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 heexpects a little gentle force to urge him fully from tho pleasant retirement into which he was so unpleasantly thrust. That he will be thus ctmpelhd to become acandidate for the Presidency is, judging Irom present appearances, more than probable. After the utter and disgraceful overthrow and con demnation which Mr. Van Buren met with the last time Ins merits aa a Statesman were submitted to tho judgment of the people, it is almost impossible to be lieve that his party will bring him forward again. With the political sins of which he was then convic ted, and fur which he was then condemned, still hanging lo him, his friend cannot surely expect Ihe American people to reverse their judgment of iheman,aud raise him again to the post