then why oh , why will a once flourishing people not arise , phoenix-like over the cinders of martin van burens power , and over the sinking fragments of smoking ruins of other catamount politicians , and over the windfalls of benton , calhoun , clay , wright , and a caravan of other equally unfortunate law doctors , and cheerfully help to spread a plaster and bind up the burnt , bleeding wounds , of a sore but blessed country ?