by the bickerings which have condemned the other aspinnls for power. Tins position, to be sure, is not assumed without an exhibition of that mock modesty which is put on by all unscrupulously ambi tious men ; nud he expects a little gentle force to urge him fully from tho pleasant retirement into